I wanna make sure I got this right. They used $20,000 in fees in 2 weeks to make a compiler? Also, to what end? Like what’s the expected ROI on that?

Watched Cohh play it, it’s a pass for me. The gameplay loop isn’t my style. But it was fun watching someone go from ‘this game is so good!’ to just anger, lol. Some of the music is kind of catchy.

Listen I hate the unreal engine with a passion. But I also hate their engine with a passion. This amount of tech debt that thing has is incredible, and that’s not a good thing.

Unless they’ve started over from scratch but just kept the name I expected to be a piece of crap.

I disagree, clearly. Owning would be “yes, I messed up, I used AI to write my process and didn’t bother reviewing any of it, I took shortcuts”. That and just that. Using “I was feeling sick” is deflecting blame instead of owning it.

I don’t care he’s “sick”. Too often, someone, instead of taking accountability, just throws anything to maybe shield themselves from actually being fully accountable. “I was sick”, “Family problems”, “A recent death”, “The planets were misaligned that day”, etc.

I find it to still be cowardice, to not stand by and own what you said, even if it was wrong. He used AI and got caught. And going forward, I’ll be treating Ars Technica as an unreliable AI-generated “news source”.

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.

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.

Or the more likely, it’s a bunch of new students who’ve grown up watching everything in portrait mode and short bursts with Subway Runner or someone cutting soap for some reason on half the screen.

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.

Pff, be down wind after dinner and tell me no living creature was harmed 😁

But seriously, beans are great!

Ah, so that explains a few things. A place I went to get some food yesterday, had the front doors locked. Someone had to let me in. Every time I’ve ever been there, it’s usually busy Being vague just in case ICE were to read this.

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

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.

But us kids like 'em sloppy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5QwNBqHbyc

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