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- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 1 day ago:
But they all get abandoned or suck at launch to begin with.
A streaming 4K dedicated device is about 20 to 40 dollars, which always seem to work better then whatever a console offers and for longer.
I see no advantage to have a steam cube with it.
That said, I did put Plex and jellyfin on my steamdeck so I could watch my own library while flying, so I suppose you could add either of those to the cube. They launch as just another game by the way.
- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 1 week ago:
Are you sure intuitive or is it just “previously learned behaviour”?
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 2 weeks ago:
By the way, I forgot to mention that in traffic theory (yes I have a friend who works with Traffic as their job) they tell me that two studies are very interesting with gps traffic routed maps:
Up to 60 percent use and traffic flows better, but once adoption gets to 90% of people using apps the traffic gets worse for everyone.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 2 weeks ago:
I mean that’s where this conversation started: osm works fine if you already know where you’re going.
Except in places where I know where I want to get to but don’t know how to get there, OSM most of the time is better than Google. So many examples of this for me, over and over again. It is just more up to date.
Specifics too, things like trails, parking, alternative routes, all better.
The traffic is a thing I suppose but every where I have been like I said it rarely saves any time.
Maybe it is because I travel through a lot of different places and countries.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that is a straw man argument at all.
Traffic doesn’t do me much good if the roads are not correct in the first place, and OSM is usually more up to date. I noticed traffic data is not as significant as people seem to think it is, and since everyone is rerouting it ends up being a wash most of the time anyways.
Search works fine for addresses, and you don’t have to use maps, it could be anything: reviews, blog posts, nightlife calendars, whatever.
OSM works because YOU add data to the map. I agree that I would like vendors and even cities to update OSM so add data and make it more valuable for them to do so too.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 2 weeks ago:
It is a trade off though.
I may not be able to see the “nearest restaurants with reviews of 4 stars that are open now with no wait times” BUT I have been so many places where google or apple had not updated the map yet and only OSM got me where I was going.
So maybe it is fine to open a commercial map or local review site, or blog, or web page, that is not tracking you for store discovery, then put the address in OSM to actually get there.
And take the time to use street complete when you can, it is really easy and fills in things like hours open, accessibility, etc.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 2 weeks ago:
and the kids don’t have phones.
So just the two of you?
Also, if you do end up sharing a digital calendar on a device you already have, what is the fridges for?
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 2 weeks ago:
I was trying to say there is paper. That’s what we always did.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 2 weeks ago:
The fridge is a very inconvenient location though.
My tablet sits on the counter where I am prepping food when using mealie, or where I am standing to cook when I am talking with someone over Jitsi.
Tablet batteries last far longer than any session I am at in the kitchen so after words it just goes to the charger for tomorrow.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 2 weeks ago:
We already do all of that (except the weather) why would I need a screen?
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 2 weeks ago:
Uh huh. And my only option is to sign in. It doesnt think I am a bot, it just wants to harvest more information and track me.
Youtube can go fuck themselves.
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 2 weeks ago:
All of this? What is this? Not believing people when they tell you something?
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 2 weeks ago:
How does that work when I remote into a Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure and use that for teams?
Or use a Linux device? Will it tell teams my networking information?
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 2 weeks ago:
How should I prove this to you then? You are wrong, it is not just age content.
- Comment on Banana 2 weeks ago:
There are a lot of types though. Walmart may not have them, but my little 4 meter by 3 meter patch has several varieties and produces enough bananas for about 4 families.
So someone will still have bananas.
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 2 weeks ago:
No, not age restricted.
- Comment on Mini pc for home server? 3 weeks ago:
Just get a used PC and make a NAS. No need to buy a dedicated one.
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 3 weeks ago:
Fuck you google. I can’t see youtube videos with my browser because google wants me to sign in. Tells me it is protecting the community.
BULLSHIT.
Because google doesnt make me sign in to view or edit someone elses google docs they are sharing. Which one is more important google? Assholes.
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but they were microsoft. So they sucked. That’s how it works. Maybe in the hands of someone else it wouldn’t have been Microsoft crap.
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 3 weeks ago:
Windows needed to die a long time ago… so whatever. Same with XBOX and their phone, just a waste of time. Microsoft never made a product worth owning.
But the days of Gates saying to every department “how does this sell more windows” are long gone.
Many years ago a Microsoft team told me that the only thing important was data. The more the better. Windows wasn’t important, products were not important. Harvesting data and creating services was the future and nothing else mattered.
- Comment on How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) 3 weeks ago:
Wow. 1994 is the date of this.
Our local library had the cheat books by then.
Also, the text guides were online either BBS or Usenet. I remember printing out guides by 1994. I guess that wasn’t as common as I thought if people were spending on 1-900 numbers. I wonder how much they made doing this?
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 3 weeks ago:
I see no coffee here.
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 3 weeks ago:
Reddit has an AI? That’s news to me.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
Ones that work well take your natural language input, spend time searching and offer results. Not summarize anything. How well does perplexity work in that regard I wonder?
- Comment on Miami-Dade PD just rolled out PUG, a fully autonomous AI-powered police cruiser. Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. 4 weeks ago:
Did she really say “a way to touch our community in a way we have never done before”?
I hate the fact that I had to raise my kids to never talk to cops and stay away from them. The safest community leader is probably the librarians at this point.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone 1 month ago:
If it all goes away, I won’t care. Youtube is all about creators and they are the worst. Whatever.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to launch an AI-only TikTok clone 1 month ago:
Eh, tiktok was already brain rot.
Not sure it really makes any difference.
And I mean this seriously. People staring at their phones to watch little snippets of shit and endlessly scrolling for more is not healthy.
I am not sure there really is a distinction between "real’ or not real to the end viewers brain.
- Comment on Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market 1 month ago:
It is secure. It is your wallet, your keys.
It is built from litecoin, which is a fork of bitcoin.
- Comment on Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market 1 month ago:
I miss when the satire became a possibility of a real currency. Of all the crypto, Dogecoin proved that there is no point in trying.
Low cost, fairly stable, cheap to send a receive, a ton of clients and places to spend it. I never bought any, but I traded for plenty, and bought many things with it. I never worried about it becoming valuable, so I did not hoard it. I never worried about it becoming worthless either because the inflation rate was constantly shrinking.
But the complaint was always the same: how will I get rich with this?
Which proved that crypto is garbage and a ponzi or pyramid scheme.
- Comment on LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users 1 month ago:
Such a garbage site and always has been. Prior to microsoft owning them they were a shit show. They should never have recovered from this, but people are stupid.
After microsoft bought them, they became nothing more than a data mining operation. Which also should have made people avoid them. But again, people are so damn stupid.
So train AI on these dumbfucks, why not? They are too dumb to walk away.