ElectricMachman

When was this, exactly?

I’m amazed there’s anyone out there who hasn’t heard of Jim Fucking Sterling, Son

I assume by “moved away” they meant to somewhere further than they could feasibly travel as a highschooler.

I ran 7 on a Dell netbook for a few years, and it worked great (though, naturally, not as great as XP)

Elaborate?

Because mice are a solved problem. New phones can ostensibly have new features, better cameras, better displays, etc. Similarly, new cards and CPUs can give you measurably better performance.

A new mouse is something you get when your old mouse is broken, and if that’s happening every year, then there’s a big problem.

It’s probably a typo

I have to question in what world one would need “the latest mouse” every year. The only reason is if Logitech makes such a crap mouse that it starts to fall apart, thus necessitating a new one.

The only other avenue is that the mouse just gets more and more bloated with additional “features” year-on-year.

The principle isn’t the worst, but the implications are less than ideal

It doesn’t, but thousands of people all downloading 3-4GB from the same site will put more load on the site. Torrents avoid this issue by downloading little bits from lots of different peers

Yes, a lot of creativity is fuelled by inspiration. One can’t create much in a bubble. However: I could draw a rkbvrpoi, and my human intuition enables me to consider what such a thing might look like. I can make it up and make something feasible of it. I can give it a history, I can place it in culture (or maybe it is itself a culture), and I can do whatever I want. Yes, that requires some level of inspiration, and drawing from what I’ve observed and experienced would make the rkbvrpoi a lot more believable - if that’s my goal.

A so-called AI can’t do any of that, and even if it could, it would be meaningless and soulless.

The CEO of a corporation should be the living embodiment of that corp. Kind of like Subway in Community

It’s able to apply those things because it’s read millions of sci-fi stories, and can make an educated guess. It’s also able to produce an image od an astronaut on a horse because it’s seen lots of images of astronauts and horses, and people sitting on horses, so it can once again make an educated guess. I don’t think it’s right to call that creativity.

Unless you’re using a non-Chromium browser, that is.

I pay for it because I thought it was a trustworthy service that had earnt my money. Instead, if they continue with stuff like this then I’ll go back to not trusting subscription services again.

This and the new LLM “feature” in ProtonMail suggests that someone higher up has had a sniff of the techbro kool-aid.

Absolutely delightful, thankyou!

But where do you draw the line? Don’t get me wrong, I am against the idea of, as you say, “excessive wealth extraction”. But what classes as excessive? If I ran an independent Etsy shop making cards, and I had an 80% profit margin, is that stealing?

I should also like to point out:

I define all excessive profit as stealing.

All profit is excessive by nature, isn’t it?

No no, I was saying the account for my computer is local only. Steam, being a separate application, makes sense to have a separate login.

And I don’t remember anything differently… I don’t really have a horse in this race, just playing devil’s advocate.

Makes sense. Cheers!

I will just say that I don’t think Steam et al. are equivalent to logging onto your device. The account I use on my computer is… just that, a local account for my computer. So, if the Quest requires some sort of authentication, why can’t it be local too?

I have the same argument with consoles as well, but at least with the Xbox One, login still isn’t required unless you’re playing digital games. You can play all the disc games you like without any account.