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- Comment on Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info 1 day ago:
Can’t their shitty AI figure it out?
- Comment on A new StarCraft shooter's reportedly set to be revealed this year, possibly as a BlizzCon headliner 3 days ago:
Knowing it’s under the weight of the combined talent of Microsoft, Activision and Blizzard, we can all expect a heavily monetized pile of crap.
- Comment on Fallout season 2 is fuelling another Steam player bump, as folks once again remember they like Fallout 3 days ago:
I hope you’re right.
I do remember S1 not being in a rush either but that’s understandable because story beginnings tend to spend a good deal of time introducing the audience to characters and the world.
We already know the characters and their motivations so it shouldn’t use up as much time setting up the plot.
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 3 days ago:
The last time my wife bought a Dell PC, she became an Apple customer. She wanted to avoid the Apple tax but ended up dealing with bloatware, crashes, a slow PC and their horrible customer service.
- Comment on Fallout season 2 is fuelling another Steam player bump, as folks once again remember they like Fallout 3 days ago:
The first 2 episodes of season 2 seem to be meandering. Whole movies have complete story arcs in less time than that.
- Comment on Cloudflare Reports Surge in Streaming Piracy Takedowns, Removes 20k+ Storage Accounts 1 week ago:
Football is one of the most complicated things to watch. There are so many possible and expensive services that one needs to sign up for just to watch a specific game. It’s like they don’t want people to watch 4 hours of commercials.
- Comment on US | NY Governor Hochul signs bill requiring warning labels on ‘addictive’ social media 1 week ago:
This seems like the neoliberal solution that does nothing but gives social media companies a legal escape from prosecution for their tactics.
- Comment on OpenAI's ChatGPT ads will allegedly prioritize sponsored content in answers 2 weeks ago:
No shit.
It’s not intelligent.
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 2 weeks ago:
America desperately needs regulations. Water and power belong to the public. Not to the businesses or the investors.
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 2 weeks ago:
I trust the military doing it to spec a million times more than any company executives. It’ll probably be left to pollute the area they hide it for decades before taxpayers have to pay for it.
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 2 weeks ago:
They should be forced to make their own clean power plants. No clean coal, no natural gas. Only renewable since it is a guarantee that they will leave 100% of the cost of the nuclear disposal to the taxpayers.
- Comment on Europe gets serious about cutting US digital umbilical cord 2 weeks ago:
Do it.
- Comment on Instacart scraps AI pricing tests that made some products more expensive 2 weeks ago:
This practice must be made illegal with minimum prison sentences for all executives and managers involved. Inflation is almost all just greed by wealthy people.
- Comment on Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers 2 weeks ago:
Are AI influencers any worse than any other influencers? Slop follows slop.
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 3 weeks ago:
Probably cancer.
- Comment on Netflix acquires gaming avatar maker Ready Player Me 3 weeks ago:
I just want a phone app that can scan my face and give me the sliders that would most closely match it in every game.
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 3 weeks ago:
This is a completely stupid idea that will seem good to children and idiots.
- Comment on Microsoft is pushing Copilot onto LG TVs with a recent software update 3 weeks ago:
My LG TV will never go online. All I wanted was the OLED panel. Everything else on that thing is trash.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 4 weeks ago:
It’s closer to being a Betaverse than anything of value.
- Comment on Geohot: Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop 5 weeks ago:
Seems like he doesn’t want to spend time getting the hardware to work. He wants it to be efficient and of high quality.
- Comment on When a video codec wins an Emmy | The Mozilla Blog 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t that orders of magnitude more expensive than paying a royalty?
- Comment on Netflix to buy Warner Bros for $82.7 billion, including the creators of Batman Arkham, Mortal Kombat and Mad Max 5 weeks ago:
We need more corporate consolidation.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now 5 weeks ago:
Best they can do is layoff when the game ships.
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out 1 month ago:
Speedrunning enshittification!
- Comment on Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signature 1 month ago:
About a week ago I ordered 32GB of RAM for a new PC.
I paid $190.
It costs about $300 today. This is ridiculous.
- Comment on China’s chip industry will surprise the world 1 month ago:
How many more “China Scary!!” stories will we have this week?
- Comment on Proof That Recent Windows Update Harms Gaming Performance 1 month ago:
It harms a game not all games.
Clickbait bs.
- Comment on About This Account reveals the scale of Twitter’s foreign troll problem 1 month ago:
“Followed by John Cena”
- Comment on Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users 1 month ago:
Isn’t AV1 a lot lower quality?
- Comment on Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users 1 month ago:
Those shit PCs from Dell and HP are going to feel even slower and they will have an even worse battery life. Just to save $0.02 per PC.
Their plan is to have user buy some app after purchase to unlock the hardware on their on PCs.