Viri4thus
@Viri4thus@feddit.org
- Comment on FTC sues Uber, says company enrolled consumers in subscription service and charged them without their consent, made it difficult for users to cancel. 1 week ago:
So, it does look like the CEO of Proton was on to something.
- Comment on China's rare earth export restrictions threaten global chipmaking supply chains 1 week ago:
Nice MO (besides the voting manipulation)
Oh no, that argument about current capabilities ruins my whole schtick, let me pick up a PS so I can counter argue a red herring…
You must be from the US
- Comment on China's rare earth export restrictions threaten global chipmaking supply chains 1 week ago:
TIL a steady transfer of rare earth metals from China is necessary for all of the computers of today to continue working. Is it like a subscription. Rare earth pass, subscribe now.
Otherwise, ya, hermit life FTW
- Comment on China's rare earth export restrictions threaten global chipmaking supply chains 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 1 week ago:
Richard Wolf had a very good take on all of these Silicon Valley “disruptors”. It’s basically been the neoliberal US american MO for the past quarter century:
Step 1: get a bunch VC money by promising the moon Step 2: “disrupt” by undercutting the established moon due to lack of regulation. Even though it’s an inferior product, it’s VC subsidised, so it’s cheaper than the established businesses. Step 3: due to lack of regulation, your business drives established operators to bankruptcy. Step 4: become the monopoly and suck as much money as possible from your customers to generate “shareholder value”
- Comment on Why on Earth is OpenAI buying Windsurf? 1 week ago:
It’s the murican VC MO:
Why compete when you can buy the competition before it even develops?
- Comment on The Web is Broken — Botnet Part 2 1 week ago:
I couldn’t read past the bio, gave me Linkedin PTSD and my confidence levels cratered. That’s the IT equivalent of fake quotes with abstract art backgrounds on facebook, it immediately disqualifies the author.
- Comment on Hype-fueling science fiction or plausible scenarios? 1 week ago:
This is hyperloop levels of stupid about something that, when looking exclusively at the general public, has the same amount of uses as hyperloop did…
- Comment on Star Wars Zero Company | Official Announce Trailer 1 week ago:
Huh, did EA just got me excited for a Star Wars game!? Whoooot?
- Comment on Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. 1 week ago:
This is a pretty good take on all of this. MS, Sony and Nintendo have done nothing but enshitify their platforms in the past few years and yet, they increase the cost of admission at every enshitification step.
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 1 week ago:
You’re being downvoted, this is a perfect example of:
*they hated Jesus because he spoke the truth 😂🤣
- Comment on Judge: Google Illegally Engaged In Anticompetitive Monopolistic Ad Tech Practices 1 week ago:
Is this what the proton dude meant?
- Comment on FCC head Brendan Carr tells Europe to get on board with Starlink 1 week ago:
James Bond was on the wrong side of history after all!
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 2 weeks ago:
Oh look, it’s the second shoe dropping.
- Comment on NVIDIA to Manufacture American-Made AI Supercomputers in US for First Time. 2 weeks ago:
And here it is gents, this and some old fashion bribery nicely explains why NV got some tariff and export restriction exemptions. The US government is a good old fashion racket.
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 2 weeks ago:
Before the sale when Igor still wrote for them, Tom’s was pretty well respected as was Anand.
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 2 weeks ago:
Here, follow this affiliate link to this overpriced portable machine.
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 2 weeks ago:
Oh look, another Tom’s guide advertorial masking as original content…
- Comment on PS5 price to rise in Europe, Australia and New Zealand 2 weeks ago:
Uh, newsflash, the Euro appreciated vs RMB and USD to the tune of 10%. GTFO with this “trying times” nonsense. You’re increasing the price because there’s a massive hole in your accounts thanks to Jim Ryan’s regarded chase of live service games. How much did he get as severance and how many consoles do you need to sell for those 50€ to cover that golden parachute?
- Comment on aight... i'm out.. 2 weeks ago:
Were long due on some guillotine action.
- Comment on Hot take: Get your game reviews from gamers, not from collectors 2 weeks ago:
He’s creating a market that will boost the value of the assets he already owns…
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include the DLC 2 weeks ago:
This is a testament that Nintendo thinks the same as I do about their fans 🤣🤣🤣
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 3 weeks ago:
And rightfully so…
- Comment on Marathon | Save the Date Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Looking foward tonsee sony slap a 40€ price on it, sentencing it to be another multi-million write off.
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 3 weeks ago:
Average reaction of a Nintendo fanboy to abuse:
Step 1: this is expensive Nintendo: kawaiiiiii Step 2: shut up and take my money you cute souless overlord
- Comment on Why Does Dr. Wily Keep Getting Away? Is the Legal System in 20XX a Joke? 3 weeks ago:
“It’s legal if the president does it!”
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 3 weeks ago:
“In a sense, Nintendo is the victim of its own strategic foresight. With the Switch, it was the first to spot that the narrowing gap in processing power between mobile and at-home devices had enabled a unification of handheld and home gaming experiences.”
I was out after this. This is patently wrong. Crucially, Nintendo capitalised on the failure of the vita using the exact same strategy but with a caveat: 3rd party memory cards.
The PSVita had the power to play former gen games in a compact format and MUCH better connectivity than the switch. It failed on the stupid memory cards. Nintendo did not. That’s pretty much it. Sony had the AAA handheld market with the PSP and blew it. I’d be very surprised if something like this wasn’t uttered by an MBA regard in sony’s corpo structure:
“If we divide our playerbase between handheld and dedicated living room console too much it will damage our business”.
So instead of capitalising on a massive library of games that could easily have been ported to a handheld format (the PS4 had 1,4TFlops, we’ve surpased that on mobile before the PS5 launched) SONY decided to double down on AAA and subsequently in live service games, and here we are…
If someone can create a handheld AAA console is a team lead by mark cerny with the support of AMD. To this day I don’t know how we end up with PS portal instead…
So here we are, Sony carved out a niche (AAA and fidelity) from the Nintendo handheld success, and just decided to sit on their hands with it. There was exactly 0 foresight from Nintendo. They knew from the beginning the living room was lost to either MS or Sony to begin with.
- Comment on NVIDIA Makes PhysX & Flow GPU Code Open-Source. 3 weeks ago:
Translation:
“modders, plis fix. We don’t give a shit about gamers no more son”
- Comment on Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same? 3 weeks ago:
At the end of the day it only takes a Luigi.
- Comment on Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same? 3 weeks ago:
100% this.
The well regulated militia in the most armed country in the world is just the typical exceptionalism story. Talk is cheap but when it comes to act, americans are just little bitches. Hollywood can whitewash the history later.