Don’t forget the xbox one s and xbox one x, which were after the xbox one (the third xbox, not the first xbox), but before the xbox series s and xbox series x.

Heretic!

Same with phones. Buy a second-hand flagship from a couple of years ago (eg pixel 8), and use a pre-paid plan.

It’s not just a few hundred dollars saved on the phone, it’s also a few hundred per year on less overpriced contracts.

Prepaid plans have to be more competitively priced because you can switch at will.

No no no you see, they’re using rust, which is a ‘safe’ language. That means it’s not possible to have security issues…

In theory.
But there’s no doubt all their tests will also be shat out from an LLM.

No thanks. Any software that has AI integration as one of its main selling points is shitware imo.

Who are you talking to?

I don’t think I know anyone who has been excited for a single microsoft product in the last ~15 years. It’s never “wow, that’s cool”, it’s “I wonder how they fucked it up this time”.

Huh, it’s almost like each issue has nuance.

Some companies are wealthier than most countries.

Well yeah, if you turn down a woman, she’s going to tell her friends about it.
And those friends probably won’t be interested in starting a relationship with you any time soon.

Those secret whisper campaigns sound straight out of a teenage movie, and not at all how mature people behave. I’d say you dodged a bullet in that case.

Your anecdotal experience is not representative of everyone else’s though, and neither is mine.

I don’t appreciate you resorting to personal attacks to convey your beliefs, so this will be my last reply.

Men reject women all the time, with no societal repercussions.

You have the right to not give someone a second chance, nobody is taking that away from you. I’m just saying the world isn’t always as shallow as your comments portray it to be.

Rejecting someone doesn’t mean you have decided you can do better, or that you aren’t attracted to them. It means at that exact moment in time you weren’t prepared to enter that relationship.

If you get mocked for rejecting a woman, you’re either still in school, or need to get some better friends. Because no sane, rational people would ever think less of you for who you do/don’t date.

It’s understandable why you would feel that way.

People change all the time though.
Perhaps after some of those relationships, they found personality/stability to be more important than looks.

Or maybe they’ve spent years regretting the decision, and the short relationships along the way failed because nobody could compare to you.

Or maybe they genuinely are as shallow as you think, and you’re the last resort in the dating pool.

You can never really know for sure.

No no no, you have it all wrong. Microsoft said it wasn’t their fault!
Please ignore the fact that you can fix the issue by rolling back the windows update that causes it.

Oh no, not “the” government of “the” nation

Nah, I still enjoy the content, and it wouldn’t make a grain of difference as far as global wasted energy goes.

If you really are concerned about wasted energy though, you shouldn’t be on your computer/phone browsing lemmy.

Or if you use adblock and stream at 4k, google will lose money when you watch videos. Free content while fucking google over is a win win in my book.

Practically impossible for this developer? Maybe. Technically impossible? No.

We do have realtime GI solutions which don’t require raytracing (voxel cone tracing, sdfgi, screenspace, etc). None of which require any ‘special’ hardware.

Raytracing is just simpler and doesn’t need as much manual work to handle cases where traditional rasterisation might fail (eg; light leaking). But there’s not many things it can do which we can’t already achieve with rasterisation tricks.
Raytracing is mostly useful for developers who don’t have the time/budget/skillset to get the same visual quality with traditional rasterisation.

However, in an industry which seems to prioritise getting things released as cheaply and quickly as possible, we’re starting to see developers rely heavily on raytracing, and not allocating many resources into making their non-rt pipeline look nice.
Some are even starting to release games which require raytracing to work at all, because they completely cut the non-rt pipeline out of their budget.

So I’d argue that you’re incorrect in theory, but very correct in practise (and getting even more correct with time).

Cool, so I’ll get started on building an automated business that sells cheap access to all the music, movies and shows on the streaming services.

Getting consent for each title would basically kill my business and would be implausible, so I’ll just assume it’s ok.

Totally understandable.
Sounds like you have plenty of more important things to focus on right now.

It probably sounds like I’m really trying to sell you on games now, but did you know there’s games and mods built specifically for blind people?
I’m not saying you or your wife should play them, I just thought it was an interesting coincidence, as I’ve actually developed a couple of audio games before.

Anyway, I’ll leave you to go focus on what matters, not my rambling or videogames.