nice

once again the US fucks itself by trying to fuck over others and we get to watch the downfall pick up speed

i too am very hot blooded and prefer the cool but i lived in Columbus Ohio for a time and the near constant overcast and rainy weather is enough to drive me to the brink… or maybe that, mixed with just being in Ohio…

I’ve installed that game so many times and I’ve never made it more than 30 minutes in… i didn’t know why because it does seem interesting

BUT AT WHAT COST??!?

i missed the part where she explains how she came to this conclusion

are her eyebrows cgi? i can’t tell if they are changing size or if its just the angle of the video or what

ive been in IT in some fashion for most of my adult life and I’ve often wanted to just abandon the whole field entirely but i have no other skills and as soul sucking as it is it still pays pretty decently compared to anything else i could possibly be considered for

Osama Bin Laden?

i agree, it is always a race to the bottom

Not to disagree with you, but I would say Valve has a good track record of specifically not trying to fuck people over and they tend to make high quality games. But that can always change so it is good to always keep that in mind.

everyone at my company uses chatgpt first

no u

the CIA, NSA, and other ALPHABET agencies created and basically run Google… i can’t imagine this going far

flux seems to do a pretty decent job most of the time

one of the most horrifying short stories I’ve ever read is about this subject matter. https://qntm.org/lena

my best guess is monopoly rent… once you’ve moved all your stuff to the cloud you become dependent on them and they know that

once hundreds and thousands of companies do it the cloud providers gain a lot of leverage

i imagine there are some pretty hefty operating expenses they have to pay as well to operate at such an enormous scale, so their costs don’t necessarily decrease when they add more customers

oh i think in general it applies to the big 3, but it may extend to others as well, but i’ve only seen the insane costs from AWS and GCP personally

holy shit that was nuts

so many people do this because they sign up for a 3 month trial or whatever and just end up paying for the shit because there’s a show or whatever on each service they like so they just keep paying

i pay about 400 a year for my piracy tools and services… which when i say that out loud sounds ridiculous, but it’s still far far cheaper than paying for multiple streaming services and/or cable

plus i can watch whatever i want, binging or not commercial free, and i can get games and whatever else thrown in at no additional cost