roguebanshee wrote on Oct 17, 2025, 17:27:

CrushBug wrote on Oct 17, 2025, 14:04:

Microsoft says it's making 'every Windows 11 PC an AI PC' with a dizzying array of Copilot upgrades, including voice activation

Awesome. How do I turn it off?

Plenty of guides available if you google "permanently disable copilot windows 11".

Yeah, this was more of a sarcastic post where every time a company introduces some new "AI" feature, the number one question from most IT folks is "How do I turn it off?"

Microsoft says it's making 'every Windows 11 PC an AI PC' with a dizzying array of Copilot upgrades, including voice activation

Awesome. How do I turn it off?

I have to strongly recommend staying away from all Samsung appliances. Our last house was after a reno and they had all Samsung appliances installed.

microwave (over stove)
- no insulation between the stovetop light and the microwave interior
- having the light on for a while resulted in opening the microwave and getting a face full of trapped heat
- eventually fabricated a heat shield/reflector for the light to fix the problem

dishwasher
- kept failing with an error code that it wasn't draining, but it was just a dirty sensor that I had to keep cleaning underneath all the mechanicals at the bottom of the dishwasher
- after 2 years the motherboard "burned out" so it was dead or $600 for a new mobo
- replaced it with a Maytag and no problems after that

stove
- stovetop elements had little temperature control; things went from warm to too hot with little adjustment and even the 1 setting was too hot and couldn't be used for warming
- oven could not hold a temperature; we had to keep turning it off then on to get it to work, just stopped using it for several months
- repair guy said it needed $400 of new parts
- eventually looked at it myself, turns out the bottom oven element was never hooked up at the factory and all the wires were just in a black ball of electrical tape under a panel
- connected the wires, then the over worked normally
- stovetop elements were still stupid

fridge
- was basically ok
- back of the fridge could freeze delicate things if you weren't careful
- flat out died after 3 years; jfc...

Also, all their new appliances have their connectivity. We stayed at an AirBnB that had brand new, all Samsung appliances, and me and my wife's Samsung phones kept asking if we wanted to "pair and connect" to the fridge, dishwasher, stove, and microwave. If I ever ended up with their appliances again I think I would put a screwdriver through their antennas.

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High

If I ever have to go to the US again, I think I would just take a burner phone and nothing else. Or maybe pick up a phone down there. Its just too crazy.

90% of Games Developers Already Using AI in Workflows, According to New Google Cloud Research.

Absolutely fucking not.

Sounds like BF6 will require secure boot as well. I am disappointed. My machine isn't even that old (2 years, I think) and that feature is disabled, and I have been reading the horror stories about people having problems after enabling it. Sheesh. I really hope there is a lot of pushback on this, at least until I actually upgrade my machine in the future and most of these issues will hopefully get worked out.

I was right there with you!

RogueSix wrote on Jun 9, 2025, 15:47:
Hope they fixed the shitty camera/movement control scheme.

I have heard second hand, by some who had tested it early, that the controls were significantly improved from the original game. I haven't played the EE version myself, but I remember struggling with the original NWN2 game.

Prez wrote on Jun 4, 2025, 15:12:

AI Prompts Will Soon Let a 10-Person Team Build a Game Like Breath of the Wild Where the AI Is Doing All the Dialogue and You Just Write Character Synopsis, Tim Sweeney Predicts

Sure, and it will take another decade before it's not a non-stop joke engine to be endlessly memed. Apple "Intelligence" anyone?

I know a guy in the industry; he works for a large international developer. About a year and a half ago, he was tasked with forming a team to attempt to make a complete game using "AI" (I hate that word). The team grew to 20, then 50, then 80, then 120, and that was when they shut it all down. After almost a year, all everyone was doing was trying to train the "AI" to create code, dialog, art, animations, sound, music, and then make it all work together. It just never came together. At that point they reasoned that it wasn't viable and that they would have been much further along if the same people were actually trying to make a game with their usual tools.

Let. People. Enjoy. Things.

A fantastic book on this topic is "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet", by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281818.Where_Wizards_Stay_Up_Late

That link seems to be a trailer for a Fairy Tale 2.

The "cloud" is just "someone else's computer".

And it was more viable back when it wasn't so expensive.

ShakaUVM wrote on Oct 18, 2024, 00:01:
Subnautica 1 was amazing. The weird second game they made was not nearly as good, but they did add a bunch of new structures to build... thankfully they backported them into Subnautica 1 as well.

I didn't mind the second one, but it didn't have the "magic" of the first one. And I love that them put all the UI and other game improvements back into the original. Looking forward to this one!

I Use Cross Ventilation and Turn Down the AC to Save Big Bucks on Electric

Jeebus, these articles. I have lived in 1 apartment and 4 homes and none of them have had windows that allow for a breeze to blow through. The current place I am in, the attic insulation must be 60 years old and if we set the AC to a higher value or turn it off for an hour, the house just starts baking from its own stored heat.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jul 14, 2024, 14:12:
Division 3 needs a major overhaul of storage space, or a different item system entirely.

This part is 100% true.

I was looking forward to seasonal characters, a la Diablo 3, but wow were there a vocal amount of people against it. It was a weird experience for me as I thought it sounds like a good idea, but when I saw some videos and feedback, there were several folks who were against it for the same reasons I liked it. Will be interesting to see how it all shakes out.

I feel bad for this dude. It feels like the Xbox app is what is causing some of the problems. Sure, a bunch of the launchers don't let you be logged in from 2 places at once; Steam has got them beat in this area. But the other issues are really weird and not something I have seen in many many years of running 5 launchers at the same time.

There are so many good games out there, from good devs with good ideas, whether it is 1 person or 20, I feel compelled to support them, regardless if the game's genre appeals to me.

Dark Goofy meme: And I'll fucking do it again!

RedEye9 wrote on May 17, 2024, 18:05:
old slogan “‘If it’s not Boeing, I’m not going!'” https://mynorthwest.com/3956084/boeing-slogan-if-its-not-history-its-a-mystery/
meets the new motto
‘If it’s Boeing, I’m not going’

Screwdrivers Now Permitted On Boeing Flights, To Allow Passengers To Help With Maintenance