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- Comment on More than 60% of US game players only buy two games or fewer per year, survey finds | VGC 36 minutes ago:
I definitely buy more than 2 games per year, but the types of games I buy and the maximum price I’m willing to pay has changed. Almost everything I buy now is from indie devs, and I’m very selective of the larger studio games I’ll buy (right now, for example, I’m cranking through Alan Wake 2 after replaying the first one).
- Comment on Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine 1 week ago:
I’ve never had a TT account but have been on Rednote for months. I don’t use any other social media outside of it, except Bluesky. Rednote is fun and folks are nice. It’s very focused on learning and sharing, so you get content that’s actually interesting, as opposed to the onslaught of hateful, vitriolic bullshit US-based social media loves to force into your feed alongside the 50 ads.
- Comment on It’s official: EA is selling to private equity in $55 billion deal 1 week ago:
Good suggestion a friend gave me: Go to the Electronic Arts Steam page and mark them as an ignored creator. It won’t block everything EA but can add a banner to EA products that says you’ve added them to your ignore list.
Fuck EA.
- Comment on Larry Ellison’s quest to run the world 1 week ago:
Run- Ruin - Comment on Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg unveils new smart glasses powered by AI 2 weeks ago:
None of this crap is even consumer tech. They use the consumer as a guinea pig so they can eventually sell it to the military. We are the test subjects and only the idiots are buying.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 weeks ago:
The industry wants senior engineers but isn’t willing to put in the work to make entry level engineers into senior. If you are considering a comp sci degree, don’t bother. Like the article says, train with cheaper skill-based courses. You may hate AI or not see the value, but if you want to survive in the tech field now, you have to learn how to harness AI tools (and that doesn’t mean writing prompts).
This is the state of tech now. The capitalists once again have managed to suck all of the air and fun out of the room so that they can go live on some compound when things inevitably go to shit because of their irresponsible behavior.
- Comment on I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game 3 weeks ago:
So what I’m hearing is that it’s not even worth trying to play on a Steam Deck 😂
- Comment on But we got rid of the gun emoji 3 weeks ago:
Let a kid try out one of my RC trucks. First thing he did was plow the fucking thing into my leg. Kids are dumb (and now no one is allowed to drive them 😤)
- Comment on Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk 3 weeks ago:
If you’re basing whether or not you’re “left” on anecdotal evidence of some leftists celebrating his death, you probably weren’t very left to begin with.
- Comment on How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones 3 weeks ago:
Rayhunter is the way.
- Comment on Google will not be forced to sell Chrome, despite its near-monopoly, as its dominance is not 'sufficiently attributable to its illegal conduct' 5 weeks ago:
We keep trying to appeal to systems and mechanisms that have been compromised for years by corrupt politicians, judges, and other figures taking payoffs from tech companies.
It will work this time, bro! We will get an actually just judgment! I know it! Just try once more!
- Comment on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater 5 weeks ago:
Yep, that’s why the super mainstream organizations putting marches together are always suspicious to me. They get their funding from somewhere and the overarching goal is never 100% clear. Often times it’s good people at the center that aren’t aware of the ulterior motive behind the ones bankrolling it.
Even smaller orgs can be easily manipulated. They often don’t do any real research on people before giving them access to internal information that they could easily send to whoever they are working for. It’s something I wish more activist and other organizations would invest their time into.
- Comment on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater 5 weeks ago:
Mobilization is the spark; organization is the fire. If you have the first and not the latter, you’re not moving the needle. Governments love mobilization because they can co-opt it. They can waste people’s energy via constant mobilization without established organizations.
- Comment on The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon 1 month ago:
The trick is giving it tons of context. It also depends on the LLM. Claude has given me the most success.
- Comment on The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon 1 month ago:
My take:
- Great for helping with coding tasks (especially the boring grunt work) - with proper context and training! You have to put in the work to get better, more relevant results
- Pretty useless for everything else. I’ve tested it out for everyday tasks and it didn’t offer enough for me to really lean into.
- Comment on Cry cry 1 month ago:
Dead Internet theory is becoming more and more plausible by the day.
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 1 month ago:
Lol their first AI instruction might as well be something like “don’t ever use facts or truth in your responses.” They’re just snatching up another avenue through which to pump their dog shit ideologies and propaganda.
- Comment on AI Is A Money Trap 1 month ago:
I should reframe what I said: there is not a single profitable AI-focused company. There are tons of already profitable companies that are now deeply embedding AI into everything they do.
- Comment on AI Is A Money Trap 1 month ago:
Like Zitron says in the article, we’re 3 years into the AI era and there is not a single actually profitable company. It’s all smoke and mirrors and sketchy accounting. Even if/when the AI hype settles and perhaps the tech finds its true (profitable) calling, the tech itself is insanely expensive. It’s going to boil down to Microsoft and/or X owning nuclear power plants, and everyone else renting usage from them.
People are making money in AI, but like always, it’s the founders and C-suite, while the staff are kicked to the curb. It’s all a shell game and everyone that has integrated AI into their lives and company workflows, is gonna get the rug pulled out from under them.
- Comment on It would get old fast 2 months ago:
Your life is a dream. Daily real connection to the world and the creatures that make it great.
Our yard is wild and I let it run loose, with only some control. The southeast is getting old though. I’m a northerner that yearns for the snow and mountains again.
- Comment on It would get old fast 2 months ago:
Works for me! I’d love to say I built a house. That’s real accomplishment.
- Comment on It would get old fast 2 months ago:
That’s a valuable thing to hold onto. Everyone needs and deserves companionship.
My wife is my best friend. We both work from home, so we spend like 90% of our time together.
- Comment on It would get old fast 2 months ago:
Who is this “everyone”? Because this ain’t even remotely my dream.
- House needs to be in the mountains
- Fuck lawns
- I don’t have this many friends (by choice)
- If I did, I wouldn’t want to be in this close of proximity to them
- This place probably has an HOA which is a big fat NOPE
- Comment on I have about 55 hours of flights coming up. I’m thinking about the deus ex collection. Any thoughts? 2 months ago:
Stardew is always a good one and uses very little battery. Noita and Streets of Rogue have been fun too, and are also easy on the battery (pixel art roguelites).
I love the Deus Ex series and Human Revolution is worth checking out; even if you haven’t played the prior ones. It’s been a while since I played through it but I remember being drawn to the story and liked the stealth aspects.
The new System Shock remake is also great and is decent on my Steam Deck battery.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value 3 months ago:
You’re right, the dot com bust was far worse. That feels like forever ago these days.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value 3 months ago:
The VR hype was such a poor investment. It’s a tech that has never taken off in any way that’s large enough for the profits they demand I think the only place it’s gotten marginal interest in, is the gaming PC crowd, and even then, it’s still very niche. It feels like the further things progress, the more detached from reality the “innovations” become.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value 3 months ago:
Yep! This is the first time the investment has been so catastrophic though. The amount of money they’re throwing at this absolutely dwarfs every past innovation spike.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value 3 months ago:
This all just feels like sunk cost fallacy at this point. Capitalism can’t do anything besides grow, even when the growth involved and the tech they’re trying to sell isn’t even remotely as good as the hype states.
Self-hosted LLMs? Awesome.
AI in the hands of corporate ghouls? Not awesome.
- Comment on As Gamers Express Concern About Borderlands 4 Potentially Costing $80, Gearbox Chief Randy Pitchford Says: ‘If You’re a Real Fan, You’ll Find a Way to Make It Happen’ 4 months ago:
I refuse to pay $80 for a game and Borderlands fell off after the second one, so good luck with that. $70 was also a bridge too far for 99% of games (I made the exception for gems like Elden Ring).
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 4 months ago:
I have avoided working for the FAANG companies my entire career and I’m happier for it.