The_Che_Banana
@The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org
- Comment on AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests | Fortune 1 week ago:
Layoffs are only used to prop up quartly/annual profits for shareholders. Period. once that is acheived, the CEO gets his bonus and doesn’t give a fuck if it happens again because if he gets fired he’ll have a golden parachute as well.
- Comment on Gmail's new AI Inbox uses Gemini, but Google says it won’t train AI on user emails 1 week ago:
Nah, they’re just going to straight up lie about it. I mean, whats going to stop them and who would hold them accountable?
- Comment on This rugged phone lets you hot-swap batteries without turning it off 5 weeks ago:
rechargeable batteries don’t last forever, but you can extend the lifespan of it when it starts to shit the bed, which in turn extends the life of the 2nd.
- Comment on Video Game Consoles Are Dead · Aftermath 7 months ago:
Traded up from Xbox one to the Steamdeck
best move ever
- Comment on Texas enacts age-verification law for app stores 7 months ago:
rollingstone.com/…/mike-johnson-son-monitor-porn-…
Because these guys have a fetish for knowing when you’re masturbating.
Really gets them off.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 9 months ago:
lol not for me, thnx
- Comment on What are some light-hearted, feel-good, comforting games to play on the deck? 10 months ago:
Do you have a link to this movie?
- Comment on It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning. 10 months ago:
Absolutely, Im sute this will be FAR down the checklist for any authentication/action
- Comment on What are some light-hearted, feel-good, comforting games to play on the deck? 10 months ago:
Journey to the Savage Planet is grossly underated: fun, simple game, just challenging enough and extremely well polished.
- Comment on It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning. 10 months ago:
I mean…every time they feed GROK AI the perimeters of the constitution vs. today’s gov. it cites Trump and Musk as traitors… so this may not be a bad thing for the Pentagon to have?
- Comment on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026. 10 months ago:
This sucks.
- Comment on EPIC, Democracy Forward, and Federal Worker Sue DOGE for Illegal Seizure of Personal Data From Treasury, Personnel Systems. 11 months ago:
Neat, but you can’t unring that bell.
- Comment on More Google Spyware to Enjoy! 11 months ago:
thanks for the heads up, found it was added during my last update, and uninstalled quickly.
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 11 months ago:
such fragile masculinity
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 11 months ago:
The whole point was to solidify the singular point of view (i.e. propaganda) and he’s done so…the rest is show
- Comment on X, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube sign EU pledge to tackle hate speech 11 months ago:
*T&C apply
- Comment on [Discussion] Do you use any headphones with your Steam Deck? 1 year ago:
Yeah a Phillips headset with removable mic and on/mute toggle on the cord.
Works really well, happy with it but it gets warm in the summer…like I don’t need more hotness in the heat.
- Comment on Tekken 8's next character will be revealed this week, and clues point to a certain lady in red 1 year ago:
Chris De burgh?
- Comment on The future of customer service is here, and it's making customers miserable 1 year ago:
Because there is no profit in servicing customers. They have your money, and the longer it takes for you to access it the more it makes for them.
- Comment on Nike’s Air Max 1000 are almost entirely 3D-printed 1 year ago:
The orphan killing machine is working properly
- Comment on Nike’s Air Max 1000 are almost entirely 3D-printed 1 year ago:
Most likely also manufacturered is the shittiest possible way for the environment.
- Comment on Xbox boss confirms a handheld console is in the works 1 year ago:
I’m planning to put wheels on my granny so she can be called a bicycle, too!
- Comment on Classic shooters Unreal and Unreal Tournament are now free and preserved on the Internet Archive 1 year ago:
Like, serious question: did anyone ever have to pay for it? I just remember having it, I thought it was a demo game for the Unreal engine and was free to play/came pre installed on other games.
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED Limited White Edition announced 1 year ago:
Fucking hell, man. Good one.
- Comment on When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it" 1 year ago:
I got one to replace the Xbox that I’ve had hooked up to my tv’s since gen 1… absolutely no regrets.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 1 year ago:
popularmechanics.com/…/22-years-later-windows-95/
Mostly anecdotal from comments and whatnot, but here is a PM article
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 1 year ago:
AFAIK there are long term science programs that are using archaic computer systems so probably yes.
- Comment on Intelsat's Boeing-made satellite breaks up in space, disrupting communication services 1 year ago:
Holy shit this company…
- Comment on Samsung update bricks phones, giving harsh reminder of data backup importance 1 year ago:
Yeah so my last phone was a Samsung and after 2 years…ONLY 2 years I had to reset the phone every time to charge, and every single update something new broke-either an app, speaker, phone… Finally got rid of that POS…never again.
- Comment on Facebook is going to show you even more content from accounts you don’t follow 1 year ago:
OK, boomer