It might have something to do with the US bombing and bullying other countries for decades.

I mean, given how much money Epic has burned on this, I think the more equivalent comparison would be one nation declaring war on the other but exclusively spending its military budget on fireworks.

Yup. It’s a bit of a question of how paranoid are you/you feel you need to be but it may be worth keeping in mind that the baseband modem of any phone is proprietary and runs its own unaudited software the end user has no control over or insight into.

Honestly I am a millennial and I am not entirely sure I would know who she is if not for the Streisand effect.

I would be very surprised if it wasn’t, at best it’s stuff no one bothered with and somehow I expect that won’t get torrented much either.

Yeah it’s one of the classics. In reality, the rich liquidate stocks all the time, particularly large amounts might not always be able to be dumped on the market immediately in one go but well, then it’s simply done over a certain timespan, but generally speaking it takes quite a lot before the market “cares”.

Pretty sure yeah!

I am genuinely curious, this whole thing is most likely an effort to sell more TVs, but does that actually work? Is there a significant segment of customers which buys TVs based on whether or not it has a (link to a) chatbot in it? Or did some exec just decide “our products need to have AI now” with 0 research done.

I would really like to see data on this.

Unless Bethesda manages to speed up production massively, I am not even fully convinced Fallout 5 will see the light of day while Todd has anything to do with it still.

The controller was perfectly fine. The concept was slightly ridiculous and I don’t think I ever played a game that actually used the left side, but ergonomically it was fine.

For coke I imagine it’s the desire to remain continuously culturally relevant so it remains - the - fizzy sugar water in everyone’s minds. (How effective that actually is I have no idea and I suspect, neither do they).

McDs meanwhile has lost revenue (in part attributed to their price hikes amongst other factors ) and is probably hoping to drive up sales.

The funniest bit about that is, that you can clearly hear even the actors think it’s stupid, yet somehow those were still the best deliveries they got.

Yet another product for the “yeah this would be interesting if smartphones didn’t exist” pile (and funnily enough this one even requires one to even do anything)

I found a lot of people in this community seem to come here to essentially spit on others they want to look down upon, they can’t really do that here.

Nothing, most software has supported webp for 15 years, the last few stragglers have caught up two years ago or so, people on the internet are just very incapable of letting go of an opinion.

Up until very recently, the cult of rust was going - very - strong on lemmy. Things have somewhat normalized by now, but for a long time, any programming related topic was full off, often ill informed, takes why “rust should have been used for this” and similar things. The Rust community has generally been extremely toxic as well, not helping its reputation. Now that we are a few years in and various major Rust projects have had numerous embarrassing bugs reality has sunk in, but as these things go, the backlash will last longer on the internet than the hype ever has.

Can’t, whenever Stallman comes up I have to think back to the time where he while on stage, pulled something off his foot and ate it.

Yeah like, holy shit the pseudo religious bullshit here is getting annoying. I like Linux, I am supremely unlikely to ever even touch a windows system again (minus the occasional time where I might have to for work when accessing client systems) but this weird cult behavior is aggravating.

Oh, no, no, feudalism. With the present techbro billionaires as the new aristocracy. Money will be useless because the serfs can’t afford anything anyway and work will be optional yes, you always have the option to starve.

Yup, and modern webservers are - very - good at handling a ton of requests, if your backend is solid, it takes quite a lot of traffic before it’ll buckle.