Buy made in China and you pay twice. Most people may have forgotten it but I remember the dragged out supply shortages due to their idiotic and inhumane pandemic policies while denying the pandemic started there and claiming they have everything under control (they didn’t). They’ve proven to be unrealiable which has prompted a world wide process of diversifying supply chains. Trump is an angry lunatic but that doesn’t mean we have to settle with the next worse thing just because it’s quick and easy. There is a whole world out there.

DeepL works pretty good without word salad and it‘s getting better every day. I also don‘t think the Chinese market cares all that much about it.

LLMs will surely remove entry level coders… and some years from now there will be too little senior devs to debug it all. Some see a quick way around a problem, I see a problem in the making.

As for the last part: „Useless“ is what you said, not me. It surely isn‘t as useful as it‘s sold and that writing piece is a prime example for that. The point stands that it‘s sinfully expensive to develop despite what they claim so they need to sell it no matter what it takes. It‘s mainly their incentive and dishonesty I am criticizing.

Practical applications for LLMs such as? There are a lot of claims there but not much substance.

Sorry, but we’ve leaped through this cycle of the next ChatGPT revolution, followed by the next GPT killer, followed by the whole technology being overhyped anyway too many times. It‘s weird to see OpenAI being portrayed as this big villain but it‘s a triumph when others do it.

Truth is they spent much more than they claimed on this and want a return on investment by aggressively pushing it into applications that don‘t need it. It‘s the same old tale every time.

Wait until you hear about a little game called Fallout…

More than ten devices per person will be connected to the Internet simultaneously? Why do I think this is a future we should be fighting against? Cool battery still.

They‘re on a sponsorship spree as of late so I think that‘s exactly what it is.

Big tech‘s response: „Have you tried using wood glue to add texture?“

Except Nero was popular with the little people. He‘s more of a Caligula. Especially after his latest transformation.

I see. The next batch of tariff hallucinations is going to be extra spicy…

There are touchable graphics at the expo in Osaka. I think they‘re created by sonic waves and feel „fluffy“.

At this rate we‘ll have fully automated companies going full slob by the end of the decade. Their customers? Probably also AI bots. If any.

And just like that stocks are rising again. Trump and his closer circle commited the biggest case of insider trade in history right now and his top trade official wasn’t part of it apparently.

If you are not their target audience then you can‘t really boycott them in the first place. And in my opinion there is no harm in playing a game with loot boxes when you don‘t buy them. They aren’t really getting anything out of non-spenders. That’s not how their servers keep running. And most f2p games that I encounter nowadays do season passes without the random factor anyway, so I feel the loot box discussion is becoming a little outdated for the main stream. Thank goodness.

I‘ve also noticed multiple times that this community has a gripe with multiplayer games for some reason. It‘s better to take anything from online strangers with a grain of salt.

It’s to Eliminate political opponents and the press in the open. It’s how Putin does it and how Nazi Germany started out before moving on to other groups to eliminate. These are the Fascist States of America.

There‘s also the aspect of dark patterns that make up a huge bulk of Enshittification. They‘re making their software worse and let you jump through hoops simply to get you to spend more time and money on it. A lot of those hoops very much feel and probably sometimes are just bugs or inefficiencies.

That‘s not even true, though. People will not like this, but most major console games used to be much more expensive 30 years ago, actually. They only became more affordable when the masses got into gaming and really dropped in price when they became fully digital. No idea where everyone got that morphed perspective from, maybe because most people borrowed games back then or bought them on flea markets. And I‘m really not trying to defend Nintendo here because what applied back then isn‘t the case anymore but people really have no idea just how expensive new N64 games used to be.

Whatever the case, I‘m happy to be a PC gamer right now. Let me tell you that.

Interesting you felt the need to tell me that instead of lecturing the person comparing Nintendo‘s practices with supporting a genocide. Very unique priorities indeed.

That one is on America.

Yup. If 1% of all requests result in failures and even cause damages, you‘ll quickly lose 99% of your customers.

Asking to prove a negative? More like stupidfy CEO.