NekoKoneko

@NekoKoneko@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock cameras just one year apart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we sure that is tracking install dates versus database-added dates? I assume Flock was quite a bit more prevalent in the greater NYC area only a year ago, whereas I can totally believe there were only that many tracked by deflock a year ago. But I certainly could be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Camusflag⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sartrefully done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeeeup!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so here for this.

  It’s genuinely infuriating to see a hundred years of movie poster art evolution discarded. It’s the first part of a movie’s artistic statement you ever see, and it gets summarily tossed in the trash so that Netflix’s internal overworked engagement metrics team can spend 2 minutes grabbing random shots of different stars in the film, slap single-color generic font text all over it, and target twelve versions to different demographics to try to get more clicks.

  It’s even worse when I tell this to someone and they’re like, “I don’t really notice.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries dating apps⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was 2015. Pretty much the same year as most tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How The New Pricing Slashed Demand by 80%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mark Twain. Mark Twain said it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All I see reading this is that managers and CEOs have never reached the object permanence phase of brain development, and need to be constantly visually reminded their employees exist or they’ll never promote them regardless of the work they do.

  But then, I guess no manager of a multi-office company has had a team member in another location prior to COVID, so how could they possibly have planned for what to do in that situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I don’t think Nvidia is “having trouble” making 50 series cards. I think they have fab allocations that they are choosing to prioritize to AI products and its current ROI with blank check hyperscalers, compared to retail consumer products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but middle-class workers will get left behind⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s “sounding the alarm,” but not offering to do anything about it. Just sounds like someone who is having the earliest revelation that he doesn’t want to become dinner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for explaining your disagreement in words. (Less thankful for the downvote, I guess.)

  Region-locking is not just about implementing a lock. It’s about maintaining separate product lines worldwide when otherwise they don’t need to. That creates real-world costs alone, but the other cost is the uncertainty whether projected sales and supply will meet. That means that if a game or region-locked system sells well in one market and not in another, they can’t repurpose those unsold units either at all or without more expensive re-packaging (if even possible).

  Every industry tends to remove artificial market constraints when they can. Car manufacturers can’t easily re-sell units across borders because of differing regulations and hardware requirements, but within the US, they will typically target only the most restrictive jurisdiction (e.g., California) and make all cars meet those standards.

  For that reason, don’t be surprised if modifications to the EU SKU to replace the battery filter down to other SKUs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect the region locking will disappear again.

  Trump’s tariffs and favoritism to Japanese buyers I think were the two reasons motivating the change in the first instance.

  While the second reason will exist and remain important as long as supplies of semiconductors are constrained by the AI bubble, the first reason was invalidated, struck down by the US Supreme Court. There are cost and efficiency benefits for Nintendo only retaining one SKU, so I think there’s pressure to revert to region-free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a game where reading an immersive in-game manual is one of the main gameplay aspects⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Retro Game Challenge (English version of Game Center CX) and its excellent fan-translated sequel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll just add the tangent: imaging pre-ordering a digital-only release.

  “Pretty please, Take Two, can I give you my money in exchange for nothing at all of value?”

  What even is this world. What have they done to us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Gen Z won't understand this but back in my day, if you ever saw as many ads as you do on social media today, it meant you had at least 3 viruses on your computer"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah! I mean, we all have commercials in our dreams, but you don’t see us running off to buy brand-name merchandise at low low prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’d agree with me that it matters enough to comment on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone at Sony is feeling very smart and modern right now, totally unaware that PlayStation is now a dead brand walking.

  They are a strong brand, but that’s not going to be enough to justify a definitely-$1k+ PS6 compared to increasing handheld and console-like gaming options that are not locked down ecosystems. Their exclusives likely can’t save them, they have been dying out already.

  Physical media was one of the few remaining differentiators for hardcore collectors and loyalists. Even if I’m sure it’s a greatly diminished part of their bottom line, it’s a psychological anchor that justifies the existence of a console. Now their console will be just another extremely handicapped and uncompetitive digital box, even if (as recently reported) they copy the Switch dockable format.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨courier transform⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve for years known a little about it, but still felt like it’s magic.

  I took 10 seconds looking at this image and thought, “Oh, that makes sense.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts, Reminding Us Nothing Digital Is Ever Truly Ours⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stocking up on Blu-rays can’t happen soon enough - once sales drop too low for too long, they’ll never come back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally an explanation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, also, I’d like my moral reasoning to have evolved past Hammurabi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Father's Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The top left one especially because, in the full photo, they’re sitting on a statue of two parrots having sex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 701 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Poomp!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fafo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Musk is the living embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger effect, and his wealth represents the exact monetary value delta of confident ignorance over intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox is closing Ninja Theory, and Double Fine and Compulsion may not be far behind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The goal of nearly any company in 2026 is to become a passive immovable gate-keeper between a subscription service and a captive customer base.

  So I assume they think that Game Pass (the service) is the product rather than the games it supplies, and they can more efficiently extract rent if someone else provides the content.

  That’s just the sort of thinking an MBA would settle on, even if any gamer knows it’s idiotic. But nobody has accused these people of being smart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump roundly booed by New York crowd at NBA Finals Game 3 at MSG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think he feeds off it, unless you mean that it generates anger and grudges that he uses for energy.

  But he certainly doesn’t seek it out. He’s a malignant narcissist. His smirk is that the only way he can cope, to act like (and believe) that everyone booing is deranged, since he is perfect (including in victimhood). But narcissists have extremely fragile egos, which require full time care to protect with their delusions. The booing hurts him to his core.

  Unfortunately, despite the smirk and delusion, narcissists often react with long, drawn-out revenge and punishment schemes for even small slights. Good thing Trump hasn’t shown any signs of irrational revenge plots…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re getting piled on here way too aggressively. This is literally “nostupidquestions”.

  I’m assuming you asked because you’re open to explanations, not to argue. If that’s true, here are some reasons to be very skeptical and careful with AI (especially corporate AI; I’m neutral myself on fully local home AI);

  • They are privacy nightmares. Everything you say in moments of vulnerability will likely be used to sell you something or against you in the future.
  • They are not as good as you think they are, which is devious. They will convince you they are “smart” but they are just statistical models. So they will confidently tell you false things and if you trust them, you will believe false things. They can’t do math, they can’t actually “think.” You are just getting a statistical approximation of grammatically plausible language from the training data.
  • They train you to not think for yourself and rely on them. There is some ambiguity whether there may be complex benefits, but it’s clear how they’re being used now is harmful to learning and development, even used by people who think they’re being careful.
  • They asymmetrically benefit owners versus workers. Corporate AI is being pushed so hard because owners believe it will further funnel more income to them versus workers, and they benefit from this trade even if it can’t do tasks as well as workers. That means less jobs for the workers and worse experiences for the customers.
  • Huge environmental costs for all of this.
  • Data centers take up huge amounts of water from communities.
  • Data centers increase electrical costs to communities.
  • Huge increase in consumer hardware prices from corporate AI buying all the graphics cards, CPUs, hard drives, RAM, etc, leading to pricing out many people from home computing or gaming.

  Are there benefits? I think there are. But AI has not been allowed to just grow and to be shown useful over time. It’s been shoved down our throats, which, with the above, motivates a lot of legitimate hate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. They found fingerprints but lack any identifying evidence linked to a single suspect. Guess they gotta close the case!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Been out of stock for months. Basically for the same reason we’re here: the RAM and chip costs have gone up.

  Honestly, Valve made the better choice in leaving it out of stock compared to everyone else raising prices (and thereby likely permanently increasing what we will pay even after this all ends).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony and Bandai Namco announce generative AI collaboration to find how the tech can "effectively contribute to realising a creator's vision"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fitting that their mission statement sounds written by ChatGPT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Night night⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why you’re getting downvotes. This is a very relatable experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first new Heroes of Might and Magic strategy game in over 10 years will launch this month⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Played it today, it’s great!