StitchInTime

So say we all.

Kind of an extreme viewpoint in my opinion. I personally have no issue with an indy or first time dev using AI assistance for a passion project, my issue is when large studios are replacing talented folks with soulless slop.

When I was in school I was fortunate enough that I had educators who strongly emphasized critical thinking. I don’t think “AI” would be an issue if it were viewed as a research tool (with a grain of salt), backed by interactive activities that showcased how to validate what you’re getting.

The unfortunate part is instructor’s hands are more often than not tied, and the temptation to just “finish the work” quickly on the part of the student is real. Then again, I had a few rather attractive girls flirt with me to copy my work and they didn’t exactly get far in life, so I have to wonder how much has truly changed.

And Fargate… but that’s a conversation for another community.

Just a friendly reminder for the Americans that HIPAA only applies to certain entities under certain conditions. OpenAI is most certainly not one of those entities.

You can opt out of ads on a Roku? Last I checked (like 4 years ago) ads were anywhere in the OS.

If they’re leaving X now, they’ll probably be back. Everyone who actually wanted to leave on moral grounds probably left at least a year ago.

Yep. Atomic doesn’t suit my needs outside of a dedicated gaming machine, but if I help my mom with a new computer, it’s going to have an atomic desktop with KDE. Close enough to windows that she won’t need to learn something new, secure where I won’t have to clean it out every 6 months, and reliable to where she can handle OS updates herself. I just need to be able to run an old version of WordPerfect for her in Wine and she has everything she needs.

Friendly reminder that there are a bunch of fantastic indie games out there that don’t have insane graphic card requirements for a smooth frame rate.

I built a gaming PC last year with 32gb, and it’s time to upgrade my MacBook…

So, logically, I just moved my workflow to my desktop. I would say dual boot for the win… but honestly most of my games run great on Linux, so I think I’m just good there until and unless this blows over.

I’ve already moved to KOReader on my jailbroken kindle and disabled updates.

Amazon no longer allowing me to download copies of my purchased books was a hard line that was crossed, and my next e-ink device won’t be a Kindle.

So… most of Los Angeles?

For me the package manager version was outdated - I grabbed the latest version from the GitHub and it just works again.

What I found interesting was the rationale behind the 16 available colors. Black and white, RGB, CMY, gray, and dark versions of each outside of B&W. Makes so much sense, but I never thought of it that way.

Self-replicating Christmas trees!!!

Xbox is dead outside of being a different logo for windows. I think it’s obvious to anybody remotely watching the industry that all they really care about is game pass at this point. Even at the game awards, they were essentially absent outside of a game pass ad, and recently put a finance guy in charge of Zenimax.

I would love to say this won’t end well for them, but they probably crunched the numbers and determined they could continue the same revenue with minimum effort. Enough people will probably stick around on game pass, even after the recent hikes, to keep it as a solid revenue stream.

I sold my Xbox six months ago after it sat collecting dust for a year and a half, glad I did.

Thanks for sharing. I’ve been using my OLED as my primary display, and the last firmware nagging really got to me.

Since you’ve posted this, I did a factory reset wiping my network info and disabling every non-tv feature.

And here I thought LG was better than Samsung at this.

I think they’ve always been like this for some of their posts, and honestly I’m considering getting a paid subscription to support them. Sucks, but they’ve been putting out quality content in exchange for your email address and some metrics - I’d call it a fair trade.

Sure, but other studios, outside of Rockstar and Mojang, don’t release a game 14 times over 14 years.

When they do launch their game for the 14th time, it typically works.

I’ll give it to you that Bethesda gets a lot of hate over their aging engine and bugs at release, but this game has been released to death, it should either be bug free and over-optimized, or not released at all.

It’s actually kinda fun today, but today was too easy to guess.

My main issue is the word “retro” for this quiz - the creator’s use of the word (2000s and up) and my own (thinking like 2600-SNES) are in conflict.