Pichai’s comments come as other tech CEOs have also predicted the coming of a new era of chief executive automations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously said AI will someday do his job better than him, adding, “I will be nothing but enthusiastic the day that happens.” Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna, also said in a post on X earlier this year that “AI is capable of doing all our jobs, my own included.”

Yeah, I’m not surprised the wealthy person who owns the output of the AI tools and company is enthusiastic about his job being “replaced,” since - as the owner and therefore spout of the AI value funnel - he now has to work even less to extract the value of hundreds or thousands of human lives.

Non-console pricing may make it overpriced, and it may be DOA, but the alternative here is worse. Console pricing will lead to a walled garden and enshittification.

If it’s priced like a console and subsidized so that Valve relies on game sales to profit, then they have a huge incentive to lock down the machine with DRM and restrict user ability to install third party launchers, games, etc.

This would not only contradict their Deck strategy, but be a repudiation of one of the last healthy and consumer-friendly open design and product philosophies left among the gaming platforms. So I hope they do not sell hardware at a loss in this case. Let it sink or swim on its merits.

Happiness is value, and value must only be captured by the IP holder.

Tech bro startups.

Exactly, and having a consistent platform target for developers for longer means - like a console - game development can be targeted and optimized, so players likely get better game experiences compared to yearly upgrades even if the hardware is technically better.

I feel seen!

DDR4 too, as they phase it out. I bought 2x32GB of DDR4 for my older system 8 months ago for $80. Now a deal for 32GB is $90-100.

[Grab shoulders and shake violently enough to cause Shaken Adult Syndrome]

BUT IT’S SO VERSATILE! STOP SLEEPING ON IT!

Honestly, this is fine. This is a healthy community. If we had an exponential growth curve, the AI bots, clout-chasting influencers, marketers and data-mining scrapers would be all over these instances, and Lemmy frankly has very poor tools to deal with it.

There aren’t the niche communities, I agree that that’s regrettable. But we really do run into scaling problems.

Right, what you said, but I’d remove the part where it increases productivity.

I’m surprised Retroid Pocket 5 is a reliable Switch emulator - are there games that don’t run at native speed?

Yes, good point, I should have specified I was thinking of the Spielberg version.

At this point Minority Report’s mostly ordered but slightly corrupt-behind-the-scenes society seems almost utopian.

Nope, we’re getting Biff Tannen’s Back To The Future 2 reality as a base, with a free AI dystopia expansion pack.

I like Jaguar but you have to bring a lot of patience since games usually take a lot of time to get into, emulation hasn’t really been perfected, and the unique controller is a barrier to the full experience in some of its better games.

Tempest 2000 (9/10) remains super fun. But there are also versions to play on other systems that are arguably better.

Aliens vs. Predator (8/10 but very subjective) is a truly unique and fun game but has a HIGH barrier to entry with pacing and framerate issues. Like the best retro games, they really did plan around the framerate to turn it into an advantage - literally turning around to check if you’re being followed while playing in a dark room is terrifying because of the slideshow reveal - but a gamer in 2025 probably can’t connect with that and will just see “bad framerate.” You need to commit a few hours to get into that zone if you want to try it. The numpad overlays customized to each human/alien/predator style help a lot.

Super Burnout (6/10) was a fun racer but could have been done on SNES.

Rayman (9/10) of course is great, if you want to play the first release originally on Jaguar, but naturally the game has been released everywhere.

Raiden (8/10) is very good, but also not exclusive.

Fight For Life (1/10) if you want to experience the biggest Jaguar disappointment, after it being hyped up as from a guy who was on the Virtua Fighter team.

Kasumi Ninja and Ultra Vortek (both 5/10) if you want to see how Atari hoped to stay relevant against Mortal Kombat.

Cybermorph (6/10) to see what the pack-in game was like. But it’s mostly empty exploration and was more meant to demonstrate Jaguar can do 3D art a time it was trying to hype itself as a “64-bit” system.

Iron Soldier (7/10) only if you can play with a real controller and have the numpad overlay.

I’m pretty sure agreeing to the cameo feature was explicitly to find reasons to write a variation on this article. At that point, hey, she paid the price, can’t fault her for putting out the article which legitimately raise awareness how your identity will be misused.

Accusing gentle Elon of a misdeed?

Right, they have the key, and the lock, but the key isn’t in the lock, so it’s utterly impossible for them to access it.

My understanding is you cannot do that without a full reinstall of Windows, wiping out all settings and installed programs. Glad if I’m wrong.

“… And it’s not weird! Collectible avatars, it’s a good idear.”

This is the flipside of workers not getting the value of increased productivity over the last 40 years. Yes, we could be getting paid more, but we could (alternatively or also) be working a lot less to produce the same economic output as our parents did.

Unfortunately, this is something only a country that already has social safety nets and livable wages can even propose, because if we’re all kept to subsistence, we’ll work more anyway (because we have to).