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Finally I have free time again. I had a feeling there would be some negative opinions on games journalists (or whatever you want to call them) Their jobs aren't always to just regurgitate game news and do reviews, part of their job is also to facilitate a community with the readership which I dont think an AI can really do. Also if anyone didnt catch. The ammount of articles per week they were expecting from the AI editor was 250. That is beyond astronomical. I dont doubt its possible with 0 effort. But thats... zero effort. and I really dont think we need millions more AI generated articles for how to do very basic things. - All those posts you might see of "How to catch a Weedle in Pokemon" are the exact stuff that GAMURS seems to want to create. If you really want an idea of how pointless and bad these websites can get look no further then: https://thetruthfacts.com/big-o-ending-explained/ ... Feel free to scroll down to the FAQ section. Im sure even people who never watched BigO will recognize how nonsensical it is.

Summary 'GAMURS Group' is a company that has bought out several videogame media publications/sites (Prima Games, Twinfinite, Destructoid, the Escapist, Siliconera) in the past 3-4 years. They are doing major layoffs. - ~40% of their workforce layoffs. (Potentially more) They got caught putting up a job listing for an AI Editor Quotes https://futurism.com/the-byte/gaming-sites-writers-ai-editor https://knowtechie.com/gamurs-group-ai-editor/ My thoughts Disclosure: - I frequent Destructoid. The reason I found out about this is because one of Dtoid's most prominent and well liked writers, was fired today without warning with no chance for a goodbye article (which has been typical for the site) with the only explanation being that he always gave 110% when it came to the site, rather then minimum effort work. After seeing that kids were handing in book reports for school made in ChatGPT, it was only a matter of time before some executive somewhere saw this a way to cut their labor costs. The WGA (Writers Guild of America) is proactively on strike right now to ban the use of AI for writing source material in TV shows and Movies, as they see AI being a threat in the near future. It doesn't surprise me gaming journalism would be the first to take a bite. I just hate to see once prominent sites get turned into AI generated SEO garbage. Sources https://futurism.com/the-byte/gaming-sites-writers-ai-editor https://knowtechie.com/gamurs-group-ai-editor/

TV ads are absolutely terrible. Twice in the past 5 years Ive tried to give television a second chance, and I could not stand it. About a year ago I was up at like 4 AM, Bored, try to watch TV, some channel has a marathon of Star Trek TNG on. "Sounds fun". The first Adbreak I just go "frig this", Cold boot my laptop, searched and found a site that shows Star Trek TNG, find the exact episode, fast forward to the exact place in the episode. - All before the adbreak even finished. Similar story with 'Toonami', I remember as a kid after my parents went to bed sneaking downstairs, turning the TV down really low, and watching these 'Cool shows none of my friends have ever heard of!' (Ghost in the Shell, Detective Conan, Big O exc) ... The lineup was all shows I had already watched years ago. Kinda a disappointment and even if I did want to watch then again I couldn't even make it past a single adbreak before going. "I could probably find and download a torrent of this show before it gets back if I really wanted to watch it again." - I decided to play a game instead.

UW sure but I'm talking curved in general, and you were the one who said: "Curved is never an issue for productivty. " I still stand by the Mutli monitor part of my statement.

Mutli Monitor setups. Maybe its fine if you have multiple of the same monitor, but having multiple curved monitors that have different levels of curve is just as, if not more annoying then different DPI. Also curved monitors don't do too well in portrait if you ask me.

Oh boy the ability to deepfake the voice of a dead Grandma! What could possibly go wrong? "Billy, I am quite lonely, I want to see you again." (Twilight Zone: Long Distance Call)

Ack - I swear I actually did look and for whatever reason I did not see this post.

Summary Yes this is 2022, and yes Apple was still making iPods. But no more! In a post on the Apple website newsroom, Apple announced that after 20 long years Apple is discontinuing the iPod line and that the latest model is now available "While supplies last". My thoughts I am kinda surprised it didn't happen sooner, specially with the chip shortage and the relatively low price of $199. The iPod Touch used to be a good way for indie game developers to get an iOS device for cheap to test their games with. But even that use case started to wane as the iPhone started getting features that wouldn't be brought down to the iPod. Sources https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/05/the-music-lives-on/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/goodbye-ipod-apple-stops-making-last-model/

If you count non-phone device, I think the number increases dramatically, just because these tend to be devices that do not get updated frequently, so them moving to USB C has been slow. (Soooo many peripherals are still MicroB) Medical devices are a big one as those take years for approval, supported for extended periods, and are updated infrequently. The insulin pump a family member of mine recently got is a fairly new model, and still uses MicroB for example. (I believe the optional glucose monitor display device also uses MicroB) A lot of rechargeable flashlights Ive seen also still use MicroB - because they are models that come from Pre-USB C days. Then you have devices without batteries that just use USB for power rather then a barrel plug, those tend to still use MicroB. - The Raspberry Pi has C, but the Pi Zero is still micro B. Chargers for NiMh AA batteries when they aren't wall warts tend to be MicroB. - Happily MILBEP battery chargers tend to use C though! I'd rather everything move to C, and do actively try to buy things that use C over MicroB, just cause I love that I can use my laptop charger and PinePower for everything.

>_> I forgot to mention... I was talking about Laptops. - Most bad RAM Ive replaced has been from laptops. I suspect its caused by overheating, and people using their laptop on their bed, or blocking the vents when they put it on their lap.

Within the past year.... Twice? Its not as common as it used to be in like ~2008 where I swear it happened all the time. - Likely due it running warmer. The fact that there are POST codes specifically for memory issues, and that Memtest86 is still thing (and is part of many Linux distributions) should at least be evidence that faulty memory is still a thing.

Na to me that looks like they put a Dbrand skin on a Zune and an old Linksys Router.

... Every time I use the thing? Any time I use my laptop the files on it are out of date (cause I don't use the laptop as my primary device) . I'm not guaranteed to have an internet connection when I use my laptop if im going out, so just putting the up to date files on a USB stick is a better option then preemptively turning on and updating my laptop. (Then when I get back turning on my laptop to upload the files back to the desktop) If I use it while at home, its generally because I want to not be in the room my desktop is in for whatever reason, and in those situations - again all the time. The Mic on the laptop is terrible, so I often use a USB mic if I'm doing a call. Also I am not buying a bluetooth mouse when my old mouse works perfectly fine.

And then there are people who are pissed off someone else is trying to sell their artwork, or =/ But you know, thats just being irrationally butthurt.

How is it that this kinda problem comes to existing? Do software developers be like: