Ulrich
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- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 4 weeks ago:
That seems like something that could be fixed pretty easily, as opposed to the AI stuff that’s fundamentally flawed.
The neural wristband they demonstrated was actually extremely impressive and I can see a lot of different practical usecases for such a device.
- Comment on Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch 4 weeks ago:
Something something building on rented land.
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 4 weeks ago:
Honestly I don’t get excited about any new tech outside of FOSS spaces. Tech used to be made to make your life better and now it’s almost exclusively used to exploit you.
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 4 weeks ago:
Don’t forget about “the Metaverse”. You know, the thing he spent tens of billions of dollars on, renamed the company after, then promptly abandoned to chase AI grifting.
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 4 weeks ago:
OMG thank you for sharing, I really enjoyed such a public fucking catastrophe.
I kinda respect them for actually attempting a live demo but I also can’t believe they were stupid enough to try it a live demo.
Then they try to use WiFi as a copout 🤣
- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 5 weeks ago:
for some reason.
Several reasons, really.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 5 weeks ago:
I still think it’s fucked up that CDPR and so many others have a “release it now, fix it later” mentality, but yes, at least they owned it.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 5 weeks ago:
Gabe not even noticing from 1 of his 6 superyachts
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 5 weeks ago:
I think they would be better of by just ignoring
I mean the best thing they could do is to acknowledge that the game could use some optimization and promise to continue working on it. Even if they have no intention of doing so. But that might get them in trouble with Nvidia since they slapped an “Nvidia optimized” badge on it.
The worst thing they could do is say “buy a better PC”.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 5 weeks ago:
Good thing that’s not the discussion we were having then.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 5 weeks ago:
I have no interest in “gotcha moments”. Just having a discussion about the virtues of streaming music platforms vs. buying.
If you don’t pay for it then you are pirating, which is a whole other discussion.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 5 weeks ago:
What evidence is that, jerkface?
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 5 weeks ago:
LOL you’re suggestion is that they said they’re subscribed to various producers but they don’t listen to them? Now that’s pedantic.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 5 weeks ago:
I have to pay someone 🤷 at least legally, anyway
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 5 weeks ago:
Lots of assumptions here.
you got every assumption wrong.
Zero assumptions here, I just asked a question.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 5 weeks ago:
if I encounter a new track I like in the wild, I’ll buy it.
How do you “encounter” new tracks?
But I’m not seeking out new stuff because…everything feels homogenized today.
If you’re not actively seeking out new music, it will feel that way, because you’re just listening to whatever is on the radio or on TV or whatever. This is the beauty of streaming platforms. In the past you were only ever exposed to whatever music the record companies decided you should hear. And it was almost exclusively homogenous “pop” music, to some degree. With streaming music you can discover new music every day based on your personal preferences.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 5 weeks ago:
I listen to probably at least a dozen new songs every day. If I bought them that would cost me $18/day. Or $540/mo. Not to mention the absolute fortune required to store them all locally.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 5 weeks ago:
Why would I? Pay $1.49 to listen to 1 song over and over or pay $12 to listen to basically the entirety of human creation any time I want? Not to mention custom playlists and whatnot.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 5 weeks ago:
Because no one cares.
- Comment on Which handheld should I get? 5 weeks ago:
“Better” is subjective, and in this case I would disagree.
- Comment on Which handheld should I get? 5 weeks ago:
The XBOX Ally has all of those too.
- Comment on Which handheld should I get? 5 weeks ago:
Takes 10 minutes to install
- Comment on Which handheld should I get? 5 weeks ago:
Highly recommend Steam Deck.
- Cheaper/better value than anything else on the market
- excellent customer support
- trackpads for games that need them
- configurable rear buttons
- no other handheld competes on power efficiency or battery life
Runner up would be Legion Go. If you want the SteamOS experience you can easily install it on any other handheld (although I would recommend Bazzite or similar instead). Other handhelds will deliver better performance at the expense of battery life.
- Comment on Which handheld should I get? 5 weeks ago:
This is correct.
- Comment on Which handheld should I get? 5 weeks ago:
It’s a terrible value. Better off with regular Legion Go for a lot less money.
- Comment on Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk 5 weeks ago:
“I’m going to use Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I’m also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked. I’m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination.”
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA)
- Comment on Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk 5 weeks ago:
This is really a much more interesting article:
theverge.com/…/charlie-kirk-death-social-media-ja…
I was going to quote segments but it’s really worth reading the whole thing. Senators shitting all over the first amendment and quotes from Charlie Kirk shitting all over them in return.
- Comment on Comcast Executives Warn Workers To Not Say The Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk | 404 Media 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t. It was omitted from the article in question. I stand corrected.
- Comment on Comcast Executives Warn Workers To Not Say The Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk | 404 Media 5 weeks ago:
You may have seen that MSNBC recently ended its association with a contributor who made an unacceptable and insensitive comment about this horrific event. That coverage was at odds with fostering civil dialogue and being willing to listen to the points of view of those who have differing opinions. We should be able to disagree, robustly and passionately, but, ultimately, with respect. We need to do better.
Seems like it’s exactly what’s being said?
- Comment on Comcast Executives Warn Workers To Not Say The Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk | 404 Media 5 weeks ago:
I mean it seems pretty rational to demand your employees not to celebrate murder. 🤷