DireTech
@DireTech@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Is there any good laptop cleaners so I can set it to max settings and get rid of bloware that are free? 3 days ago:
The only thing I would trust for that is a clean install of the OS and then using Chris Titus’s WinUtil to remove the now standard windows bloat.
Hate that I have to run it after every Windows update now since they reactivate the crap.
- Comment on One in four CEOs say AI is a bubble but will continue investing 5 days ago:
Best practices are something I’ve rarely ever seen applied at corporations. If I’m lucky, I’m only trying to explain to management why we need source control, if I’m unlucky the tech team needs to be educated and forced to use it.
Really can’t see AI assistance going smooth when it lets people think even less about what they’re doing.
There are definitely companies that can take advantage of it and use it properly, but I think they are going to be a minority.
- Comment on One in four CEOs say AI is a bubble but will continue investing 5 days ago:
I like AI. I think it’s great for quick references or a starting point, but I’ve already seen projects scrapped and restarted because a bunch of junior devs used AI with no understanding and management gave up on them after a year where the number of significant bugs never decreased. Take one down, feed it to the AI, two more bugs in the tracker.
- Comment on Average Lifetime Credit Card Debt in Every U.S. State (2025) 1 week ago:
The source for this is just intentionally misleading. This isn’t debt, it’s lifetime USAGE. If it’s being paid off monthly, like the image itself says then it’s no different than the typical net 30 businesses use to pay each other within 30 days.
The 1/3 of the population with a revolving balance are the problem since that is a debt they’re paying massive interest on. They don’t mention lifetime interest paid because that would not be such a massive number.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 week ago:
We’ll see when the reviews hit. It’d be pretty dumb for it to be worse than an M1 when older airs get discounted down to similar prices.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 week ago:
Ok at this point it’s been 5 years since the M1 and it’s crazy people are still acting like 8GB is unusable on them. My work Mac is 8GB. So is my wife’s. I run Xcode, iOS simulator, safari, VSCode and the corporate security software at the same time without issue.
Would I want that little for video games? Hell no.
It’s still fine for the typical user. As a developer, I find the base 256GB far more of an issue since it’s impossible for me to fit multiple versions of Xcode and simulators on it simultaneously.
- Comment on How the 'K-shaped' economy is showing up at two big U.S. gyms 2 weeks ago:
Yeesh that price has gone up. I remember thinking $80 was too much for it.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII - now on GOG 2 weeks ago:
Not sure about FF8 but there is a preview of the Ff9 voice mod on YouTube. Sounds pretty good so far.
I was pretty impressed by the FF7 voice work. The quality varies, but I really liked Cid and Sephiroth. Would rank it up there with the better Skyrim follower mods, except it’s soooooo many more lines.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII - now on GOG 2 weeks ago:
FF7 has mods for better characters models, better backgrounds and FULLY VOICED CHARACTERS. Yeah all caps because it’s that insane modders voiced the entire game from main characters to random fillers in town and are now working on FF9.
The voice mod is called Echo S but they’re all available through the 7th heaven launcher and work great on steam deck.
- Comment on Ratio of Active U.S. Workers to Retirees (2001-2024) 3 weeks ago:
How much of that is because they use so many contractors instead of employees these days? They already did that because the contractors are easier to fire and charts like this encourage more of it.
- Comment on New AI system paves the way to AI videos with no time constraints, by eliminating drift in generative video, which is what causes sequences to become incoherent after a handful of seconds. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah it doesn’t break down into noise but it’s still nonsense. If the Iron Man one is a good example then it’s still janky.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 4 weeks ago:
I don’t even trust Id.me. If the government needs to securely identify someone they should be setting it up themselves instead of us trusting some random company that used to provide coupons to soldiers.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 month ago:
Sorry if I took it the wrong way. I can see some common ground in Steam vs others and Apple vs others since both focused on the user experience against really poor competition in that area, though Apple has a helluva stronger walled garden.
I do think fanboying a for profit company is silly, but a lot of this is also driven by hate for Epic’s CEO. Epic’s just another business that wants to make money and that alone isn’t the reason people keep backing Steam on these threads. People shit on them because their CEO is an asshole who spends a lot of time bitching about other storefronts while their own still sucks 7 years after release despite the company raking in billions. Guy tries to act like he’s some underdog despite Unreal engine having a greater stranglehold over game development.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 month ago:
Epic doesn’t do a single thing that doesn’t directly result in profits. Features are only added off they can derive income from them. Lawsuits are filed so they can take a larger percentage of profits. Even his twitter posts are mainly about him getting a larger cut, when he isn’t defending AI child porn.
Valve is very old school in their ‘keep improving your offering and it will work out’ way. Usually companies like that get bought out and their name run into the ground. It sadly happens in all industries, from Samsonite luggage to BioWare games and even service companies.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 month ago:
Epic makes tons of money off licensing Unreal to developers and have since before their store was a thing.
Proton makes direct zero profit, though it does make Steam the best store for anyone on Linux.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 2 months ago:
Huh I still don’t remember ever getting an open ended choice.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 2 months ago:
No because we can’t add our own picks. You choose from a limited selection.
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 2 months ago:
Would love this for sofas. Last one I got was crap and I find myself regretting not continuing to fix up our old 80s era leather sofa. That thing was built to survive the Cold War.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 2 months ago:
What is a hallucination if not AI being confidently mistaken by making up something that is not true?
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 2 months ago:
Either you’re using them rarely or just not noticing the issues. I mainly use them for looking up documentation and recently had Google’s AI screw up how sets work in JavaScript. If it makes mistakes on something that well documented, how is it doing on other items?
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 2 months ago:
Considering my kids already refer to pre millennial days as the ancient 19’s, you can already do it with the younger crowd.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 months ago:
Bravo for writing so much you had me believing Anthro Heat wasn’t exactly what the title sounds like.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 2 months ago:
They only count the official release date on Steam. DLC/expansions don’t count even if they are new releases, which I consider pretty odd. My report shows zero new games played, yet I played two expansions that came out this year.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 3 months ago:
Of course it had to happen to the best game to come out of the AC franchise. I freaking love black flag.
- Comment on flock + ring = ice 3 months ago:
But what if they smack it so it spins around and hits me like in a cartoon? Not sure I can take that risk.
- Comment on flock + ring = ice 3 months ago:
But they let me see who is at the door without coming up from the basement.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 months ago:
If by disparity you mean sometimes Windows is better and sometimes Linux is better. I have one of those GPUs. Give it a try before you slam it. Valve has thrown so much money into Proton that support is amazing compared to when I tried a decade ago.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 4 months ago:
Google does it so much I’ve had trouble finding favorite places because they’d rather show an ad that overlaps it.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 4 months ago:
It already has ads. Those businesses it highlights for no reason at all when you’re scrolling around.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 months ago:
It’s fine. Not sure where you heard it’s terrible.