I really really hate to admit it, but the Germans can bread.

a couple KDE tweaks even made PiP work fantastic

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It does however have possibly the worst death animations in the history of gaming…

That wouldn’t be so bad per se… Many improvements in human conditions have been achieved by automating stuff and kicking people out. Think of the green revolution.

The problem is that the use case here is to massify the production of literal shit, like clickbaity articles on social media content, or ever larger volumes of advertisement. Those jobs don’t need to be replaced, they just need to go away for good.

Are we really going to use an AI to write motivation letters from a list of bullet points, to send it to an HR that will condense it into a list of bullet points using AI? Seriously?

Personally, I find myself in a bizarre situation.

I have some open source ““Ai”” solutions that I find really really nice and helpful e.g. the image search in Immich, or LanguageTool which bills itself as an AI spellchecker.

At the same time I am horrified at the stupidity underlying 99% of big tech AI stuff that gets wall street hot.

But… Isn’t that kind of the point? Slashing computational cost so that we can deploy that stuff wherever it’s needed without a tenfold increase in the world’s energy bill?

Whether we should do that at all is a very different question.

Buying isn’t owning

Often true

piracy isn’t stealing

Definitely true

Do pirate as needed, but also do try to send a few dollars to the dev’s pockets when you like the game.

They also have families to feed (or cats I guess) and if they can’t do it by making games, they’ll stop making games.

Great game… But I have to admit, I liked Hotline: Miami more.

A couple of oldies, that deserve to still be played. Disclaimer: I played both games when they were already ~8 years old, and completely outdated in terms of technology.

Planescape: Torment

One of the best RPG ever created, and that is entirely for the world building and writing, and how much of the gameplay ends up being based on these rather than the combat mechanics (which are just ok)

Deus Ex

Again it was way ahead of its time in terms of world building and depth, and it was still an unashamed PC game, that dared to challenge its users a little and didn’t need to have a GUI that could be used with a gamepad, unlike the sequels.

There are two expansions for the first one, Opposing Force and Blue Shift. These explore the same events, from the points of view of different characters.

After the second one there are also the two shorter, stand alone, stories, Episode One and Episode two. These continue the story from the point of view of the protagonist.

My current laptop is 7 years old, and I Love It!

I still even play games with it. Not the newest stuff, but I have such a huge backlog of indies and not-so-new games that I could play for 15 years…

If someone told me this will be garbage in 3 years… I would hit them with the laptop. It’s a T470p, their skull is the part that would break.

I kinda disagree. If you need something to connect to the internet, it needs to be rather up to date.

I am… Confused about your request. Why can’t you also have the same on your phone? Are you still using popmail? Sounds like simply setting your accounts to IMAP should solve your problem.

But that already happens all the time. Vedy often the rights end up in the hands of some corporation and the author gets to have ~zero say in how it’s used.

Doesn’t seem to have been a particularly big issue.

It literally says “Other authenticator apps that support OTP […] can also be used”.

The whole “Apple products are great because they control both software and hardware” always made about as much sense to me as someone claiming “this product is secure because we invented our own secret encryption”.

I don’t find it at all annoying to keep NewPipe up to date.

I think you may need to take a look at Obtainium.

You can get e.g. pylance to work if you trick it:

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/1640

So, at least in that instance, it’s just Microsoft being a little petty.

The problem with that is the power consumption. It adds up.

You think that’s a lot? I don’t have a single laptop younger than 6 years, at home or work.