acosmichippo

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah i recently stopped watching sports for similar reasons. cancelling the youtubetv sub and getting back hours and hours of my life every week. gonna try to learn drums or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  exactly, if you want to be an ethical consumer you’d need to be a hermit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony considers further price rises, as it braces for £500m tariffs impact⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah that was my point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony considers further price rises, as it braces for £500m tariffs impact⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  no worries guys, we can just go buy the american-made competitor with no tariffs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  you can’t use straight 1:1 inflation to infer what the contemporary cost should be of digital products like video games, movies, tv shows, music etc. There is no physical asset to tie the individual product value to. There are of course production costs, but those are the same whether you make 10 thousand copies or 10 million.

  The reason inflation hasn’t hit video game prices is because the video game market has grown exponentially since the 90s. They make more money by selling low margin at higher volume, compared to high margin and low volume. It’s all about maximizing that total profit, not individual sales.

  Publishers can try to charge more, but it’ll be up to consumers if that actually gets them any more money overall. only time will tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Watch Shipments’ Continuous Decline⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean as a core feature of a watch/smartwatch in general. garmin is going above and beyond compared to the competition, and that’s great. But that doesn’t mean every other smartwatch manufacturer arbitrarily locking traditional watch features behind paywalls.

  and yeah apple does fitness themed commercials for apple watch because it does help with fitness a ton out of the box. just not specifically guided workouts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Watch Shipments’ Continuous Decline⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s more like an added perk from garmin. I’d hardly consider workout plans a core feature of a watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  yes and i don’t think it’s limited to politics either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Watch Shipments’ Continuous Decline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  which should have been expected. after 10 years the market is saturaded, and it’s a mature product that has had no killer feature to upgrade early for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally like it on a dedicated Pi simplly because I don’t want DNS to die if i’m doing other server maintenance. the Pi is pretty much set it and forget it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  honestly don’t find it necessary. raspberry OS basically never needs to be rebooted and if you really need planned maintenance you can just use a normal DNS server til you’re done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 292 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  all of the guild questlines in oblivion are so fun, particularly the stealthy ones Dark Brotherhood and Thieves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Meta XR glasses again tipped to land later this year – well ahead of Apple's rumored AR glasses with Apple Intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  apple has implemented junk AI (image playground, useless notification summaries, etc) while delaying the one thing (imo) AI could actually help them with - integration with siri.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that doesn’t mean we should exacerbate the issue with AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  why wouldn’t that be the case, all the most persuasive humans are liars too. fantasy sells better than the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Outer Worlds is a perfect example of this in the best way possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  1. No one is “navigating away” from motivated thieves in an 18 wheeler loaded with cargo.

  2. why would you want a human doing anything aggressive on the road endangering themselves and likely others in the process?

  If you’re getting hijacked don’t risk your life and others’ lives on the road for the sake of corporate assets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  and phones make you use your unlock pin often, so people are forced to remember it. on the other hand windows lets you use a short pin instead of your full account password pretty much forever which results in people forgetting the password completely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you never did entertain a conversation, you’re just insulting anyone who disagrees with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ok sure, don’t answer the questions. why do you assume non-white or non-male people would have a vastly different opinions regarding AR specifically?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what does being white or male have anything to do with this?

  what makes you think most people wouldn’t be ok with wearing tech on their face?

  maybe you are the one forgetting that cameras and microphones are already in all the products that most people already have. how is AR any different?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  wow you are an arrogant asshole.

  1. just because you say so doesn’t mean there is no market for it.

  2. it’s a completely new technology. the use case is still being explored. of course most average people are not waiting for it on bated breath.

  You seriously can’t comprehend how these companies use, manipulate, and coerce you to create a false demand for this slop?

  show me, where exactly is this happening with AR?

  Just stop mindlessly accepting and defending this behavior and stand up for yourself as a consumer.

  stop being a mindless reactionary luddite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not even a huge proponent of AR glasses, but i think that’s a pretty shortsighted view. AR/VR tech was still in its infancy when google decided to drop it, and Apple has a history of repackaging/refining products in a way that allows them to catch on.

  also “forced onto consumers”? no one is being forced to buy anything, what a ridiculous take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s not that complicated, the goal is to create another hit product that everyone wants like the ipod and iphone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  chipotle drive through

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  half assed remake

  which is exactly why they called it a remaster. it was never their intention to remake the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i used to think this as well (i have never used any facebook apps), but last night something happened that made me question it.

  My wife and i were going through a chipotle that was right next to a Popeye’s. As we were waiting i looked over to popeyes and saw some posters for their new pickle chicken stuff and asked my wife “the fuck is a pickle ‘glaze’?”

  literally a few seconds later she opens instagram on her phone and is shown a video of a person making pickle brined chicken.

  yes yes it could be a coincidence, but i am a lot less certain of that now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Avowed ran well for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Avowed was UE5 and that ran well for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i wouldn’t say discord “spoiled” us by trying to reinvent forums, i’d say it unnecessarily blurred the lines. classic case of feature creep.