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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:

99% agree with you, because that is mostly correct! 1% will point to hardware/drivers that causes DPC latency issues (This is a Windows only thing). DPC is when a driver sends an interrupt to the system delaying other processes temporarily. Normally this is fine, but when done excessively (and I mean truly excessively) it can cause audio and video stuttering. Most of the time it seems to be caused by network drivers, but Ive also seen early USB3.0 chipsets, and even really old Nvidia drivers being causes. Some Intel NICs from ~2011 are known to have such issues when Rx rates exceed ~54mbps. The Centrino N-6205 is one such wireless chip that comes to mind with this issue and Intel never fixed their drivers. So if you have a PC with that wireless chip, a fast internet connection, and do a speed test while playing video/audio, the audio and video will stutter. But you will *never* hear audiophiles talk about DPC latency, despite it being 100% valid, and easily measurable cause of audio issues. Now I would find It highly amusing if this SSD did somehow cause such issues, but sadly I doubt it.

I'd argue 99% accuracy is a misleading biased statistic of the quality of the system without context of what it is dealing with. It's judging accuracy without knowing what the difficultly of the target is. You can boost the accuracy claims of anything if you include easier and repeated targets. Which sounds more impressive? The System taking down: 100 bots uploading the same exact video file with 100% accuracy. 100 bots uploading 100 variations of the same video with 75% accuracy. Of that 729 million, what % of them are unique videos, vs repeated video files reuploaded till one doesn't get noticed by the system? What about the false claims (Im guessing 99% of them are unique)

I wouldn't doubt a lot of people don't even realize Windows11 is even a thing, or that its out right now. Even as someone who keeps up with this kinda stuff, I barely heard anything about it, besides: TPM requirement, and issues with Ryzen, and that Alder Lake works well with it. All things that you'd also hear if it was still in beta.

This isn't going to be enforceable. At best this will deal with bigger operations, or let someone pull an 'Al Capone tax evasion' like charge on a person/group that they already want to book. Don't have enough evidence on a hacker groups other activities? Book em for using bots to scalp PS5s!

Do we have a different definition of "Normal user" or something? I define it as the "average person", any rando on the street (since practically any rando uses a computer on a semi regular basis these days.) I can flat out tell you the average person does not like to 'tinker with things'. They don't understand how their computer works, they know they don't, they don't think they are good at it. They just want their computer to "do the thing" right now. They don't want to spend +50 minutes on a phone call, or pay for someone to fix something so they goto the free resource right at their fingertips [Google] and search: "How to fix ____" Then do whatever the first search result gives them without properly reading anything and if that solution actually applies to their problem. If you do not believe that is the truth, then I encourage you. Leave your tech enthusiast bubble, work retail, or a call center, become depressed. Half of my old job used to be fixing the problems people caused trying to fix another problem.

I don't think you have had enough experience working retail, or PC repair. People will do whatever the google search result brings up until they hit the result that ether breaks their PC or makes it work. People would totally delete System32 if windows didn't actively prevent that, and they read it would fix all their problems.

I'm not quite sure I understand the issue people have... They are updating the OS to make it as difficult to "break", as it would be to "fix" - i.e: You gotta at least know what you are doing, and need to explicitly tell the computer to do the thing, rather then the computer presenting the option then saying "Is this okay?". You can blame a user for not reading the warning, but people who are out of their element, generally trust that the thing presenting the option knows enough of what it's doing to not present an option that will make things worse.

Anyone gonna mention how that cloth is gonna look super dirty quickly since its all white? Well I guess that is a "feature" telling you that you should wash the thing, rather then try cleaning a screen with a dirty rag.

This is exactly what I wanted from the "Steam Machine" concept years back. Just a verification that, a game will run well on this tier of hardware, in the same way you see compatibility lists on Emulators with specific games. Its small, but its really helps people who don't know much about specs get into PC gaming.

Yeah hope Canon looses on this one. Printer manufacturers have been getting away with way too much stuff over the years, and this is specially egregious since ink eventually dries, so its almost like a soft subscription "service". When I bought a laser printer, I kept my old ink printer to use as upstairs scanner, now I am wondering if it also has this "feature" or if it might be old enough they didn't think about it yet.