I hope the 100Hz "sound" is actually useful, this could help VR become the killer tool it has the potential to be. SO MANY people have issues with motion sickness in VR their first time!

Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Apr 9, 2025, 18:46:
I have many Japanese friends, and I asked them what they thought of this new Predator, and they were very offended. there were no Predator aliens during the age of the Samurai. Damn you Disney!!!!

If AvP is canon, there were Predators when Antarctica was still green? 2000 BCE (https://www.avpcentral.com/alien-vs-predator-canon)
At any rate, the Alien Queen is now a Disney character and should be fetishised accordingly.

This is a useful tool, and one I would gladly use.. if the data and metadata stayed wholly confined to my network. I don't need it going to the cloud where some marketing software sees there's a bottle of Sweet Baby Rays in a photo then decides to send me messages through my TV for every other BBQ sauce EXCEPT THE ONE I LIKE.

"Lighten up, Francis!"

Seriously, go to a movie and can't dress up or laugh at the funny bits? How Orwellian.

AI is a great tool for people who already know what they're doing but a real pain for those same people because they KNOW what they're looking for and what they're getting aren't necessarily the same thing. The danger is for people who aren't competent, they won't understand why, if the response is 99% right, the last 1% is causing their result to be undesirable. High-functioning coders for instance aren't born, they're bred, and if they don't have opportunities to gain experience, we'll lose them.

As Kirk told Saavik, "You have to learn why things work on a starship." Else you get command-coded to oblivion.

I really, really wanted to love this game back in the day, but couldn't get it to go past the first hundred turns without it crashing.

Anyone remember that Star Wars game where you could play as the Rebel Alliance and try to conquer the galaxy? That one was a great idea until I figured out you could never lose if you just kept your hero ship in hyperspace all the time.

I get notifications for Shorts as well as long-form videos, and would like to ignore just Shorts. I don't care to watch Tik-Tok or Vines or whatever the kids call their short attention span fixes these days.

In 2025, this could be a pay-to-win phone game, or a cozy gamer title with Minecraft graphics. Not that we could afford a good graphics card, or get our hands on one, that could run a true successor to HL2..

First, the minimum processor requirement is Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz

Second.. I feel they should release a version of the original gameplay MC for mobile, as touch-screen or drawing a line on a touch-screen would be fun. But, "THE END" game sound should be max volume on speaker for everyone to hear.

ForgedReality wrote on Mar 4, 2025, 22:22:
Who the fuck even uses Chrome?

Android phones and Grandpa's MS Edge desktop computer?

ForgedReality wrote on Mar 4, 2025, 22:34:
Even if true, does anybody buy AMD cards? 🤪

Linux users, yes. People with budgets, yes. People who want cards but can't find an nVidia in the store, yes.

Not only is it a lie but it doesn't even link to the requirement doc they claim they referenced?!

The question is, how will this impact Linux support?

I'm half-way through Dune:Messiah and am wondering how this mess of a book would make an engaging film?

I moved to Mint for my daily driver last year and so far, it's done what I need it to, but not as well as Windows in some regards. NVIDIA drivers for instance, are not well-supported, due to their proprietary nature. My next video card will be an AMD for this reason. For gaming, I haven't tried to play anything except Civ VI, and it is a poorer experience - sound click/pops during the startup Firaxis movie and frequent screen-tearing during gameplay for instance. Backups/restores of the OS are impossible without destroying and reinstalling all the ancillary software and settings my apps rely on to run - unless I shut down and make an image of the system or add another layer of virtualization, which is unacceptable. I've deleted my personal information from my Windows 10 build so may switch back to it for gaming and continue to use the Mint install for everything else.

The plane in question was always going to or coming from Philly, the Black Hole Airport. Not surprised!

Carighan wrote on Feb 4, 2025, 13:26:
It's wild to me that in a nation that specifically has provisions to arm all its citizens to prevent a government from overreaching, people are just standing by letting these people stomp all over their democracy. You'd think this is the time the 2nd Amendment was created for!

Well, I only in Season 9 of "The Love Boat" so once that's done I'll have some free time

Seriously, though.. what good-paying professional career job can you get with arrests on your record these days? I'd have to kiss my security clearance goodbye, my company would never be able to pimp me out to our clients again. I suppose then I'd have more free time..to watch The Love Boat.

Wait a second.. AI is coming for our text messages now? Is nothing sacred?!

As the fabulous ParamountPlus+ series "Evil" has taught us, shovels are for whacking demons.

Isn't that just a fancy description of a Peltier cooler? We already know the significant drawbacks of that tech, why re-invent it?

The Flying Penguin wrote on Jan 23, 2025, 14:06:
I really need to move the wife to T-Mobile, but I can't move Dad. He has an old Verizon locked contractor's flip phone, and he's age 101 and doesn't adapt to changes in tech very well. What REALLY annoys me is that Verizon used to sell me a cheaper non-data plan for his line, but now the bastards make you pay for a full unlimited data plan... for a phone that has zero data capabilities. Grrrr

In 2018 I had a flip-phone through Consumer Cellular, very reasonable rates, easy to deal with and use at the time. Maybe that would be a viable avenue for your dad?