pycorax
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- Comment on Someone finally made a "Sonarr for YouTube" 3 days ago:
I mean it is clear that it’s an aggregator (? Not sure what the right term is for this) but I can’t even begin to count the number of times I access Radarr instead of Sonarr because I forgot which one is for shows or movies.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 5 days ago:
A tale as old as time…
- Comment on Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec 6 days ago:
Its why there is no real point in deciding whether something should be a film or a tv series because you can just release it as a four part miniseries or stretch things out for a full eight and so forth.
There absolutely is. A movie is still expected to be watched in one go in its entirety and so is an episode of a mini series. It has a huge effects on the pacing of the media and how you segment episodes of one.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
What region are you in if you don’t mind me asking? It works perfectly fine in Singapore.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
If it’s anything like how Windows does it, you would still be able to override it. It just gives you a scary warning and hides the option unless you click “more info” or something.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
What kind of apps are you installing? I’ve never ever had any issue with installing APKs on Samsung, you just have to allow the app that triggered it to install APKs one time and every subsequent time, it just works.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
The clickbait titles and thumbnails destroyed most of the interest I had in their videos but at that time, it was clear that they were pivoting to a more typical less enthusiast-level audience. I still found some of their occasional videos somewhat interesting but the increasing hypocrisy and shit they’ve pulled made me stop watching all together.
- Comment on New Valve trademark for 'Steam Frame', looks like we're getting new hardware 1 week ago:
This sounds like the latency would be insane though.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Honestly that’s just how Civ has been for the past few releases, most people don’t get it until the typical set of 2 major expansion packs come out and eventually go on sale. The base price of the full package has always been crazy high.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 1 week ago:
Well that’s why u was asking for an example of sorts. The problem is that if you’re just starting out, you don’t know what you don’t know and more importantly, you won’t be able to tell if something is wrong. It doesn’t help that LLMs are notoriously good at being confidently incorrect and prone to hallucinations.
When I tried it for programming, more often than not, it has hallucinated functions and APIs that did not exist. And I know that they don’t because I’ve been working at this for more than half of my life so I have the intuition to detect bullshit when it appears. However, for learners they are unlikely to be able to differentiate that.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 1 week ago:
Could you expand with an example because what you said is too vague to really extract any point from. I’d argue that if it gives you wrong information, doing something wrong is worse than doing nothing.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 2 weeks ago:
Cool, maybe I’ll give it a shot again sometime
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 2 weeks ago:
When I tried it a few years back there was this really strange field of view and input lag that felt really clunky when moving around the world. Anyone knows if that’s been fixed?
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 2 weeks ago:
Apple doesn’t really exist as a competitor for a number of industries and use cases due to not officially supporting anything other than OSX so I’m not sure if they’re a fair comparison here.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 weeks ago:
I sure hope not, it’d mess up corporate deployments and all too.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 weeks ago:
Another article did mention that it’s only for devices with Play Protect enabled so if they keep that as easy as it is to disable right now, it’ll be a non issue actually.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 weeks ago:
Another article did mention that it’s only for devices with Play Protect enabled so if they keep that as easy as it is to disable right now, it’ll be a non issue actually.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 game-key cards not eligible for preservation by Japan’s National Diet Library, officials say 3 weeks ago:
But if you ever wondered if the xbox one reveal event would have gone down a lot better today… just look at how confused people are over what the hell they are even buying from the big n.
As someone that’s always been using Steam, I really didn’t understand the issue with it either.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 weeks ago:
Why am I using an Android device then? Also how would this even work with open source apps that people build from source?
- Comment on China cut itself off from the global internet on Wednesday 3 weeks ago:
I play in SEA and see the reverse. I don’t think most China players are connecting to Oceania servers, they’re far more likely to connect to Asian servers since the data centers are usually in Singapore and Japan which are much closer to China.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 4 weeks ago:
I refuse to give Facebook money and honestly if I didn’t have a WMR headset, I wouldn’t even have bothered.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 4 weeks ago:
You’re right but at the end of the day, the average person is content with having their stuff just work for now and that’s a reasonable expectation isn’t it? If it ain’t broke, people aren’t going to go out of their way to protect themselves from a what-if that they may feel is going to maybe mildly inconvenience them when it happens regardless of what it actually is, since they may be ignorant of the true state of how things might be.
And in the end, some are just gonna accept that inconvenience from stuff not working completely rather than switch. People have been saying to switch away from Chrome for years and now even with ad-blocking being nerfed, people are still on it.
- Comment on Intel collapsing? 5 weeks ago:
Not sure if it’s the same amount of money you’re referring to or if there’s another budget given to them but the video does indicate that for one of them, Intel claims that they have never received the money.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
Honestly if that is it, it is understandable. This AI nonsense, however, is plainly a waste of money and resources, Mozilla’s and their users’.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 5 weeks ago:
Classic streisand effect
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
At this point I’d honestly even pay for a privacy focused mozilla browser that is clean of all this crap, just to keep them afloat, but fat chance of that happening.
As much as I’d love for something like that I don’t think it’s even remotely possible. I don’t think enough people are willing enough to pay for a browser that respects them, heck the amount of people who remain on Chrome shows that people aren’t even willing to take a small step to stop using a browser that’s actively working against their interests. I’d love to be proven wrong though.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 5 weeks ago:
With how much CoD costs and how the player base tends to abandon the game once the new one releases, Game Pass is pretty much the most logical way of getting your hands on CoD. I reckon most people play it through that.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
Instead of capitalising on Google pissing off power users with its crusade against adblockers, why the hell is Mozilla fucking up so hard here? Seriously, which chain of command green lit all of this and didn’t even think this would be remotely an issue?
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages | Update 2 Release Notes 5 weeks ago:
Hmm could I ask what difficulty you’re playing at? I’m still at the early chapters though.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages | Update 2 Release Notes 5 weeks ago:
Did the variety of enemies that require different weapons not already provide a reason to use different guns? I actually found myself swapping weapons a lot to be able to overheat shields, deal with special enemies and more.