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- Comment on builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers 17 hours ago:
If this were true, AI companies would be way more competent than they are lol
- Comment on How customer service jobs be 18 hours ago:
You say this but I find that orders are way more accurate today with app based ordering than ever before.
I used to have issues all the time with placing orders over intercoms or even face to face 10-30 years ago, but ever since I could enter in exactly what I want, the mistake rate went way down. I think it was just shitty intercoms combined with awkward terminals.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 1 day ago:
This is basically true in the US nowadays. Hard to say if it’s every state, as some are more regressive than others.
- Comment on Let the awkward silence begin... 2 days ago:
- Comment on Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel 4 days ago:
Yeah? Seems like the only thing currently released handheld wise is the MSI Claw AI+ 7 and 8. At $800-$900 it was a very hard sell.
The CPU itself might be strong for efficiency but it’s not like the claw crushed the competition. I feel like the number to meet or beat for a handheld is under $500.
Intel seems deemed too big to fail so I don’t doubt we’ll see a resurgence from them if they can manage to scrap most of the MBAs and focus on engineers.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 5 days ago:
As long as the money keeps coming there won’t be any problems.
That’s always how it’s been!
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 6 days ago:
Yeah the kushner share is a bribe to bypass regulatory oversight, didn’t you know?
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 6 days ago:
We’ve been trusting google with it’s proprietary algorithms for how long?
We also trust politicians, business leaders with PR teams crafting their every speech and press release…
We also all trust Google, Apple, Microsoft and many other companies with all of our data and metadata. We give away the content of our personal email, and we end up paying google or microsoft to snoop through our enterprise emails.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 week ago:
Reducing the valid time will not solve the underlying problems they are trying to fix.
We’re just gonna see more and more mass outages over time especially if this reduces to an uncomfortably short duration. Imagine what might happen if a mass crowdflare/microsoft/amazon/google outage that goes on perhaps a week or two? what if the CAs we use go down longer than the expiration period?
Sure, the current goal is to move everybody over to ACME but now that’s yet another piece of software that has to be monitored, may have flaws or exploits, may not always run as expected… and has dozens of variations with dependencies and libraries that will have various levels of security of their own and potentially more vulnerabilities.
I don’t have the solution, I just don’t see this as fixing anything. What’s the replacement?
- Comment on Winding down my day off the right way 1 week ago:
oh man, you haven’t lived until you’ve eaten cheese fries off your laptop keyboard at the end of a long day. You’re so close, I promise it’s worth it!
- Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers 1 week ago:
Yeah that was a pretty big sale price over what was typically $160 before tax/shipping.
I paid $200 on a set a couple weeks before your one with similar specs but better voltage which was right around the 9800x3d launch. My motherboard was like $300 too for an x870.
- Comment on US | Shock and dismay after national guard troops shot near White House 1 week ago:
I kind of expect news articles about people in the military dying violent deaths. It’s unfortunate and horrible, but that’s what war is like. They go into service knowing it’s a possible outcome and have accepted the risk, which is more than can be said for most civilians.
It’s just weird hearing about DC being a warzone. I guess that’s what happens when you send soldiers in to a city for something other than R&R.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 week ago:
In some weird way it does feel like things flipped overnight. Maybe it was the pandemic? Definitely went from ~2019 all dell to ~2023 ultramajority lenovo. None of this is scientific though lol
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 week ago:
I know this probably won’t be received well, but I look at framework and I see the least usable option. On some level I understand the idea and think it is at least desirable. I just think the modular nature comes with substantial drawbacks compared to modern competitors.
For home use i’m mostly a gamer. They don’t really have powerful gaming options and I can just build my own desktop in the case I want with whatever hardware I want.
For not-gaming home use, I want something lightweight that just works. I just get something from work usually. It’s common to have a glut of laptops when you acquire someone or to just order something as a tester or to demonstrate an option- which happens to be the one system I really want to use.
Framework is expensive for what they provide. The upgrades are rarely worth the price to me. If I really had to buy something, I could buy something I really want with the specs and features I really want instead of having a ton of hot swappable ports that I never touch because I just want usb-c anyway. When it’s time for me to upgrade I end up giving my old to one of my friends or family members, because there’s always a need there- two such machines i’m handing out over thanksgiving.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 week ago:
I’ve never, ever met someone outside of a tech role that even knows they exist.
If someone isn’t happy with a lenovo, it’s because they want that coveted apple logo on the lid.
The primary concerns in the enterprise environment are around standardization. I only want a couple of models to manage per year so that the support guys don’t have to worry too much about some willy wonka bullshit that doesn’t work because that one system is an oddball. The nice thing too about lenovo (or dell) has traditionally been support services. If you know the words to say you can get them to ship out anything with a tech to replace anything after a single call and not running all the silly diagnostics. I know dell has been on the decline for support services and I honestly don’t handle any of the warranty repairs myself, but my impression is that it still works.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 week ago:
The executive also noted that 500 million PCs don’t meet Windows 11’s system requirements while the others don’t need a hardware upgrade to run the OS. Although this would indicate that 500 million PCs would potentially be replaced with newer alternatives capable of running Windows 11 at some point, Clarke hinted at “roughly flat” sales for Dell PCs would moving forward . Clarke didn’t explain the reasoning behind this statement , but it could mean that people are just not that interested in upgrading to Windows 11 PCs.
It’s a simple reason. Everybody is abandoning dell in droves for lenovo in enterprise environments.
I used to buy dell exclusively for laptops across over a decade at multiple organizations where I determined hardware standards and purchasing. Everyone always wanted a x1 carbon or thinkpad but the prices were too high. This is no longer the case. Now everyone gets a thinkpad or x1 carbon where I work at least, and statistics for market share are heavily on the lenovo side now.
That’s how I see it anyway. This has nothing to do with windows 11, it’s just another service pack when you’re managing everything via GPO/intune/sccm/whatever.
- Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers 1 week ago:
$250 for 32gb (2x16) DDR5-6000-CL30 at microcenter.
This memory thing feels way overblown. It has an impact, sure, but unless you’re building your own system (probably for video games) odds are the price increases for pre-builts are insignificant. The companies that build the majority of systems end up paying wholesale prices anyway, not the retail we pay. It’s still nothing compared to Q4’24-Q2’25 GPU scalping / price markups.
- Comment on Cows are made of grass 1 week ago:
So you’re telling us to touch cows.
- Comment on Lemmy Politics 1 week ago:
You raktajino drinking nerf herder!
^no politics, no block?
I bet you are a cardassian spy!
^dangerous blocking territory? - Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 2 weeks ago:
60% of anticheat implementations need to be fixed. 682 total titles. https://areweanticheatyet.com/
You just need to convince developers of a handful of titles, like fortnite, apex, valorant, BF2042, bf6, rust, R6 siege, league of legends, call of duty 2025… should be easy right?
It’ll never happen. The ones who are fanatical about it like the rust guy believe carte blanche that linux support will only make cheating worse and not positively improve the community. He doesn’t care about linux sales, the windows ones throw so much dosh at him that there’s no “market force” incentivizing him otherwise.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 2 weeks ago:
When Linux market share hits 20% it would be a monumental achievement, and developers would probably still avoid it.
Don’t get me wrong, I moved to Linux this year. I want to see it gain traction in the gaming space.
It’s just not likely to happen any time soon. Loads of very basic use cases are a fucking shitshow because of a lot of reasons.
Just getting sunshine setup with a virtual display is a nightmare on Wayland without scripts to enable/disable displays and without being in front of the computer you want to remote to, because the simple logic of “if this display =off, then other display =on” is not a thing.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 2 weeks ago:
Still not going to convince some stubborn hold outs like the rust guy. Nothing will ever convince them.
- Comment on Brazil's Bolsonaro seeks to serve 27-year jail term under house arrest 2 weeks ago:
If there was ever a case for an example to be made to inhibit repeat behavior by others, this is it.
Treat him like any other person who committed the crimes they are convicted of, or worse. A normie would never get house arrest like this.
- Comment on Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know 2 weeks ago:
They don’t give a shit about what the law or terms say. They’ll just do whatever and if caught pay pennies on the dollar in fines.
We’ve seen them do this and win time and time again with the google library project and other actions. All the AI companies are training on any and all data they have access to, laws be damned. It’s the MO for any new venture capital / tech project with unlimited profits if someone gets there first.
- Comment on Navy removes signs claiming a Mexican beach is US territory 2 weeks ago:
I would say it’s run by professionals.
Just not the kind of professionals that you would expect to run a government, and certainly not the kind of professionals that should have any kind of business running any kind of modern country, anywhere.
Professional propagandists. Professional con artists. Professional liars…. i’m sure many more people can fill in what i’ve missed.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t one of those people who thought the switch 2 would fail though. I knew it would be a huge commercial success. Just like how every single zelda game that ever comes out will be a huge commercial success, same for pokemon, metroid, mario, and other titles with enormous multigenerational fanbases. They could release the worst game of all time and still get 9 figure revenues out of it from branding alone and reviewers would still slap a 8/10 or 9/10 on the game. At least nintendo generally isn’t another EA/sportsball/call of duty style yearly release churn like so many devs though. I’ll give them that.
Pokemon still sucks compared to Palworld or any number of other pokeclones that are less commercially successful due to lack of brand recognition. The last metroid game that isn’t a remaster was less than ten hours long, which also sucks.
The switch 2 is also the first console release in many years to not have extreme scarcity. It’s been less than a year and I can pickup at msrp a switch 2 today at the closest B&M stores to my house. I’m right by a major city and we’re usually the last ones to have stock available due to population density. It took years to be able to buy a ps5 at retail without getting very lucky. Not surprised that nintendo has made so many sales.
Will say though I have completely stopped using the switch 1 ever since I picked up a deck in 2023. Monthly active users for Steam have doubled since Jan 2020. https://steamdb.info/app/753/charts/#6y - there are more pc gamers than ever, and we’re seeing consoles start to fade away it feels like, like the arcade cabinets before them. I don’t think steam will replace nintendo in any way, but I do think there is way more potential for growth on the PC side than the nintendo side.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 3 weeks ago:
I’m saying Zelda Breath of the Wild and Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. I figured it was implied. Those are both goty tier flagship titles for the old switch.
I’m asking if you think donkey kong bananza lives up to those or surpasses those. DKB is a 18 hour game according to how long to beat. Everything else in the running costs less and/or has way more play hours.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 3 weeks ago:
Ah cool, so it’s better than say either of the Zelda games? since multiple releases this year seem to be on that tier.
I know it has high reviews but I am always doubtful it’s more of a hype review especially when people are desperate to justify their $500 hardware+game bundle purchase on top of their $70 20-hour game
- Comment on Rebble · Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work 3 weeks ago:
As a former pebble user, why would I throw more money at a company created by the same guy?
Fool me once…
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 3 weeks ago:
I kind of figure death stranding too. It at least has sounded like it deserves to be up there even though it basically just fits in to the “ps5 exclusive” slot.
Blue Prince sounds like it’s the Myst of this generation too, but that kind of game just doesn’t draw appeal in modern times. Everything i’ve heard about it points to it being a game that way more people should probably try, but they just haven’t. Puzzle games rarely get mass appeal.