He wants to be a Temu Rogan but ends up as a Temu Dave Rubin. He's horrible and happy to platform extremists and broadcast their views, but I don't think he's a true believer, more likely he is just too stupid to understand the issues.

It already supports realtime audio plugins now, which are non-destructive.

Nota bene: Not just laid off, replaced. With other people.

Basically spent a ton of money and talent and business disruption to turn over 80% of his workforce for shits and gigs.

Took me ages to understand this. I'd thought "If an AI doesn't know something, why not just say so?“

The answer is: that wouldn't make sense because an LLM doesn't know ANYTHING

Zac Bowden used to post a video for every single new insider build of Windows to cover any change he could, he's bought the original Surface table from 2007, he's been covering and championing all things Windows for at least a decade. To get someone like him off side, you really gotta be fucking the dog.

Who wants to give me a billion dollars to dig a hole and I'll give you a billion to fill it back in and we'll both say to investors we posted a billion dollars in revenue.

When I was young, I was not allowed to install anything on the family PC whatsoever. I had a 100MB Zip disk and was told anything that I wanted to keep, I could keep on there. That disk got a big workout. Had Duke 3D and the Half-Life Uplink demo on there, plus about 30MB to spare! Great days man.

It's actually a really good representation of how execs are viewing AI. It's a bunch of meaningless graphs and pictures of robots with the word 'AI' sprinkled over the place, the whole thing is backwards for the worker, and it's imaginary.

Vanilla Gnome is best Gnome

It gave up

I particularly liked that the original Unreal came with a pack-in note apologising for the crappy netcode.

throws dart

hits Tomb Raider 3

throws again

I've seen this described as "the absolute minimum at the last possible second" - true, perhaps, somewhat, but still should be encouraged

If you were going to play Daggerfall without the fast travel you might as well play Desert Bus instead, at least that game would require you to be physically at the controller between destinations

Anyone hear a loud hissing sound?

There are people who are seeing a therapist, and people who need to

If they were going to get enshittified, they should've been smarter about it to gradually introduce lock-in. The switching cost of going to Jellyfin is almost zero. Did it in an afternoon about a year ago. Ya done goofed, Plex

Incredibly sad news. You'd always see her popping up in places you wouldn't expect, YouTube comment threads, discord servers. I followed her mastodon posts and it was heartbreaking to read her posts about looking after Jennell in her final months, but she was so upbeat and warm as well in her interactions with people. Her work is of course legendary and Jennell too made some of the Quake maps that I still play to this day.

I do like to think though that is nice that the two of them are reunited. RIP Burger Becky.

I've been daily-driving it for several years. I think it's very good, generally, and am happy to stick with it for the foreseeable future. Murena asks you to sign up for their cloud services on first boot, but if you say no, they'll never bother you about it again. I don't use them, so can't comment on whether they're any good.

I have found their App Lounge app (Google Play Store/FDroid alternatives rolled into one) to be spotty. Sometimes I've found I had to reboot the phone to get it to download/update apps. They have made updates recently that improve this a lot and I haven't seen it presenting these kinds of issues over the last couple months, but I won't say they've definitively fixed the issues. You can always fall back to Aurora store for Google Store apps and FDroid for FOSS apps if the App Lounge gives you big headaches.

I use FOSS apps where possible over Google apps. Organic Maps is excellent, often better than GMaps. Banking apps work fine for me. Haven't tried NFC for payments, I don't use it.

There's no instances of Murena and related orgs doing anything shady about data collection or anything afaik, their big conceit is privacy and they'd be sunk if there were any scandals around that. If you have a threat model that requires an extremely high amount of security however, you may prefer to steer clear as /e/ freely admit they make trade-offs in hardening for convenience and ease of use. While they incorporate the latest security patches from LineageOS, GrapheneOS continually allege that /e/'s modifications can make their OS less secure than stock Android. How true that is, I don't know. Assume your phone can be hacked at any time if it were specifically targeted.

If you're in the market for a phone that's just good for everyday use but doesn't have all the Google tie-ins, I can recommend it.

I've had a quick play of it but first impressions are pretty obvious: They've done a magnificent job. So many tiny little improvements all over the place, many very subtle.

For Heretic, many of the gameplay tweaks seem to be informed very much by the Heretic mod "The Wayfarer's Tome" which rebalances the game in many subtle ways to make it much more fun and less grindy.

And for Hexen, you can just look at your map to see where you need to go next and the main hubs are given more visual clues as to how you're progressing and what is still outstanding. And little things that'd shit you to tears - the mage's ice shards can pass through frozen enemies so their statues don't bog down the fights anymore and centaurs/slaughtaurs no longer are guaranteed to turn into invincible turtles every time you hit them - they don't raise their shields as often and when they do, you can get around from behind!!

It's quite evident they've paid great attention and have had a finger on the community pulse for a while to smooth over some of the welts in the original games that they were criticised for, even when they first came out.