You need a quite old OS firmware version as well, so it’s definitely not in the widely supported phase yet.

Sure, but that’s why they should be required to maintain it by law, or to provide some other mechanism for long term access.

If steam disappeared you are no better off than if xbox did.

Steam DRM can be trivially removed. 3rd party DRM is a problem, but thankfully not all games use it and many games have had their DRM removed as well (either by the publisher or through crackers).

People were just too dumb to understand what was so good about it.

I wouldn’t have trusted Microsoft to follow through on this in the long term. I have little doubt they would have removed that concession as soon as they thought they could get away with it.

It’s less of a big deal on PCs because there is no store monopoly, near infinite backward compatibility, and piracy (which was historically viable on consoles but has become less so over time).

They’re also shutting down PS3 and PSVita store access, to add insult to injury.

I suspect it’s the same people that blindly copied stackoverflow code without understanding it. Which is likely where the LLMs are getting most of its answers from in the first place.

It’s been years since I played it, but Ephemeral Fantasia was this kind of fever dream of a RPG on the PS2 that I remember enjoying that had a time loop thing like Majora’s Mask. I think I was actually sick when I played it so that added to the fever dream vibe.

It’s not even just the leaders, but also the voters. They keep getting harmed, over and over and over, while continuing to go back for more. I can only conclude they have a weird masochistic streak and get off on being hurt.

It’s the UK sky news, not the far-right Australian one.

/c/beholdthemasterrace

What a country!

Right, but then we are back to the question of how these companies are supposed to make money. I suppose hardware manufacturers will be okay with this outcome but I’m not sure how these heavily inflated software companies will profit under a local first world. So we are back to the bubble deflating or bursting.

People will pay $10 a month for chat GPT to write their emails.

They won’t even pay that in many cases but instead rely on the free offerings. Expect those to go away altogether, to be heavily hamstring, or to become absolutely riddled with advertisements.

It’s more likely to go up in price for the foreseeable future.

There’s little to no reason to use esync anymore. Use a recent kernel and a recent version of Proton or Wine and you can instead use NTsync which is faster and more reliable.

Shenmue II did this. Not a cyberpunk game of course, but it felt big for the time despite a small area and not that many NPCs.

It’s just simple logic. Renewables and batteries are cheaper and quicker to build than coal and gas and easier to locate near the demand.

But agreed that the near term situation is concerning with coal and gas still being used and built which is idiotic. And the politics around renewable energy in the US aren’t helping things, though I expect economics will win out in the end in the medium to long term.

Yeah, I always get a laugh out of the tantrums people throw over plastic straws and bags which is such a trivial thing to care about. It’s not even about climate change either, but a different and also serious environmental problem.

On the data center point, it is expected to actually drive renewable investment. Ideally those building data centers should bear the full cost of it and should be prevented from turning to gas as a solution. And that’s my main concern from this, besides all of the other issues with AI.

I’m starting to think that those of us who understand this will probably fair better by forfeiting the semantics battle and making the distinction between LLM-AI and ML.

I’m now picturing a future where the word AI truly becomes universally hated, and LLM lovers start calling it ML again:

No, no it’s not AI it’s machine learning

Or we all just call it applied statistics, that ought to take the magic out of it, since normal people consider statistics to be boring and mundane and certainly not intelligent.