Excrubulent

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Yup, second this. GoPro is the Gucci brand, but you can get stuff that does 90 to 100% of what they do for considerably less. You'll need to do a bit of research in sports communities to find out which ones are good, they will have opinions. Also FPV quad hobbyists will know a lot about them, especially which ones are light and tough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Is Dan the loud one? I've never learned their names, but I'm waiting for him to scream something about them horning in on their territory.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I gotta find out what the Knowledge Fight folks have to say about this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Oh yeah, just don't read about what happens to our prime ministers when they attempt to defy the empire. Totes democracy we got over here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

To the ASIO agent assigned to tracking my every online move:

  1. I didn't see this comment.
  2. I don't understand it.
  3. I would never do such a thing.
  4. I'm sorry this is what your life has been reduced to. Your patriotism is misplaced and you would be happier if you worked against the creeping surveillance state rather than for it. You know better than any of us how horrible it is, and you have the skills we need.
[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Fun fact: in Australia we don't have a bill of rights of any kind, so the cops can just force you to reveal your passwords. The maximum penalty for refusing is 2 years imprisonment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yes, the companies have a reputation to protect, but it's also just a standard hype-cycle. If you pay attention to tech history these things always go in cycles like this.

Whether the tech is actually useful or not doesn't actually matter. What matters is whether you can convince investors to fork over the cash with a shiny presentation.

The tech industry has basically habituated to surviving on selling us bullshit through hype cycles. I think it's become dependent on them.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why do they have to "WANT" that? Ignoring the fact that they literally said they were happy it was changed back, why does that matter to the criticism? If it's true, it's true, and the fact that corporations are the ones in a position to habitually make terrible decisions about FOSS is a big problem. It's valid to point out that it would be good to find a better way.

If anything it sounds like you "WANT" to ignore it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The phrase "synthesised expert knowledge" is the problem here, because apparently you don't understand that this machine has no meaningful ability to synthesise anything. It has zero fidelity.

You're not exposing people to expert knowledge, you're exposing them to expert-sounding words that cannot be made accurate. Sometimes they're right by accident, but that is not the same thing as accuracy.

You confused what the LLM is doing for synthesis, which is something loads of people will do, and this will just lend more undue credibility to its bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

Almost like it does work on Firefox but for some reason they don't want you using it. Honestly it's so damn weird, why do that? Is there some incentive for them?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

My apologies, I see that I have made a mistake. There are in fact 3 w's in the sentence "Howard likes strawberries."

 

I can't explain it, something about the freedom of acquisition takes the pressure off and lets me just launch it and try it out.

Maybe it's easier to pay some money and hit "install", than it is to find a torrent, download it and go through the install process, so there's a selection bias there.

Maybe it's the fact I downloaded it exactly when I decided to and not when a sale happened or it was in a bundle.

But even then, when I decide I want something right now and I pay full-price, something about that just puts a psychological barrier in between me and enjoying the game. Like now I have to validate the purchase, and if I want a refund it has to happen within 2 weeks, and within 2 hours of play (for steam). It's just an unpleasant feeling.

Even worse is the subscription model. I absolutely hate the pressure of having to try all the games I put on my list before the end of the month so I don't have to renew to keep trying them, that just feels like wasted money. But then about a week into the month I'll lose my energy for trying new games and I'll let the sub lapse and never try a bunch of the games I wanted to. It's the worst way to pay for games, even if on paper it's the cheapest for trying a bunch of them legally.

Very occasionally a game will come along that I know I want and will happily pay for immediately, and usually that means I'll give it a decent try.

The best experience for me is pirating a game and loving it so much I then buy it, that guarantees I'm going to play it a lot. The latest game that happened to me with was A Dance of Fire and Ice. I bought it like 5 times, once each for me and my two kids, and twice on phone, and I was completely happy to. I even built a custom rhythm controller for it.

Funny story though - the pirated version of ADOFAI puts savegames in user folders, but the steam version puts them in the game folder, so it merges the progress between users. So for that reason, the pirated version is better. I can't explain the discrepancy.

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