j-kent

In the end, it all leads to advertising. This is just the basic business model in the US/World right now. Get enough eyeballs on your product, whether it's TV, social media, AI, the ditch on the side of the highway; then monetize it with ads. I don't understand why at this point anyone is surprised that a company like Disney would put ads every possible place, even their highest tier of streaming.

"But I specifically chose the highest option so I wouldn't see ads!" well, now you have the option to pay the highest tier to see less ads. For now. By paying for the highest tier, Disney knows you are a higher quality consumer with the most disposable income of all the users on that platform; that's exactly the users Disney can charge the most for advertising spend. From an exec's standpoint, why wouldn't you? sure, they'll lose some paying customers, but will probably make more in the short term at least, which is all that matters.

I have one of these and it has been a fantastic project, and a solid steam machine stand in. Great for emulation and even some recent games. Not mentioned in the post but it is a repurposed PS5 APU. the 8 cpu core unlock that just became available seems to get you an additional 10fps.

I bought an Oura ring just to track my sleep, but after a couple weeks stopped using it because I didn't trust or get any value from the data. Nights that I tossed and turned and was up multiple times would score highly. Nights where I slept great and woke up refreshed, the Oura would say I would need to take it easy and recovery due to poor sleep.

We need this for Korg and Roland synths

It's not about contributing to the conversation — it's about the fake internet points.

I expect Cursor passes nearly every cent it collects on to Anthropic and OpenAI

Same goes with Starship Troopers - Clearly biting satire, but at the time was considered to be a dumb action movie by most.

living room gaming PC Mobo died and was looking at $400 min to rebuild. I jumped on the BC-250 craze, which is a very capable bitcoin miner based on the PS5. installed Bazzite and it's been great.

Such a long, long article breaking down the rise and fall of human computer interaction (GUIs/WIMP) and the future of AI interfaces; yet no mention of command line interfaces or NLP seems like quite an omission, especially since this is kinda how we're interfacing with AI currently.

We have 3 Switches in the household that have held up remarkably well to daily abuse. I've repaired little things here and there like the joy-con connector rails becoming loose. My 8 year old drops his many times a week. They're affordable and kid proof.

That being said, I can't imagine handing him a $500 Switch 2. Strangely no one in my household has any interest in the new switch, which I am thankful for.

I have never tried AGS, but I cut my game making teeth on Klick and Play and RPG maker back in the day. I think I was intimidated by the amount of art and the level of story telling needed to craft an adventure game. I wish there was a mac version of this, since I refuse to go near windows at this point.

Yes! my love for The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow is what led me to AGS.

I hope every publication uses Microsoft Copilot (formerly Office) for years, like they did for X (formerly Twitter).

Hopefully I'll have enough time to make a proper sequel to 'Wreck it Ralph' before it gets shut down due to the obvious risks.

We're going back to discs. Rerouting a fraction of the money we spent on streaming services buys a lot of DVDs/BluRays. Plus it stopped the brain rot dead in its tracks. The family TV was turning into a constant stream of YT shorts AI voices non-stop talk shouting over 3 vids of brainrot.

I own the tv, yet have no way of just blocking yt shorts, or even easily blocking the YT app on the tv. So YT is blocked at the router level.

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