Oh man I love when companies make stupid tonedeaf decisions like this.

Hey you know how we haven’t made a great first party game in over a decade?

Yeah?

Well, what if to boost sales numbers we add a tier that ONLY gives you our lame first party games!

Because they refuse to see games as a creative artform. Or, they think they ate, but then do the worst corpo bs to them. This all reeks of some boardroom joining all their MBAs together to come up with this brilliant shit covered plan.

I’m optimistic about this. She has a deep passion for games and who makes th, she doesn’t like corpos but knows how to work in their system. Could be good.

They actually did. They called it Google Play Music, and Google TV/Google Play Videos. I paid for those. Youtube Music and Youtube premium are the enshittified versions of those, and they will continue to make them worse.

Oh don’t worry, I’m there, I’ll happily give money to them

This used to be the case, but it’s a different equation now. Ads used to be one or two per video. Fine, I get there are bills to pay.

Now it’s pure greed and pushing us to a subscription for a service they purposely made shitty so we would think exactly what you are. 4-5 ads, with forced ads interrupting the videos, and auto redirects to more ads after the video fonishes. Unskippable multi-minute ads.

And if you’re thinking “well then just pay for it”, tell that to Netflix, Hulu, and all of the streaming services that were “ad-free” until they decided that actually, pay twice as much or watch ads (even though your paying).

So while I understand you’re saying, you’re assuming Google will play fair. They won’t. They will up the price, they will still force ads, and it will get worse. I’m taking a stand now saying enough is enough. I’m not rewarding them for enshittifying the service.

Yeah let’s smash-cut back 48 hours ago where he told us we were all wrong. Dude is Backpedaling and desperately trying to do damage control.

Oh he’s clearly very desperate for the hype to keep going. His ass is literally on the line. (I mean, golden parachute, but he’ll never work again), so no more infinite money glitch.

I forget who said it, but if AI doesn’t literally surpass all current realms of thinking and automate everything, i.e. what they promised, it has failed. To the investors it means it failed. With that, the stock does not continue up exponentially, which to investors also means it failed. Then they demand he resign, and they put someone else in there.

He could have stayed realistic through the whole thing. “Hey everyone, we’re learning day by day, and we’re proud to be the chipmakers to bring this to you.” Modest growth, but sustainable long term growth. Instead they drank the kool-aid full on, and said that it’ll cure all disease and wipe out hunger and everything else. Now he’s freaking out because all of the latest ideas are duds, people aren’t buying the hype anymore, and that means Jensen might be looking at the end of his tenure.

This how stupid is the best advice. Setting up my instance was easy. Learning how liable I was for what others put there was something completely different.

That’s why whenever I see another 2 day account looking for “free speech” and “no moderation” my answer is always “sure, you go host it then!” I’m not going to jail because you want to say horrible shit.

Balkan parents share a lot with Midwestern american parents.

No no we can’t use those plates! Those are your inheritance!

This is good. Nvidia and ram manufacturers showed how reliant we are on them, and took advantage of their monopolies. It makes absolute sense that other govs will be looking to make them in house now, china being the most obvious. The nvidia and them will cry saying it’s unfair they have to compete again, and the us go will do something stupid for short term gains while the rest of the world plans long term.

This should be taught in MBA and finance classes for how Bros get caught up in a hype cycle and how it’s all bullshit

So what you didn’t want to read the rest of that and just jumped to insulting me? I’ll never be ashamed of learning new information and adjusting my views.

Guh. Look I’m not against AI, when it’s used in a good place. Hot take, DLSS 5.0 features could have an interesting place. HOWEVER, before you mass downvote me

NVidia is not the one to tell when a game should use something like this. This should be used as a fine tuning option if the developer thinks it legitimately will make their games slightly better, and only for super realistic games. I think Cyberpunk, where main characters are all super detailed but background NPCs are more or less fairly low poly and not detailed. It might be good. However, then it comes up against the real kicker, which is that those limitations of those engines and the hardware at the time is what made artists think about their decisions. They made design choices at the time which drove how their game would look. I said in another thread, Master Chief’s now iconic armor was because they had such heavy restrictions. It’s a few triangles of green at the end of the day.

Added to a few games where it’s been tested and fits in the artistic style? I classify that as upscaling, a proven use of AI, and fits within the DLSS brand. Slapped into every game to make all men beefy hunkcakes and all women look like OF models? That’s when it’s slop.

Sorry Jensen, you’re pushing the slop angle, and that makes me sour to the concept.

Son look up all of the other comments that said that and also where I responded to it already.

I really enjoyed Gifable, a self-hosted gif library. It was great, albeit a bit feature light. About 3 years ago the maintainer stopped maintaining and went AFK, nothing to be heard of then. I’ve since forked it, and I’ve been working on some new features to hopefully bring it up to speed. (Things like S3 storage, using AI image captioning to auto-caption your memes, categories, and hopefully full matrix integration), but it’s a slog.

First I asked it how to create a dump file. I hooked up ADB debugging to my phone, then used the scooter’s app as normal, with the logging turned on in Android developer tools. It created a very long and complex dump file of hex that I could not understand.

However, then I had Claude get to work. I describe that in that I had opened the scooter’s app, and turned it on, paused a few seconds, then turned it off and closed the app. It started attempting to mimic the commands through the computer’s local bluetooth device, to get a successful response. Eventually, after something like 20 attempts it found a hidden clue that was basically a pattern that it had detected, and it was able to finally get an ACK from the scooter. Something I would have never been able to do. From there we have a plan on how to map out all of the other commands, but it was a huge win for the day.

Personally it’s what I use them for the most. I do not have the time to reverse engineer arbitrary things like this. I have a scooter that uses Bluetooth BLE which has no connectivity beyond that. I’ve been using Claude to help reverse engineer the protocol to hopefully get a home assistant integration up and running.

Claude can see things I can’t, patterns in hex that are coming back, I send in results from wireshark and it can try ad neaseum to try and get something working. Right now it’s about half working. When I have time I’ll keep plugging away. Then hopefully other people will be able to use it, and we can have one less vendor locked in device

Kind of skipped over my entire thesis there didn’t you? And my other comments addressing those.

Each of these points makes it worth it. Price is always overlooked. Renting is same as a subscription. If you buy your modem it’s more expensive, but at the end you still have a modem. Renting at the end you have nothing.

Bethesda should be offended that their flagship product that runs on their archaic engine was just roasted like this