TheGrandNagus @ TheGrandNagus @lemmy.world

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For Linux folks, it's also available on FlatHub.

I've installed it on my steam deck and mapped the triggers to the left and right... uh... flappy things?

It works really well, and whenever people see it they're like whoaaaaa I remember that!!

You don't take on an Englishman at a football ground, they get all kinds of attack and defensive buffs

You consider Win8 a refinement of Win7?

To me refinement means small changes to make something better. It doesn't mean completely changing the entire UX.

I'm not looking at it through a modern lense. It was very insecure at the time, too. I worked in a PC repair shop and at the time that business was a money printer in terms of getting rid of endless malware.

Later versions of windows cleared up the horrendous security to such an extent that the shop was no longer economically viable, and we had to close.

XP was not the first consumer version based on NT, I don't know why you think that.

Although yes, the DOS versions were even worse. Well, in theory anyway. In practice not, since most people at that time didn't have PCs that old connected to the internet.

They did, it was called "Windows 8" and nobody liked it.

I would not consider Win8 a "refinement" of Win7 lol, they changed the entire UX, added an app store they tried to force people into, created a new executable format, etc.

Windows 8 is basically the polar opposite of a "refinement" release!

Idk, it was horrendously insecure, would freeze a lot, and missing creature comforts like window tiling.

Tbh I think you're letting nostalgia blind you to XP's flaws a little.

If they kept refining Win7 it would've been great.

Fallacy fallacy.

That absolutely won't happen.

Everybody on Lemmy and Reddit were saying the same when they banned account sharing and price increases. In reality their subscriber numbers went through the roof and so did their profits.

Unfortunately, it's quite difficult for AMD and Intel to make any big difference in the short term.

On the Intel GPU side, bluntly, they are far behind in tech, so they have to mitigate that with more aggressive pricing.

Don't believe me? Look at the process node they use and the die size of their chips, now look at the performance and power efficiency they get compared to similar node/die size Radeon or Geforce cards. That means Intel has to spend a lot more on manufacturing but can't charge anywhere near as much. In other words, they have to use more raw materials to make the same performance.

Intel doesn't make money from their GPUs yet. They literally don't want to sell too many cards because they generally lose money on each one sold. That's why their launch was a paper launch. They're spending right now to build expertise and expertise before doing a bigger push later.

On the AMD side, there's some good news in that their latest generation is pretty great and has massively outsold their previous generations.

The bad news is that even if AMD has doubled sales or whatever, they were already such a small part of the overall pie that Nvidia (85%+ of the market) shitting the bed isn't something AMD can suddenly fix.

It'd be like if all carmakers except Mazda shat the bed, Mazda can't suddenly expand and fix the market. They could increase it a bit, probably, but filling the orders that the VW or Toyota group usually do? Impossible.

Also, whenever there's excess demand for CPUs, AMD would prefer to service that market. It's far higher margin.

Nope. I'd still say social media/social media algorithms.

Imagine if social media didn't exist (beyond small, tight-knit communities like forums about [topic], or BBS communities), but all these AI tools still did.

Susan creates an AI generated image of illegal immigrants punching toddlers, then puts it on her "news" blog full of other AI content generated to push an agenda.

Who would see it? How would it spread? Maybe a few people she knows. It'd be pretty localised, and she'd be quickly known locally as a crank. She'd likely run out of steam and give up with the whole endeavour.

Add social media to the mix, and all of a sudden she has tens of thousands of eyes on her, which brings more and more. People argue against it, and that entrenches the other side even more. News media sees the amount of attention it gets and they feel they have to report, and the whole thing keeps growing. Wealthy people who can benefit from the bullshit start funding it and it continues to grow still.

You don't need AI to do this, it just makes it even easier. You do need social media to do this. The whole model simply wouldn't work without it.

This has been going on for a lot longer than we've had LLMs everywhere.

Yes. One of the only benefits of FPTP is that for most of its history it has stopped tiny, insane, extreme, populist parties getting a foothold, and instead encouraged relative stability. For all the issues we have, the UK has been a phenomenally stable democracy over the years.

That is no longer a protection against Reform, as they've broken past the "not being popular enough to gain any traction under FPTP barrier".

Set fire to his house, a flat "linked" to him (family member perhaps?), and his old car.

We live in an unhealthy democracy when people are being this extremist and violent over a political figure so bland he makes Gordon Brown look fun and care-free.

Nonce? I think if Starmer was a paedophile our press would be having a field day.

FINALLY

I've been looking forward to having a phone that's more fragile and has a smaller battery, now I've found my guy. Thanks, Samsung.

Where I live there are frequently people that come into pubs to sell things that were clearly stolen from the nearby Morrisons.

I've found blocks of cheese to be an extremely frequently stolen item.

Makes sense. Fairly easy to conceal, surprisingly expensive (depending on what you get, like £8-16 per kilo), doesn't usually come with security tags like steaks often do these days, and there's lots of potential buyers for cheese since it's used in a lot of things and it's bloody lovely.

And yet they're the only demographic who gets a pay that always matches or exceeds inflation. Seems weird that they'd see a disproportionate increase in shoplifting.

Ah yes, there's famously never been fires in brick buildings.

You knew your actions could easily lead to a massive fire and loss of life, you said so yourself, and still you chose to do it repeatedly anyway.

Now you don't seem to be showing much remorse, which is unfortunate. I guess I just hope you're a bit less of a piece of shit.

The content of your reply to me was the weird thing, not the fact that you replied itself...

Weird reply, in that case.

I never said he was a piece of shit.

John Lennon admitted to hitting an ex girlfriend. He came out, apologised for it, and said he was trying to better himself but he had a whole load of problems.

Bizarrely, his ex later came out and said John didn't beat her and that she didn't know what he was talking about.

Ringo has also admitted to hitting a girlfriend before.