Yeah, I remember that Black Mirror episode.

Dude, just get over it. I think you’re charging more than you should, I’m not gonna change my mind if you tag me.

Especially if I can see just from the scale and price that it’s not cost-optimized, they simply hit the scale where they need to get smarter about optimization, just throwing money at the problem is no longer there.

Comparing your small-scale service to that is dishonest.

I was talking more about the user cap than the price itself. Being capped like that is what makes it expensive.

So while it might not be that easy to win on the price as an absolute number, it’s very easy to win on price per user.

Holy shit that’s expensive.

Speak for yourself.

Fucking finally.

Any chance you could me know if you do?

Kingdom: Two Crowns, the Call of Olympus DLC. Also the first game of 2025 we played, we only took a small break at midnight.

Hell yeah, 2025 it is.

Who needs the commoners when AI and algorithms can simulate them.

Being rich doesn’t exist in a vacuum but only in relation to other people, meaning if only billionaires survive, they’re not rich anymore. They need the poor majority.

Well, really depends on your definition of interesting. Or what exactly you think is interesting about the news. The information itself might be interesting, but the console is anything but interesting.

Added screenshots to the original comment!

🏅 Here’s poor man’s gold or whatever, never used that stupid emoji before, not sure it’s the correct one.

What they’re describing is a so-called tankie who claims that they’re communist but instead really they’re just authoritarians who need to feel a little less shitty about themselves so they pretend they do it for the good of all people.

And then there was always someone complaining about it and someone explaining to them that it’s always like that. And then someone telling them that that exact comment chain happens way too fucking often and it brings nothing to the discussion (that’s me in this comment chain!)

Congrats, we achieved Reddit!

The end-goal is a stateless society. But you cannot achieve it if all other people are living in states, you need something that is of similar power. Hence it’s a necessary step towards the end-goal which can only happen once everyone (or at least a significant portion of the world) is a communist. And that happens right after a unicorn rides across the sky while shooting rainbow and ice cream out of its ass.

As to why all communism is authoritarian, everyone who goes into politics is a authoritarian or an idealist. So the way it usually goes is either the authoritarian comes and explains to everyone that they’re communist, or the idealist convinces everyone of the idea and then his colleagues slowly swap them out for the authoritarian, because they’re usually the one actually capable of running a country.

In other words, to have a successful ideal communism everyone on Lemmy has a hard-on for, you need an unsevered chain of idealist leaders who are also capable of running a country. To achieve the authoritarian version of communism, you need only one authoritarian leader anywhere in the chain. I think everyone can guess which one’s easier and more likely.

In conclusion, communism can never exist on a large scale as long as people are in power. The only possibility of communism I can see is far in the future when we have true AI (not the current bullshit machines) which rules over us without any possibility of humans altering its decisions. Not sure how likely that is, but at least it’s theoretically achievable.

Well, AI has been with us for quite a while, what’s new is Large Language Models which are what’s marketed as an AI currently.

This all means you can do some stupid things like turn a bad drawing into a bad AI generated images, or chat with a LLM, who will in fluent Czech try to convince that it’s very sorry that it only speaks English, but Czech is definitely planned in future iterations!

There are some useful tools which I sadly couldn’t test (like the live translate during a call where each participant speaks their own language and the AI translates on the fly) because unlike lying Gemini, they truly don’t support Czech.

Edit: The English/Czech bit seems to be popular, here are the screnshots. I don’t have all the parts of the conversation screenshoted, only these two:

Here are the Czech bits translated by Google Lens, the translation is not perfect, but it’s good enough to understand what’s going on:

The point was pretty clear, unless you make being obtuse on the internet a hobby of yours. Small advice: This is not how you get people to discuss with you. On the other hand, it’s a great way to get most people to avoid talking to you at all.

Being immoral is not the same as actively doing something illegal.

That’s just a part of the learning process, IMO. My instance crashed many times, I’ve fixed it every time and now it’s better than before. And I don’t think I’ve had my last fuck up with the instance.