ulkesh

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Giveaway! Win your Steam Copy of the 'Captain’s Edition' of Star Trek: Resurgence!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to play a new fun Star Trek game! And this one fits the bill nicely especially because previous games made by these devs were hours of enjoyment. I trust in their ability to tell a great story!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky confirms Jack Dorsey is no longer on its board⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The simple fact you use terms like “libtard” proves the abundance of undereducation you have received. Enjoy living with such idiocy. Bye.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass (Opinion)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You asked for an example, he gave you one. Then you try to discredit it with a red herring illogical argument.

  You should take your temporary ban and reflect on what is truly important in your life. Because you clearly need some help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass (Opinion)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  while making such weak arguments

  Perhaps…

  Idiot.

  …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky confirms Jack Dorsey is no longer on its board⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re on beehaw, and are spouting that Trump/FOX-level inferiority complex bullshit?

  Either you’re trolling and/or joking…or you can rightly fuck off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly you are smarter than I. Enjoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well here’s a few off the top of my head…

  1. Interstate commerce is governed by the federal government. The internet is a bastion of interstate commerce.
  2. Schools now require the internet for kids. ISPs being allowed to be anything more than a dumb pipe means they have the control of what information is sent across their network.
  3. The internet is now a basic human right in the United States for numerous reasons, one of which is #2. Basic human rights have notoriously been mishandled by the states. See: slavery, indentured servitude, civil rights, voting rights, air and water treatment, etc.
  4. ISPs cross state boundaries and should be governed by interstate law.

  An ISP being a business, especially a publicly-traded one, will sacrifice all manner of consumer/user-protection in order to maximize profit. And having the states govern against that will lead to a smattering of laws where it becomes muddy on what can actually be enforced, and where.

  Net Neutrality, as a general concept, must be codified into federal law in order to help protect the common good and interest of such a basic utility – and yes, the internet is a utility despite in some places, very few in fact, where competition is available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree. And while I agree with the FCC continually trying to keep Net Neutrality alive, it’s a stopgap measure at best, one that will come and go until there is an elected Congress that isn’t full of greedy, sycophantic, whiny, spineless pieces of shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the moment a Republican administration is back, it’ll be gone again. This needs to be codified in law, not flip flopping every few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got a Switch today, need some recommendations.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a good point. I would say I don’t use them often enough to justify owning them, but I use them just enough to be okay with it. I go in spurts. I get on a Mario Maker kick and play a ton on the switch, and then I get on an emulation kick and load up a lot of retro stuff on the steam deck. But I have gone weeks or more without touching either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got a Switch today, need some recommendations.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  hugs his Switch and the many physical Switch games he owns

  also hugs his Steam Deck

  The two aren’t mutually exclusive nor does one random opinion on the internet a fact make.

  OP asked for what specific games to get, not some anti-Nintendo rant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I find hilarious is that these are just minor hiccups. The emulation scene has existed for a long time and will continue to exist for a long time. None of these recent measures will do anything to stop it as long as the emulator devs aren’t trying to make money off Nintendo IP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is a ticking time bomb⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The article in no way describes any actions taken by Valve that leads me to believe there is any impending enshittification. They simply have made decisions, a lot of which they have stuck with for many years.

  Enshittification has to do with bait and switch, effectively. It’s luring customers into a false sense of loyalty and then abusing that to their financial gain (see: Reddit and Spez from 2023).

  The article basically says “there are some decisions by Valve I like, and some I don’t.” That in no way provides any path toward some bomb going off. Perhaps time will prove the author right, of course, because any company can easily decide to screw over their customers, but the article is click-bait and completely speculative as to what may happen.

  And due to all of the above, I think the bomb is about to go off where elephants will fly out of my refrigerator and steal my soda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s time for a hard reset on notifications⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So the author both wants notifications and doesn’t want notifications.

  Got it.

  Sure sounds like a problem of their own making. And I find iOS’s notification taming rather simple to use. So I use it, and amazingly I have less notifications because of it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I find there is no shortage of delusional nerds who like to think they’re better than everyone else. Even here on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, this is what happens when you take a big shit in people’s cereal. They tend to leave. I, too, could be an analyst.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s the Elon Musk interview that got Don Lemon’s show canceled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Like everything else concerning that moron Musk, I won’t be wasting my time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can Reddit—the Internet’s Greatest Authenticity Machine—Survive Its Own IPO?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I sure hope not. I cannot wait for the day Reddit is crumbling in its own ashes with piece-of-shit Huffman burning in the center.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car insurance in America is too cheap⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Sheldon Spinoff Centered on Georgie and Mandy in Development at CBS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the actors, but I don’t expect this will do as well. A big part of why Young Sheldon is so good is Annie Potts. Getting another gem like her will be difficult, if they are even considering it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s next for Mozilla?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, exactly. Firefox does what it sets out to do – be a FOSS alternative to the ever-growing corporate browser market, providing user choice and useful features.

  And I agree that AI as both a concept and implementation in its various types and forms will continue to be iterated upon and will continue to show numerous useful applications. I only hesitate that what is being called AI at this moment as being some kind of groundbreaking thing that changes the world, like corporations seem to be making it out as (hence the bandwagon to try to cash in on it).

  It may very well change the world in the near future, but it’s not quite there yet. It is novel, and it is cool what ChatGPT and other applications can do, such as the example you gave, and that does have a very tangible quality to it. I feel that any fast-moving technological pace must be met with trust and with objective science every step of the way, and the likes of ChatGPT and other AI models have quite a ways to go – especially concerning trust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s next for Mozilla?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kinda crazy to me how hate-filled Lemmy is just a half-year after I joined, especially for Mozilla. Mozilla has issues, but it’s nothing they can’t fix or come out of. They don’t deserve to die. And all the conspiracy theories I’m reading is just nonsense. I happen to be a Firefox user, but really it’s mainly because Google decided to screw with user choice (i.e. Manifest v3). Firefox is still FOSS, and it’s still giving plenty of user choice.

  And all this AI talk is just bandwagoning by every corporation because if AI (as in LLM and whatnot) happens to be a baseline thing for many corporations, Mozilla not implementing it could backfire for them, so while it is bandwagoning, it also makes sense to hedge one’s bets on it.

  I, for one, think this current notion of AI is too raw to take any real shape (outside of the current novelty), and these corps that are jumping on it, just like they did with “web 2.0” and “big data” and “the cloud” and “blockchain”, will eventually find that while there is some tangibility to be found, it will take many years to solidify into products that make sense for a consumer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is great and anything I can see Patrick Stewart in, I will. I don’t share the opinion that Picard series was bad. I don’t see Picard as a one-dimensional must always be the same character. People change over time. And Picard has also changed. Like it or not.

  Bring on the movie!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This just makes me chuckle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No shit, Sherlock. The rest of the educated world could see the shit-show that would ensue. I guess it’s good they finally caught on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's the most played Steam Deck games of 2023⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's the most played Steam Deck games of 2023⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I didn’t do it on purpose :) that’s what BG3 takes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's the most played Steam Deck games of 2023⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Baldurs Gate 3 looks so bad on the Steam Deck it’s unplayable for me. I followed all the advice on the various graphical settings (FSR, AA settings, etc) and it still looks like garbage. It’s no longer eating up 122GB.

  I have played a couple others on the list, but mostly I play older games like Chrono Trigger (SNES).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mayim Bialik Out As ‘Jeopardy!’ Host⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally. She may be an intelligent neuroscientist, but she has the personality of a wet sponge.