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Rob_Poldingon Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

if you mainly play Switch 1 games, it's not worth the upgrade. I've got both and Switch 1 games are not dramatically better. The screen is certainly not as good as the Switch OLED, so if you have that and aren't interested in Switch 2 games you've made a good choice!

Rob_Poldingon Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

These AI companies need to be kept away from Open Source projects. A sad day for Blender :(

Rob_Poldingon Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns

In my country 95% of people don't mind Meta tracking their location with WhatsApp, so I think the days of people caring about tracking are long gone!

I am the exception and believe in privacy, and I've not used a Meta app since I tested Facebook/WhatsApp back in 2010 and soon uninstalled them as I don't want a digital portfolio to be developed on me for advertisers. Same with Google, they can whistle for my personal information, but they won't get it!

I'm sure surveillance companies have an even easier time buying data from Meta/WhatsApp so that's even more worrying as people use different ISPs so 95% of people won't be traced by any one ISP, but Meta and Google have the location information of anyone gullible enough to use their services.

Rob_Poldingon Amiga Graphics Archive

This brought back some memories. So nice to see art from an era where you really needed talent to be able to produce it. Such a nice contrast to the AI slop which takes no talent to produce!

Rob_Poldingon AI is different

GenAI is a bubble, but that’s not the same as the broader field of AI, which is completely different. We will probably not even be using chat bots in a few years, better interfaces will be developed with real intelligence, not just predictive statistics.

Rob_Poldingon Blurry rendering of games on Mac

It’s a good thing that most people don’t buy Macs for gaming, as they suck compared to any other platform. Anyone who expects a good experience is fooling themselves as they won’t get it! If you want to experience games as the developer intends, don’t play ports that use compatibility layers, just buy a console and play natively!

Rob_Poldingon I Conscientiously Object to Self-Driving Cars

I get by in an EU capital city just fine using only trains.

Rob_Poldingon I Conscientiously Object to Self-Driving Cars

That would be the dream. I have too many friends though that refuse to get on a bus, and see a car as their right.

I would 100% back banning private ownership.

Rob_Poldingon I Conscientiously Object to Self-Driving Cars

I object to the 1.3 million people that are killed by human drivers every year. They should be banned and autonomous vehicles only allowed on the road, without steering wheels.

Rob_Poldingon Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries

Maybe the industry will realize that most vegetarians and vegans find anything like meat revolting. They much prefer vegetarian meals that are not ultra-processed and still resemble the vegetable used to make them.

Personally, the taste and look of beyond meat make me urge and feel like vomiting. It looks and tastes too much like a dead animal. I never miss the taste of meat, in fact, I hate the idea of eating anything that used to be alive.

Rob_Poldingon Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

Awesome work, I'll be watching the project. A more efficient code editor is sorely needed, well done.

Rob_Poldingon Asahi Linux for M1 Macs: progress report for September 2021

I cannot wait for this to come to fruition. Thanks for all the hard work, I'll be installing it as soon as sound and GPU acceleration hit.

Amazing work :-)