deliriousdreams
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- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 4 days ago:
Common enough in Seattle (but that may just be biased by how noticeable they are due to the incongruity of the shape).
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 4 days ago:
What's that? OTA software update couldn't fix that?!
- Comment on Steam Deck Sales Reportedly Plunge 80% After Price Hikes 6 days ago:
They will just stop making stuff consumers want to buy and keep making the crap that AI firms want so they can ride that wave as far as it will go.
We know this because the collective buying power of US consumers isn't propping up the stock market anymore. AI firms are.
- Comment on Steam Deck Sales Reportedly Plunge 80% After Price Hikes 6 days ago:
No shit. For one thing, the oled model steam deck is 2 years old and has had a price increase of at least $200 USD,
and they stopped selling the cheaper LCD variant.People could afford them at $549. People can't afford them at $789. People are also less likely to buy what is essential a console at an increased price when it's 2+ years old hardware and the price of everything else is rising.
PS5 and Xbox One X sales have also fallen as the price increased.
It's not rocket science. The market can't afford to bear such high prices for regular consumers and AI firms aren't buying steam decks or consoles. Consumer PC sales are also tanking.
- Comment on ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir 1 week ago:
Yeah. No. There's still the requirement to provide a SSN and other identifying information in order to get Medicaid. Specifically documents that confirm residency and citizenship
But even if what you say is true (and that still doesn't mean they are legally eligible for Medicaid), that still doesn't explain why ICE would need that information. Because specifically, because there's a whole apparatus (used to be before toddler in chief got reelected) who's whole purpose was to audit this system. This is why Medicaid can come after your assets if you use it when you have other means.
So why is ICE, an agency who's purpose is not to investigate citizens, gaining any access to a database of people who are citizens. This is as much a "Need to Know" thing as it is a "make it make sense" thing.
It's like gaining access to the fingerprints of service members for the purposes of making sure they're citizens. The federal government already investigated and continues to investigate their status as legally residing in the country and that data base is for identifying service members who have died so their remains can be returned.
- Comment on ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir 1 week ago:
Why would they need it? You can't get Medicaid as an illegal immigrant.
- Comment on Copper 3 weeks ago:
I am suddenly reminded of that Tech Ingredients video on YouTube where he turned a A/C window unit into a liquid heat pump.
- Comment on Thanks, little buddies. 3 weeks ago:
Not as reassuring as it could be, but it helps.
- Comment on Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies 3 weeks ago:
You seem to be under the impression that I am defending Sony or other game sales distributors who are getting rid of physical media. That is not what is happening here.
I agree it's shitty. I am pointing out the trend, not trying to mount a defense for a corp.
- Comment on Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies 3 weeks ago:
The crazy thing is, all gaming sales are dropping and I think they're really trying to keep profits up with sales declining by forcing people like you and I who buy physical media to go digital. Forcing people to go digital means they can eliminate manufacturing of physical media, but it also means they can eliminate the resale market and sale market when physical stores want to liquidate old stock to receive new stock. That and the subscription model are a win for them to the detriment of consumers.
- Comment on Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies 3 weeks ago:
As gaming software sales have dropped significantly over the lifespans of the PS4/PS5 vs the overall sales of the PS3, it becomes apparent that digital game sales are winning in this day and age.
In 2019 the physical software sales for PlayStation were 6% of their revenue. That number has decreased year over year and what they are trying to do is make up the difference by shunting people to subscription services like PS+. We knew this already. This data has been spread out over several articles especially over the last 2 days.
- Comment on Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature to digitize game collections 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on A Third Party Breached The Intercept’s Signal Tip Line and Has Been Soliciting Whistleblowers 3 weeks ago:
The tip line for the news outlet The Intercept was taken over by an unknown actor purporting to work for the publication—an extraordinary breach of operational security that put prospective whistleblowers at significant risk. The third party with control of the tip line on the encrypted messaging app Signal has been communicating with prospective sources; at least one fraudulent social media account has been soliciting tips since February.
- Comment on Is the Switch 2 a waste of money? 4 weeks ago:
I don't own a switch 2.
I think it might be worth it if you're planning to buy one eventually, just because we know there will be another price increase and it will never be cheaper going forward than it is right now.
I agree with the others about the pros and cons if you don't already own a switch 1, and perhaps if you don't own any other consoles and gaming computers (because at that point I think tech spec wise the switch 2 is a pretty good bargain when you can't get a steam deck and the price of other consoles has risen so high).
But I also think it's worth noting that this depends on if you actually want to play nintendos first party titles.
- Comment on Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature to digitize game collections 4 weeks ago:
I'm going to suggest that they can already do this.
We know that Xbox won't let you use a second account to play games you purchased on your original account on the same device. One way to get around this was to use physical disks. But there's no stopping them from modifying the OS to read a disk already registered with one account and prevent that dial from being used on another account.
They are taking a shortcut though (probably to cut out the resale market) and just doing away with physical disks (just like Sony).
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 4 weeks ago:
It seems dumb to us. But I'm sure they're (selfishly) considering the cost of manufacturing and distributing physical discs vs the number of people who can and will switch to digital if that's all that's available.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 4 weeks ago:
It says in the article that Sony (and other platforms too) have seen a significant drop in purchases of physical media. So I really think they just don't care about those customers that rely on it and Even with some backlash this is likely to go ahead (same as with Blu-ray disks which are also being sunsetted). I can't say I'm surprised that they're doing this given that they want to stop manufacturing Blu-rays altogether.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 4 weeks ago:
True. but also, some places that don't have reliable Internet access rely on physical media. They're cutting out part of the market entirely.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 4 weeks ago:
At a time when the cost of harddrive space is going up like everything else in computing, and their consoles for this generation still come with a disc drive variant, this is insane work. Especially when once again Sony is in the news for removing digital content people paid for and not offering refunds. Pity that the execs behind this decision feel no shame.
- Comment on He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut 1 month ago:
I mean. Maybe. But in all actuality that doesn't happen on automatic cars because of the way automatic transmissions are built. Parking pawl holds the transmission while it's parked. Then the valve body system and the torque converter work together to keep the car moving in the direction it's geared in. So in drive you'd be geared to move forward and so on.
- Comment on Sex Education 2 months ago:
That is unfortunately not how it is during a period.
- Comment on Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater) 2 months ago:
Vanguard, has received an update that is allegedly altering system firmware to remove the ability of the user to access certain hardware associated with cheating.
No. No. absolutely not. You are not allowed to alter my system firmware. Absolutely not.
- Comment on Sony PlayStation Accounts Are Reportedly Being Hacked With Ease 2 months ago:
I object. Capitalists don't learn. Take a look around at ... everything really.
- Comment on Sony PlayStation Accounts Are Reportedly Being Hacked With Ease 2 months ago:
Again? Sony. How many times do they have to teach you this lesson, old man?
- Comment on Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent — That Privacy Guy! 2 months ago:
Per Passerby6497's comment above:
The AI Mode pill in the Chrome 147 omnibox is a cloud-backed Search Generative Experience surface - every query the user types into it is sent over the network to Google's servers for processing by Google's hosted models. The on-device Nano model is not invoked by the AI Mode UI flow at all. They are entirely separate code paths - the most visible AI affordance in the browser does not use the local model the user has been silently given, and the features that do use the local model (Help-Me-Write in <textarea>, tab-group AI suggestions, smart paste, page summary) are buried in textarea-context menus and tab-group right-click menus that the average user will discover, on average, never.
What a double kick to the dick. First, they silently download 4gb to your disk, and they still fucking send your shit to their cloud AI.
- Comment on The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod 3 months ago:
You have the ability to turn on airplane mode or do not disturb, yes?
- Comment on Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking in June 3 months ago:
The bookmark doesn't remind me to go back to it . The book mark system is a sink hole where links go to never be seen again.
- Comment on Why Owning Nothing Is So Expensive 5 months ago:
Because it's renting. From every company that can get exclusivity to something you want to rent.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 6 months ago:
What kind of game is it? What's it about?
- Comment on bad bitch 6 months ago:
I've seen the things the government prototypes. This is too pretty for that.
