Of course they aren’t, because they’re not required to, and money is money.

The fun part is that if it actually were restricted to collecting data for law enforcement? It would be a pretty obvious (though probably still not enforced because the courts suck) violation of your rights against searches without due process of law. But because it’s “publicly available”, they can pretend that it’s not really a search.

They’re struggling because they’re not learning, or learning how to learn.

LLM outputs aren’t reliable. Using one for your research is doing the exact opposite of the steps that are required to make good decisions.

The prerequisite to making a good decision is learning the information relevant to the decision, then you use that information to determine your options and likely outcomes of those paths. The internalization of the problem space is fundamental to the process. You need to actually understand the space you’re making a decision about in order to make a good decision. The effort is the point.

Evaluating sources and consolidating the information they contain into concise, organized structures is how your brain learns. The notes aren’t the goal of note taking. They’re simply the process you use to internalize the information.

There’s a place for more formal writing.

But the point of using precise, formal language is the intent behind it. If you’re just RNG-ing it it loses all meaning.

They’re asking for a jury trial. That’s what I’m referring to.

The scary part is that they think (and are probably correct) that they have a good chance of convincing a random jury that it’s totally fine.

Just in time to not be able to use them for credit any more.

Holy hell.

Even by the standard of “all software patents are nonsense”, these are a fucking joke.

It was less than 6 months ago when I finally cancelled.

Not just every gaming session. Literally every single time I switched games. Not one single exception.

I was on the founder plan for a while because 50/year to keep an eye on the state of the tech wasn’t a huge deal, and there was plenty of stuff my MacBook wasn’t really powerful enough for but could tolerate the lag.

But the whole log-in process was way too much of a barrier for me to actually use it routinely.

You also have to re-log in to Steam every fucking time.

It was wider, longer, and those bars were about the same size, but the pro was 3 instead of 2 compared to the original non slim.

The implied uncertainty was the noise part. Neither was enough to really pay attention to in a living room type environment, so I have no idea.

It’s definitely not smaller.

“AI” doesn’t work.

I can give you my reasons, but can’t comment on anyone else.

A. I would genuinely buy PS5 over Xbox just for the controller. Third party utilization is hit or miss, but Sony games pretty consistently feel amazing with the trigger feedback and precision vibration.

B. There are a bunch of system seller caliber games made by Sony. There weren’t many made by Microsoft before the Activision merger and even since stuff like Starfield hasn’t been as popular as they’d want. But I’d pick PS5 just for Horizon, just for the Last of Us, maybe just for God of War (over any single game Microsoft has, though I’m not as into it as some), and their catalogue last gen was way better and benefits from the faster storage making a huge dent in load times as well. As someone who likes playing punishing games, loading 20 seconds after a death compared to waiting several minutes breathes a lot of fresh air into them.

C. The low end Xbox along with their requirement for parity between the two made it a lot harder for third parties to support them.

D. There isn’t a lot that really takes advantage of it, but their built in hardware compression is still tech that’s really exciting to me in terms of how seamless you can make open world games without arbitrary limitations. There are brief loading screens when I die on current gen games, but never hitting them during traversal no matter how dense or busy a world is (without the elevator trick or whatever to hide loading) really adds a lot of immersion. I haven’t experienced it in Xbox, and I recognize that the actual speed of the drive is also a key part of the real world difference, but there are also hardware and software components of how fast loading is, to the point that PS5 games pretty consistently load well faster than PS4 games that don’t leverage the tech. Also, the PS5 lets you just use a regular nvme drive to expand storage easily.

They also have the same cost restrictions Sony does because they’re using very similar components, so they can’t undercut them.

Because no one wants an Xbox.

Even during the early launch with Covid killing supply chains and PS5’s selling out in seconds every time a retailer added stock, Xboxes were gettable pretty easily and most people didn’t want them as a substitute.

Fallout has the worst gunplay I’ve ever experienced.

It’s a truly dumpster fire excuse for an FPS.

I doubt it. They bumped their prices in Japan not that long ago, and controllers got a price bump too. Japan might be more about currency, but their costs haven’t decreased in the current economic climate for computer chips compared to the normal life cycle of consoles.

The Pro isn’t just $700 because they think they can get away with it. I’m guessing it costs way closer than that to make than you think.

It sets an absolutely obscene precedent that a government can globally restrict information. Even global terrible actors like Russia and China haven’t succeeded at that.

Yes, that precedent is 1000 orders of magnitude more harm than India losing access (which they won’t, because the entirety of Wikipedia is open source and would be mirrored in the country instantly. But even if they actually would, it is literally impossible to get anywhere near the harm of the precedent this sets).

Being available elsewhere is entirely irrelevant. Wikipedia must stand against totalitarian censorship to resemble a reputable organization.

Complying is unforgivable.