Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think we ever got to see a dual disk drive console, at least not in production (exempting gaming PCs). Perhaps in a parallel universe on board storage became cost prohibitive and games came on two simultaneously inserted optical disks, one with the game code and the other with texture packs and art. Nothing that interesting could exist in today’s climate.

On a practical note: we need to mock this to the point that anyone who actually does it will instantly be a social pariah. This needs to be so embarrassingly stupid that the companies who offer it literally blush, something non-human entities typically can’t do. Gamers Nexus had a good video about NZXT doing this and broke down the math for the numerically challenged.

Any other ideas for making this fail in a country where the consumer protection agencies are often worse than nobody paying attention at all?

Well said. A balanced viewpoint that doesn’t try to be all black and white. Even the stupidest bullshit can sometimes contain a kernel of truth. That doesn’t mean the 99% bullshit isn’t any less shit.

Only because hyperscale AI Data Centers and the kind of data centers we already had got conflated. That was almost certainly intentional.

Germans call them “Flachspüler” (flat washer). I appreciate that the falling dookie doesn’t splash water onto your ass. A fine feat of engineering and VERY off-topic. 🤣

I was on Evernote in the distant past and remember their pricing strategy pushing everyone out. If companies want to fail that bad, don’t let us stop you. It was a loss though because, at the time, Ever note was one of the most functional mainstream connected note apps.

Yeah, I’m sure the customers weren’t happy either when their friendly, helpful PoC was suddenly replaced with a clanker that has the intellect of a rotten potato, likely at a time when everyone was still struggling to hold shit together as it was.

We could choose to have a Nuremberg Trial moment instead… but anime titties.

I wrote a hell of a lot of TI-83 BASIC programs in my day. Along with learning basic HTML, it was my intro to programming. The good games were the assembly language games though and you had to trade with your friends to find and get the good ones. There was a Gallaga type space shooter that was top notch.

I was working on a side-scrolling skateboarding game. Can’t remember if I every finished it.

Why, so Zuck can stream back 8k footage of my bootyhole every time I take a shit?!

Right now I’m happy if I’m getting my advertised gig up and down. Any extra bandwidth would just be used by advertisers/spies to exfiltrate more data about me

People would rather talk in code and self-sensor than dump a fascist platform because that would be incoventient.

I can chime in for Bazzite. It’s imperfect, but I’ve blown up my fair share of aliens and they make playing your games on Linux really easy compared to anything else I’ve used. I can even stream the game from my desktop to a laptop in my bedroom via sunshine/moonlight which Bazzite helps you install as SteamLink doesn’t play nice with Bazzite.

That’s cool. 99spokes does that for bicycles and I’ve found it useful in that respect. Would be cool to compare all of the cars I ever had like that.

I drove a small truck at one point. Think a late 90s Tacoma, Ranger, or something like that. I don’t want an F250. I don’t want a Ram 3500. I just want to be able to haul a bed full of bikes to the MTB trail and help my friends move a washing machine.

Protip, never ask a Phil major questions, unless you want them to pose more questions. I think the very question itself assumes we can even properly define sentience. If we can, why does it have value as a result? Your home computer may not be sentient, but it’s pretty smart, valuable, and could potentially have an equally large impact on the world (not sure about intentionality though). It’s not that I’m certain no LLM is sentient (though I’m pretty sure) as much as I see greedy people steering the hype to their benefit in order to exploit others. The whole thing is manufactured to cheapen humanity in comparison to tech. I am very opinionated so you may see it differently.

Yep, if you tell an AI to do something, you are at least partially to blame for whatever it does. They shouldn’t be able to avoid responsibility that easily.

That’s kind if what Germany told Google. "If you have AI write your search summaries, you are responsible for checking its work and liable for its mistakes.

I majored in Philosophy. Though I wouldn’t want to be an AI ethics consultant for one of these big companies because I imagine that whatever I write down would have to preserve profits (first and foremost) and then gaslight everyone into thinking it’s all perfectly ethical and okay and no one (including mother earth) is being harmed in the process.

You don’t need an ethicist if you don’t have ethics! /s

I just wish we could put this dumb sentient AI stuff to bed for now. Congrats, you guys built the most powerful (and wasteful) auto-complete. It’s not sentient and your marketing doesn’t have to be hyperbolic lies.

I’ve been noticing this too. All the cities are like “Oh you’re unhappy with Flock? Okay, we’ll pick a new vendor.”

No.

We’re unhappy with being spied on, tracked, and monetized everywhere we go. We want the cameras down whether they’re made by Flock, Meta, Axon, or Fischer Price. Put it back how it was.

I admire his level of pettiness. When it comes to pettiness, Louis comes second only to the hungry hustler, OG Afroman. The way he was dropping diss tracks all up and through the trial and had the court of public opinion massively on his side was legendary.

I also don’t expect him to settle. Louis has principles and a DGAF - get it done attitude and an extreme allergy to bullshit. Truly a hero for the people. All he asks is that we participate and speak out on these issues. My next guys poker night (or equivalent) might include a group email writing session. I know several people who I would not have expected to get involved who have written their reps regarding right to repair and other consumer advocacy and freedom issues.