I’ve no idea what kind of duct this is, I just thought it was a good looking duck.

I’m going to keep up my tradition and send an unsolicited duck pic (yes, quack quack) to a friend.

Then going to the science museum with a different friend.

Social media year over year shows it was a mistake.

I’ll 3rd mumble. Been hosting for over a decade.

No tracking, no ads, no bloat… This does it’s one thing and does it very well.

Sam Altman is OpenAi. OpenAi is. ChatGPT. ChatGPT is “ai”. “ai” has caused a massive shortage of consumer hardware and a massive increase in price. Consumer hardware is what would be used in the upcoming SteamCube.

So, that’s how.

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.

Use your neighbors toilet! If it doesn’t have a camera or ass-print scanner, it’ll really through off the data brokers buying up all your shit data so they can sell ads!

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

I mean, his upload cadence really changed. He hasn’t posted in a year, and his last 6 videos is “1 year ago” then 8 videos “2 years ago”. Millions of views sure. But I think he largely just moved on. Also, he used to do gaming and then just started doing random things (like Flex Tape), KFC, juicing, Goop (more than once), etc.

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.

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 didn’t buy it because fuck Nintendo. They treat their customers with such disrespect and disdain, a company that’s only bring held together by nostalgia alone. They’ve gotten into a cycle of seeing just how much money they can get while putting in no effort.

Yeah, being able to do it DIY probably saved you a ton. I had been saving for years (didn’t want to pay interest on a loan). But had to pull the trigger last year because the government got rid of the 30% solar incentive. Funny side story, I also told a friend of mine about my plan; her fiancé is an electrician in Germany, and he was baffled why it was going to cost me so much. It would have been cheaper to have me hire him, fly him first class, get him a swanky hotel for however long it took, and pay him like x3 his normal rate.

More personal I suppose then anything large. But I’m getting solar installed! Was supposed to be installed last fall but due to weather it was pushed back. I’ll be glad to see lower, if not negative power bills (especially since the price recently jumped). Having 39 panels installed. So that’ll be nice.

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

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.