TheFeatureCreature

@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft warns that China is winning AI race outside the west⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d imagine because AI in China isn’t a massive for-profit cult propped up by technofascists with speculative values greater than the combined GDP of entire countries who have basically seized political power and are now running amok.

  China is many things but they are not stupid. Handling AI the way the west has would be an extreme threat to their own authority and control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Razer’s AI wearable is a headset with built-in cameras⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  E-waste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCsDell is now shifting it focus this year away from being ‘all about the AI PC.’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Goddamn Dell of all companies is the only one that seems to get it. I’m shocked.

  Welcome to the world outside of your own ass, Dell. The air is fresher out here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet -- Multi-hyphenate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  3D artist here. I am active on numerous art websites, including DeviantArt and Cara.

  I joined Cara quite a bit later than everyone else so I can’t give too much commentary on it yet, but I will say that it is very much not dead. It certainly has an active and growing community, but it is still a niche site so don’t go in there expecting it to be the next Twitter in terms of userbase size.

  DeviantArt, on the other hand, is quite a bit more unfortunate. It actually has a rather sizeable community still but the heartbreaking part is watching the owners systematically sabotage it. Nearly everything they’ve done in the past several years has been catered towards driving AI use/growth while letting every other part of the site fester and rot. I don’t share my DA profile with clients or family members because if they click off my profile there is an extremely high chance they will be hit by a wall of untagged fetish porn and AI slop that will never be tagged despite the ToS requiring such.

  Just a few months ago DA removed their official app from mobile app stores for some reason and it became very clear that that was how many users engaged with the platform. Myself and many other artists on DA noticed a very sudden and very large downturn in user engagement and views. They also made some back-end algorithm changes that made this even worse but they have never confirmed that and I doubt they ever will. Membership subs basically exist just to give you extra AI prompt credits and cloud storage space and maybe better selling rates assuming you actually sell anything. The other features, like boosts, have been broken for months now.

  Platforms come and go over the years but DA should go down in history as the one that turned to their core userbase, the very people that built them and funded them for so many years - and punched them right in the goddamn face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be a way to upvote a post/comment while selectively downvoting a *part* of the text.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is.

  It’s called commenting. You leave a comment talking about the issues you had with the post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Got a 4b running Pihole and Tailscale. Love it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Non-Americans: what would you do in a situation where a foreign country run by a extremist dictator began producing nukes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Slight correction: Two-party, first past the post democracy means that only 51% of the population decide which dumbass fucks the country while the other 49% effectively get zero say or representation in government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 In Q1 2026 To Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if we’ll see a shift towards graphical stagnation with upcoming game releases. With RAM and GPUs being so expensive, there will be a lot fewer customers that can afford the hardware to play upcoming, graphically-demanding games and so targeting that demographic is economically unwise.

  It sucks that this is the situation we find ourselves in, but I’m actually kind of interested in what will happen. A new age of hyper-optimisation would be so awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do SO MANY reviews now talk about "phone wobble"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The majority of phone reviewers (and modern tech reviewers in general) get their review units for free so they lack that feeling and awareness that comes with spending $1000+ of their own money on a new device.

  So what they feel are issues and what everyday customers feel are issues becomes skewed. Quite often I have seen reviewers ignore major software issues because they personally feel they are not that significant… on a device worth hundreds of dollars.

  Or you get the opposite where they get hung up on something that most people aren’t going to care as much about. They can’t feel ripped off because they got the phone for free so they have to find something else to complain about. Phone wobble is kind of annoying but I forget about it like 10 seconds later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that electric blankets are cheap and incredibly cozy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use an electric bed heater (goes on top of the mattress, under the sheet) and use it to preheat my bed before I get in. My bedroom doesn’t have any source of heat so it feels so goooood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Often the people that buy those tiers of computers don’t know enough about memory to know how limited they’d be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nanobots will be used to attack people, rendering guns obsolete⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Prions are absolutely wild. There is no cure, no “vaccine” - not that that would even be possible because they’re not viruses, bacteria, or even living things from outside your body. They’re just a faulty version of something that already exists in your system and they make your body self-destruct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t. Mandatory crunch produces a mediocre result and drives away your hired talent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now is a great time to invest some time and effort into offline hobbies, whether they be on your computer or otherwise. Limiting or eliminating your time online these days is just a straight net gain for your mental health, especially if you can fill that gap with some other fulfilling activity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Alec out there fighting the good fight for us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that I’d ever buy it, but I’m looking forward to the price tag so I can have a good laugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft has gone all-in on AI to the detriment of basically every other aspect of their business. They are in deep deep shit when the bubble finally pops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when this garbage used to be called malware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Paradox really needs a management shakeup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So glad I switched email and calender services years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Organised crime”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends entirely on the volume and time spent at that volume.

  Just using headphones in general? No.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagy web browser worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with Posteo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagy web browser worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am open to the idea of paying for quality services that put the customer first. Hell, I pay for my email and have done so for years.

  But Kagi has always squicked me out a bit. Some of their business practices over the years have been rather questionable, especially their push into AI which is exactly the sort of thing someone looking at Kagi would probably want to avoid. They are also very expensive. They’re one of those services that just assumes everyone is American so they just give a $ cost and don’t specify beyond that, so I’m going to assume their prices are in USD which means a plan for my dad and myself is $21CAD a month. That absurdly overpriced for a search engine subscription.

  To put that into perspective: A YouTube premium family plan covers up to 6 accounts and is the same price and includes unlimited video and music streaming. Thoughts about YouTube aside and looking at this from a pure value perspective, paying that same price just for a search engine is a godawful shit deal. Do you know what my email costs per month? $1.25CAD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The TES series in general for its massive, expansive lore.

  But Morrowind in particular has absolutely incredible world-building with incredible creativity and originality. There is a reason why so many people keep going back to the n’wah simulator and it’s because the world is so rich and incredible. So much of the following games was built off Morrowind’s incredible work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They need lifetimes in prison for treason and domestic terrorism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The 1080p for premium users is garbage too. Youtube’s video quality in general is shockingly poor. If there is even a slight amount of noisy movement on screen (foliage, confetti, rain, snow, etc) the the video can literally become unwatchable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of a tangent, but properly encoded 1080p video with a decent bitrate actually looks pretty damn good.

  A big problem is that we’ve gotten so used to streaming services delivering visual slop, like YouTube’s 1080p option which is basically just upscaled 720p and can even look as bad as 480p.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point.