AwesomeLowlander
@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Has bad branding ever turned you off from software, FOSS or not? 2 weeks ago:
Talk about the height of entitlement…
- Comment on Steam Machine 2 weeks ago:
I main Linux. I’ve been using it for over 2 decades. I’m speaking from personal experience when I say that if you think Linux was mainstream ready prior to the last few years, you have no idea what the average pc user is incapable of.
- Comment on Steam Machine 2 weeks ago:
Most people don’t really use windowns because they like it but because of the third parties applications that only run on windows
Most techies, maybe. MAYBE. Linux has not been anywhere near user friendly enough over the past 2 decades to be remotely usable by normal people. Not a chance.
- Comment on Steam Machine 2 weeks ago:
fueled the windows ecosystem for two decades.
That’s nonsense, as if Windows needed any help being dominant in its heyday
- Comment on Steam Machine 2 weeks ago:
And yet, with Proton they’re one of the biggest contributors to Linux adoption in the past several years. They’re allowing millions of users to cut the last string that was binding them to Windows
- Comment on Steam Machine 2 weeks ago:
Given that they’d have locked in the supply at least half a year ago, though, it would be funny (though unrealistic) to find out they contributed to the price hike 😂
- 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 1 month ago:
3 more days to cover, then. Hop to it!
- 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 1 month ago:
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- Comment on 2 months ago:
“If the big tech companies and the VCs throwing their money at large-scale humanoid training spent only 20% as much but gave it all to university researchers I tend to think they would get closer to their goals more quickly,” Brooks said.
To be clear, he’s not saying the goal is unachievable. He’s just saying they’re going at it in the dumbest way possible.
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 months ago:
It’s using genAI to make best guess portraits of ICE agents, WTF are you going on about?
- Comment on TSMC employees reportedly stole 2nm trade secrets to share with Rapidus — accused are said to have shared 'hundreds of process integration technical photos' 3 months ago:
WE don’t know what info and otherwise was shared, because it’s an ongoing investigation and they’d be idiots to be telling the public everything. That doesn’t make it a ‘rumour’. There’s enough to it that the govt is investigating, which is by definition more than a rumour.
- Comment on TSMC employees reportedly stole 2nm trade secrets to share with Rapidus — accused are said to have shared 'hundreds of process integration technical photos' 3 months ago:
True, it was japan not China. Doesn’t make him racist though, just mistaken.
- Comment on TSMC employees reportedly stole 2nm trade secrets to share with Rapidus — accused are said to have shared 'hundreds of process integration technical photos' 3 months ago:
What rumours? They know for a fact the information sharing happened, they just don’t get know what the fallout from it will be
- Comment on TSMC employees reportedly stole 2nm trade secrets to share with Rapidus — accused are said to have shared 'hundreds of process integration technical photos' 3 months ago:
Chinese here. He’s not wrong. Should we just pretend it didn’t happen?
- Comment on TSMC employees reportedly stole 2nm trade secrets to share with Rapidus — accused are said to have shared 'hundreds of process integration technical photos' 3 months ago:
This isn’t China though, it’s a Japan-based startup. At least according to the article
- Comment on Forget copyright strikes, a retro gaming YouTuber faces possible jail time for reviewing gaming handhelds 4 months ago:
Currently, officials contest that his reviews of ANBERNIC devices like the RG Slide, which often, but not always, ship with microSD cards filled with copyrighted ROMs, are punishable under Article 171 of the Italian Copyright Law. This law, which was originally written in 1941, allows for a maximum punishment of €15,000 (or 30 million Italian Lira, since the law pre-dates the Euro) and three years of jail time.
They’re not even claiming he broke any copyright, just that the device he reviewed is often used in copyright violation. That’s like how the Spanish cops are currently suspecting anybody using the Pixel of being a drug dealer.
And that random not-even-actually-breaking-a-law is enough for them to shut down his channel and threaten his livelihood.
- Comment on [Opinion] We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 months ago:
This has nothing to do with republicans. The fucking up of NASA was very much a bipartisan effort
- Comment on [Opinion] We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 months ago:
It’s a dumb argument. SpaceX flourished because NASA is being destroyed by incompetent political overseers who can’t follow a long term plan to save their lives (or avoid feeding at the trough). Nationalising SpaceX would just give the idiots screwing NASA even more to screw over. Elon’s an asshole, but I’d rather not see the space program go on pause for the next fifty years. Again.
- Comment on Anthropic's new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline | TechCrunch 6 months ago:
To elicit the blackmailing behavior from Claude Opus 4, Anthropic designed the scenario to make blackmail the last resort.
Today’s breaking news: LLM prompted to blackmail, attempts blackmail. Who woulda thought?
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 7 months ago:
Little pony in a jar
- Comment on Master platforming with two characters at the same time in Ambidextro - from the dev of Pineapple on pizza 7 months ago:
Looks brain melting
- Comment on HP hasn't made an OMEN gaming handheld because of Windows, but they are open to making a SteamOS-powered handheld 8 months ago:
My understanding is the Brother fiasco turned out to be baseless. At the very least, nobody else has stepped forward to corroborate the issues that were claimed.
- Comment on What really happens inside a dating app. 9 months ago:
People were not speaking for very long conversations in general, they were happy to start a chat, but never really cared to continue it. Which always makes me say, that people registered on these apps are not really here for dating, but more for entertainment purposes.
Correlation is not causation. And in this case, is actively the opposite. It’s been shown multiple times that dating apps do not want their users dating, and have by this point probably winnowed their userbase down to those who aren’t interested in dating either.
The author is proof of this. So much of the article is about retention. Retention is great for the company, but retention and ‘dating’ are at odds. Nobody in their right mind would believe any major dating company is optimising their algorithms for compatibility.
- Comment on Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in the U.S.. However, users in Mexico will see “Gulf of Mexico,” and the rest of its 1 billion monthly users will see both names. 9 months ago:
It’d just result in a filter on all reports on that location. Only thing being inconvenienced is one programmer.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified with the Linux version ahead of release on February 11 10 months ago:
Steam deck verified, with Denuvo for extra flavour. Mmm…
- Comment on USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect 10 months ago:
Well it’s not going to change anytime soon since USB-c is current tech, but there’s really no reason to.
- Comment on USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect 10 months ago:
There’s nothing stopping the manufacturers from agreeing on a new standard. The key point is they all have to use the same standard.
- Comment on Doom on a CAPTCHA is the most frustrating though admittedly raddest way to prove your humanity to an algorithm 10 months ago:
Me and my cousins absolutely used strafe back in the early 90s. And forwards. And backwards. We were so excited every time we got into a gunfight we would have moved vertically too if there was an option for it.
- Comment on How WhatsApp ate the world 11 months ago:
On the flip side, I get shocked every time I meet an American tourist and they don’t have WhatsApp
- Comment on [Discussion] Steam Autumn Sale has started. What are you buying for your Steam Deck? 11 months ago:
Gonna keep an eye on this post for recs. Does anybody know if there’s a working RemindMe bot yet?