I use a site called MyNoise which has a ton of white noise soundtracks. My favourite soundtrack for sleeping is called "rice fields" and consists of frogs, cicadas and water sounds. If I'm struggling to sleep I go "ok, froggy time" and put this on. Works 99% of the time.

"Fucking finally!"

• grasshopper after waiting 100 million years for grass to evolve

I have no mouth and I must screamdeck

I saw some early demos and hoped that AI could bring about a revolution in on-the-fly procedural generated content for gaming to do things that would be literally impossible by other methods. But no, instead it has been used to replace artists to produce poor-quality pre-generated static content and I couldn't be more disappointed.

'Apple said that under the DMA, “instead of competing by innovating, already successful companies are twisting the law to suit their own agendas"'

The call is coming from inside the house.

No, you totally can dive into a pile of gold and swim in it and they should definitely all try it. It works better the higher the diving board is.

I don't fear skilled professionals using GenAI to boost their productivity. I do fear organisations using GenAI to replace skilled professionals

I just want games where the devs get to release the game they wanted to make without the studio enshittification microtransactions, always-online single player and so on tagged on to it.

I'm almost never willing to pay current AAA game prices for a game that it's possible I'll be bored with after a few hours. I'd much rather spend the same amount on 3 or 4 well-reviewed indie games as the chances are I'll get at least one game amongst them that I'll enjoy investing my time into.

I find it ridiculous that MPs, gov agencies, etc still have active twitter accounts at this point.

This affects anyone who relies on American payment processors (Visa, Mastercard, PayPal), so is very much a global issue.

In the Culture novels robots assigned to this task have super accelerated consciousness, beyond human cognitive capabilities and can basically harmlessly stop you with a force field if you do anything to attempt to harm another person. Can Elmo's bots do any of that? Not even close.

"But not all screen use is equal."

I think this is key. Curated, age-appropriate, educational content vs engagement-maximizing, algorithmically selected slop. Parents need to be in control of what kids watch, not tech companies.

Expect specialist "open" hardware capable of installing any software/OS to become increasingly expensive, while increasingly locked-down, mass-produced consumer hardware remains at current price. You only need to look at TVs for an example of this - try finding a recent non-smart TV at a reasonable price as the cheap models are all subsidised by the revenue from pushing ads into your face.

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But why is the 20 years ago picture Win 8 and the today picture is XP?

I will be very sad when my 16 yo Sony Bravia TV dies

I think their target group is exactly the same, they just aged a bit

This is basically the basis of the patent system. Patent too generic? Add more details!

One of the games you can download on Android with a Netflix subscription is Into the Breach. I played that game so much while I had a subscription. It plays so well on mobile and I wish I could just pay the devs to own a copy but sadly Netflix is the only way to play it on that platform. I doesn't quite seem worth resubbing to Netflix for one game.