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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t don’t think this is useful at all, if it only results in a next button occasionally popping up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What I find really mind blowing is that 2TB hdd prices basically have not changed in two decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI is discontinuing GPT-4o, GPT-4.1 and o4-mini in ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The free version of Gemini is incomparably better then chatGpt in a great many tasks including coding. I expect it increasingly doesn’t matter what they do in the free tier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than half of gamedev professionals see GenAI as harmful, according to GDC’s latest survey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a logical conclusion of the present situation. No one will pay for grass or asphalt textures, when genai can produce more variety than any human asset artist ever could. In coding it’s a more complicated situation, but for certain tasks it’s almost dumb not to use ai. Even of you don’t use it to actually write code it’s still helpful to a varying degree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it will kill the project in the cradle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EXCLUSIVE: OnePlus Is Being Dismantled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One Plus always has been an oppo sub brand and they have stopped being relevant a long time ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You all are correct that in the current climate automotive manufacturers would never allow something like this get on the market at large.

  However 2-3 decades down the line, when car owners have gotten a reality check about the longevity of current & probably worse near future cars. The market demand could reach a point where people would give a simple repairable electric car a really good go and by simple I mean genuinely as simple as possible for an electric car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple’s side loading is just EU as far as I know.

  Apple’s sideloading is somewhere between a ridiculously off the mark compromise they’ve lobbied for and malicious noncompliance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Nintendo ban Nintendo accounts opening up eshop from a hacked 3DS / 2DS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no certainty in these things, Nintendo could always do a big fuck you banwave many years later. Though you are probably fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ai makes photoshopping trivially easy, so of course now this is bigger problem than before. This is not going to go away, so society will adapt. Humans can live perfectly fine in the jungle not covering up their unmentionables, so in a few decades this will be a non issue I would guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure that you could make a realistic game where all plants & buildings etc use AI generated textures & no one would notice.

  Anyway compared to AI assisted game development there are so many worse things in the industry. Like gacha mobile games or denuvo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can just buy second hand an aging android phone for this task, €50 gets you something usable for basic entertainment purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty much guaranteed that many AAA games out over the past 2 years had AI generated elements. Though finding these is not plausible. Telling about separate grass or tile textures if they are AI generated or taken from the asset store, or god forgive ai generated assets taken from the asset store is basically impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI plans to enshitify ChatGPT with adverts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they started doing what you are implying with the current level of their Ai, then they could file for bankruptcy a few months later. Serving clearly marked, but super well aimed ads is their best bet right now I would think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple projected to surpass Samsung as global smartphone shipments leader⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With the dumpster fire that is ios 26, perhaps it won’t happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think most customers -for real- are disliking the new capabilities however limited they think they are. It’s just the force feeding and there are also security & performance concerns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just use localsend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"This is a blatant, unapologetic act of vicious union busting" - Hundreds of Rockstar employees sign letter to management, demanding fired colleagues get reinstated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The shareholders may force them to bend tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saints Row's original design director is pitching a "grounded" 70s open world prequel with absolutely no dildobats⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t follow. Why do you think a game like this years after gta6 couldn’t be a financial sucess?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA VI developer accused of union busting in mass firings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not so sure. When it comes to a conscious decision to either pirate or buy, crap like this often helps with the guilt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  CS6 has better content aware filters than Affinity and those may never get updates now, since AI can do them better. This is not even an unreasonable take, but sub…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Konami instantly shot down the Wachowskis’ request to have Hideo Kojima make a Matrix game, it’s claimed [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fourth one has a shockingly good electronic soundtrack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Update on Stop Killing Games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m extremely happy about point 4. That’s by far the most important part of this fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox is more expensive for developers too, as Microsoft bumps up dev kit cost [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The dev kit probably has many debugging & logging features. It probably allows quick switching between the big Xbox & weak Xbox to test both without needing the deploy your game build twice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox is more expensive for developers too, as Microsoft bumps up dev kit cost [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An indie developer doesn’t really need these & it may not even be that easy to get one. It’s tied to NDAs & you can use regular xbox consoles to test your own games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox is more expensive for developers too, as Microsoft bumps up dev kit cost [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this will have much of an impact either way, either for Microsoft or for those using these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is arguable. There were countless free dos games out there in the common domain that GoG took down and made paid again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 still has secrets fans haven't found, says director⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did this part today. I think it was alright, old school FF fare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With ios 26 they f-ed up safari real bad & other browsers are worse performing / laggy even though they are also safari.

  So yes, I trusted Apple to not mess with anything too important & they have not for the 5 years I’ve been using Apple products, but now that is over. Guess Android is back on the menu for my next device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s like MacOS where if it’s a game not on Steam then you’re shit out of luck if there isn’t a Linux specific version?

  No it’s not. I don’t even have Steam installed & play games just fine. You can use Bottles or Lutris to run the games, I recommend Bottles. The downside is that you’ll have to learn how to use these tools. For example you’ll not only need to fiddle with settings, but also with dependency dll files. Chatgpt can sometimes help & tell you which dlls are needed by which game. (at least when I asked it about Oblivion Remaster & Horizon Zero Dawn it knew)

  Lutris has the advantage of community installers where you don’t have to figure things out, but it’s annoying that they’ll force you to log into Gog Galaxy and such for your downloaded installers & Lutris may not have a force offline sandboxed mode if you don’t want the software you run to report home.