finalarbiter
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- Comment on CES 2026: Meet Tiiny AI, a pocket-sized AI supercomputer 3 days ago:
Oh look, e-waste straight from the factory
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 5 days ago:
For sure. I feel like that’s been the case in the last several years though and it seems to be happening on pc too. At least on pc, we usually get a couple decent sales every year and lots of indie content.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 1 week ago:
I’m generally against the rise of subscriptions in every service on the Internet, but I did actually benefit from game pass for a couple years. Access to the library meant I could try a lot of games I otherwise probably would not have played. I was only out the time I spent downloading and playing them if I didn’t like them- no need to deal with returns or resale, which is especially difficult/restrictive for digital purchases.
I can’t find what the original price for game pass was, but I’ll do the break-even math for the current price: It looks like the highest tier game pass subscription today is ~$30/mo. Multiply by 12 months, that’s $360/yr. With games typically costing $60-70, $360/yr divided by $60 is 6 games/yr.
One would need to play > 6 new games each year to save money with xbox game pass. I think that number is pretty achievable for the average gamer, but I’d be curious to see some statistics about average game consumption.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 1 week ago:
Hacker News, probably.
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 2 weeks ago:
That’s fair. I agree that it would be nice for them to properly release SteamOS for general hardware. I think valve probably doesn’t want to get roped in to providing tech support for hardware platforms they don’t control beyond what they do for steam.
My impression is that their priority is building the hardware to show what’s possible in the form factor, then get third parties to buy in to the ecosystem so they can get back to doing software (which we’re seeing with steamos support for the Asus and Lenovo handhelds). The software has to be polished and well-received to get this buy-in, which is easier when they have control over the hardware.
Their strategy with the original steam machines (circa 2015 I think?) skipped the first party hardware step and they didn’t do well with the software execution either- although iirc that’s where the big picture mode, steam controller, and generally better controller support came from.
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 2 weeks ago:
SteamOS is already an extant distro (based on Arch btw), it’s what they use for the steam deck/machine/frame. It’s also available to download but there is no official support. I’ve been meaning to try it on my desktop, as I primarily use it for gaming anyways
SteamOS wikipedia page since the steam page keeps redirecting me to the app
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 2 weeks ago:
They keep saying their ai features will be opt-in, and yet everything they’ve rolled out so far is opt-out. I struggle to believe future ‘features’ will be any different. Maybe it’s opt-in in the sense that I don’t have to click whichever button activates it, like whatever they added to the context menu, but that’s not really what opt-in means and degrades my trust in Mozilla.
I’m also frustrated by their seeming inability to focus on their core browser product and building a popular competitor to chromium browsers instead of going off on side quests.
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 2 weeks ago:
You asked, and I gave my opinion. All this AI bullshit has done and continues to do significant damage to the global economy and ecology, god forbid I have a problem with that or any company contributing to it.
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that they’re pushing it without any way for those of us who really don’t want that crap to strip it out of the browser. Sure, one can disable it, but I’ve already had some of it reenabled in updates. I don’t want it, and don’t plan on wanting it. At best, these functionalities should be opt-in and presented as addons that can be installed, rather than being a core part of the browser that cannot be removed.
- Comment on Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation 3 weeks ago:
Ah, any developer who suggested that probably got the same answer I get at work: “Testing costs money, so unless we absolutely have to, no.”
- Comment on Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation 3 weeks ago:
That’s fair. I’m certainly not one to defend msoft, nor do I really have the technical knowledge to rebut. Is it possible that ‘trying’ the driver as you suggested could damage the drive or corrupt data? Just wondering if there’s a legitimate reason they wouldn’t go for a seemingly easy win aside from being a generally dumb organization.
- Comment on Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation 3 weeks ago:
Using this driver, however, is fraught with risks. Not all NVMe SSDs support it, and if incompatible, it could break Windows 11 boot.
Probably why it isn’t standard, especially since there’s a driver that does work even if it’s suboptimal.
- Comment on A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections 3 weeks ago:
Yes, let’s give the group that has extensive abuse and corruption issues with nigh zero accountability new ways to hurt people.
If anything, we should be advocating against remote vehicle control for the myriad security and safety issues that would introduce.
- Comment on A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections 3 weeks ago:
The default at least in most of the US, is to treat a malfunctioning light as an all-way stop sign, with traffic alternating in each direction. The waymos instead stopped and blocked intersections, failing to reach the basic expectation for human drivers. Should we not hold these machines to a higher standard, if not at least the same standard as human drivers? Self-driving vehicles are supposed to be safer and ‘better’ than human drivers.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 4 weeks ago:
I feel that. I got a 50" 4k Sceptre from walmart maybe 4 or 5 years ago that has absolutely no smart features. They’ll have to pry that out of my cold, dead hands before I consider ‘upgrading’ to a so-called smart tv.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure my bathroom qualifies as a brownfield site
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 4 weeks ago:
By that logic, it’s also a hostile activity to close the bathroom door when I’m taking a fat shit. Privacy isn’t just for criminals.
- Comment on Stack Overflow Rolls Out Native Ads in Q&A Feeds for Funding Boost 5 weeks ago:
Ads that pretend to be normal content are literally the fucking worst kind of ad and anyone who suggests implementing them should be dragged out back and shot.
Not surprised that stack exchange is doing this, given that they seem determined to drive away their entire userbase.
- Comment on Doom Studio id Software Unionizes To Secure AI Protections, Benefits: ‘We See The Direction The Industry Is Headed’ 5 weeks ago:
Good.
- Comment on Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns 5 weeks ago:
Good. There should be no confusion when we go for their fucking heads.
- Comment on Scientists Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Sway Elections 1 month ago:
Will? Already have.
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 1 month ago:
I comment this on many of their LinkedIn posts. I think they’ve blocked me at this point
- Comment on idk 1 month ago:
Now I’m having thermodynamics flashbacks. It’s just under 500 rankine I think? Been a few years since I even thought about that unit
- Comment on idk 1 month ago:
Then you’d have a little freezer I think. Isn’t the freezing point of water (at normal atmosphere) approx. 274 K?
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
I love how Valve’s strategy is basically just ‘don’t piss off the customers and occasionally do something super fucking cool’
- Comment on Potentially life-changing if you're eligible 1 month ago:
IGOT GOUT
Also works
- Comment on Rant: Reddit has a huge problem with mods falsely reporting “report abuse” 1 month ago:
What does this have to do with a shitposting comm or Lemmy in general?
- Comment on Meta - There's Levels To This Shit 1 month ago:
Honestly my one critique of this is that if they manage to infect you with that ‘biotracker’, then they must already know where you are to do so. If not, how would the person they want to track be the only person infected with it? So then this tracker doesn’t really provide any new information. Maybe I’m overthinking it…
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 2 months ago:
Not really equivalent. Most videogames don’t actively encourage you to pursue violence outside of the game, even if they don’t explicitly have a big warning saying “don’t fucking shoot people”.
Several of the big LLMs, by virtue of their programming to be somewhat sycophantic, have encouraged users to follow through on suicidal ideation or self-harm when the user shared those thoughts in chat. One can argue that OpenAI and others have implemented ‘safety’ features for these scenarios, but the fact is that these systems have already lead to several deaths and continue to do so through encouragement of the user to harm themselves or other.
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 2 months ago:
I don’t do a whole lot right now, partially because I’m just not sure what I want to run or how much risk I want to take on in terms of security (for exposed services) and data recovery. I started with pihole to get better ad blocking on my tv, and recently started hosting a dinner vtt server for my d&d group. Some time in the future, I might spin up a nextcloud instance to replace my dropbox or immich for google photos