I was sure this was photoshopped and there was no way that was real...

It's real. This is just unbelievable.

You guys are eating?

Xbox has been my primary platform for most of my life. Parents didn't like video games so I didn't play much until I was an adult and secondhand stuff was really cheap and accessible.

After switching to Stadia, which was phenomenal for a casual-new-dad gamer and I loved it, before it was unsurprisingly killed, coming back was entirely different. Everything was digital, there is no secondhand market for games, and consoles are increasingly expensive.

Making Xbox less accessible and more restrictive may have pushed me to a windows PC a few years ago... But making Windows 11 such a shit show made me switch everything to Linux.

I'd love to stay but they seem determined to suck everything that was great out of it.

I absolutely love questions like this! My wife absolutely hates them. She often gets irritated when people ask questions about what you think.

Like when our therapist asked her "How do you think your actions contribute to your own unhappiness?"

Yup. I work from home and have a pihole on my network at home so I've gotten used to not seeing the ads.

Was browsing on mobile data while on the road and was reminded why its necessary. It was unbearable.

So I tied and onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.

I don't feel like the companies are concerned about it costing more right now as much as they are betting that it will be cheaper in the long run. The cost of labor isn't unlikely to decrease drastically while the technology is likely to become cheaper.

While I would love to believe Microsoft is being burned by spending on AI, I think they don't mind spending more now so long as they can trade the cost labor for the costs of technology and maintain similar productivity.

Feels like they hope this will be to white collar jobs what Uber was for taxi drivers. Current profitability isn't really the goal as much as being able to reproduce similar outputs.

I feel like this tweet is conflating 2 different perspectives as the same thing. The doctor will have studied conditions and illnesses in aggregate while the individual experiences it personally on a daily basis. Conclusions drawn from both perspectives can contradict and both be true without invalidating the other. As a result, I don't see either as justified in using there perspective to disqualify the others.

I feel both sides could benefit from taking a more nuanced view of things and more openly listen to one another. I know that's an ideal and is not reflected in many people's experience, sadly, but wanted to highlight that no one need be wrong in this situation.

This argument fails to account for how I feel. Reading Spiderman makes me want to be a better person.

The key is to accept that the end of consciousness is a feature of existence, and not a bug.

Do... Do people really think it's their imagination?

Pretty sure many of the cars sold now have a SIM card or something similar which the manufacturer pays for up front. I don't think it takes much for them to ping periodically with the information they'd like to track and this ensures they get the data.

Still, don't connect your car to the Internet, as that could give them way more data but I doubt that that doing that alone will completely stop the tracking.

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Yup. Currently work at an ad tech company and we just pushed a new ad surface and the executives freaking loved it. It adds on additional revenue without putting any of the current revenue at risk. Internally, the narrative was super positive while externally it was "Well, that's kind of annoying".

So long as user engagement doesn't totally tank, they see it as a complete win.

That's a good point, though I think it's also fair to say that you won't experience unending nothingness after death from that perspective, either. I can see how coming to accept that the world existed before our experience began could help one confront the world will continue to exist after our experience has ended.

The great thing about this is the reward for getting so much done is more stuff to do!

The worse results likely refers to results for advertisers but this will impact Meta's ad revenue in the long run.

The article cited an example with almost zero sales with CPMs of $250, which is crazy high. I'd also bet the biggest chunk of advertisers using these tools don't have sophisticated advertising strategies or resources. Many of them will probably pause these poor performing campaigns and be very restrictive with future budgets until performance improves.

In short, Meta took a lot of money in a short time but didn't earn much money back for advertisers, so they will spend less in the future and less money make Meta sad.

The Stormlight Archive. This will be my 4th time. They're my comfort books.

Man, I really miss Stadia. I used it for a year and it worked flawlessly. Even still have the app on my phone as I couldn't bring myself to uninstall it.

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