I call dibs on the ghost of Harlan Ellison.

“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.”

I figure that if I get to my 80’s or thereabouts, it will be time to end my life. I don’t have the wealth, friendship, or health to enjoy my life at the age of deterioration. Hopefully, society will accept my choice, and offer a painless way to leave this coil.

That said, I would prefer this lady and all other people to have their twilight years to be enjoyable.

This is pretty much my posture regarding ICE and the Trump Regime. If I am destined for one of RFK’s plantations, I intend to kill any ICE bastard who comes for me.

More importantly, if this cold war goes hot, I will engage with ICE bastards in warfare. I am simply waiting for the Blue States Military to give the order to assemble and uphold the spirit of the Constitution.

AI might be good for simulating attacks, because they can do lots of attempts and iteration. IMO, AI and (competent) people would make for a good pairing for trying out ideas before deploying a project into the real world.

I like Lobotomy Corporation. It is basically a SCP-roguelike, where you manage a facility full of monsters. A 100% playthrough will take over 150 hours, probably closer to 300. It is a difficult game that demands your full attention, else you will hear trumpets.

China’s CXMT might go for it. Apparently they are rolling out DDR5 8000+ memory, two or three years from now. They can rebrand as Crucial for the western market, thus using familiarity to push their product.

“Crucial’s Xtreme Memory Technology will push your Steam Machine beyond the limits, dddduuuuude!” 🤘

As someone who does AI and gaming as hobbies, I look forward to a corporate bubble popping. Being able to max out an EPYC or Threadripper Pro’s DDR5 capacity would be awesome. :)

I view AI to be like the internet: Most corporate players won’t survive the bubble, but the ones that do, will be incredibly influential. Ordinary people made great use of the internet - but failed to make it really decentralized. Thus the enshittification of Reddit, Youtube, social media, and so forth.

We can choose to embrace local LLM that is fully under our control, or cede ownership to the 1% forevermore.

Asian games, both perverse and standard. Translation patches don’t necessarily make the internal workings of a game able to run on English locale. As to specific games, I don’t recall at the moment - I play too many.

I wouldn’t mind a Steam Whistle, if it lets me have privacy and security.

I don’t do just Steam. As said before, I sometimes use mods or play niche games, such as ones that require Japanese locale, Windows v3.1, GOG games, and so forth. While I am not a true power user, my needs definitely go beyond Steam alone. I had tried out Mint a year ago, Hero, Lutris, Mini Galaxy, and so forth failed to work smoothly with my games.

Granted. I really hope he is raising a protege to take the helm when the time comes, or divides up the Steam Kingdom and lets the best folk win.

The ways I cheat depends on the game. Sometimes to get rid of grind, others to obtain abilities that are mutually exclusive. EG: X-COM, where I had soldiers with all branches of their abilities active, rather than having to pick just one. Max stat spreads, without having to pick a specialty.

I pretty much play games for narrative or to simply keep my hands busy while listening to Behind the Bastards.

Which is good. It is just that I don’t have much patience for troubleshooting, I prefer to just game or work. For me, I would stick to Windows if it weren’t for Microsoft likely being a bad actor.

Someday, we will be using AI to generate fake IDs and faces, simply because our governments refuse to respect our privacy. They will have uncanny resemblance to political critters who enacted the surveillance.

As with everything born of enshittification, I do not know if this is to be a lame joke or reality. 😒

I am waiting for SteamOS Desktop to be released before switching. I want the support of an 800lb corporate gorilla, that prioritizes gaming. I use mods and play niche games, so I need a Linux that balances casual users while allowing for some power user stuff.

I already know about Bazzite and Cachy, but again, I want the support of a focused giant who won’t die or change hands.

We know how they source and process their chicken…

I mostly don’t use Reddit anymore. I can speak my mind on Lemmy, which is refreshing.

There are things that are probably within reach of NK, such as Taiwan. TSMC manufactures the majority of the world’s advanced microchips, and a fair chunk of the older stuff as well. NK can afford the oblivion of Taiwan, but almost everyone else would feel the shock for decades if Taiwan suddenly became a crater. To a lesser extent, the same can be said of Japan.

Mind, the Trump Regime doesn’t understand the value of Taiwan, so Kim probably couldn’t use that as a direct hostage against the US. Trump tried to extort Taiwan, asking for money or else the protection of the US could be pulled. That is just… 🤦

The key point, is that NK does have influence, it is just a question of how angry other nations would get if that stick smacks someone.