Leaving when others are getting fucked is making a stand and having principles. Yay applause.

Going lalalalala and staying on right until you get fucked is just whatever. Don’t brag please.

I mean yeah? As a PC gamer what are you supposed to use? Fucking… Windows?

I know some people still manage to tolerate paying Microsoft for an operating system that serves popup ads, popunder ads, inline ads, bundles spyware, bundles adware, bundles malware, and literally spies on you. They either manage to filter all that out or tolerate having to spend time turning it off or mitigating it every two weeks/months when an update introduces more of it.

They angrily cope. They say things like “what is so hard about just clicking Close / Ignore on a few buttons!?” when this is pointed out. But they grow fewer and fewer.

Macs are mostly valid but expensive. If work doesn’t pay for one, or you have another big hobby that makes Mac a necessity, buying one for gaming is a bit silly.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/ is an excellent resource when xkcd feels confusing

Clammy Sammy

It’s unlikely to be anything close to what the headline fuels to the imagination, but it’s good to read about some nice actual scary stuff instead of the calculator that Sam Altman put googly eyes and a miniskirt on and keeps claiming will kill us all.

Previously from the same decision makers:

The Metaverse

Hiring the guy who fucked Apple’s UI design to shit

It’s buried deep in the article, but they seem to recommend:

the LEAP method. Developed by Xavier Amador, it stands for Listen Empathize Agree Partner, and is meant to help better communicate with people who don’t realize they’re mentally ill or are refusing treatment.

They link to https://namiga.org/resources/about-mental-illness/leap-assist-someone-accept-help/ which unhelpfully tells me my IP is blocked by CloudFlare because accessing that link is considered an “attack”

As a long time Firefox user, I believe Firefox sees orders of magnitude more RAM issues than other apps because it is using orders of magnitude more RAM than other apps.

They are pushing the “scarily unsafe” angle not because it is, but because that implies it is powerful.

As with everything else with Claw that sounds mildly interesting: A shithead human wrote that, or prompted it and posted it pretending to be his AI tool.

“Your kid is safe at school, because we insist all teachers use condoms”

Meanwhile, at HQ: “The userbase hallucinated that they don’t want AI. Maybe we prompted them wrong?”

Every single line of code is a maintenance cost, a liability, a velocity cost, and a stability risk.

The software industry knows this. Even Bill Gates famously proclaimed it.

Yet we now allow “it generated so much code!!!” to be told as success stories. Fuck you Sam Altman, Microsoft, and Anthropic for damaging both my industry and its reputation.

We are?

Just post your prompt, bro

This space filling word soup is just wasting people’s time

Nah. Gonna stick to gaming on my GNU GUIX through Proton thanks.

Linux is clearly not only good enough, but simpler too.

It’s just a ton of perception, habits and sales pipelines that need moving now. If electronics stores started putting out Linux Gaming PCs, nobody buying them would be worse off than Windows. That has been true for well over a year.

I keep seeing the “it’s good for prototyping” argument they post here, in real life.

For non-coders it holds up if you ignore the security risk of someone running literally random code they have no idea what does.

But seeing it from developers, it smells of bullshit. The thing they show are always a week of vibing gave them some stuff I could hack up in a weekend. And they could too if they invested a few days of learning e.g. html5, basic css and read the http fetch doc. And the learning cost is a one-time cost - later prototypes they can just bang out. And then they also also have the understanding needed to turn it into a proper product if the prototype pans out.

Hey I am not in need of convincing haha. Am Linux gamer and genuinely find it easier than Windows already.

Instead of waiting a few more years for Linux to reach the level of ease-of-use needed to overtake Windows, MS is being sporty by moving the goal closer.

I can totally believe that nobody else felt like bribing paying out of their nose to have a Guinness employee fly over and look at a small computer and go “yep its small”.