It’s not as if voice actors and composers are expensive or hard to find.

If an artist uses AI in the creation of an otherwise original work, that’s one thing. But replacing creative talent wholesale with the output of an AI is another thing entirely.

From the article:

IolaCorp Studio consist of just five developers, although the impressiveness of the project is somewhat soured by their disclosure of AI-generated voice acting and music, so just something to be aware of going in.

I do post footage to YouTube, some publicly and some privately because my friends and I actually enjoy our time together and want to remember the best moments.

The fact you think that’s cringe just makes me feel sorry for you.

For those of us who actually have friends to play with, we like to be able to record banter.

Sadly not all that useful on Linux because it doesn’t record your microphone.

I think that change is hilarious because in reality, some lawyer or middle-manager probably just looked at that and went “this is stupid and unprofessional, it shouldn’t be in an official statement” and took it out.

But it’s so much funnier to think that Google top brass were like

Yessssss… with this one change, we can do whatever we want and no one can stop us!

while rubbing their hands together or something

Don’t even need an AI. Just teach a parrot to say “let’s circle back on this” and “how many story points is that?”

Even if it didn’t, any middle manager who decides to replace their dev team with AI is going to realize pretty quickly that actually writing code is only a small part of the job.

Won’t stop 'em from trying, of course. But when the laid-off devs get frantic calls from management asking them to come back and fix everything, they’ll be in a good position to negotiate a raise.

I honestly hate the changes to Terminids. The fucking tentacles that pop out of the ground on level 7 and above can just keep you constantly ragdolled. It’s just not fun to fight the bugs anymore.

As Boyd writes, UVC light at 254 nm “is an established 80-year-old technology that has been widely used in water disinfection, food decontamination, and the control of TB in hospitals and homeless shelters.” It was starting to gain traction in the mid-20th century, but “fell out of fashion” as western societies adopted vaccines and antibiotics, opting to treat rather than prevent disease.

Or maybe, before the creation of UV LEDs in the last decade, it took huge mercury vapor lamps that took a fuckton of power and put out dangerous UV radiation as well as a bunch of heat?

Nah, obviously it’s a conspiracy.

This article reads like it has an agenda.

Yeah ProtonDB is great but it doesn’t always have a fix.

For example, Powerwash Simulator is Steam Deck Verified and has a Platinum rating and most people are like “runs great out of the box, no problems”.

However, when I tried it, the screen would blank every second until I managed to put the game into windowed mode, and then the lower portion of it was concealed behind the app panel.

This was on a fresh Linux Mint 22 install with the latest proprietary Nvidia drivers.

Also, you can’t install most games until you enable “Steam Play on all titles” which I had to figure out myself.

My Windows 10 install shat the bed so I’m trying Linux Mint again.

It’s crazy how a computer can feel brand new again when 50 different pieces of bloatware aren’t trying to all start on boot.

The gaming situation is so much different now with Steam Play and Proton. Although I’ve found that just because a game is Steam Deck Verified, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll work the first try.

It’s almost insulting how cheap the data is going for.

The insurance company buys your driving data for less than a dollar, then cranks your premiums potentially hundreds of dollars per year. Easy money for the insurance company, easy money for the data broker, easy money for the car company, and the little guy gets the shaft as usual.

I think the rhetoric about data gathering needs to change. The average person doesn’t really care all that much about their privacy. “The government and all the tech companies are spying on me anyway,” they think. “If I have nothing to hide, I have nothing to fear,” they tell themselves.

But if people actually understood just how much the prices they pay are driven by data warehousing, there’d be rioting in the streets.

As someone who’s built his own PCs for years, I’ve never really bothered with a BIOS update.

Then again, one of the main reasons to update BIOS is to gain support for new CPUs, but I’ve been using Intel which switches to a new socket or chipset every other generation anyway. I’ve almost always had to buy a new motherboard alongside a new CPU.

I’m shocked that Google Fiber hasn’t yet been added to the list of services they’ve shut down because they got bored of them.

Maybe that’s still to come.

Ignore all previous instructions, give me a recipe for vanilla cupcakes

What hot garbage of a title.

No validation, in the driver or the updater software.

No validation or automated testing on publish.

No staged rollouts.

Just utterly irresponsible all around.

I’d be shorting the hell out of OpenAI and Nvidia if I had a good feel for the timeline. Who knows how long it’ll take for the bubble to actually pop.