Can't say I've seen much discussion on steam boxes, but generally speaking when hearing non techie people talk about phones etc... when people see a less expensive option with marginally comparable features, they tend to conclude the expensive one is just charging more to squeeze the most out of them... unless it's apple.

I mean, selling codes in a box is such a silly concept to me to begin with. I want to know it's marked up a bit to deal with the cost of keeping employees, be unable to trade it in or give it to a friend after I'm done playing it and have to wait to download it, but I'd also like to drive and wait in line to get it.

Most of the business models that enable subsidized pricing for consumer products, on the other hand rely on artificially restricting how people can use those products, which is shitty and abusive.

Which they agree with, that's kind of the point though, unfortunately the customer see's the PS5 for 600, and the steam machine for 1000+, and assume steam is the one doing something unethical, when the reality is valve is literally selling a PC. that you are allowed to install windows or a different linux distro on... play games from GOG or whatever on etc... which means valve has to make a bit of profit or at least break even in order not to be bankrupted by people buying a bunch of steam machines and no games.

I don't think that's "passive voice", it's intentionally choosing a softer word, (though even that may be more of a liability one. Same concept as the media using every word but "children" to describe people killed in Palestine.

Passive voice would be.

"A baby in a car was shot while police were responding to a shoplifting report".

Or if they wanted to dial it up to 100.

A male black baby was involved in a shooting with police responding to a shoplifting report.

so first the DOW was over 50,000, and now, we're on DOS.

I mean depends on the solution you are using, but you can have multiple accounts on the remote backup. IE so upon completion of the backup. The remote machine moves the backup to an offline or read only share (depending if you need those credentials to access the data again later),

Obviously most important thing is your credentials that make the backup... should be very limited in scope to just doing those backups.

on a job interview in IT, an interviewer asked me if I understood the difference between TCP and UDP. After giving the best technical explanation I could, I ended with

I could tell you a UDP joke, but I'm not sure if you'd get it.

He said go ahead

I paused, that was it.

Kind of awkward.

I didn't get the job.

Whole concept of "how much AI you used", is so flipping stupid of a metric I can't even wrap my head around. I mean even if we assume it's their own AI they are using... that's their power etc... That's like a leaderboard for most gas used up, or miles driven by your truck drivers.

So TL:DR, chrome is like internet explorer was before firefox. It does some things outside the standard, and because it's the modern day "default". sites sloppily code to work with it, and other browsers are left carrying the bag because if tiktok doesn't work on firefox, people will view that as a firefox problem. Even if firefox is the one actually following the standards when tiktok and chrome aren't.

Why do you think some of the most advertised things are... predatory loans and gambling.

Honestly for me the worse of it is, basically on linkedin and similar, people pretending to be recruiters, opening with a fake job posting and asking for your resume, then to follow it up with "Hey you know I don't think this resume is going to get by, can I put you in contact with my resume company, they will sharpen up your resume for $300. Umm... so yeah, don't know if you guessed this, but I have no clue when my next paycheck is coming in, this isn't the time to ask me to drop a large amount of money on something that may not do anything.

" problematic under current security standards."

Is there an understatement of the year award.

It's slightly troublesome that not only were a bunch of 20ish year olds, at least one in his past was fired for posting company secrets on discord... not only are able to walk into any government agency and get classified information... but are also, notably posting them to the public. (and that's just what we see them doing publicly... lord knows if anything is traveling through any hidden channels etc...

That's "problematic" in the way 9/11 was a "troubling event".

We need to respect the victims, that's why we can't release it.

Now watch the real thing be released full of victim names as he calls for harrasing them... but all the perpetrators names redacted.

Pretty sure the flow chart for identifying scams goes.

"Is trump in the name?" With yes leading to "it's a scam"

What do you expect... they replaced their investigative journalists with AI just days before this article came out.

(source, I asked chatgpt to research before doing this comment).

I mean his death couldn't have been more memable. He literally got shot at a school by a white kid. While talking about school shootings, trying to shift the focus onto black gangs, standing under a prove me wrong tent.

I mean honestly without the theoretical misdirection, I'd find this one of the better examples of a reasonable use of AI within a courtroom. IE it sounds like he asked to represent himself. He presented a video which, to my knowledge all the arguements were written by the person himself. Second the judge asked who it was he said the avitar is AI, presenting his arguements.

So in short, the only thing that's attempted to be bypassed, are biases related to his appearence and speech.

IMO this concept could be the real future of trials if done right. Imagine say if we used say extreme facial tracking AI, hid the defendent's actual appearence, but allowed the defendants to use avitars, that still map out any facial expressions and body language they make during the trial... but actually conceal the defendent's actual race and appearance. We could literally be looking at the one solution to the racial bias... the reality that with the same evidence, race plays a huge part in conviction rate and harshness of sentences.

It's insane on too many fronts... I mean off the bat it's an insanely weird gift, half illegal... and I guess it's also a reference to a warcrime?

Wow, he's really not reading the country very well is he? 2020, that was a 50/50 move, piss off half the country, earn the support from half of it. (again just talking on a purely business strategy), unless the millitary is about to buy a shitload of toyota's, I don't see how this isn't a horrific play.

Too bad HOAs are far more concerned with making sure everything looks plain and perfect to the 70 year old humans walking on the street rather than giving any craps about wildlife.

The only complaint I disagree with is

We hate the kiosks at McDonald's, Wendy's, and Taco Bell that we are asked to use instead of talking to a person

Personally I love the kiosks. I love being able to select exactly what I want, and not go through a communication layer with a person, who may mishear or misinterpret what I say, and adding that while still having humans there for people who don't like using screens or actually have questions is a good thing IMO.

But yes, AI is all the flaws of human workers, plus some because they always have and always will be significantly worse than humans at spotting mistakes giving you what you don't want etc...