I don’t care he’s “sick”. Too often, someone, instead of taking accountability, just throws anything to maybe shield themselves from actually being fully accountable. “I was sick”, “Family problems”, “A recent death”, “The planets were misaligned that day”, etc.

I find it to still be cowardice, to not stand by and own what you said, even if it was wrong. He used AI and got caught. And going forward, I’ll be treating Ars Technica as an unreliable AI-generated “news source”.

Listen, I hate everyone in my government right now. But to just imply this is somehow a single country’s fault, by a single dumbass president… is just fucking wild. We pollute the most? Feel free to back that up, my dude.

So Ubisoft, that failed hard on their own launcher. Made several mistakes when it comes to the games they’ve released, made the wrong kind of news with “The Crew 2”, cancelled a bunch of games (but don’t worry, Beyond Good and Evil 2 is definitely coming out…), goes and fired a lead designer.

Let me break out my magnifying glass to check on their stocks. Oh, they made a slight “comeback” from earlier this week, they’re up to 92 cents a share.

Mgmt at that place is making bold decisions for a company; when if their stock gains a penny, it’s worth celebrating.

No, it’s a long-known fact that the Windows code has been shit for decades. That’s been known since at least XP days I think. Pretty sure I first heard about it on TechTV

Im on the WIndows 10 Extended support. I’m either going to risk staying on 10, or move to linux. The big problems for me are 1 ) Visual studio doesn’t run on linux so I’d either have to learn a new editor or do a VM… I suppose 2) Gaming. A lot can happen in 8 months for improvements. But this might be the thing that holds me on Windows for a while. Saw a video of native Dota2 on linux runs like shit. 3) A solid remote desktop replacement. One that’s as good or better than what I’m using.

Oh no doubt, same. There’s so much to be said. More than any one person should.

To add to this list

5. Remove WebView apps. Eat our own dogfood and use MAUI.
6. Go back to the classic Start Menu. Use API to make the whole UI available for customizations
7. Get rid of the whole shitty “Settings” menu and go back to the Control Panel.
8. Drop backwards compatibility for a bunch of crap. Stop pulling the 1980s forward, let that shit die.
9. Address real modern issues with compatibility and performance with current CPUs
10. Undo all the vibe coding.
11. Focus on stability and performance, not trying to be “An experience”. Windows runs apps, make it do that the best it can.
12. For the love of everything holy, take a risk and modernize the OS. This goes back to 8. But as someone who makes Windows Server golden images for multiple platforms, FUCKING CHRIST. Having to use the Autounattend to even get anything started, and that’s often (Even in Azure) just a minimal thing to get some client to do the real work, should tell you there’s a problem. The Autounattend is poorly documented. I learned more from just building a basic VM on different providers and seeing what they figured out. I could write a god damn novel on the shortcomings of the initial installation and customization of Windows, but it’s especially embarrassing for their Server platform
13. Stop dropping support for the crap that works. Just so you can sell an inferior subscription version. WSUS being sunset is stupid. Having on-prem WSUS is always going to be faster and easier. You should focus on making that better instead of letting it limp along and then “Oh, we have an overpriced and slower option!” Get bent.
14. Azure Local is a really fucking cool idea. That was an god awful pricing as far as I can tell. But neat.

Create the problem, then offer an over-priced ‘solution’

Maybe he can take one of his overpriced GPUs, and use it to PositveGen. Similar to FrameGen, they’re trying to push to customers, they can use it to run a local AI model that every 2-3 negative posts, his machine will hallucinate a fake positive post for him to see. It won’t link to anything and it won’t be backed by anything real, but think of the innovation! I see it as a win for him.

Idk, I mean he hasn’t launch a nuclear miss… check google quick He hasn’t launch a nuclear missile yet…

The more niche communities really suffer I feel from the decentralized pattern. Tv shows, movies, video games, etc. you have everyone trying to be the “de-facto” instance and none of them really get traffic.

Really, Lemmy is just a US political platform with some weak notions of being anything else. And if it wants to survive, it needs more people, with more interesting topic. To many subs are just ghost towns.

I’d say '92. I think he had a full coherent sentence in Home Alone 2.

I report each one. And then I tell YouTube I never want to see anything from that channel again. I even pay for premium because I don’t want ads and I want to support some content creators (not shorts, no AI, etc). But this AI shit is really making me wonder what I’m even paying for?

It’s the same grift that every cloud provider does. The “You’ll save money because you’ll eliminate CapEx and only have OpEx instead of both!” And then they present you with numbers that look reasonable, hoping you don’t do the math.

CapEx - Capital expenditure = the cost of buying the things (ownership)

OpEx - Operating expenses = cost to run things

So, yeah, you don’t have to buy their overpriced $2000 GPU… you could just rent it! But renting it means you never own it, and the contract will state that the SLA will change. So they get you to sign up and then the prices change. And when your money is being dumped into the monthly bill, you are now constantly short what you’d need to buy the hardware and get yourself out of that hell. Ask anyone who’s accidentally left something running in AWS and got a MASSIVE bill. Or made an API but didn’t put rate limiting on it.

if they just need a face scan… whats stopping a million "donald trump"s from appearing?

I have an old machine been using as a Unraid server for years. It’s an i7-3770 paired with 32GB of ram and like 4x2TB drives.

Finally upgrading it because it’s just not going to keep meeting needs and frankly it’s wicked old (might keep it as a gitlab runner server or something). Finally “upgrading” by taking some old hardware (and bought some new), to have a full compute + storage setup. Proxmox (Ryzen 9 5900XT + 128GB ram) with all the compute and TruNas (Ryzen 7 3700X + 64GB ram + 8x16TB drives [LSI LOGIC SAS9211-8I] [raidz2/82.62 TiB usable]) for storage with a private 10G direct link between the two (Intel X550T2BLK).

And with the help of Valve, it’ll continue to get better. Hoping companies like EPIC also take note and really start adding things to Unreal to really push Vulcan and Linux. Like, I don’t want a monopoly or anything, but if big companies make big moves towards supporting Linux, others will follow. ( I know Unreal supports Linux, I’m talking like actively pushing tech, support, pushing for games to be compiled for linux, pushing for native code and not needing compatibility layers, etc.)

you can fail upwards, con people and still get out filthy rich.

Only if you con the poors. If you con someone who’s rich or “powerful”, then you get punished.

Oh how kind of them! They force disconnect an appliance but give you a coupon to buy the latest model.

And the newest model is different how? It’s a thermostat after all.

Whole reason I got one was because of the promised savings (never saw any, from the learning, just bullshit offers that allowed the electric company access…).

Guess it’s back to the tried and true mercury thermostat.

You forgot to mention, that was was fired from PayPal(?) for being incompetent.

And the engineers he hires are either not that great, or (more likely) are having to play fast and loose due to unrealistic expectations. Like the original hyperloop demo that was setup years ago for a competition, instantly rusted and was secured poorly. It’s since been destroyed.