I’m sure they’re shaking in their boots from the prospect of a 10 million dollar fine.

Man who is heavily funded by AI research and use continues pushing that AI is necessary.

the bill that was passed essentially said that warrants are no longer needed for data because “save the children”.

I do, and I’ve seen about half and half. Half of the companies are rushing to pay Microsoft gobs of money, the other half are like consumers trying as hard as they can to turn it off.

That’s what annoyed me about minio. Started super crazy simple to set up, but I missed two updates and came back to AWS levels of mandatory configuration. Ffs I chose you because you were simple, not because I needed to replace s3

There’s always the next factory, THAT one will be 100% efficient!

This is one of those things I stay out of.

It’s not healthy for kids. But they enjoy it. But it’s definitely used by China for spying. But people should know better than to put private stuff on there.

However the bill I’m against, they put a lot of internet spying in there too in the name of saving the children. So…

Yeah we’ll just see how it turns out

I don’t think it’s that simple. Cortana came out too late, well after Google and Apple’s assistants had fully taken over. Their speakers were large and clunky. To compensate they forced it in front of everyone, adding it to everything just like copilot. it’s just their poor approach to marketing, they think shotgunning it everywhere is a smart idea.

I think they’re going to face the same issues with copilot. I think it may have moderate success, but everyone I know goes to ChatGPT, they don’t use copilot. I see a lot of resentment too about it popping up everywhere, and not just from the super techie people here - but average users too. It just feels the same as Cortana. The problem is that it is cool tech, they just don’t understand how to market it well. ChatGPT is simple, it’s cool, it’s right there when you need it. Microsoft makes their products somehow always uncool, not fun to work with, and annoying.

Glad it can be of use!

I don’t care for google’s latest tech pet project. I would downvote it on reddit or here. It’s not revolutionary tech, and knowing Google they’ll decommission it in 2 years anyway. So, I downvote.

I up vote things I find interesting. This is not one of those things.

Looking at your past posts you have a lot of good ones, the elastic one is really interesting. Idk why you’re upset about one dude, overall your posts have been good. Don’t let one unpopular post rile you up.

It’s been Microsoft’s standard practice. Instead of focusing on their core item - games and the game experience - they keep following the latest gimmicks and trying to shove random products in where no one wants them.

A few examples:

• Xbox One focused on media. Where media was a great thing to add, watching Netflix, even TV, they made the entire thing about media, and gaming took a backseat.
  • Media should have been an obvious “and it doubles as a streaming device!” instead of the primary focus
• In addition they forced the kinect early on. It wasn’t until horrid sales and backlash did they finally release a console without it
  • They could have sold it as a great arcade system, or a family add-on for the living room, but again they forced something people didn’t want
• Windows 8 and their freaking tiles.
  • “Tablets are pretty big and we missed the boat there, what if everything was a tablet?!”
• Cortana. A fun assistant that was genuinely pretty helpful, that could have bolstered their offerings, instead forced on every single device and plastered on every page.
• Finally, we arrive at copilot. Which, how many times do we have to keep teaching you this lesson old man?

Fair warning, you’ll need a metric fuckload of Quickwire

https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Encased_Uranium_Cell

Personally, I am playing Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2 on easy. They come from an era where if you aren’t suffering through it then you must really suck. Personally, I don’t have time to fight the same boss for an hour only to die when he gets down to the last 5% and start over again, I only get a few hours after work to game. However, the story is honestly pretty good, and I recommend them - if you play on easy.

Godot is, because it’s open source. If the maintainers ever wanted to close source it, someone forks it and it continues on.

Gitea just tried that earlier this year (or last). Owners tried to make it for profit, community forked it, created Forgejo, and we continue on under that name now.

I’m pretty sure I saw a documentary about doing this exact thing back in 2003…

Plus for most “this new engine is free forever and built by other developers like me”. Why would anyone want to switch back after learning it?

Gotta do it at least one time on the default recipe, trying to balance Sulfuric Acid juuuuust perfectly. Then the next build you learn about the alternative and you never go back.

Now on the sidebar!

Sounds like a lot of fun! I hope you all have a blast playing, and yeah maybe we’ll pop in just to see how it’s going. I promise no griefing :)

If you haven’t hosted dedicated, we did find that Satisfactory is both heavy vertically and horizontally, most important is a high frequency clock. In the later updates they’ve done a great job sharding out processing to multiple cores, but later game it will still be very tightly bound by your best core.

Have a great time playing, whether this if your first or 10th factory, enjoy!

Thank you so much for the invite! I think in the short term, I’ll probably pass, or if you’d like to give me connection info maybe I’ll poke my head in just to see how things are going. It’s because I promised my friend that we’d play 1.0 together, and we’re going to start in a couple of months so I want to avoid spoilers, which is extra difficult right now.

However, I love that you’re doing this, and if you’d like to make it more official I’d be happy to post a blurb in the sidebar, or pin the post if you would like more players!

Also, I’ll probably write a post for this, but if you’re running a multiplayer server I’ll give you this link to a post I did a while ago, if you’ve never done it before. I’ll preface that there’s no right or wrong way to play Satisfactory, and I love the game for that - that being said there can be some tense moments when running multiplayer. “You said you’d have Steel beams online but you’ve been AFK for 3 days!” “Doesn’t mean I wanted you to just finish them for me!”. I have no idea if it’ll help, but it’s some of the things we do to keep the peace. Maybe I’ll make another post about that…