Yep, thats corporate monitoring software for you. Everyones got it, if you dont see it, assume its there. If the PC is not yours and or built with your own hands, assume its bugged or key logged. This goes for school PCs as well for the youngins, this is not to make people paranoid, just manage expectations on privacy. If you didnt make it, assume its recorded.

You know you can stand up your own Matrix-Synapse server as part of your home lab, its the “we have Telegram at home” answer.

I like that reference, im stealing it.

I was in the trenches for that nonsense fixing stuff daily because of them. Oracles wacky tacky shit that kept their users locked to Java 7.21 for a decade past the support date. Bloated language packs and not being able to keep up with basic HTML tags… You dont know how good yall have it today.

I dont care how much MS dresses up Edge, we know its just Chrome in a poorly fitted suit. The old addage still holds true, Microsofts default browser (formerly IE, currently Edge) is the best browser to use to go download another browser.

[This concludes grumpy old tech speech]

Given what Microsoft is smoking these days, no AI would be a selling point, and Mozilla does not seem to realize they are playing with fire. Their userbase chose their product instead of using the system defaults of Chrome, Safari, and Internet Exploder. Their users, just like Lemmy, are tech-litrrate and more socially concious than the masses. If an alternative or fork appears, with sufficent support, and Mozilla does not put the breaks on their AI train, were all just going to jump ship. We do it every time a new OS is installed, there is no Firefox loyalty, only lesser evils.

Appreciate the full details, that game is a masterpiece, and that was a bit too long to copy-pasta/research at the time. [Gives internet gold star]

My favorite was

“Cats randomly dieing… Alcohol poisioning ?”

Turns out fur had the same liquid container code as mugs, and the minimum size was a pint…

Unfortunatly its considered a primary source for Google, correct or not. Some parts of it still catalog relavent answers and help, but its more machine now than man, all twisted and evil.

Bet

GANDALF THE GREY

GANDALF THE WHITE

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAILS BLACK KNIGHT

BENITO MUSSOLINI

& THE BLUE MEANNIE

COWBOY CURTIS

JAMBI THE GENIE

ROBOCOP

TERMINATOR

CAPTIAN KIRK

DARTH VADER

LO PANTS

SUPERMAN

EVERY SINGLE POWER RANGER

BILL S. PRESTON

THEODORE LOGAN

SPOCK

THE ROCK

DOC OCK

HULK HOGAN.

Avoiding slopification seems to be the main priority, and you would have to have the AI be incorporated into a game it would have to do something that AI is already passable at, otherwise it wont pass that barrier and will get shunned like the rest of the slop.

For example, you could have an LLM act as a character or have a neural net incorporated into the game-ai like how tool assisted DOTA2 competitions work.

I see three main problems, first is that you would need the hardware to run it locally, which may be a hard sell to some people depending on what the game it is, only online expirenes should endebt themselves to AWS, if its single player, its going to lose a ton of sales there. Two, its really hard to convince audiences electrons have feelings, remember Final Fantasy (2001)? Thats what happened last time someone tried to personify a digital construct, and well… It went swimmingly (Microsofts Tay, does not count). Lastly, impact, would a narrative focused title have the same impact of an AI wrote the script? How would you feel after playing through a title like “Papers, please” and when the credits roll it says “script generated by CoPilot”? I feel like it would ring hollow, the feelings would be cheapened by it…

I would be interested to see how this plays out, but im content to support the titles and studios that do things the traditional way.

“AI feature that I will eventually disable”

Jokes on you, the reason im not upgrading is that I cant disable it. So im holding out on my current devices until they die of natural causes (last smart phone lived 8 years and my FP4 should last 10), or I find a replacment I fully control.

(Just got rid of my last windows device a few weeks ago, still got the one for work, but it can be done).

I host a private Matrix-Synapse service for my nerd herd (we still haven’t gotten the call feature working on them) if you want to talk shop about setting it up for yourself and friends (yah, Homelab). I feel that Shildichat is better on Android, Element is better of fruit phones and desktop.

Yah, thats why you slap GraphenOS on it before it leaves the lot. All phones spy on you of you dont gut the OS, because there is nothing left that hasent been enshitified.

Right now, GraphenOS requires a pixle due to hardware limitations. Some time next year they are planning on testing Snapdragon support which will greatly expand the number of phones that can use it.

A bit of internet history, account age was a measure of clout on Slashdot.org. Your account ID was posted as part of your replies, so the lower the number, the longer you have been on the site.

Mine personally is in the 1.3M range, and I still read the site and I still see users posting on accounts as low as 500k ID, those have been around since the late 90s.

The site is just a news agrigator at this point with a comment section full of boomers and greybeards (sys admins that probably should consider retiring), but its been my home page for ~20 years and I have no intention of changing that.

Fairphone or a Google Pixle (optional GraphenOS, ive had non-tech people install it with no issues)

Shhh, we do not speak of such places. We do not wish for people to know their names and seek such dark recesses.

You left out the funniest part about it being internet famous.

Tourist goblins kept stealing the sign!

Eh, dont let it get to you. This horse will serve you well and it affords you room to grow. You will hear it a lot on lemmy, but get a second SSD and give linux a go. I game on Pop_OS and its the closest thing to “It just works” ive seen out of the community (debian for most everything else… because home lab).

Plus, you put the effort into researching the model and its parts. In 6-7 years time, look into building the next one, further your learning and figure out what each component does and why a the manufacturer picked what they did.

If you need help with things/troubleshooting, the Lemmy community is here to help. Welcome to the club!

Dell has always had good warranties on parts. Its half the reason Alienware was held in such high regard for so long after they were aquired in the early 2ks. Even though enthusiests will scoff at the prebuild, if you dont intend the PC itself to be the project, you did good.

Ha [Internet high five], there is a thing about EvE online players and being opinionated nerds about VOIP solutions.