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StarryPhoenix97

@ StarryPhoenix97 @lemmy.world

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  • 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market

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  • The entire tech industry has signaled its intention to abandon the consumer market for wider profit margins in AI industries, and it's really not possible to feel good about that as an informed consumer.

    Nothing about this is positive. We can hope for a correction in policy, but really, it's unlikely that we will ever see lower prices again. The future envisioned by the shareholders in these companies is the death of personal computing. Even if various AI markets fail, the vision remains: a future internet that is sterilized, information that is controlled, and personal computers that are glorified cable boxes.

  • Data center "mistakenly" used 30 million gallons of water

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  • AI chatbots could be making you stupider

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  • That's on my to-do list. I'm currently reworking my entire build because I realized I had enough last generation parts to build a media server. Once I have windows set up to only run on VM and get my stuff moved and backed up I'm going to install an LLM

  • AI chatbots could be making you stupider

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  • I wish that I didn't have to use them, but for basic Linux troubleshooting, it's easier to ask the chatbot and have it explain itself and cross-reference than to use a search engine or forum. The internet has become so shitty for self-teaching. You either end up on YouTube watching videos that aren't relevant, your search engine pumps you to garbage on top of ads, or you find a forum from 5 years ago with someone asking the same question, but it was closed because it's the same question that was asked 20 other times, and all the solutions don't actually work.

    I know that I am robbing myself of this collection of secondary skills, and that part of it is a lack of patience, but the pool of knowledge that is the internet has been poisoned. The only way I even get to useful guides anymore is if Claude links me to them. It's becoming impossible to use the internet otherwise. Even spell checkers have gotten shittier.

    Even in Word, it will try to autocorrect or just tell you something is wrong without auto-correcting, as if I want to search for the word that it obviously marked in red. Even if it offers a correction, it will be one word, and it will be the wrong word. My phone too, constantly changing my words or somehow hitting the wrong letter when it didn't before.

    I just don't even know anymore. The mental energy to "do it myself" is exhausting. Then, of course, whatever I do or learn to do will be undone with the next update that gets pushed out and changes all my settings. My fucking phone settings have completely changed between when I got it and today. Every app has tied its permissions for functionality to its permission to send notifications, and those notifications are just ads. If I want to order DoorDash and know when it arrives, I have to agree to have DoorDash bug the shit out of me to order food when I don't want to.

    I'm just tired, and if using an AI helps me figure out how to replace my bootloader when I accidentally deleted it, then so be it. I can't fight every battle.

  • Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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  • I actually like the slower pace. There's no constant stream of content but I find that helps me to moderate my usage. It also helps me take a more active role because I don't just see what I'm subscribed to. I'll hop over to the top posts over the last 6 hours and find something that's really hot elsewhere, or I'll hop on to scaled and find something obscure. It's slower and cranky but it embodies a lot of the old elements of scrolling that I miss.

  • Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough

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  • Don't you worry about blank, let me worry about blank.

  • We're so back

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  • Not if you don't rub some dirt in it first it won't

  • Not complaining

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  • It's how you figure out your characters kinks!

  • Not complaining

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  • It do be like that sometimes. I played a Giff once for DnD...it got wierd.

    running pugmire was also a challenge. protip: crop the smutty bits out so you only see the face.

  • More Than Half of Gen Z Users Cancel and Renew Streaming Services for a Single Title, Won’t Purchase Full-Price Video Games, New Study Finds

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  • I was imagining they were eventually going to go bankrupt and consolidate, with their IP ending up in, like, the Disney or Warner vault. Cable has evolved too. I'm not selling here, just explaining. Your streaming service could get offered as part of a cable package or even part of your internet. SaaS is taking over so streaming might just become another part of some software package like a cable channel.

  • More Than Half of Gen Z Users Cancel and Renew Streaming Services for a Single Title, Won’t Purchase Full-Price Video Games, New Study Finds

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  • Hey now, be specific. Millennials hate the shadow economy that is debt exchange and the stock market. You know... the rich man’s economy.

  • More Than Half of Gen Z Users Cancel and Renew Streaming Services for a Single Title, Won’t Purchase Full-Price Video Games, New Study Finds

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  • You don't even have to pirate. gog and other platforms besides steam are almost giving them away. Sometimes platforms ARE giving them away. You don't have to pirate, you just have to be content with playing games that have been on the market for a bit.

  • More Than Half of Gen Z Users Cancel and Renew Streaming Services for a Single Title, Won’t Purchase Full-Price Video Games, New Study Finds

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  • how far things have fallen. I remember 15 years ago, I actually reached out to Netflix directly to tell them how great they were as a product. I was like 17 and stupid. I reached out to their help desk just to say "hey you guys are awesome!" how times change I guess. Yoho and all that.

  • More Than Half of Gen Z Users Cancel and Renew Streaming Services for a Single Title, Won’t Purchase Full-Price Video Games, New Study Finds

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  • seriously, signing back up just for a title won't make them change. It will just lead to them releasing weekly and adding more ads so you have to stay longer and get a worse experience. I don't have a single amazon product but I'm still caught up on The Boys. It's not that hard and you will save so much money.

    Streaming platforms broke the piracy truce first. You don't owe them anything.

  • What men want

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  • Something I've noticed in myself, maybe because of the lack of interest from women at a younger age, is that women will almost throw themselves at you sometimes. Like, yeah I get it, I'm down for that too, but I won't be able to make it move for you if I don't know you ma'am.

  • What men want

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  • Or maybe he just wasn't in the mood? Despite the tropes, men don't want sex ALL the time, and just like women don't want to be responsible for the feelings of men, we don't want to always be responsible for quelling the insecurities of women. This doesn't even have to be a gendered thing. No one wants to be the only source of validation for their partner. Often we hope they are on some level emotionally mature and self assured.

    OP was doing the person equivalent of a cat walking across your keyboard because you were typing instead of petting.

  • The truth

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  • Trump administration now classifies Antifa and left-wing networks among ‘major’ terror groups

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  • This is the way. Get armed. Not because you want to enact violence but because you want to protect yourself and eventually they will find some trumped up reason to take away gun or ammo rights. You don't by a sword to become a highway man. You do it because there are already highway men with swords. It's a form of power.

  • Trump administration now classifies Antifa and left-wing networks among ‘major’ terror groups

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