I dont need a laptop right now but damn this thing is sexy. Its been a long time since hardware gave me that “do want” itch even though i dont need it. Ryzen would have been great but even with an Intel SOC this thing is a compelling package.
Uh, okay. Whatever?
show me that magic llm which doenst infringe the copyright of nearly everybody, which doesnt have an unprecedentet impact on the enviroment to train and run, which wont be used to cut of people from their income, which isnt owned by technocratic billionaire assholes, which isnt peddled and promoted by fascist goverments, which doesnt halluzinate, which isnt a blackbox, which actually works and doesnt fail at the simplest tasks sometimes, which doesnt infringe my privacy(allegedly tbf, but you know). the list goes on.
sure, sure technology itself isnt evil. but thats not a hill i want to die on in case of llms. they’re problematic on so many levels. full stop. i dont think its a naive take to have some skepticism against this clusterfuck. potentially some technologies could make the world a better place. but llms dont fit into this category.
yeah, usb 2.0 is still super common and for a lot of people this probably isnt even an issue tbf. but for me it is. i actually connect my phones via usb to other devices quite often. i wont buy an usb 2.0 phone ever again. my last two phones had usb 3.0 and gsmarenas phonefinder lists 433 other devices: https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nUSBType=2
800€ flagship phone with fucking USB 2.0 in 2025. lmao
I was upset at my Huawei P9 only having USB 2.0 and that was 9 years ago.
i would look at the listing where you bought the product or just use a search engine.
apart from that gratz. i like the pico platform. lots to dick around with. most of the big quest exclusives got ported over to pico unofficially in the last months.
tbh not in the mood to argue with you about it. if your a hasan fan. fair enough. i’m not. as i said i dont consider him as bad as elon, not even in the same ball park. but i still consider him shit. i was even subscribed to him a few years ago. i’ve seen enough first hand. my views on him arent filtered through takes of others.
so i was about to give you the win by going silent and just leave it be.
but:
i hope you realize how much right wing propaganda has gotten to you.
fuck off. get bent. posted as a leftist.
wouldnt go as far as saying that hasan is a decent human being. no doubt, i rank im way higher than elmo. but that guy is still problematic on so many levels even if his believes align here there with my own. but to apply even more nuance to my shitpost: the most unfair part of my post was to generelise an individual single dev beeing the entirety of the soulless corporation of ubisoft.
/hmm, lots of fans around here. idk how one can fall for this disingenuous fuckface. but you do you.
Hasan, Elon and Ubisoft… what is this, a shit triangle?
Sweet, this was one of the pain points with my pixel. Just felt so much more clunky than it needed to be.
Yeah, it will be interesting to see how this pans out. With that calender anecdote i just wanted say that its already slowly happening.
Also this horrible made with AI trailer for ARK Evolved just dropped a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2eCWWaCzwQ
For now i’m at the point where when i see a company use AI in any obvious way their legitimacy drops in instant to rock bottom. But i can see that easily change over the years if this just becomes common practice and i start to dont give a shit anymore.
Already spotted two calenders with AI “art” in the wild. Both were calenders which are given away by companies for free as marketing.
I understand why but i still hate it tbh. First because a day where i dont spot ai slop is a good day and second is the implication that now in atleast two cases not a single legimate artist got paid. Sucks.
I ran geekbench on my pixel 7 with both the stable and beta branch of grapheneos. No difference between the branches. Didnt see any performance numbers like in the article. It scored higher than run to run variance compared to the average geekbench presents though.
and thats why i finally gave up two years ago and bought a pixel and installed grapheneOS. also i just dont use shitty apps anymore. its a good life
The stagnant ram/storage situation weirds me out. Dont get me wrong 6/8GB ram and 128GB rom served, serves and will serve me well. But damn i bought a phone in 2019 for 300€ with the same specs and 6 years later i’m expected to pay almost double the price for the same. Doesnt make any sense to me from a consumer perspective. Yeah the SOC is faster, the cameras a bit better and the screen gets brighter. But there is no reason for me to upgrade unless support ends for my current phone or it just breaks.
The only compelling feature i see in the forseeable future is the whole desktopmode and virtualization thing. If done competently i would pay for that since i dabbled with the idea a lot in the last few years. It just was shit from the software stack standpoint. But then give me 12-16gb of ram and atleast 512gb of storage for lets say 600€ or less.
Oh yeah, this article was about gemini ai. Well i dont give a shit.
This is a weird one for me.
When the first Wreckfest(back then Next Car Game) launched as a crowdfunded game 12(?) years ago as an early access title it made sense. Flat Out as a franchise wasnt in their hands anymore and it hit rockbottom. So to develop a new game in a genre which had no competitor at the time with the community was compelling. Ngl the development was rocky at times. But in the end they made a super good game. THQ Nordiq got on board and with that funds for very big improvements in the tech it dearly needed. At times the game barely ran on high end PCs. But the engine got optimized so well it started to run well on the (now)last-gen consoles, then the switch and even mobile phones. But with that came also a lot of additions i really disliked. The physics got nerfed for the consoles but also on the PC, DLC galore, FOMO weekly events, the pretty realistic(ish) focus on folk racing shifted more into Flat Out 2 madness. The current game is very different to 1.0 . Not all for the better IMHO(!)
Either way: They again have a franchise with name recognition, they have a decently modern engine and game with lots of content to build upon and a publisher with funds. I dont see why an early access is needed? Especially in this super bare bones form with barely any cars or tracks(some even lifted from the last game) and nothing(!) else. I’ve put hundreds of hours into the last game. I still love it. Also i could really use finally a fresh new racing title after all the disappointments in the last years. But this… in this form isnt it. Especially knowing the community feedback might get thrown out in the future when the money man make decision. Meh
i’m way less concerned since i read the question correctly the second time.
The best part is they havent made a compelling game in 10 years. So i wont buy a game of them ever again either way. Its an easy life tbh.