Shouldn’t the sims 4 be considered free to play? The base game is free, only the dlc is paid.

This is revenue. How many people are buying those games now? Older games are also usually heavily discounted so that’s even less money. And if the game was bought second hand then it’s entirely irrelevant.

Half the time it’s not even doing anything. Minimal CPU and disk usage. They want update to be a background thing, but sometimes I just want it to hurry up and be over with.

MS must be listening to me. I just did todays update and it had my CPUs E cores pegged at 100% usage for a few minutes installing updates.

The early days of windows 10 was rough. Every major update they just reinstalled the OS.

Buuut it meant that you could install the latest version, and at worst only have a few more updates before you’re fully updated. Vs like 7 you’d install SP1, then spend 3 hours installing subsequent updates and rebooting.

That said sometimes windows like purposefully throttles installing updates and I just want a button that says “install as fast as fucking possible”. I know it slows down on battery, but plugged in please just go as fast as you possibly can.

Is it though? Or is it more implying that these metal fans are horny?

I mean I listen to a fuck ton of music, so if they have the same tastes as me that’s definitely a plus. Actually wanting to go to a rave with me is kinda cool. And if they were hardcore into like modern country then that’s a gigantic minus for me.

So yes, I absolutely would.

The models that the commercial AIs use are not at all usable on consumer grade hardware. The RTX pro 6000 has 96 gigs of vram, your GPU probably had 8.

I’ve played with the models that run on 16 gigs and it’s alright. But I wouldn’t even try fully vibe coding. Need some help with something small? Sure. But I wouldn’t have it try to make a finished product.

What whack ass setup so you think OP has? Dual 5090s? They’re running it on an i7.

Ideally see if you can do a battery charge limit. Lithium batteries are happiest around 40-60% charge. If you can limit it that low then you keep your built in UPS, don’t risk the CPU running at a crawl, and the battery is happy. Even just the normal 80% that good laptops offer will be sufficient.

Be able to change the picture remotely. New flavor? No need to print out a new sticker, remove the old one, and add the new one.

McDonald’s employee aren’t tipped (yet)

Get yourself some rechargeables. Yeah they don’t last as long per charge. But I’ve got a stockpile and I keep rotating them out so I’ve always got a fresh pair ready to go.

The exact level you charge it to matters less than what the battery ends up sitting at. Batteries are happiest at about 40%, but very rapid get unhappy the lower they go. The closer you can keep it to within the 40-60% the better.

Depends on how long you plan on ignoring them.

Gonna use it once a month? Yeah 40-60%s a good range to keep it in. More than a few months? Depending on the idle discharge, but probably want to charge it higher so it doesn’t go flat. 0% charge is a lot worse than 100%, especially for LiPo batteries.

What about a nice middle ground option? It has all the features that most sane people would want, but not the kitchen sink.

I hate diagnosing 3rd party jank so if I had to pick one or the other then I’d pick all in one. Oh you updated and now your whole ui is broken? Good fucking luck guessing what adon wasn’t updated for this change.

Servers aren’t directly touched by users. Nobody knows or even cares what the server is outside of the admin.

AI isn’t altering databases or knowledge. AI is telling the writer there’s a better way to do this, and the writer has to explicitly change their wording.

You only know to look at a dictionary for alternative wordings if you know there’s a problem. How do you know there’s a problem?

If you ask someone else what if that same someone else uses your regional dialect and not the one that has problems? Your average writer can review every single word used in the dictionary for every single article they edit. But AI can, and that’s something it’s actually good at. You may only know 5 Spanish speakers, but AI knows everything it was trained on.

Why should we use (insert tool) when we did just fine before?

Because when used correctly it can be great for helping you be more productive, and find errors/make improvements. The two exceptions are for grammar which AI does a surprisingly good job with. Would you have gotten mad if they used Grammarly >5 years ago? Having it rewrite an entire article is gonna be a bad idea, but asking it to rephrase a sentence, or check your phrasing for potential issues is a much safer thing. Not everyone who speaks Spanish uses it the same way. Some words are innocuous in some regions, but offensive in others.

Or just burned too quickly on poor quality media. It seems like as dvd drives got better the media got worse. But 15 years ago they stopped getting better, and the media kept getting worse.

If they’re already into your phone there’s so many legitimate ways to extract your data. The ability to sideload an app won’t impact that.