halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on US | Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional. 5 days ago:
There is zero reason for any of them to lie. They can just not comment about things instead of making shit up.
- Comment on US | Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional. 5 days ago:
No I want that to be a capital offense.
If they’re able to prove in a court of law that you knowingly lied to constituents, off with your head.
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 1 week ago:
Running an LLM locally is entirely possible with fairly decent modern hardware. You just won’t be running the largest versions of the models. You’re going to run ones intended for local use, almost certainly Quantized versions. Those usually are intended to cover 90% of use cases. Most people aren’t really doing super complicated shit with these advanced models. They’re asking it the same questions they typed into Google before, just using phrasing they used 20+ years ago with Ask Jeeves.
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 1 week ago:
It’s also very likely that they have a significant amount of corporate customers actively saying they won’t purchase AI-oriented hardware for security reasons, so they’re trying to spin the consumer angle publicly to try and grab the holdouts everyone else is obviously abandoning/ignoring as a side effect. That may be giving them too much credit, but despite just being okay at just about everything, they’re still one of the large OEMs that has survived.
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 3 weeks ago:
they will leave 100% of the cost of the nuclear disposal to the taxpayers.
As opposed to the military handling disposal of the reactor materials… which is paid by… the taxpayers.
You didn’t think this comment through every much, or at all really, did you?
- Comment on Valve says "the Steam Machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home," but I feel like that's missing the point 5 weeks ago:
While it is opt-in, it requires almost no user input other than agreeing. Everything is automated and takes just a few seconds.
I’m willing to bet the number of people that opt out is so small that it is statistically irrelevant.
- Comment on Valve says "the Steam Machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home," but I feel like that's missing the point 5 weeks ago:
I have a buddy that literally just had coffee spilled on his old gaming laptop. He mostly used it for some older games, like Skyrim was the newest. And he does a lot of urban camping and stuff like that.
The Steam Deck is a perfect replacement for his use case. Just waiting for another sale since he just missed this recent one.
- Comment on Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic revealed - a KOTOR "spiritual successor" RPG led by Mass Effect's Casey Hudson 5 weeks ago:
I’m hopeful given who’s in charge. But not holding my breath at all. I will assume it is dogshit until it proves otherwise. It’s the only way to approach AAA titles nowadays.
- Comment on AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You 1 month ago:
Sorry, only one major change allowed at a time. They phased out DEI last month in exchange for tax breaks.
- Comment on Is your weed too strong? This scanner can tell you in an instant 1 month ago:
Kitchen scales measuring accuracy and to a hundredth of a gram for instance.
- Comment on Embark Studios confirm rollout of Denuvo Anti-Cheat for THE FINALS 2 months ago:
Denuvo does anti-cheat? I thought it was anti-pirate?
- Comment on Microsoft reportedly estimated that Game Pass led to $300 million in lost sales of Black Ops 6, with 82% of copies sold being on the Game Pass-less PlayStation 5 3 months ago:
Not really. They can see how many people play on Game Pass. 100% chance they’re just taking downloads from Game Pass accounts and multiplying it by the retail price though, which isn’t a perfect comparison, but good enough for this type of general estimate.
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 5 months ago:
I mean, we already have memory cards like microSD. And SSDs have been shrinking for a while now. Not surprising someone is getting to the point where the line blurs.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
No, they reverted a lot of that. Bulk restoring even “overwritten” post data several weeks and months after the fact, after most people stopped checking.
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 5 months ago:
My current Amazfit GTS 2 advertised a week, and I only get about 36 hours with heart rate every 15 minutes and sleep tracking overnight.
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 5 months ago:
God do I miss the 30 day battery life.isplaced my charger a bunch of times because I simply wasn’t using it.
My current Amazfit barely gets a day with my usage. And I only use it for notifications and sleep tracking.
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 5 months ago:
I’ve still been trying to find good replacements for my Pebble. Long battery life, and just doing what it needs to without gimmicks or extra unnecessary crap. My watch doesn’t need to be a mini phone, it’s there to tell me if I need to bother with the actual phone.
Went through Vector and Amazfit since my OG Pebble and Pebble Time.
- Comment on Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors 5 months ago:
Maybe they should have a way of determining where someone is from and not process transactions for those regions… Oh wait, that’s a fundamental function of what they already do.
- Comment on Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors 5 months ago:
I’m honestly surprised that the processor shareholders aren’t demanding they process those transactions to increase profits even more.
- Comment on Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors 5 months ago:
I’m getting really tired of payment processors deciding what adults should be able to do with their money.
Same with lazy platforms and advertisers that aren’t even targeting children resulting in dogshit censorship across the internet.
We’re honestly supposed to believe that with the advanced algorithms, metadata matching systems, and audience targeting systems that these fucks use, that they can’t tell with high certainty whether an account is an adult or a child, and allow the appropriate type of ads through? Get fucked.
- Comment on Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet 6 months ago:
Probably lost the wallet and forgot about it, and found the USB drive while moving furniture.
- Comment on Google will pay a $1.375 billion settlement to Texas over privacy violations 8 months ago:
This is a settlement… Meaning that Google figures not that this amount is less than they would pay if it went to court and they lost. Since there is no way they’d be spending a billion dollars on defending this in court, they know they would definitely lose, and paying an insanely high penalty is the best outcome for them.
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 8 months ago:
A physical storefront has to deal with asset depreciation however. A product can sit on the shelf and reduce in value as it ages, there is no such thing with digital distribution.
Based on estimates, and various reports, leaks etc. since they aren’t a public company… Steam makde an estimated $10.8 Billion in 2024. They made $780,000 per employee as of 2018 based on an internal report, more than nearly every other company on the planet. They’re not spending anywhere near that on operations.
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 8 months ago:
Eh, I would argue that the expansion of broadband internet and the increased expectation of instant gratification by consumers made it a perfect time for Steam’s expansion. The death of physical media is a side effect of the ability to near instantly download anything you want.
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 8 months ago:
Didn’t Steam essentially create the “standard” for 30% price point for digital distribution in the first place? While a 30% margin makes sense for physical retail, it’s never made sense for digital distribution.
- Comment on Nintendo apologizes as Switch 2 demand overwhelms supply in Japan 8 months ago:
Nintendo, like many Japanese companies, only produces what they know with 100% certainty they can sell. They purposely underproduced the Wii so it constantly sold through retail and absolutely no stock stuck on shelves for long. They don’t actually care about complaints of supply issues, that is intentional.
As a side effect they also get to constantly stay in the headlines as their constant lack of supply keeps being reported. So they get free marketing as well, just by operating as they always have. And with current global supply chain conversations, they get a free smokescreen with the general populace going out of their way to blame someone else.
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 8 months ago:
It’s entirely likely. That site hasn’t changed a bit in over 2 decades. .
While publicly known external security vulnerabilities may have been found and patched over the years, having the source leaked means a look behind the hood at new weaknesses and a field day with exploiting them.
If 4Chan does come back, I think it will look significantly different.
- Comment on Stardew Valley Baldur's Gate 3 mod back online after D&D owners "mistakenly" send a copyright strike 9 months ago:
This is the type of thing that law firms will send without consulting their client first as soon as they were made aware as a default response, without considering any context to verify proper action. Which in most cases would be fine, but in this particular genre, because of shitty companies like Nintendo, can cause direct reputational harm.
It is Wizards of the Coast though, historically they’re not much better, so this would be 100% believable coming from them on purpose.
- Comment on SpaceX Starship blows up twice in a row. 10 months ago:
Could say the same about Facebook, and Google. Yet they don’t have any issues funding talent.
Money makes the world go round, at least most of the time. And enough of it can make just about everyone shove their principles into a box.
- Comment on SpaceX Starship blows up twice in a row. 10 months ago:
Despite what he may say at times. He’s not necessary for SpaceX operations. Gwynne Shotwell runs the day to day company, and they aren’t public so no need to say anything publicly for headlines like he does with Tesla.