Jrockwar
@Jrockwar@feddit.uk
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 1 day 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 1 week 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 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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] 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 3 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 5 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. 5 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? 5 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 6 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 7 months ago:
Less conveniently while costing something like $700 plus a monthly $25 subscription.
I don’t get how it got pitched either.
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 7 months ago:
I recently discovered dupe.com , which works quite well by giving it an Amazon link and finding it on potentially cheaper, definitely non-Bezos websites.
- Comment on Anon gets corrected 8 months ago:
Also queen, “James, you’re such an Excel queen”. I’ve seen this sort of use many times at my workplace. It doesn’t have anything to do with gender or sexual orientation.
It’s obviously more niche than “dude” but I’ve seen it before.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Do a search on yourself - try to find out your real identity based on information online, and do it as thoroughly as if you were searching for your worst enemy.
If you can find who you are yourself, chances are they will.
Make sure you don’t have anything “hairy” tied to an email with an email address you’d use for anything uncompromising. E.g. keep the email you use to login on Lemmy and the email you use to login on netflix separate.
Use 2 factor authentication and a password manager. Treat your password leaks seriously and consider any leaked accounts burnt - assume the details you had in there are now known.
Avoid using your real name on anything you can.
Best wishes. Take care my friend!
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Lessons will be available at least, even if nobody decides to take away anything from them.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Once a cheater, always a cheater.
- Comment on This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats 9 months ago:
Great western railway operates like this, offering you a “mystery seat” regardless of whether they’ve sold 120% of the seats in the train.
- Comment on This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats 9 months ago:
I think people answering these comments are from other countries that don’t understand that on a train from Reading to London in rush hour, there might be 60 seats and 80 passengers per carriage. 20 of these pax standing despite their ticket that said “Feel free to sit on any free seat you happen to find!”
- Comment on This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats 9 months ago:
Yeah but why even give you the checkbox/option for reserving a seat, only to tell you that you might actually be standing if the train is full or you don’t arrive early enough?
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
No
- Comment on Is there any (single player playable) game under $10 or equivalent which has made you point any go "ha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it? 9 months ago:
Donut county and Untitled goose game. Neither is that long (DC is particularly short), but both were super funny and enjoyable.
- Comment on Anyone else bounce around from game to game with no clue what to play? 9 months ago:
Not disagreeing with you necessarily, but ADHD also fits the bill. I’m very much a happy person at the moment, I wouldn’t change anything in my life, yet I subscribe to what OP says. Games are too long, too boring to grab my attention long enough.
I managed recently to complete GTA V because I found the story hilarious, and I only managed that by skipping all side missions. That’s the only long / AAA game I’ve managed to finish in recent years.
What helps me is understanding that if I get 5h of enjoyment out of a game rather than getting to the intended 50h playtime, that’s also valid. 5h of fun also counts as fun and this is a game, not work, so there’s no pressure to finish it.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Feature Denuvo & Account Linking + EULA also requires you to allow Ubisoft to "monitor" your RAM 9 months ago:
Can we do something like reporting Denuvo or the kernel anticheats as malware in Windows defender?
A game with a built in system lever logger that could theoretically monitor even your bank transactions should be reported as spyware/malware and users installing it should have to expressly acknowledge / authorise this.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews 10 months ago:
That’s the problem then, they should have hired some cloud experts if they’re selling a cloud-first service as a “game”.