jjjalljs
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- Comment on Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19% 2 days ago:
Full time Linux here. No complaints.
Been playing expedition 33 and vampire survivors.
- Comment on Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers 2 weeks ago:
Hacker should make the phones explode or something. Trash startup funded by trash.
- Comment on AI Vending Machine Was Tricked into Giving Away Everything 2 weeks ago:
What an incredibly stupid thing to do. LLMs are not the correct tool for this problem. Especially not like this.
- Comment on Video game hardware sales had a historically bad November in the US 2 weeks ago:
People don’t have a lot of money to spend. All the money being sucked up by rich assholes.
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 2 weeks ago:
I learned today that the board of directors at this huge multinational non-tech company I’m at wants 80% of people using AI, and has a target for lines of code written by AI.
Both of those are insane.
The lines of code one is extra double insane. People knew lines of code was a shit metric in like the 90s.
- Comment on Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading 2 weeks ago:
Sadly, no. I mostly use the controller wired, anyway.
I did find some instructions that alleges to allow you to update the firmware in a VM: www.thrasos.dev/…/xbox-controller-linux-update/
Seems plausible.
But also my next controller won’t be Xbox, heh.
- Comment on Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately I don’t have a spare windows machine, and I don’t think my girlfriend’s work would be happy with me installing the Xbox app on her laptop.
Oh well. Maybe someone will find a way to update it on Linux
- Comment on Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if you can do it in a VM, actually…
- Comment on Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading 2 weeks ago:
To fix these issues you must connect the controller to a Windows PC and update the firmware via the Xbox Accessories App.
Well shit. I don’t have a windows PC anymore.
Never should’ve gotten an Xbox controller. Always thought they were kind of shit, but my friends insisted they were the best and most standard.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 1 month ago:
Capital needs to pay people more if they want people to spend money. Sadly, food shelter and health come before video games.
- Comment on No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say 2 months ago:
I think most people don’t have much impulse control or long term planning. They’ll buy it at full price despite having a backlog of other games
- Comment on ‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder 2 months ago:
1d4-1 is 0 to 3. Sorry, not the point.
One factor might be location. I’m in a major city.
- Comment on ‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder 2 months ago:
What do you mean exactly? If you think some people are just innately attractive and that’s immutable and unattainable, that’s nonsense.
Easily changed stuff like a better haircut, better fitting clothes, a better photo, all go a long way.
I’m a very average guy with a wardrobe of thrift store finds and band tshirts. I’m not even 6’ tall. But I did try to whole-ass engage with every potential match instead of doing bullshit like chatgpt or copy-pasted ice breakers.
Also a real fast way to be unattractive is having an ugly worldview. Most people aren’t going to like someone who treats them like shit. Someone who has a genuine conversation and shares interests will go farther.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 months ago:
I started buying music in 2015 (mostly Bandcamp) and I have no regrets. I have a big library now of drm free music. Some months I spend nothing and still enjoy music, without ads.
- Comment on ‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder 2 months ago:
to meet the man she’d spent the last three weeks opening up to.
First off, don’t chat for three weeks before a date. That’s a terrible idea. You’re going to build up a faulty model of who they are and then be jolted when you meet them in real life. Which is exactly what happened here.
Second, to all the people using chat gpt, I don’t know how to say this nicely but fucking git gud. What a bunch of sad sacks that can’t have a conversation, can’t read a wikipedia article, can’t even try their honest best.
a workaround for what he sees as the coded jargon of modern dating. “Like, what do you mean ‘What’s my attachment style?’” he balks. “Every girl on the apps has this thing about ‘love languages’ – it’s just gibberish
Is it though? Take five minutes to read about it if it’s so ubiquitous. What a sack of shit.
I’m a pretty average guy and I was getting 1d4-1 dates per week just by matching with people and asking them out. You really don’t need to do more than be genuine, present, and interested in them.
- Comment on Opera wants you to pay $19.90 per month for its new AI browser 2 months ago:
I can’t imagine what I’d even want the “Ai” to do in the browser.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 months ago:
It was always going to end like this. If you’re surprised, I hope you learned a valuable lesson.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 3 months ago:
If AI is a bubble that pops, all the big talking heads that went on about how it’s the future and we all need to embrace it won’t lose credibility. They’ll mostly just keep their jobs. Not fair. I can be pig headed and wrong and I’ll do it for less than their seven figure compensation
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 3 months ago:
Peter Thiel is a monster whose opinions should be discarded.
- Comment on Mala Petaka is another action-packed GZDoom boomer shooter now on Steam 3 months ago:
It’s a pun and one of the prominent meanings is “old people like boomers like them”, while the other is “rockets go boom”. You know this.
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 4 months ago:
True. I just had a long discussion with a former coworker about that yesterday. I don’t buy the whole “people who go to college aren’t smart. the salt of the earth really know how the world works” that comes up sometimes.
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 4 months ago:
Most people aren’t that bright. Even people who are experts in one field or another.
But more than that, most people don’t care about things. They don’t know how platforms work, and they don’t care. Just picture a boundless void where things fall in- that’s the typical user apathy.
- Comment on Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates' 4 months ago:
I don’t know. Some CEOs are pretty stupid
- Comment on Microsoft is saving millions with AI and laying off thousands - where do we go from here? 5 months ago:
Can we start reframing this as instead of “saved $500mm” we say “stole $500mm from labor”?
- Comment on Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse” 5 months ago:
I’m pretty sure you could really make a dent in the housing crisis, transit problems, food insecurity, any other real life problem of your choosing, with that kind of money. The fact that they blew it on “the metaverse” should be a crime
- Comment on Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse” 5 months ago:
He probably read Snow Crash (or maybe an AI summary, because he is a soulless husk) and thought it was super cool. It’s a dystopia. The book is not aspirational.
- Comment on WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family 6 months ago:
Most messages are so short I don’t see why you’d need a summary. Are people that poor at reading that like 10 sentences is a struggle? If so, education seems like what we should spend millions of dollars on.
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 7 months ago:
There’s still going to be production, and I don’t think we should continue with the capitalist class extracting value and making bad decisions
If you introduce basic income without addressing that, you’ll still have all the enshittification
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 7 months ago:
Basic income seems like an obvious solution.
Many people would pursue happy lives. Do some art. Do some gardening.
You’d also want to have like public housing or something so you don’t have parasitic landlords and homelessness.
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 7 months ago:
My understanding is the most “useful” thing a CEO typically does is schmooze with other rich assholes. A lot of companies need funding, and a lot of funding is handed out based on vibes. A good CEO makes friends with the assholes handing out money. That’s hard to replace with AI, probably.
On the other hand, CEOs routinely make stupid decisions. Maybe cutting that out makes up for the loss in funding opportunities?
Also this capitalist hellscape sucks. labor should unite instead of letting business idiots take most of the value they create.