MudMan

Alright, here’s a wildcard.

You want a laptop 2-in-1.

Yes, it’ll go above your tablet budget, but it’ll remove the need for a laptop for productivity, so you can cover your media needs and your productivity needs and keep your phone for phone things.

Those start pretty cheap these days. Framework has one starting at 600. Microsoft’s options start at 700. Sure, if you want OLED and HDR you’re looking at four digits, but that’s how much a high end phone would cost these days and you’ll get a very solid laptop out of the deal as well.

I disagree in that it’d be useful to find stuff in a limited set or automate some repetitive tasks. You can probably finagle some combination of a chatbot and a limited set of scripts into automating some common but complex tasks or at least helping you find out where the tools are or what they do.

That’s not how AI companions on spreadsheet software seem to work, though. They seem to have just plugged in the chatbot to the raw, unfiltered set of data and functionality, told the LLM to do its best to do what it’s told and called it a day. This goes for both MS and Google, for the record.

It’s pretty useless that way. I don’t know who convinced devs that the way to implement this was to go maximal and live with the failure rate instead of going narrow and keeping things under control, but it was a mistake.

Well, just so we’re clear, the competition included WordPerfect and Lotus Symphony.

Excel feels right in line with that.

It makes some sense. At the time computer stuff was office stuff. They named software suites the same way they named photocopiers and desk lamps. “Ah, yeah, here’s our LightMaster 2000 model. Really the best photons for your eyeball productivity. Please consider our Lightbulb Pro expansion as well”.

The 80s were wild, because you were out there playing some videogames and then suddenly stumbled upon a bunch of accessories and content clearly meant for a balding, extremely sexually frustrated man in their late 40s.

Don’t ask me if that was better or worse than living in a swamp of content intended exclusively for 12 year olds. I’m not ready for that question.

Americans elected a fascist, extremist president and corporations cozying up to power are moving towards fascism and extremism to cozy up to power.

I am experiencing the least amount of shock possible.

Now, if Americans owned the monumental fuckup, that would be a surprise.

Yeah, no, I get what they think they’re saying, it’s just pretty silly. Like telling malaria it’s riding on a massive sentient mound of flesh just trying to go about their day and expecting it to stop making people sick.

So, wait, is the idea that people should instead move to a gas giant and be inert matter instead? Surely looking at how tiny the available clump of resources we all share is would justify the struggle, not the other way around.

I guess motivational memes are just as weird on all belief systems.

The Nintendo DS was three years away. The iPhone was six years away (yes, Nintendo did it first and people often don’t remember that).

My recollection of following the absolutely ridiculous hype cycle is that they were talking about the mouse being your hand inside the game and pretty much nothing else, but it was remarkable prescient in terms of how that would work without the mouse on the way.

He did address it to the single largest individual investor. Unfortunately that also happens to be the one guy he’s supposed to be trying to get fired.

Guessing he’s not going to be game, and I doubt the multiple investment groups making billions out of this thing are much more concerned, especially since despite this information beign publicly available, none of them are even mentioned in the petition itself either.

The fact that people keep linking me to this guy’s video only reinforces my suspicion that getting traffic to this guy’s Roblox-focused Youtube channel is far more of a goal here.

It would, but I saw a link here like a day ago on a site I’m not familiar with, clicked through it once on a different computer than I’m on now, read it and moved on with my day, so finding it again may be as hard for either of us, I’m sorry to say.

The B&W games feel weirdly… mobile these days. They put a lot of work into that 3D hand interface and it turns out they just ended up stumbling upon a semi-competent touchscreen UX.

That punchline took a longer walk than the frog.

Steam has a 4X sale going on now and the latest Theme Hospital spiritual successor made two spinoffs.

They made a sequel to Evil Genius in 2021.

Whatever interests from the late 20th century you think only you had are almost certainly disappointingly mainstream now.

But hey, keep at it. I’m still holding out hope for EA pulling off a Dungeon Keeper sequel at some point even if it’s a PR stunt.

It seems like it can make some drives disappear from the system under heavy use and under some cases make SMART misbehave.

It’s pretty bad, but so far direct reports are apparently only coming from Japan, so it may be a regional thing. Definitely a wait and see scenario.

Having read a proper report on this earlier today, that headline is infuriating.

From the concept of a “gaming SSD” to the implication that the drives are being physically damaged… Maybe there’s a reason why written gaming media died, you guys.

I mean, he’s not the showrunner.

His direction great (Stiller is one of the brilliant directors you immediately forget is a brilliant director, kinda like Ben Affleck), but given that he’s still working on the show and isn’t the creator or the main writer that’s probably not what this is. Then again what they say and what’s actually going on may not be the same thing.

The first season ended on a cliffhanger.

Do you also enjoy videos of people cutting cake asymmetrically?

TLDR:

Which prompts Stiller, ever the pragmatist, to think, “Time is valuable.” That’s why he and “Severance” showrunner Dan Erickson and the writing team have been spending much of the year planning Season 3 so that Stiller can step away and direct this feature film that tells the true story of a downed airman in occupied France and how he got involved with the French Resistance. Stiller also wants to make a movie based on the Rachel Maddow podcast “Bag Man,” detailing the bribery scandal surrounding Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon’s vice president.

The unit bullshittery going on in this meme is frying my brain. I need a nap.

If I can stay awake long enough maybe I can work out how this works. My PC burns around 500Wh under load, so the time I just spent playing Abyssus was burning about 3 GPT searches a minute, by that estimation. It’s still much less than 30, and I can probably figure whatever I’m looking for in much less than that, but still.

I wonder if it’s supposed to be better or worse if I decide to burn all that at home by running a local LLM. I don’t think my GPU is more power efficient than their data centers, and it’d almost certainly run longer than 20 seconds, but I do have pretty green power sources in this area and it is air cooled.

I guess it depends on whether my office gets hot enough to make me turn on the AC.

No, it wasn’t.

Look, I know big numbers are hard and human brains don’t want to parse them, but come on.

You’re talking about an article on Dexerto, a medium that I’m sure has done great work between its founding and my just realizing they exist right now. There are a few other articles online, most in smaller sites or in aggregators.

You are talking about a massive social-media-meets-gaming-platform the size of Twitter on a good day, orders of magnitude bigger than the reach any of this crap got. This is nothing. It’s a PR stunt from a few youtubers, which I hate that I have now focused on enough to understand.

I agree that it’s designed to drum up attention. Just not that this attention is meant to be effective at anything at all beyond, one suspects, driving viewership, because it sure as hell isn’t targeting anything that may cause any action.

Maybe this is why people don’t pay attention to Roblox despite being as large as Steam. The dissonance is just too large. It sucks, because despite the remarkable trivialization of the issue there should be way more eyeballs on this. Real eyeballs. Eyeballs attached to hands holding pens that can sign proper regulations, or at least scare some knee-jerky intermediaries.

Somehow a thousand assholes with customer support addresses managed to ban half of the smut on Steam, but these people figured out they’d gather a hundred times as many signatures and point them at the one person in the entire planet guaranteed to ignore them.

I am tired. I don’t want to think about this anymore.

45 hours of real work over what period of time?

I mean, a normal work week is 40, and that’s ass-in-chair. You’re expected to be taking hourly breaks and so forth.

Anyway, my answer to that is I get more bored otherwise, so I can’t be of much help.