capitalism worked pretty well in the 40’s and 50’s, in the USA, and then the corporate leaders realized that they could be overlords if they just stopped caring about everything but money.

We know kindness and money can coexist, but if little boy jack is taught from day one that if you don’t game the system, you will lose, he’s going to grow up to be Elon Musk.

I mean, even open source LLM’s at the moment can solve somewhat tedious and tricky problems, and just on somewhat mid-tier consumer hardware. Supercomputers exist, and it just seems, with time, breakthroughs are inevitable.

But I will admit, like you say, we have limits, but in the realm of technology, the only real limitations are energy and hardware.

If you don’t see AI replacing many roles, yet you know that LLM’s are not what many seem to think they are, text generators and not AGI, then it seems you don’t believe that AGI will ever happen.

Technology will continue to develop for decades and maybe centuries to come. To only see the short term possibilities is to forget how quickly technology advances.

And even just limiting the discussion to the short-term, what makes you think billionaires aren’t taking advantage of the hype and coercing governments to forego safety and regulation? Maximizing profit over enhancing the lives of the common man?

giving AI the power to do things on your PC will lead to cases like:

Google’s Agentic AI wipes user’s entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

I like how Dell has all this data, and still somehow believe that AI will help sell Windows 11, and also seem to think that Apple’s affordable products are the only alternative option for those holding out on updating to windows 11.

Oh wait, look at this headline from 3 weeks ago, “Microsoft signs $9.7 billion cloud deal with IREN as AI demand swells”.

AI-server maker Dell was also up about 1%, as it would provide IREN with Nvidia’s GB300 chips and other equipment that Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab will use for about $5.8 billion.

Oh wait, they only care about their corporate customers, what’s new? Water is wet?

I downvoted because not understanding the hate for windows 11 is really just due to ignorance at this point. I mean, not everyone is a power user, but windows has been on the steady decline for at least 10 years now. Enshittification isn’t some new concept.

hmm, I started playing it a few months back, firs time playing bloodborne, and the experience was ruined as soon as I got to the unseen village, with those huge “things” everywhere, my FPS went from a cool 50 -75 to barely scraping 20. Sucks, had to stop playing, I will test this later and report!

welp, I caved and started letting my kid play roblox, where I would check in every now and then to make sure they weren’t chatting and just playing games.

But I might just roll back on this, and let other parents know what’s up too. Some parents are completely out of the loop with anything tech related, even in this day and age.

I mean, they need us! Why the fuck are we all putting up with their shit???

Because, many people are stupid, and will put up with shit because they only care about the game, and nothing else.

But I do agree, the industry would benefit from a more informed audience, but who are we kidding, name a single industry of media where the lowest common denominator isn’t the mass majority of it’s consumers.

has anyone seen proof from the discord server in question that the 200 or so people who were fired, out of the 500+ members of the discord server were specifically talking about forming a union, or did they just fire a bunch of people incidentally?

I think Rockstar is just too big to fail, at this point. Not saying they aren’t capable of anything shady or unjust, but where’s the proof of anything, and how many people are really going to boycott a game that will likely break records in the gaming industry save for some catastrophic world event, like another pandemic or world war?

Same, I had to double check the article lol. Rust next to the word developer was a sort of short-sighted phrasing.

just like music bands, if the group doesn’t have the passion and grit to live poorly while grinding at work, the edgy, experimental stuff gets pushed aside because the market for it is just inherently smaller than say, the next Final Fantasy remake or Persona.

But with the internet and social media, the indie scene is the place to be for edgy, artistic, unique games right now as well, so in a way, the scene is migrating “underground”.

not to mention the joy of emulation, which older hardware does very well these days

Gotta love how they have more than 70% of the market, yet they still need to see line go up, because otherwise they might actually have to improve the product 🫨

I know it’s a normal thing, to not instantly look for alternatives to software you might have used for your entire life, and I get it, if it hasn’t harmed you or done you wrong, then it’s probably fine to stick with what you know.

But as someone who first experienced alternatives to Windows back in 2006, and like others who walked the more beaten path, we’ve grown tired of this stuff. The slow, decline of Windows, and the promise of something better with every update.

It won’t surprise me if one day they decide to full send it and charge a monthly subscription to use the full OS, not one bit. Enshittification, it’s bound to happen. I’m teaching my child about linux now, so they’ll be aware that software doesn’t have to suck.

Try something different, it’s a good way to live, to know you don’t have to remain where you are if you don’t want to. Of course, only if you want to!

If I had to describe what a kiwi tastes like, it’s somewhere between a lemon and a pineapple. More sour than a pineapple, but not so much so that you couldn’t eat it raw comfortably.

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Say what you will of Greta, but her ability to remain humble is truly admirable.

okay, I did pull that number out of my ass, but my point still stands, Nintendo will not learn their lesson by a few thousand people on the internet claiming to boycott them. I guess it would take maybe a million lost customers, but I doubt that will ever happen because the bulk of Nintendo sales go to people who only care about the games, not the company.

boycotts can totally be effective.

But even if a million of their customers fell off the face of the earth tomorrow, nothing would change. Nintendo is too successful for their own good. I’ll never buy a Nintendo product, but let’s not fool ourselves thinking a small group of people on the internet has anything on the largest video game company in Japan.

There will always be the clueless, helpless people who maybe discovered piracy and roms a week ago and don’t realize how accessible it is, thinking it’s locked behind some paywall like drugs from the local dealer.