I wouldn’t mind the idea of everything going digital. So long as we actually own the digital copies we buy. So long also as we are able to continually access said digital copies. We wouldn’t be having this physical vs digital debate going on for so long, if the practices of what companies like Sony and other media companies have been going about with handling digitally purchased content.
It’s a very stupid easy of a solution that has been continually fumbled time and time again. Because greed got in the way.
Connected glasses. I’m all for privacy-respecting HUD that connects to your phone, I think that’s cool. But recording others? Connecting it to Meta? Fuck that.
I had a similar thought. A nice HUD for navigation would be nice. But we live in the bad place, so it’s all privacy invading enshittifying trash.
At first I did not mind ads on webpages because it was off to the side or at the top, and that was it. But those motherfuckers had to have more, so they made pop ups, and we all got pop up blockers until it became built into every browser. Then they started animating and autoplaying audio in their ads, and that was too far. So I looked into adblocking just to block the obnoxious bullshit, but it turns out it just blocked everything, which had the added benefit of improved flow of webpages because you didn’t have space taken up for ads at the top, sides, and in between content. Never looked back and never will.
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AI in general, IMO it’s actually a very useful tool, Had it not been shoved into everything that makes no sense to… if we didn’t have an absurd amount of companies trying to make “frontier models” that require carpeting the country in data centers, If we put more focus on… self run AIs where people could train it on their own stuff, in their own environment, without leading into a dependency on outside cloud resources.
US is basically doing the cellular race all over again, except on something so much more stupidly environmentally destructive and expensive.
(IE when the cellular race went on, we had basically 8 or so companies building towers that only were compatible with their own networks… rather than just making the towers public infrastructure and allowing providers to compete with 1 array of towers, instead of everyone making their own).
(IE when the cellular race went on, we had basically 8 or so companies building towers that only were compatible with their own networks… rather than just making the towers public infrastructure and allowing providers to compete with 1 array of towers, instead of everyone making their own).
Well we now have like dozens of mobile phone companies who are subsidiaries of parent companies who have companies that somehow own even parent companies. It’s a mess but that whole ordeal still goes on and it’s such a bigger mess than before. I would’ve preferred it if we were down to 8 or less companies, provided they’re not monopolistic.
Building on that, just having the LLMs stick to data crunching or software troubleshooting or medical scanning woulda been enough, but since techbros insisted it’s gotta make art or do other tasks that people actually like doing, anything with a script that covers a lot of data has been ruined forever
Automobiles, if they had been allowed by oil barons to be manufactured as EVs the first time around as originally intended.
Quieter, cleaner, cheaper, our first national fuel grids would have been focused on far simpler to innovate and improve electric infrastructures instead of over a century of delay in energy technology innovation by its dependence on ancient and technologically stagnant oil reservoirs.
I wouldn’t mind the idea of everything going digital. So long as we actually own the digital copies we buy.
Exactly why Valve/Steam is dominating. You don’t technically own it, you’re still depending on the good graces of Valve to serve you your game files in the future, but the confidence level is insanely high and they are privately traded so they don’t need to make line go up every quarter by cannibalizing their user base.
Yes but even I am questioning Valve themselves. We have an uncertain future of unanswered concerns as to what will actually happen once Gaben passes. We know for a fact that several potential companies are salivating at the idea of attempting to or outright acquiring Valve themselves.
Not all good things last. We’ve placed faith in many things that we thought was for our good and for the people. Only to watch them in time, devolve into the very things we are disappointed in what they’ve turned into.
That very value of owning digital games, under a new Valve leadership, could very well change, if things aren’t handled correctly.
Absolutely. You can’t trust anyone. Maybe some day we can get legislation passed, but that would require a total reversal of power.
Is there way to download all your install files, at any rate? If there is, I imagine Steam’s servers are gonna crash the day after Gabe dies as everyone scrambles to secure their library.
Pirating. It’s all I can say.
Monarchists.
I’d like to see all of those executed.
