orioler25
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- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 4 days ago:
Wow, a whole unionized and competent studio now free to pursue internally chosen productions? I sure hope they don’t get some of those “Canadian Heritage” media subsidies. Seriously though this is the shit the state should be funding, it’d be a shame to have this kind of resource squandered.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 6 days ago:
I can make LibreOffice Writer look like word 2007 🤗
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 2 weeks ago:
For beginners? Totally; but snap gets annoying over time.
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 2 weeks ago:
Tumbleweed with KDE is honestly the smoothest work environment Ive had since Windows 7.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 weeks ago:
Wow, I can’t believe my plan for a cheap motherboard worked.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 2 weeks ago:
This is why graduate student and teaching assistant unions exist. I’d dare this student to contest a zero on a paper that is flatout plagiarism.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I’ll never give it a shot to play. It’s too long, I have a job, and I have games I want to play more that will certainly be more. I never played this game, as I said it’s not even remotely my taste. That’s also why I need to have someone explain what makes it supposedly good for what it is.
Most of these remarks are circular though, “it’s good because it’s good/I liked it.” Which is fine, but doesn’t really speak to the game. Gameplay seems to be where you’re better at articulating what’s actually good here. I don’t know this genre, so it’s exceptional that there is a combination of active and passive combat tied to the player’s experience? This is something exclusive or executed in a notable way here, or it’s just something that’s been done before that you feel is elevated because you like the story production?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
I’m actually curious to why this is. It is completely outside of my taste and people keep saying. What makes it exceptional?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
Ahhh okay this makes sense now I fully could not understand the buzz around this game and it always felt a bit…off.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 5 weeks ago:
Because it sucks up more power and water, and creates more pollution than what an intern would if they made the same mistake. Doesn’t help that capitalists have used this tech to create a run-away valuation that we’re going to have to pay for while threatening the value of labour to make humans cheaper and worsen our living conditions.
Hope that explains it.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 1 month ago:
Jesus, I see that word so misused on here but someone using it when I ask where I said something two comments above is pretty hilarious.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 1 month ago:
Where do I say that?
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 1 month ago:
Jesus how dramatic. Please explain liberalism for me so that I know what I’ve gotten wrong here.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 1 month ago:
What’s “righteous” about this?
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 1 month ago:
American liberals would sooner say that the nation is impure than that nationalism is pathological. Many of them literally identify with the state as part of or representative of themselves. Guilt and shame are American rationalisation staples, “I feel bad, but I’m not going to stop.”
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 1 month ago:
Bazzite’s been working pretty good for me. Was honestly easier to set up too, and fights me less, and runs smoother, and also doesn’t spy on me.
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 1 month ago:
Joke’s clear, it just only makes sense if you’re privileged.
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 1 month ago:
Lovely, romanticizing gendered labour. You guys know poor people have always been around, right?
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 month ago:
You’ve assumed that I’m in a tech knowledge bubble. I use Linux for work, but I am not in the tech field even remotely. Even though I have some professional training and a hobby interest, which prepared me better, I had to use textbooks and online forums to learn how to use my Linux desktop comfortably. I regularly deal with students and am therefore very familiar with low tech-literacy, let alone others in my own life that I have helped. I know there is a skill barrier for entry into Linux.
What I am much better equipped to handle is broad social and economic developments historically, with a particular concern for capitalist erosion of community wellbeing and mutual aid. As I have said, I do not doubt there is value for consumers in this service and I do not doubt that this service appears to be reasonably priced to those consumers. My concern regards the potential attraction that such profitability could generate and that same tech-illiteracy would make users more easily coerced into capitalization. Those conditions are exactly why there is a social as well as skill barrier of entry into Linux. As you said, many consumers have been primed to accept convenience over skill-building, which in turn makes them less capable of choosing when something is not worth the price and abandoning a convenient user experience.
Again, it is good that more people try to make this switch – Microsoft’s near monopoly is undeniably a social detriment – but we do not benefit from suspending criticism of how this switch happens just because we are happy it is happening.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 month ago:
I think it is very purposeful that Zorin has expansive marketing and frames features in terms of price value.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 month ago:
My concern is more oriented toward how capitalization of consumer-facing Linux will look if it proves to be a profitable site of expansion with Windows’ decline in popularity. I don’t care about licenses or the utility of the feature, though I do question its value when there are free options. The support is the more valuable thing, but again I worry about this success given that other distros have communities that serve the same purpose for free with only a little more labour from the user. It’s a good thing this is happening at all, but we should be critical of how it happens.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 month ago:
This is a good point, particularly in the context of value for new users. My comment is more regarding the precedent of framing desktop environments as some sort of premium feature. I do question how much value users still get out of that though, since so many Linux distros have communities that provide essentially the same service for free with a bit more labour on the user.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 month ago:
I really hope these people don’t accept that it’s normal to charge for different desktop environments.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 1 month ago:
Yeah exactly. Sucks if you have a job that forces you to use Windows though, which is largely how MS has this stanglehold on PC share. Once this becomes an expensive security risk, maybe more businesses will switch to paid Linux OS’s.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 1 month ago:
Consumers are not the main driver of profit, speculative value is. Microsoft knows that Windows is guaranteed to be on the majority of PC’s, which means they can afford to implement hostile features that increase the speculative value on data collection and AI investment.
- Comment on Just seen the latest American Opinion polls. 1 month ago:
Yeah, libs have been very open about homophobia and ableism since Trump was elected and they had a crisis that warranted a suspension of the performance. Statistically, we know most men in the US are complacent or perpetrators of sexual violence and a significant amount – even the majority in some places – fetishize youth and teen women. For Americans, it really is more reputation destroying to have done queer shit than to be a rapist pedophile (this includes “ephebophiles,” sorry).
- Comment on They Wylin' 1 month ago:
It actually makes more sense tbh. Being queer is far worse to fascists than being a pedophile rapist. This is especially damning when the person he sucked off is prominent in the conspiracy theories he depended on for the past decade.
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 1 month ago:
Jesus god and more pre-rendered graphics.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 1 month ago:
They have to because the capitalist imperative of infinite, progressive growth forces them to constantly seek out additional speculative avenues for profit. The potential for a valuable product (stock) is more valuable than a good product and is cheaper to produce than a good product. Also, important to note that you are also a product in a surveillance capitalist state thaf commodifies every second of your day. The speculative value on more profitable avenues to source and sell your data has more speculative value than any value your patronage would generate.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 1 month ago:
Wow, they really are just gonna make you kill them eh.