Reddit -> Beehaw until I decided I didn’t like older versions of Lemmy (though it seems most things I didn’t like are better now) -> kbin.social (died) -> kbin.run (died) -> fedia.
Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.
There were unpatched issues in the first one (it’s been so long now I don’t remember them all but there was one in a DLC where you’re supposed to be able to give an item to a robot NPC but it was just broken in addition to several others).
Looking at the price and thinking of that, it was a “pass until decent sale” for me.
I do like the setting generally (at least based on the first one). It might be neat to have someone else take over the IP and go somewhere with it.
Fuck Pitchford and Take2 – sell the IP to someone who will do something cool and bring back Eddings.
We don’t, really. I certainly grew up without them. It did both good and bad things. It did centralize and simplify some things, but that came at a cost of freedom for more power users. It was great for sorting out dependencies at a time games were still often bad at doing that cleanly on their own for less-technical people. I think it did good things for community, though, particularly for those of us who did not use any modern consoles that had various party/SNS-like features baked in.
Firefox mobile. Input the homepage URL into the address bar from this post. Went, scrolled the page a bit, and hit back. Came straight back here
It sounds like a better use of that person’s time might be doing requirements/design work on the subway. Probably less obnoxious to the people around as well.
Get all my games working and, more importantly, my video editing software. I had the video editing software working, updated the OS, and it broke. This is not something that has happened to me under Windows, as much as I dislike it. I work two jobs and have home maintenance; I don’t have time to sit and troubleshoot and manually tweak things. Solve that and I will be on linux full time.
I’m a US citizen and my wife is not. My grandparents are not long for this world. If one of them pass, I will be going to the US alone because I am terrified my wife, who speaks little English, will end up in some ICE camp. It’s horrifying and heartbreaking.
Thanks for the advice; I’ll check into that. It’s probably 6 meters at most if I run the cable behind things. My keyboard and mouse might work but it might be tight depending upon which version of bluetooth their dongles run (I don’t have bluetooth on the motherboard).
I haven’t gotten this yet. Not sure if my TV is too old (2017 IIRC) or because I’m in Japan. I plan to just move my current PC into the living room when I can afford to upgrade but RAM prices just went nuts and video cards are still very expensive here (relative to wages but also because PC gaming is a niche hobby). I hate it.
I don’t use a smartphone enough to worry about it. If I am using my phone, most of the time it’s either Anki, Google Maps, or, like you mention, banking/government stuff.
Texting via SMS (or whatever it is these days) isn’t really a thing in Japan, either, which makes things more difficult especially as I despise talking on the phone. If, for example, I’m at the supermarket and wife remembers something she needs, getting that message is good
I was redhat/mandrake of which neither worked well on my PC, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and mint (playing with distros like LoaF at various points).
I got started on Linux at home from the valley of despair on early-2000s Gentoo. It wasn’t that bad, but I did have a lot more time on my hands being too poor to go out most of the time.
I just put mint on a laptop yesterday; got no time for it anymore
My company thankfully still employs simultaneous interpreters for meetings and has one translator on staff. I think, at least in part, because of how bad translation tools can be from EN <> JA.
Both BYD and Tesla have announced humanoid robots for around $10k starting next year.
I can’t speak to BYD, but Tesla has claimed all kinds of things that never materialize or are not what they claimed to be.
That aside, I don’t think most people have $10k laying around. Most couldn’t even afford a $1k expense (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saving-money-emergency-expenses-2025/), so I don’t think we’ll be seeing any widespread adoption at that price in the near future (which is what I took your comment to mean, but maybe that’s not what you meant).
For clarity, I’m not someone who’s just anti-AI, I’m just someone who thinks it’s way over-hyped, is being shoved in places it doesn’t need to be (especially in a half-baked state), is an environmental disaster, and has many other problems.
Computer vision to track inventory and expiration of food in a refrigerator could be useful for busy households
I don’t think this is a problem in a lot of the world. Commercial kitchens already have rules and inventory management systems. The only thing I could think of where it might be useful is looking for mold on things, but I suspect most people are using containers into which something couldn’t clearly see.
A dishwasher could cut its cycle short if it sees that dishes are clean, saving water and energy.
Maybe? It would still need to learn all the dishes the person has and what clean and nonclean versions are. That training and calling the model has its own environmental impacts and I don’t know that implementing it would save energy over the life of the appliance due to the extra costs in energy to train and call it.
My washer has settings for heavier and lighter washes based on what’s going in (as does my clothes washer)
In addition, robots are home appliances that require AI
They do not.
Robotic vacuum cleaners learn their surroundings and navigate using machine learning
This could all be done with sensors and rules and, in fact, was. Unless we’re being super loose with what “machine learning” means here. We’ve been teaching robots to semi-autonomously navigate courses and return for ages.
We’re also likely to see humanoid robots(or similarly flexible platforms) becoming household appliances in the near future.
That’s so gross to me personally that I don’t want to think about it. Both from a security as well as environmental perspective. I also disagree that it’s close, at least for how I think you’re using “close” here.
As a software engineer, hard disagree. There is no need for any AI in any of that. The device will have gone through various testing. If they wanted to implement this, they could use what they learnt in all the testing to set threshold values and run occasional diagnostics, all on-board with no internet, to know about such things. The only internet even required might be updates to those tables of values (or if a user wanted to opt in to sharing their data for whatever reason).
Fewer hurricanes out there, and other natural disasters as well. I don’t know how tuscon is seismically, but otherwise it has a lot of lowere risks from nature, probably
defenders of freedom?
We’re going through a bit of a far-right thing at the moment, so you may want to hold off on that assessment.
I’m in my mid 40s and this is true of me depending upon why I might be reading something. Sometimes, I want to do a deep dive; sometimes I just want to know roughly what
thingis.However, let me say: fuck AI summaries.