Seconding a vertical mouse. I like Evoluent’s mice, been using them for years.

I don’t know that I would say “much worse.” But it’s more than incrementally worse, which is what most of the updates to Win10 have been over its lifetime. So straw, meet camel’s back.

None of them are free, but they all have a month free trial. After that they’re all $10-15 a month. Not sure about privacy, it wasn’t a priority when I went looking. I hadn’t heard of any of them before I went looking for alternative music services.

I actually react well to combative. Not right away, but it puts me into a “I’ll show you” mood that drives me down a rabbit hole of research. If you’re right, I come out the other side with the data and admit I was wrong. But I assume I’m not normal.

Another for Deezer. In the last couple months, I’ve tried Tidal, Qobuz and Deezer. Qobuz seems the best if you’re into music and building your own playlists. They pay the best royalties and do a bunch of human curating, including a weekly zine for current releases. They don’t have an automatic playlist that I could find. Deezer has the best recommendation engine of the three, at least for the genres I listen to.

I was at a protest in DTLA where they were firing them. Some cops were flinching when the rounds were fired. So I’m going with both incompetent and malicious.

I know someone who died of fast colon cancer, and I’d be okay with ICE agents going the same way.

I would believe that it only currently works in English.

Yahoo did pull this shit. I had to dig through privacy settings in my account, not just the email setting, to turn it off.

Our marketing team isn’t good enough to change consumer behavior like that. I’d love to work with a team with that ability.

Some games do that, especially at a generation border. It’s not a ton of extra effort, but it’s low-return: a game doesn’t sell better or get a lot of press for being smaller.

I’m not super bothered by Tue copyright issue - the copyright system is barely serving people these days anyway. Blow it up.

I’m deeply troubled by the obscene power use. It might be worth it if it was a good tool. But it’s not.

I haven’t gone out of my way to use AI anything, but it’s been stuffed into everything. And it’s truly bad at it’s job. AI is like a precocious 8-year-old, butting into every conversation. And it gives the right answer at about the rate a ln 8-year-old does. When I do a web search, I then need to do another one to check the AI’s answer. Or scroll down a page to get past the AI answers to real sources. When someone uses it to summarize a meeting, I then need to read through that summary to make sure the notes are accurate. And it doesn’t know to ask when it doesn’t understand something like a proper secretary would. When I go looking for reference images, I have to check to make sure they’re real and not hallucinations.

It gets in my way and slows me down. It needed at least another decade of development before being deployed at all, never mind at the scale it has, and it needs to be opt-in, not crammed into everything. And until it can be relied on, it shouldn’t be allowed to suck down as much electricity as it does.

The majority of disc space on a game like CoD is textures, audio and FMV. There’s no compressing 4k textures to get them to a reasonable footprint without losing quality. Same for 4k FMV. It’s not management that drives the desire for high-res textures and diverse asset libraries, it’s generally the art team. Once they’re allowed to care about what kinds of shrubbery exist in Borneo and which exist in Minneapolis, you end up with 30 kinds of plants. Multiply that out for rocks, cars, rugs, etc and add in the expectation for 4k or 8k screens and individual assets get huge and the library gets huge.

You’re right that it’s possible to do “pretty good” graphics for less, but it’s telling that your examples are from a decade ago and/or heavily stylized.

It’s also about what people want to buy. If games with that aesthetic reliably sold like gangbusters, AAA would follow.

Game Dev here.I WISH we could still ship with N64 quality textures and audio. We’d use so much less disc space and probably finish sooner and cleaner.

My city does something like this as part of our homeless program and we’re at “net-zero” homeless. It doesn’t work on it’s own, but the tiny homes give people a stable place to keep their stuff safe and the elements off their bodies, it gives them an address they can use for things like mail and applications, and it gives social workers a place to find them reliably. It’s the start of a long process to help them back to their feet.

I don’t think I would stop being a human if I was part robot. Are people with artificial hips or cochlear implants less human?