markz
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- Comment on A rare steam gift cards are still in the wild 1 day ago:
Steam still lets you download games you bought that are not even on sale anymore, they never delete them even a decade after delisting from the store.Hosting this content costs real money.
Taking purchased items away from customers is absolutely not comparable to throwing away cards they haven’t sold.
What makes you think they’d invalidate codes that cost them basically nothing?
Having stores activate the card on purchase is extra infrastructure, even if it isn’t much. I think most of the remaining stock will be sold soon, so there isn’t much point in keeping it up forever. Someone will eventually find dusty cards hidden in a forgotten corner of a remote convenience store, but that might not be worth even a small cost.
- Comment on A rare steam gift cards are still in the wild 2 days ago:
The codes don’t expire once activated, but they can drop activation of unsold cards.
- Comment on A rare steam gift cards are still in the wild 2 days ago:
They’re just a bunch of paper slips worth nothing until activated, so I don’t expect them to keep the service alive for too long.
- Comment on GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux 4 days ago:
Good old games games
- Comment on GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux 4 days ago:
Last time they were hiring for it. Now they’re “investing time and effort” which I guess means having those people do something about it.
- Comment on Apple launches official program for leasing Macs as AI price crunch bites — 24- and 36-month leasing options provided by Klarna 4 days ago:
Worst? This could be great
For them
- Comment on JSAUX Unveils Three Steam Machine Faceplates (E-ink and Dot Matrix) Coming Later This Year 3 weeks ago:
I doubt they’d release it like that.
- Comment on JSAUX Unveils Three Steam Machine Faceplates (E-ink and Dot Matrix) Coming Later This Year 3 weeks ago:
Starting to seem like valve is getting more flashy mod parts than framework
- Comment on 'Being Proud of the Thing We Made Did Not Give Us the Right to Make It' — Dbrand Cancels Its Steam Machine Companion Cube 4 weeks ago:
The cube thing is from portal, a game made by valve. Valve owns the rights to portal and can therefore use the ip however they please.
- Comment on If you have the controller in your cart, try again 2 months ago:
Yeah but is any8ne gonna pay that?
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 4 months ago:
Sounds like they emphasize that contributors are still responsible for the changes. Some people are way too trusting in the robots’ abilities.
- Comment on Valve reconfirm the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller are due in 2026 4 months ago:
In this economy it’ll cost as much as the apple vr set
- Comment on Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites 5 months ago:
We have one of the lowest ratios of crap to legitimate content, human-made content, on the Internet
Well it’s microsoft, so maybe neocities wasn’t ai enough
- Comment on Official Valve: Steam Hardware Launch timing and other FAQs 5 months ago:
I’d rather not
- Comment on We can’t have nice things… because of AI scrapers – MetaBrainz Blog 6 months ago:
Who knew that incompetence backed by mountains of money could be so destructive.
- Comment on what exactly is the steam frame? 6 months ago:
Yes it can.
Valve is a PC gaming company, so of course they also cater to people who want to run their VR games on their monster gaming rigs.
- Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame 6 months ago:
Meta does all kinds of creepy shit, like using the cameras to compile a list of items in your home. I’d rather not do VR at all than use Meta, no matter how good it is.
- Comment on i cant wait to get a steam frame 6 months ago:
Me too. From what I’ve heard meta hardware is great, but I wouldn’t take it even if they gave it to me for free.
- Comment on Flying cars take off in China as state backs low-altitude air travel 7 months ago:
Flying cars is an idiotic idea
- Comment on India asks smartphone makers to preinstall its cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on phones 7 months ago:
Ah yes, the cybersecurity app. For your security.
- Comment on JSAUX teases aftermarket mods for Steam Machine 8 months ago:
Batteries on a device that needs wall power?
Well I guess I’ve seen things this dumb already so maybe
- Comment on PUBG publisher attempts to purge anti-AI employees after $680 million Q3 profits and generative AI pivot 8 months ago:
prioritising AI as a central and primary means of problem-solving
This is the worst way to use AI, if it means what it sounds like.
- Comment on Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption 10 months ago:
Ah yes, politicians choose to appoint an LLM as a defense in case of corrupt politicians.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 11 months ago:
I’m guessing he only wants yes-men
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 11 months ago:
Probably depends on what you do. I haven’t used AI autocomplete myself, so I can’t talk from experience, but what I had in mind was the somewhat repetitive work I’ve been doing recently with gui widgets. I expect an LLM to get that mostly right.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 11 months ago:
The only use for LLM in coding is as an alternative search bar for stackoverflow
I’d argue it can also be useful as a form of autocomplete, or writing whatever boilerplate code; that still isn’t outsourcing your thinking to the text predictor.
- Comment on UK to ban public sector orgs from paying ransomware gangs 1 year ago:
Insane that it was allowed