On the upside, some state governments are doing some cool shit like making public transport free.
To be clear, I don’t disagree with you. It’s nowhere near enough, and any progress will absolutely be rolled back as soon as possible. But IDK free PT for a while is kinda good I guess?
…So you’re saying I should post more?
Not that I’m that buff these days.
“Around the world”? You know most of the world doesn’t use USD, right?
I’m still in hospitality, so working on the weekend. Keep getting shortlisted for jobs in my actual field but edged out by people with more experience.
This whole website reeks of genAI content mill.
What? I thought this was a maritime comm.
Actually a lot of Curve’s catalog probably fits the bill one way or another, but this is the first one that comes to mind.
Even taking the alleged benefits at face value, and assuming anyone wants it, this still doesn’t make sense. They already promised all their GPUs to AI datacentres. Exactly where are people supposed to get hold of the 5090s required to make this work?
Been using it for quite a while now, landed on it after distro hopping between openSUSE, Arch* and some other stuff. Linux in general has improved by leaps and bounds since the last time I tried it, but Bazzite is by far the most “just works” distro I’ve tried. It’s Fedora Kinoite based, so there’s a lot of support out there, but bear in mind that it’s atomic and immutable, which functionally means that making changes to system files and installing random .RPMs from say, GitHub won’t work the way you might think (but you probably shouldn’t be doing that anyway). You need to do things the Bazzite/Kinoite way as opposed to the Fedora way. Similar, but not the same. This means Flatpak, AppImage, containerised everything. Podman instead of Docker (functions more or less the same though). But you only really run into those issues if you’re trying to do weird shit like me.
As a daily it’s pretty damn slick. I run AMD GPUs wherever I can (my main rig is an RX6650XT) and haven’t run into a graphics driver issue at all.
*btw
I’m old enough to remember RDRAM that -required- a blank stick in single-stick systems to terminate the signal.
It’ll end up more like console piracy, where you need a specialised build or custom firmware to do it.
I notice you don’t bother to address any of my other points, and boldly declare the time for talking to be over. I suspect that’s because you can’t.
As long as you don’t have to use it, its fine to charge money.
Look at the state of gatcha games. Yeah, sure, you technically -can- access all the content without paying, but in practice it’s not going to happen in a human lifetime. It isn’t that much of a stretch to picture games that are “technically” humanly possible, but so difficult that most people will resort to the AI. Remember the oldschool quarter-eaters in arcades? Same business model but with more steps. I also wouldn’t put it past MS to offer “incentives” in the game store for titles with AI integration. Also see the comment upthread about enshittification.
And if you really don’t understand the difference between a paid subscription service and a family member, I feel sorry for you.
Yeah this is where it’s going. Putting that AI exec in charge of Xbox really paying off for MicroSlop.
Cheats (and big brothers, to an extent, I guess) are free.
So they’ll sell you the games, then rent you an AI model to play the games for you.
I can just not play games on my own, for free.
The one I have is NFC. As far as I know the pet ones are slightly different electronics and/or protocols. I.e. I can read mine with my phone, but not my cat’s.
I have one similar to this, did it voluntarily during my cyberpunk phase in the 2010’s (I was also taking a lot of speed). It’s not nearly as useful as I thought it’d be, but I’m happy to answer any questions about it.
This joke is probably older than the person in the video.
The only objection to tofu I will entertain is not liking the texture. Because I can honestly see how it could ick some people out. Sure there’s options, even different brands have differences, but I absolutely understand that visceral “ew” feeling about certain textures.