Oh absolutely, but we know what happens with mixed feedback in this industry today

Honestly it’s the same thing with Concord, and it’s part of why it sucks to hear a lot of shit talk toward the devs of these games. Anyone who’s actually tried either game could tell the dev teams really did put their all into it and wanted to make something interesting and fun, but you can feel the c-suite decisions and live service bullshit weighing them down. Like if the game isn’t an instant hit, it gets shut down, and all that work thrown away. It really fucking sucks for the folks who actually put the work in.

I feel like the exact same thing’s gonna happen with Marathon too. Playtest this week was met with pretty mixed results, people either loved it or hated it. The actual devs are incredible, and having spent far too much time with D2 before dropping it, I’ve gotten to know a few folks on the team and can really vouch for them. But I can’t vouch for their management whatsoever, and they’re the reason I dropped that game entirely and will never touch another Bungie game. I have zero faith in Bungie management keeping this one alive.

If you have a VPS, consider setting up either Headscale or Netbird if you don’t want to use any of Tailscale’s built-in auth methods (with all necessary security precautions taken of course). If that’s not an option I’d suggest going back to Wireguard for sure.

The US is far, far more of a threat than China even remotely is. That being said, I highly doubt the GOS devs would even consider any collaboration if a backdoor was ever a possibility.

Plausible deniability. For example, if Anthropic caved, today’s murder of 50 Iranian kids would probably be blamed on the AI fucking up. It would give them a scapegoat.

It’s a mix of that and these people genuinely believing this garbage is actually remotely useful.

Fuck Anthropic and all AI companies, but at the same time good on them for not bending the knee here.

Yeah that’s pretty much it

Fork found in kitchen and water is wet

Oh yeah, it’s probably an Nvidia thing isn’t it. Yeah sometimes swapping works, though overall it’s just not consistent enough to bother with sleep.

Probably something funky on my end but my CachyOS machine struggles to wake up from sleep mode. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it takes 5+ minutes on a black screen, sometimes it just never comes on. Regardless, I use an elgato stream deck (I like my funny buttons + dials and it powers my XLR mic), and it flat out doesn’t turn back on after sleep.

This thing is up and running in like a minute tops from a cold boot anyway so I usually just run an update and full shut down every night.

how about instead of just denying them jobs we send them all to the Hague

2 weeks tops

Master of Headassery

“Thought leaders” is one of the most ridiculous bullshit phrases to ever come out of the English language

All they’re doing is finding a new vendor, not canceling this plan entirely.

Plus fully admitting they have enough data on most users already to skip it is blatantly admitting to privacy violations.

Let them rot. Don’t let this shitty “we’re sowwy” post fool you.

It definitely seems like the best competitor popping up. Familiar UI, nearly all essential features already functional, open source and self-hostable. I will say it feels like it came out of nowhere and having paid options out the gate feels a bit sketchy so I’m not completely placing any bets on it, but after trying it out for a bit I’ve been liking it far more than any other alternative.

Matrix is more mature and established but very clunky, confusing for casual users, and most clients are terrible. Stoat feels extremely dated and buggy, and it feels exactly the same as when I first tried it a year ago before the name change. Alternatives are few and far between and nothing really excels just yet, but Fluxer feels the most promising.

All they’re doing is finding a new vendor, they’re not backing down on this bullshit at all. And the gall to say “oh we have enough data on most of you already 🥰” is absolutely vile.

Requested my data archive already and getting ready to wipe and delete my account. What a shitshow.

In other news, fork found in kitchen

Tbh I’ve been running this (not exposed of course) for a while now and never thought too much of it, it gave some weird vibes but functionally seemed pretty useful.

In retrospect it absolutely makes sense that the whole thing was just AI slop.

I’ve never heard of this but I knew one of the host names (replacing the toads) sounded familiar for some reason, turns out he was a major character in yakuza 6 lmao

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Kitano

I’ve always vouched for fully separate headphones + mic for years, though admittedly that’s probably less applicable for wireless preferences.

I swear by Sennheisers, currently using a Schitt DAC/amp, though offhand I forget the exact model of both. I used to stream and I sold off all my equipment except for mic RE20 XLR mic. I use an elgato stream deck plus with the xlr dock because funny knobs and buttons but their linux support is nonexistent and the foss alternatives aren’t great, but it works.