Electric heating.

I have theories on this but I don’t think it’ll be as straightforward as you’re describing.

I think they’ll try to exploit software pseudo monopolies (specifically Microsoft Windows and Steam) to forcibly tie hardware to identities and make most widely used sharing platforms (mainstream social media) preserve much more tracking information on each piece of data.

I think we’ll see similar agreements and serial number registrations for things like GPUs as we’re seeing on 5090 sales in the US. I also think using Linux or other anonymous OSs will be treated like Graphene is already being treated as a suspicious sign.

I do think longer term there will be enough public revulsion to prevent this from happening too quickly and for the most part I don’t think the free software genie will ever go back into the bottle just because of how reliant everything is on it, but this can of course change. I genuinely believe Internet identity verification for basic things is extremely unpopular even with non techies and I’d like to think it’ll get repealed as a legal requirement in some places

Gave me flashbacks to the optimism of the protests in Lebanon in 2019 before all the momentum died and the co-opting by old political factions. I hope we learn from your struggle. Good luck.

I’d love consumerish tape storage for cold backups. I don’t really need random IO for archival stuff.

I always wonder what it means that people find this worth sharing or doing in the first place.

Once again, every time I see a Lebanese name in western public life I die a little inside. We’re not all like this

Sims players despite being thought of as casuals (and most definitely are) have been the canary in the coal mine for so much bullshit from EA.

They even brought back the widely hated and transparently cynical micro transactions from Sims 3 into Sims 4, get this, over 10 years after the launch of the game. These games are so indicative of so many aspects of the industry and trends and how audiences deal with changes in a way that I think a lot of people don’t realize.

Sims 1 was oozing with personality and is a pretty straightforward satire of capitalism 4 KiDz!! while 4 is not only beyond sterile but has pretty much gotten worse over 12 years especially when they reworked it into a free game. Yes I’m complaining about the themes and writing of a simulation dollhouse game mainly played by children. Children deserve good writing too

Edit: they used to call their Monopoly money “SimPoints” and now it’s called “Moolah”. Yeah. Yeah.

My kids will be playing the same sacred edutainment games from 1992-2005 as I did on a virtual Windows XP machine and this is unironically a hard non-negotiable for any serious long term partner

Reddit molted in 2023 and some of us came here. This has been a place for a bit longer than that.

So you signed up because you thought this was all a forum around an LLM provider?

Oh this is resonating. that’s not good.

Chat is it chudcoded to feel an emotion about a cultural touchstone from antiquity

One of the most memorable documentaries I’ve ever seen was basically a guy’s zero-budget edited together home video footage of his centenarian grandmother spanning thirty years. I saw it in a pretentious artsy cinema in Beirut about a decade ago.

They exist! Limited appeal means anything with a production team will only get funded if the subject is known by audiences though.

Truly the first human to ever look like an AI food poster parody of himself

I wouldn’t put it past them to rename this at the last minute for a new stupid headline