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- Comment on It would get old fast 4 days 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 4 days ago:
Works for me! I’d love to say I built a house. That’s real accomplishment.
- Comment on It would get old fast 4 days 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 5 days 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? 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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’ 2 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 2 months ago:
I have avoided working for the FAANG companies my entire career and I’m happier for it.
- Comment on Star Wars Shows the Future of AI Special Effects and It Sucks [404 Media] 2 months ago:
I recommend skipping the article and instead skimming through the TED talk. It at least sounds like they’re using it as a tool to assist their artists, but the end result still has the same exact uncanny valley look we see on every AI video any ol’ person on the internet can make.
And there is where art truly goes to die. Suddenly every creative outlet is using the same tools and everything comes out with the same exact weird sheen. ILM is supposed to be a pioneer in this stuff and I respect that they’re not straight up replacing artists (yet) with this, but they’re ultimately sacrificing any aesthetics they’ve employed for years.
At the end of the day, all of this stuff is boils down to speed, and that endless increase in speed is driven… by capitalism. We’re sacrificing aspects of our creative processes so that we can churn more out, instead of taking the time needed to make something truly unique.
- Comment on Nintendo warns that it can brick Switch consoles if it detects hacking, piracy 2 months ago:
This kind of thing will 100% kill any chance of me buying another Switch.
- Comment on I'm looking for the Holy Grail of multiplayer gaming 2 months ago:
This game is so much fun, even when I’m the loner getting my ass handed to me on my sloop (which is most of the time). Seeing a ship looming in the distance and wondering if it’s going to come after you is such a rush.
- Comment on I'm looking for the Holy Grail of multiplayer gaming 2 months ago:
Quake 3 Instagib.
- Comment on Thankfully I deleted my account 2 months ago:
I don’t really count Lemmy or Mastodon. They feel more like forums to me, but that might be my age showing. I know traditional forums these days have fallen out of popularity.
- Comment on Thankfully I deleted my account 2 months ago:
Deleting all of my social media accounts was one of the best choices I made this year.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 2 months ago:
AI image generation is going to royally fuck up the body image for a lot of people. We’re going to get to a point where we can no longer discern between reality or fantasy.
People will get a handle on voice generation AI so that they can make the person they secretly obsess over, tell them all sorts of things without their knowledge. It can also be used to impersonate a relative or friend for phone scams.
AI glasses are going to do facial recognition on people without their knowledge, and some creepy motherfuckers are going to use it to stalk women. They’ll give you info on some building, while simultaneously making you a surveillance tool for the state.
AI bots are already flooding every platform and being used to spread propaganda. They are the employees that never sleep. We all know how widespread they are on Reddit.
This is a window into the future with AI in the hands of sociopaths and corporations. They are going to doom us to a world that is devoid of a soul or human connection.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI 3 months ago:
It can’t self-correct, write new curriculum, etc. It’s an abyss for errors and it does not understand when you correct it. I’ve tried and watched it give me the same alternating 2 answers that I told it were both wrong. If it’s wrong, you basically have no idea. You’re putting trust in a navigator that is simply reading instructions understanding none of them.
I’ve been in tech professionally for around 18 years and have lived through trends and changes. This is by far the worst one and the most haphazard. I’m not anti-AI (I use Copilot at work and it’s constantly wrong), but what is happening now with this AI wave is just reckless. They’re throwing it at everything because shareholders love shiny new things that make line go up.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI 3 months ago:
claims to care deeply about its employees replaces some employees with bots
Duolingo is talking out of both sides of their mouth.
- Comment on Chinese people flood TikTok with videos urging Americans to buy direct amid Trump tariffs 3 months ago:
Quoting myself from another reply:
I have a friend that has been buying them for years after his actual AirPods died. They get recognized as AirPods on iOS and macOS, and the ANC is the exact same. He’s bought multiple pairs and says they function, look, and feel exactly the same.
- Comment on Chinese people flood TikTok with videos urging Americans to buy direct amid Trump tariffs 3 months ago:
I have a friend that has been buying them for years after his actual AirPods died. They get recognized as AirPods on iOS and macOS, and the ANC is the exact same. He’s bought multiple pairs and says they function, look, and feel exactly the same.
- Comment on Chinese people flood TikTok with videos urging Americans to buy direct amid Trump tariffs 3 months ago:
Similarly, if you want AirPods but you don’t want to pay AirPods pricing: jenny.airreps.info
The factories in China have all of the specs and info because they make the actual AirPods, so they sell tons of knockoff versions that are identical.
Americans are a captive audience for US companies to ripoff constantly and for our entire lives. We’re like livestock. Once you start to see how massively overpriced everything has been for years due to greedy western middlemen, it changes your perspective on what to buy and what you’re willing to pay.
I want to build a small website that provides alternative sources for anything people can think of. Maybe categorized into buckets. Tech, clothing, home goods, etc.
- Comment on Chinese people flood TikTok with videos urging Americans to buy direct amid Trump tariffs 3 months ago:
Pretty sad state of affairs when our choices are human rights violation 1 or human rights violation 2.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 3 months ago:
Oh, no I get it. I went to Chile a few years ago and it made me realize how truly big the WhatsApp community was in South America. It was on billboards, buildings; it’s become a necessity.
- Comment on Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen? 3 months ago:
I recently bought 2 of these for my partner and I. Worth every penny if you’re going to lay in bed or sit somewhere with it.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 3 months ago:
At some point you have to jump ship and follow what fits you and your needs/wants in terms of security, morality (in the context of Meta and its complete lack of ethics), etc. You can try and get folks to try other platforms but most of them will inevitably fall back to what they know and never leave. I’m not going to keep Facebook around on the off chance that one relative needs to reach out. The relatives willing to actually make an effort to reach out can already text or call me and vice versa.
This whole billionaire social media prison is not something I’m willing to keep destroying my mental health on over some “blood is thicker than water” bs.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 3 months ago:
“But none of my friends are on there.”
Make new friends then.
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers 3 months ago:
The trend with AI seems to be that the folks with zero talent—the ones that have never poured themselves into a single cathartic creative, discovery, or research process once in their lives—are the ones pushing AI the hardest. AI art is a solution searching for a problem that has never existed. The only “problem” execs see is that they have too big of a headcount and need to reduce that ASAP so that they can pump out more soulless slop.
- Comment on Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr 3 months ago:
Funny enough, this is why I’ve enjoyed Rednote a ton. I’ve found that a lot of western folks are there as a reprieve from how insanely volatile Meta and other platforms have gotten. It’s a different vibe and the platform was specifically built for people to learn and grow together. The audience there very much strives to keep a good vibe and will call out anyone that tries to disrupt that.