it’s a way for bullies to find an excuse for bullying by pretending they’re “protecting women”

I had the temerity to finish my study abroad and return to my country shortly after I bought it, and it got a ‘blocked in your region’ even though it was a single-player game. Turns out there’s some Steam games that you only own for as long you stay in the country you bought them.

I understand that licensing issues exist that are country-based, the part I still can’t forgive is that the asshole in customer support lectured me like I was maliciously breaking their rules on multiple counts, first by being in the Wrong Country, and secondly by filing a support ticket to ask them to either fix it or give me my money back; he then hinted that I might be banned (subtext: lose several thousand dollars’ worth of my other games) if I pursued it any further.

So yeah, it does irk me when people get all fangirly about what noble defenders of the consumer Steam is.

• Doesn’t solve a problem

• Recording everything around you is fucking creepy

I mean at some stage you have to start wondering about the sort of person with a less-than-one-week-old account that’s up in here defending them so vociferously. I notice you’re also in other AI threads on Lemmy being equally shilly.

I read your list and stand by my statement. Half the things on that list are novelties that you’d get quickly bored of, and the other half have solutions that don’t require pervert glasses. I see zero problems being solved anywhere in the list you just made.

also I suspect the shill bots have started to find their way over here too.

The actual usefulness and potential of smart glasses, especially ones with cameras, is almost unfathomable.

I thought the first paragraph was leading to a decent point, but “unfathomable usefulness” is an almost rabid level of overstatement. There’s some fathomable applications as an aid for blind people, but every other use case that’s ever come up has ranged from “novelty” to “really fucking creepy” with the occasional “looks like a useful thing but didn’t really solve an actual problem we had with the previous way of doing it”.

I have firsthand experience of a game I’d paid for on Steam being taken from me with no refund, so I’m def gonna push back on any “relax, guy” posts on this.

(EDIT: shoutout to the downvoter demonstrating OP’s point about rabid fanbois perfectly)

My niece refers to herself as “you” because she doesn’t understand that when people refer to her as “you”, that isn’t her name.

She’s 27 years old…

yeah sorry I keep forgetting not everyone lives in Europe

virtually unlimited sick days as long as you don’t call out too often (>3x month)

“virtually unlimited” = 36 days a year

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Surprised nobody’s mentioned the actual difference yet, i.e. moths are more likely to fuck your wardrobe up

They’re not using LLMs to analyse MRI scans. There are image processing algorithms for that, but they’re a whole other thing to what this entire thread is about.

Also, are you a fucking bot? I’ve read all your comments so far in this thread and uhh yeah. Please feel free to jog on now.

You’re missing the point of why AI output is so obnoxious.

It’s like an updated version of the bullshit asymmetry principle: it takes considerably more time and energy to parse AI-produced works (art, text, music etc) than it does for traditional low-quality low-effort shit, because it’s produced in large quantities and has a superficial look of being professionally produced.

AI hasn’t made shit artists better, but it has enabled them to suck all the oxygen out of the room and make the process of seeking and enjoying good art intractable and infuriating. It also hasn’t made good artists better either, because good artists are already better than AI.

Is the yellow tint in the strip him deliberately trying to make some sort of point, or is it always like that?

Leveraged buyouts should be illegal

They’re also somewhat lacking in enough self-awareness to realize when they’re really not presenting a good case for themselves.

(edit oh wait nm I just spotted it’s a 2-week-old account being obnoxious, easy one for the block list)

It’s a terrible thing that’s happened, but fuck gadgetreview for that shitty misleading clickbait headline.

Editor knew they wouldn’t get the same impact with “teacher posted in a group chat that they were going to shoot a student”, so “group” becomes “private” and the detail about the threat gets moved way down into the article body. This is a journal who clearly wants to tell you what to think.

found the person who commented without reading the article

I think you can be legitimately a Leftist but also not insane. There’s a lot of posters over in that part of Lemmy who talk like they’d be overjoyed at the idea of rounding up everyone who’d ever expressed a view to the right of Trotsky, on Day Zero, and sending them to the gulags for being an Enemy of the Revolution.