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  • I bought a Alienware Alpha for around 500 bucks, it was a great investment and lasted me a decent amount of time.

    Kind of sad that idea and the idea of a steambox died because it made it possible to have a great experience on a budge. STill my 1000 dollar computer is holding up after 8 years or so, I feel like people overvalue FPS performance to the point they over spend on PC hardware.

  • That feels out of place. We already have those, any computer laptop phone and many tvs already do that. I don't see a reason for them to make their own device... After all Chromecasts and Fire sticks exist. But you might be right.

  • I agree, I just was making a joke. It's a conspiracy until you realize it's a fact. MK-ULTRA, Government spying on you (which time? ) , Big tobacco hiding that cigerettes cause cancer, Stacks of ET games are buried in New Mexico, even dark stories like the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments were all conspiracy theories at one time. Sadly they all turned out to be true.

  • This appears incorrect. Multiple emulators have ways to circumvent the copyright protection mechanism. None of them are being hit. Dolphin legit has the keys in their package. It's why Steam didn't platform them, but Nintendo knows and Dolphin is not changing. It would be literally the cost of the letter to get Dolphin to change. Nintendo hasn't even sent that letter.

    What Yuzu did wrong was outside of "anti circumvention rules" that you seem afraid of.

  • Ehhh.. it's ok if there's money involved but they definitely pushed it too far. However even if there was no money involved Yuzu made actions that shut them down.

    Smart if you can self fund, but at the end of the day there's a lot of costs that people ignore when it comes to emulation or things in the space. Working with a group called Retroachievements.org (small plug) and they accept donations for server costs but that's it. Signed up for 1 dollar on Patreon and wanted to give them 10. They refused, which is a good sign.

  • the authors said the takedown reflects Nvidia's having "admitted" it trained NeMo on the dataset

    Oooh so they're fucked.

    THOUGH... let's say I bought a book, why am I not allowed to learn from that book, and write in a similar style to that book. I am? Well why can't I train an AI to use that book and have it write in a similar style? I'm not sold on "I must give you permission to use my book to train an AI." Maybe if I agreed to those terms BEFORE buying the book, but it seems odd that someone can bar me from doing that AFTER buying the book. And just because "we never thought about that" isn't really a good excuse to change the rights for someone who bought the book.

    Though if anything this basically proves the old adage. "Don't tell anyone what's in your AI's training data"

  • I'm not even saying "Xbox is dead" I'm saying "Xbox won't run a unique OS". Even if there is a "Xbox approved version" it's just a game optimized for the specific hardware that the Xbox console will have (and maybe ship with a somewhat specialized container too). I doubt you'll see Steam on this hypothetical system, but it's still possible.

  • Using the same bar every time, it's the same weight, you don't need to know what's on it. Olympic bars (and most bars) are 45, so I just use that. It doesn't on the smith machine because there's a counter weight on it (to stabilize it)

    But let me give you another idea. WHO CARES? Yeah I know we all like to track progress when weight lifting, but at the end of the day did you lift the weight and bring it back down? Did you do it multiple times? Did you do it to exhaustion? Great, you'll grow. If you truly care then ask "When I used that same machine could I do it with more weight? Could I do more reps with the same weight? The machine itself doesn't change so just use that specific type of machine as the metric.

    I've found weight machines are NOT comparable to Free Weights, Which are not comparable to even smith Machines.. So ultimately... Compare apples to apples.

    Another example? I would consider a Chest fly to a chest fly from a different manufacturer... THOUGH I've seen a few times when this is just bullshit. I also think Calf raise machines are just phony weight at times. (Though remember when doing Calf raises, and Calf Raises sitting, your entire body weight is now missing) ... Which can be true for many machines.....

    So ultimately compare apples to apples... AKA compare a machine (or a machine type) to that same machine type, and try not to confuse "Free weights" with "machine weights" because there is a correlation but it's not worth figuring out.

  • I think it's simply because people want to feel like they're in "the biz" So rather than talking about how good something is, they talk about how much money it makes, how many people did something, what's the revenue. It also is a bit hard to quantify "A good movie" but it's SIMPLE to quantify a "popular" or "revenue generating" movie (At least in terms of revenue). So rather than discussing the movie itself we now discuss "how popular it is". Kind of sucks in my opinion because all it means is "Other people like it". It's like the social media of news stories. Then again you don't want to like something that isn't popular, do you?

    But I mean it probably comes down to "Variety did it so it was the news of the industry, and then others did it and didn't notice a change in readership (or saw a positive change) and so they did it more.

  • Honestly... they don't. I think Microsoft will eventually go to a PC pre-built with a OS on it. "But isn't that a Console?" I mean I had an alpha, On my alpha I had a versions of windows that immediately booted into the Alpha program for ease of use. I stopped the alpha program and my wife uses it as a work computer (a weak one so she can pull up documents).

    I don't see a future where Microsoft makes a different OS than Windows, makes a hardware setup that isn't off the shelve parts. MAYBE a specialized motherboard with a chip set. But ultimately, I think IF they make a "Console" it's going to be a Windows machine with set specs that don't change, and an OS that is just for gaming, maybe with some way to dockerize the software so you always get the same experience every time you run it.

    Sony and Nintendo will keep making Consoles, for sure, but Microsoft has no benefit in making a console. And before someone says what I described is a console, Xbox can't play PC games, what I'm describing is a windows machine playing windows software. When you make Xbox software currently you make software that ONLY can run on an Xbox... but why? You already are making a Windows build so you can ship a Windows version, so why not only make the windows version and have your console just be a windows machine in an OS that will giver players a consistent experience.

  • The board that allowed him to present and push the idea forward is still there. The power structure that wanted this change is still there.

    Riccitello is gone (and fuck him for many reasons) but Unity isn't changed, it just has a different face.

  • shrug and?

    I know most people want "New cars" and fine, go chase that over priced luxury, but I'd rather a car that's 1-2 years old that's dropped more than half the price, and being passed over because new shiny thing came out.

    People shouldn't have to drive beaters, but buying a car for 10k isn't a bad decision unless you're extremely well off our only care about status symbols.

    Like there's a reason I was able to buy a house, and a good job helped, but also my wife and I lived with in our means, which is something I feel that isn't talked about in the consumerism age. (You can buy something new, but for most things you don't need a yearly iphone/car/or anything. A good 50 inch tv works well for a tenth of the price of the newest one. ) And yet I see people complain about not having a lot of money yet they're always talking about the newest graphics cards, newest tvs, and newest tech.... I wonder why.

  • Oooh ooh, I remember this game.

    I just can't remember exactly. I did find http://c64clicker.com/ which is an old one (And a good one) There was a great game called Pixel This or Pixel That like that where you drew art, but apparently it's been lost to time (source code might be out there, but doesn't seem hosted)

    Hope that helped, and if you find it, let me know because I remember it was a solid game.