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- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 week ago:
Reboot. But Was thinking to get remastered too
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 week ago:
2 days ago snatched Tomb Rider trilogy for under 6 euro.
Today got Slay the Spire, Witcher 3 and Detroit: Become Human for under 10.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 week ago:
Got yesterday Tomb Raider pack for 5.60. Only because Tomb Raider 2013 was already in my catalog (that I probably bought also for less than 4 dollars) Still have plenty of games there that I’ve never played. Cant wait when me and my wife finish It Takes Two to move to Stardew Valley couch co-op.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 week ago:
I believe COD BO7 was released. Not much I heard about it. I recall people being disappointed. Something something 4h single player campaign.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 week ago:
Count me in. The only 2025 game I got is THPS3+4 which is a remaster of a 2 decade old game(s). The only reason I got this game is because I was a hardcore fan of THPS series and my favorite one was 3 on PC.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 week ago:
Which probably only proves that Steam Machines is going to be more than enough for everyone.
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 1 week ago:
I begin to believe that we are here in our own bubble. Most lemmy users are against AI implementation. One can see tons of news articles that state that AI implementation failed in many businesses. According to many here, they either expect AI bubble to burst soon or believe that it will do so in near future. Literally everyone would say that putting AI in firefox is a terrible idea that will stray more users off the browser.
If they fear losing user base by not implementing AI, I doubt they are deaf to all the tiny community they have. That is 100% not the “fear” of missing out. That is very likely money grab that was paid by major AI company(ies). They cant be so much blind that they would destroy their community just to not to miss out on AI craze (that also likely already had passed).
This is money. But money hunger will ruin Mozilla
- Comment on Click OK 1 week ago:
Forbidden brownies
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 week ago:
Oh, really? Then it’s my queue!
Just went quickly though their site and saw only big donations. Should’ve check deeper.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 week ago:
Minimum donation to Ladybird is 1k 😭
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 1 week ago:
I really fail to se what Firefox is trying to do.
There is a sizeable amount of people who wish to stay off chromium and avoid AI entirely. Not like FF has a major % of userbase in the internet. They could’ve cater to those people by evading AI entirely and probably would gain much bigger user base by doing that. Spread of word and all. Why would they go the opposite way and stray even more people away from their already tiny core users? Doesn’t make sense to me. Did they pair with OpenAI or any other AI company who paid them monnies to be brainless idiots?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
240 games, only 10 reviews out of which only 2 are negative.
Unless game is either really great or really bad, I skip leaving a review. I am sure most do exactly the same.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 week ago:
Any articles can be a click bait. The reality is what matters.
I didnt turn on AI in Firefox myself. It just appeared there after an update and was turned on. It is not opt in but an opt out.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 2 weeks ago:
Father was a member of a gun club and a license owner for 10 years. What’s interesting is that his son was under investigation by ASIO in 2019 for a possible connection to ISIS.
- Comment on There exist people who will go through the effort of leaving their home, traveling to a movie theatre, paying for a ticket, and sitting for 2-3 hours for a movie they claim "nobody wants to see" 2 weeks ago:
Not gonna deny that these people exist. But also want to say that I know none of them. Usually they would check trailer and/or go to something that they think will be a good watch. Never heard a single person say “Trailer is shit and gives out whole plot. Movie will suck!” and still give it a try at the cinema.
- Comment on elixir of a god 2 weeks ago:
Wonder how many meth heads are remembered as a history-altering, millennia-defining individuals.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
To artificially populate their instance? I dunno.
Bot prosting AI generated images to niche reddit subs also makes no sense to me. But that is a reality we are dealing with here too.
- Comment on Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand 2 weeks ago:
I mean. Maybe after that their movies will be as good as pre-Endgame? One can hope for?
- Comment on It's everywhere 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of r/lotrmemes when they find a new template. Every fucking meme is the same until new template is found. Sometimes it takes months.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 weeks ago:
People born in the 90s:
At age 10: I want to move to USA to live there!
At age 30: Traveling to USA seems to be too dangerous. I’ll pass.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 2 weeks ago:
Name and shame!
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 3 weeks ago:
You can use uBO on shorts to make them dissappear.
For Android, 7 helieve revanced has an option for that.
- Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure 3 weeks ago:
Feature is based on the same tech implementation as these SOS/Service call buttons almost every modern car has. It uses IoT sim.
People who have SOS/Service call button in their cars are also falling under this issue except it would only affect cars that has been outside of russian cellular towers for over 72h.
Also, maybe this is happening due to Porsche not willing to extend IoT sim subscriptions for russian citizens making their sims essentially to be disabled. But I am not sure how car manufacturer IoT sim contracts work. For a typical company/private person IoT sim contract is for 10 years with typically 1gb of data for the same timeframe. If car manufacturer contract is similar to that, this may be the reason why their cars are bricking.
- Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure 3 weeks ago:
Not only due (or probably not even because of) Satellite system failure.
In order to fight drones flying over the border from Ukraine, Russia implemented new restrictions to cellular connections. From like last 2 weeks they made so that when a sim card that enters russian border, it will be denied cellular connection for 24 hours. This also include russian sim cards that have been not connected to russian cellular network for over 72 hours.
Almost every modern car today has a sim that communicates with servers all the time. It is just that Porsche also has this feature that can track car remotely and immobilize on demand. It utilizes this type of sim card. Porsche itself has nothing to do with why they are bricked. It is a byproduct of russian attempts at preventing drone attacks which backfires spectacularly.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 3 weeks ago:
Say, if he got it because it was advertised as an offline device then why would he connect it to wifi anyway? The more I read this article, the more questionable this so called “IT specialist” is.
This is how it has been for a long time - robovacs do to talk to a server. Should it? Not necessary. But they undeniably do.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 3 weeks ago:
That’s like a month old news article
No one should be outraged. That is how all robovacs are working - use LIDAR to map area -> send back to server -> server calculates optimal cleaning route -> sends back info to vac -> vac cleans. Vac cant ping back to server - server thinks vac is dead. No killswitch is needed.
Also, app is not a necessity except we are forced to use it. But many would not like to lose an ability to track progress or start and stop cleaning from their phone outside of the home network. For these features, app and external server is a must.
The only real issue with robo vacs is that it is an IoT device. We should make manufacturers and brands to let us choose if we want to selfhost their software. But that would never happen.
This article IMO is full of bs and ragebait.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 3 weeks ago:
As a hardcore fan of L4D, I just found it hilarious that I had to google for the name of their spiritual successor to L4D and that game before Back 4 Blood where you have 4 teammates hunt or be hunted by 1 big monster. Both are unmemorable abandonware games while L4D2 (also is kind of an abandonware) somehow is still played and is almost old enough to drink. Fucking timeless classic, I may say.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 3 weeks ago:
Last time I have heard about a L4D
co-creator making another co-op game, we got Back 4 Blood which I got beta for and which sucked some major ass and eventually died in less than 2 years after release. So, no. I am not hyped and nobody should until they actually show a good game. Glad my beta was free. Didn’t had to pay for this crap to figure out it is crap. - Comment on Reddit global rank is going down 3 weeks ago:
little has been done to mitigate it
They made it more difficult for community to spot bots. Now anyone can hide their profile post/comment history. By design!
pretty much for every legitimate post a day, you’d get 6 to 10 bot posts
Real! I once saw a post in some sub where mods were complaining about bot/AI problems lately. In comments there was a guy who said he is moderating a very niche sub about toyota trucks with a few thousands of users. He said that half of the posts in a day feature AI generated pictures of these cars. Can’t be real people posting it. I wonder what really happens in bigger subs.
- Comment on Reddit global rank is going down 3 weeks ago:
It is riddled with bots. Like, you know. The whole thing supposed to be where people would collaborate, vote for the best design on their sub and then implement it on the canvas together. But instead we got bunch of bot accounts that would draw pictures faster than a speed of sound and not let anyone draw anything there but themselves.
And also, during IPO incident, spez decided that the best option to distract people from the elephant in the room would be to run (at that point already not so much) beloved r/place.