Butterbee
@Butterbee@beehaw.org
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 11 hours ago:
I hope there’s enough of a market for non-ai content that it doesn’t come to that. I think we already reached the pushback stage with image generation.
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 12 hours ago:
I’ve just started using Searxng… you expect it to die soon? Is it because you expect other search engines to follow suit until there are no search engines anymore, only hallucination machines?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 6 days ago:
SHOCKED!
- Comment on Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract 3 weeks ago:
The don’t be evil to you must help us commit genocide pipeline
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 5 weeks ago:
I do this too. If it’s on Gog I buy it there. I hope gog manages to stay around but even if it doesn’t I can grab the offline installers for the games I have purchased and back them up elsewhere.
- Comment on “Job Creator” Elon Musk Has Fired Over 6000 Employees in the Last 4 Years, Some for Trying to Unionize 1 month ago:
If you think about it, if you fire everyone and reorganize your business structure, then you’ve opened up all those jobs for prospective employees!
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 24th 1 month ago:
Picked up Immortals of Aveum on sale. My friend recommended it and the combat is fun! But I dislike almost everything else. I intensely dislike the main character and that’s souring me to the rest of it. There’s a “it’s the end of the world” type war going on and while that can be an interesting setting I just can’t bring myself to want the protagonist to succeed. Early on in the game you have to go through some kind of trial to be chosen for some elite status that he doesn’t deserve. So you go through a fairly basic obstacle course with almost no fights to do and when you’re done he’s apparently the ONLY one amazing enough to actually finish it out of the group that were making attempts! OH MY GOD HE’S SO AMAZING! I actually alt-f4’d the game right then because I was truly hoping to complete it and be chastised for how long it took, and be told no I don’t have what it takes and hey kid, you’re pretty fucking arrogant and hard to get along with so we are busting you down to the worst rank we can. That’s is what I wanted for this character. And if that had happened and the story revolved around him learning to get along with people and ACTUALLY have to try and prove his worth I would have been so on board. But no, he gets rewarded for being insufferable. I wouldn’t wish for the villain to win in this world. But I certainly wouldn’t mind this protagonist losing.
But combat is fun when you get to do it. Cutscenes are unskippable and that’s not cool. Dialog is inconsequential so you can just bypass it when that comes up, or just pick the “let’s get on with it” option.
I would give this game a 4/10 right now. It would be an easy 6 or 7 if I could skip all story, dialog, and tedious platforming. It could also earn higher scores by having characters and a story worth NOT skipping, but let’s be reasonable. Just let me skip it pls.
- Comment on The Worst Devices of CES 2024! By iFixIt 3 months ago:
Thanks for the video! Those are some worrying trends in devices for sure
- Comment on Google has started disabling third-party cookies for Chrome users 4 months ago:
“Tracking Protection” just means they are protecting their exclusivity in tracking you.
- Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 4 months ago:
Market share doesn’t equal irrelevance as others have said. I use Librewolf and without Firefox it wouldn’t exist. It likely wouldn’t exist at the quality it is without Mozilla taking Google Cash either. But it’s super important to have an alternative even if most people don’t use it. It DOES provide a limited check and balance against google doing whatever they want with the web because if the right people make the right noise then people will move over to something that’s easy, convenient, and free of whatever pain in the butt google puts in chrome that sends people over the edge. See Linux desktop and Valve for an example of how a software with very few users comparatively can force a larger company to play ball. Remember in Windows 8 when MS basically banned 3rd party software stores on the OS… or tried? And Valve made the “Steam Machine” and SteamOS? Everyone says the steam machines failed but they 100% did everything Valve wanted them to do. It was enough to have MS go back on their walled garden and allow Steam to keep operating as it had been. And now we have the steam deck on top of it.
So, it’s ok if Firefox has a small market share as long as it remains a worthy competitor.