With dial up, it felt like it was working. It was trying its best.

Now it feels like it’s bogged down with ads and tracking and bots.

We really should stop letting companies buy each other. In fact we should split the big ones up.

I will unilaterally decide.

First off, conservatives aren’t allowed to speak anymore.

That… that might be it. I might be done. Now everyone else can get to work building a better world.

He’s lying. Or bullshitting. Whatever you call it when people say shit without any regard for the truth. Typical conservative slop.

I don’t understand how so many people played final fantasy 7 and the only lesson they seemed to take from the story is “tifa got big titties”

It’s not corporate owned. No profit motive to turn things to shit.

Don’t blame the tool, blame the user 😁

I compare it to snapshot tests a lot. They’re similarly constrained by “good if used wisely” but most people don’t do that. It’s easier to use them extensively. That’s just how people are. They do the easy thing

This physically hurt my stomach

Paying more money for better results doesn’t fit into the world view of many business decision makers.

How do you feel about people who refuse to use ride-share like Uber because it’s exploiting labor? I don’t want to give them any money because fuck them, but some of my friends say the drivers need money so refusing to use it is only hurting them.

. I don’t know why they weren’t.

I don’t know for certain but I have guesses. They probably thought they could make more money from a more closed system. Some middle manager probably had a kpi that benefitted from incompatibility.

Do you use either of them on android? The syncing between android and desktop is nice in vanilla Firefox

The up-front cost of a console is probably cheaper, barring putting some labor in and getting lucky on sales. You’re right about that.

A PC has more utility, a larger library, and no subscription fee. That $80/year PsPlus subscription eats into the savings pretty fast. And when your playstation is end-of-life, it’s far less useful than an older PC.

I’m sure some PC-building nerds would be happy to help put together a cost effective machine for you, but sadly I’m not that kind of nerd. I splurged on a pre-built machine when I had a nice job.

Can they both fail? Consoles kind of suck. Closed platform owned by mega corps. Their main appeals of “easy” and “cheaper” haven’t been true for years.

Microsoft could have done like a … Steam machine for windows like 25 years ago. Optimized windows install on certified hardware, games that also play on desktop windows. They could’ve made steam. Except they couldn’t because they’re a souless corporate husk full of parasitic ghouls.

Fuck em. Fuck them all.

Firefox has been fine. I’ve thought about switching to one of the cooler forks but I haven’t gotten off my ass yet.

If I could get hired someplace else, I would go.

Sadly, everywhere either isn’t hiring or is frothing at the mouth over AI.

Software job.

Good: this place is so dysfunctional I can fuck off most of the day.

Bad: the place is extremely dysfunctional. Pays crap. No benefits.

Not going to buy a PlayStation.

I imagine in a few years they’ll come crawling back, and learn nothing from the whole experience.

Well, yeah, AI is mostly garbage. Fuck it. Fuck the people pushing it.

Glad I upgraded mine before all this shit started. Barring disaster it should play games for years. I don’t need all the bells and whistles.