One half-finished racing game that boasted having the largest open world at the time on consoles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_(video_game)

And it looked impressive in some biomes with natural disasters, but other than that it’s miles and miles of (comfy?) desolation and boredom. If not for scattered remains of gameplay, it could’ve been it’s own art thing.

IoT is Internet of Things, devices where you usually don’t know there is even Windows to begin with, due to some McDonalds Menu Picker overlay or whatever. There is no market for Microsoft acc or OneDrive as they are by themselves are rarely meddled with and are installed en masse. They would get security updates for 10 another years. But besides some differences, only corpos and no end user have a reasonable access to said release, so if you may be checked for legitimity of your software e.g. you try to use it in your business and get caught, it’s obvious you haven’t bought keys for it. So it’s for personal use only.

In the age of social media, content has a strong boost of community participation. Those who pirated [x] talked about it and therefore added to the hype, gave incencitive for other to try it or buy it. After a month or so it’s hard to hook anyone other than with big sales or updates.

If and when W10 become unusable, I’ll switch to 100% Linux without any doubt, it’s my last Windows.

Depending on your usage, it may mean years, especially as it’s IoT that iirc has longer update cycle.

Microsoft didn’t lock anything meaningful behind w11 upgrade, like they did with DirectX versions, RAM limits etc. So as long as your software doesn’t drop Win10 support (like Steam dropped Win7 just a couple of years ago), you’d be fine.

It would be pretty interesting to see where Linux would be by that time tho.

I’d argue, that it sometimes adds complexity to an already fragile system. Like when we implement touchscreens instead of buttons in cars. It’s akin to how Tesla, unlike Waymo, dropped LIDAR to depend on regular videoinputs alone. Direct control over systems without unreliable interfaces, semantic translation layer, computer vision dependancy etc serves the same tasks without additional risks and computational overheads.

LLM is what usually sold as AI nowadays. Convential ML is boring and too normal, not as exciting as a thing that processes your words and gives some responses, almost as if it’s sentient. Nvidia couldn’t come to it’s current capitalization if we defaulted to useful models that can speed up technical process after some fine tuning by data scientists, like shaving off another 0.1% on Kaggle or IRL in a classification task. It usually causes big but still incremental changes. What is sold as AI and in what quality it fits into your original comment as a lifesaver is nothing short of reinvention of one’s workplace or completely replacing the worker. That’s hardly hapening anytime soon.

If we actually want to maintain our standard of living and reduce the population size, we may very well need AI automation utilities. They can keep scaling down in size and power consumption in the way that a real human can’t.

Theoreticisizing LLM’s usefulness and resourcefulness doesn’t help you there. For now they are rather useless embaracingly inefficient resoucehogs existing purely because of the bubble. It’s a gamble at best, or a waste of resources and a degradation of human workforce at worst.

That test sounds like a model trainroad but for billionaires.

I’d have liked to make an installation of a dozen of them, an altar, like you can see in some games/movies. All of them on top of each other with different angles, but showing you something in sync, before every one of them shows a glitching digital eye looking at you.

Main pc +1 screen + 1GF with 1 Steamdeck with 1 screen

Did girlfriend come with a SD, or SD came with a girlfriend? Can I find them as a bundle?

I’d counter, but realistically just add to your sentiment by vouching for having non-online alternatives for most of our needs. Banking and government’s services in my country are on the edge of going full web/sim-driven, and I don’t like it that way. If I happen to get the delivery from my post office, they default to sms confirmation, and I’m not sure if I can get my parcel just by showing my ID card.

Internet access should be a human right, just as avoiding it should.

Chris Titus

Having his name on one of the most popular windows debloater was just as based.

Tripping = 1 ÷ Power

LUKE!

At some point one can reduce consumption to ‘Previously on the show…’ and ‘Watch next…’ bits before and after an episode.

It’s Bibi flexing muscles in the most inappropriate way once again. Almost like a brand account posting a deeply unfunny meme joke but said account is for an international spy/terrorist network.

But young person being afraid of getting mossad’ed for his internet posting for a long period of time and not getting any (medical) attention is the centerpiece of that story, not the eventual snap, and not even a backlash we see in the media now. There are a lot of these neglected and driven insane dudes that fash chaotically nurtured with no understanding of how to manage them, or even care, more likely hoping they’d ride the wave. Well, Shapiro canceled his appearance right after the event, and the whole martyr thing is probably also because they want to retarget such shooters from now on, exaggerating how it’s wrong to harm exactly them, not the other side, assuming there is still more to come and being afraid of how indiscriminate these attacks would be. Seizing the opportunity is one thing, but I do find they geniunely weren’t prepared for what they wished into existence.

The most brazen example is Squad 22: ZOV, released on Steam in May 2025 and openly endorsed by Russia’s Defense Ministry.

Now as I checked it’s page, I’m pretty sure to assume it’s more of a grift, or only a grift, and probably only internal, but wtf it’s on Steam? I thought Valve has at least some policies. And while they slack on any moderation, they only have so much products and did some formal review before accepting it on their platform and saw no problem? I’m out of words.

And existing measures are not on Steam, but payment processors. Valve got free rep doing nothing.

On the other hand I imagine profits and playerbase are not why they are still there, but their previous decision to wire up the whole region via russian servers and general refusal to moderate anything at all keeping the company as small as possible.

Some of my favs I consider indie went well over that 60GB mark. If you agree on swedes from FatShark being indie, I can explain their funny fuckery, probably in a separate post.

They ate dead birds.