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- 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 days 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 days 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 5 days 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 1 week 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' 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Works for me! I’d love to say I built a house. That’s real accomplishment.
- Comment on It would get old fast 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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’ 3 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.
- Comment on Star Wars Shows the Future of AI Special Effects and It Sucks [404 Media] 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 months ago:
Quake 3 Instagib.
- Comment on Thankfully I deleted my account 4 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 4 months ago:
Deleting all of my social media accounts was one of the best choices I made this year.