Jrockwar
@Jrockwar@feddit.uk
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 3 days ago:
They have the expertise, just not the desire. Which explains why in 2026, proton and wine manage to run more Windows apps (well) than Windows.
- Comment on Tesla Sales Down 55% in UK, 58% in Spain, 59% in Germany, 81% in Netherlands, 93% in Norway vs. 2024 2 weeks ago:
Hell no, leave us gays alone - between Altman and Thiel we have more than enough gay evillionaires!
- Comment on macOS 26.4 will notify users of Rosetta 2 discontinuation - 9to5Mac 2 weeks ago:
FR, I had a £4k top spec one, Intel i9, 64GB as my work laptop… And even back then, I wouldn’t have bought it myself for £800 if given the chance. Absolutely atrocious, particularly in terms of thermal design. I remember one summer, having Intel vTune installed and seeing the CPU laptop throttle to 0.25 GHz with Zoom open, because it would wake up the power hungry GPU and the laptop couldn’t deal with a British 30°C summer.
The Apple Silicon ones are lovely in comparison. When I swapped it, I remember going through a whole flight using my laptop without charging thinking “what sorcery is this”.
Shame there isn’t a decent equivalent ARM laptop that can do Linux.
- Comment on Five French Ubisoft Unions Call For Massive International Strike Over 'Cost-Cutting' and Ending of Remote Work 5 weeks ago:
Only if people stay. Ending remote work is a way to lose 20% of the workforce to attrition. An office costs far far less than 20% of the salary mass, and if they were doing any sort of hybrid work, they might even have enough desk space already anyway…
- Comment on Are UK buy-to-let landlords dying out – and should we care? 2 months ago:
“It will cost me an extra £2,500 a year,” said France, who owns seven properties in Merseyside and Essex, including three homes in Chelmsford, which are houses of multiple occupancy.
“I can’t absorb that kind of hit. We’ve already been hammered by rising interest rates and other changes to the sector, and I’ve tried to feed that through gently to tenants. But I had to write to all of them and say I’ve had to do some recalculations and rents will be going up again from next year.”
How much are they making a year off seven properties? Isn’t £2500 the same 2-5% cost of living hike we’ve all seen? Hell some people who commute to London have taken that yearly hit (or almost) on public transport price hikes alone!
- Comment on Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One 2 months ago:
This is ridiculous. If it goes into effect, the same women will complain when they see a big trans man full of tattoos in the women’s bathroom because the law has forced them to go there.
Purely and simply transphobia.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 3 months ago:
When flagships cost $500 I would keep them for 2 years. Now they cost $1000 I expect them to last twice as long. 🤷♂️ “The market” isn’t only dictated by supply, it’s supply and demand. It cuts both ways.
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 3 months ago:
Unfortunately I’ve seen this happen before, in Spain.
The national flag of Spain, when used by an individual, rarely ever represents “I love Spain and all that it entails” but rather “I have right-wing views, I only accept the catholic religion, gays aren’t natural, and immigrants should go back to their own countries”.
I don’t know if it can be taken back to just be the national flag, but if it can, Spain hasn’t managed to achieve it in the 20 years since it devolved into a narrow political symbol.
- Comment on Low-income areas in England and Wales face worst air pollution, analysis finds 3 months ago:
I’ve seen over an over an “environmental” measure that causes this: disallowing cars only in central areas.
This means that people who actually need to use the car to get to work have to drive a much longer distance, only through less affluent areas, as if pollution didn’t matter over there.
I was in a situation a few years ago (not in the UK) where I had to drive to work because the only other way to get to the office/factory in time for the morning would have been to take a train the night before and camp in front of the factory. During that time there were some similar measures by the local government and I kept thinking how bonkers it was that using more fuel could be more “environmentally friendly”. It wasn’t - I was just polluting near people the government didn’t care about.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 3 months ago:
Agree. If you could go into every single store, house, nook and cranny of Cyberpunk 2077, and talk to all the NPCs, it would feel absolutely humongous. Gameplay significantly affects perceived size.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 4 months ago:
And probably on iOS too, which isn’t linux either.
- Comment on Britons believe the UK is seen by the rest of the world as ‘weak’ and ‘soft touch’ 5 months ago:
Duh. It’s weak because of Brexit, it needs to be soft touch because it’s lost the influence to be anything else.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 5 months ago:
My flatmate used to call that Tomb Raider (the first of the new trilogy) “PTSD Simulator”. It’s as you say, the first few deaths are entirely survival-driven, with her constantly crying and then she becomes an emotionless one-woman army.
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 5 months ago:
At this point I think Keir Starmer is actually a covert conservative trying his hardest to undermine and destroy the Labour party for decades to come.
- Comment on I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game 5 months ago:
For a cartoon game.
With the aesthetics they have, they could have been playable on the steam deck without anybody noticing the difference in graphics.
Why do they need 2-billion-polygon rocks only to flatten them all out and make it look like a cardboard cutout? It’s ridiculous.
- Comment on UK phone retailers lock shop doors while trading to tackle rising thefts 5 months ago:
When the iPhone X was released (2017), the £1000 pricing was considered ridiculous. Most flagships at the time cost about £600 (this is what the 2016 iPhone 7 cost at launch, with the iPhone 7 Plus having a starting price of £720).
Obviously this didn’t stop Apple from selling them like hotcakes and establishing an immediate +30% increase of the flagship smartphone prices.
Today, a Galaxy Z Fold starts at £1800. This is a +146% increase over the 2017 release price of the Galaxy Note 7.
According to the bank of England, we’ve seen a total inflation of 34% in the 2017-2025, while phones have increased their prices by >100%.
So yeah, no surprise there. As phones keep rising in value, they are going to continue becoming an increasingly desirable target for thefts. A gym bag full of smartphone boxes can easily have over £20k at retail prices, and easily fetch £10k when sold at a hefty discount, but a smartphone store doesn’t have the security measures of a jewelry store. I can see how it’s attractive to thieves.
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 6 months ago:
The generation of Amstrad, Spectrum etc had the games on tape. I would say they were the closest thing to a console pre-NES, so 1980s. I had an amstrad that was handed down to me by a friend of an older sister and it had tapes like this.
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 6 months ago:
They’re absolutely failing because the execs are hype-driven clowns who focus on the wrong metrics.
“Failing to drive rapid revenue growth”, WTF. Leaving aside whether GenAI is a useful technology or not, it’s never been a technology to “drive rapid revenue growth”, just like Microsoft Office, or calculators, or a million other technologies.
This is all just a pipe dream from a clueless exec class that prioritises short-term profits and hoped that implementing a glorified autocorrect would make people flock en masse to their random product. Why would you think an AI chatbot in your online clothes shop would make me like your ill-fitting jeans any better, you overpaid monkey?
Maybe you could have hoped for employees to achieve a “5% productivity increase” or something mildly realistic, but no, your brain-eating slugs told you to shoehorn AI into everything and 👏We 👏Don’t 👏Need👏AI👏Fucking👏Everywhere👏
- Comment on When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private 6 months ago:
Could any kind soul provide a TL;DW for those of us who can’t watch a video (for whatever reason)?
- Comment on Trump administration accuses UK of failing to uphold human rights 6 months ago:
I won’t be the one calling the UK blameless, but that’s rich coming from the country that’s doing what they are with ICE (which is just the latest one in a long list).
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Yeah she sounds like the particular brand of idiot that we have in the UK. I fortunately don’t see that many of those… but still enough to find that sort of attitude recognisable.
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- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 7 months ago:
When they finally crash and burn (or sure, when they develop an AGI 🙄) this has potential to be an incredibly dramatic biopic. I hope it gets a good director.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 8 months ago:
Still, being able to argue they’re not for profit is what typically has protected emulators from being sued to oblivion (and with Nintendo, even that’s risky)…
- Comment on Digital Foundry: Yes, It's Faster: Switch 2 Back Compat vs Batman Arkham Knight + the Witcher 3 8 months ago:
A console in 2025 “runs at a stable 30” fps and that’s good news? Of course this is slightly faster than a mobile chip from 10 years ago, but that’s an incredibly low bar to set.
- Comment on Venezuelan migrants relied on clickwork to survive. Now AI is replacing them 10 months ago:
This can be correct, if they’re talking about training smaller models.
Imagine this case. You are an automotive manufacturer that uses ML to detect pedestrians, vehicles, etc with cameras. Like what Tesla does, for example. This needs to be done with a small, relatively low power footprint model that can run in a car, not a datacentre. To improve its performance you need to finetune it with labelled data of traffic situations with pedestrians, vehicles, etc. That labeling would be done manually.
Except, when we get to a point where the latest Gemini/LLAMA/GPT/Whatever, is so beefy that could never be run in that low power application… But it’s beefy enough to accurately classify and label the things that the smaller model needs to get trained.
It’s like an older sibling teaching a small kid how to do sums, not an actual maths teacher but does the job and a lot cheaper or semi-free.
- Comment on My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate. 10 months ago:
I also think heating everything up is the smoothest solution. But to offer an alternative, I’d use dental floss to get in between the bowl and plate. If the bowl has slightly rounded edges (I believe it will), it won’t be too hard to get floss in. With the floss you’ll get inevitably some air in… Which will equalise the pressure and break the vacuum.
As an inferior alternative to floss, fishing line could work for this approach as well.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 11 months ago:
The ads for apps, Xbox games, trial versions of Office preinstalled, the minesweeper and solitaire collection that are preinstalled but actually ad supported or non-free, depending on the region spotify/TikTok/Facebook also come preinstalled, “Movies & TV”, Bing/MS News…
I think all of those count as bloat. I haven’t included Edge because I guess having a browser is a necessity, or copilot/cortana because you said “excluding AI features”.
- Comment on Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon 11 months ago:
Oh no! They’re using an emulator! I choose you NINTENDO! Use “Sue for copyright”!
Unfortunately, it’s not very effective (Anthropic’s type is “AI Company”).
- Comment on HP to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin' • The Register 1 year ago:
Less conveniently while costing something like $700 plus a monthly $25 subscription.
I don’t get how it got pitched either.