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I know it's old-hat to say at this point, but I'm getting really exhausted of seeing companies trying to sate investors and techbros by introducing more and more AI-powered "features" into existing applications. I don't need to be able to generate images in my Facebook messenger chat with my parents, nor do I need to ask Microsoft Copilot how to use my own computer.

I'm always struck by how Nintendo seems hellbent on trying to "preserve the image" of it's brand / characters / etc by performing these kinds of takedowns, but seem perfectly fine to weather the backlash from the community and fans?

Garry's Mod and other similar games are how so many people get exposed to various different fan communities, characters, game-modes, and etc. that you'd think it'd essentially function as "free" marketing.

There's always the question of "What happens when Mario has a gun?", but you'd really hope that people would have the mental capacity to understand that it's not an official image or marketing material.

Roblox in particular has a ... storied history of exploiting children [1, 2] for both direct and indirect profit.

[1] https://www.classaction.org/news/roblox-lawsuit-alleges-enti... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ&t=0s

This is very cool - I like the layout too (though I couldn't find a way to see a total list of authors surveyed, which I would have liked to see)

(As an aside, always happy to see "A Gentleman in Moscow" appear in anything to do with "best book" lists!)

> You have to be willing to live with something less feature-rich than what you can get on the latest iPhone 27 Max Pro(TM). And you have to be gutsy enough to click an "Install some other OS" button in your web browser with your phone plugged into a USB port.

I agree with all of this, but realistically it's not just a simple matter of being willing to live with less features - this is a significant amount of work to investigate, implement, and upkeep for someone who is techy, let alone a less technically-inclined person.

I can barely get my family to use Signal, let alone install F-Droid or learn how to configure Syncthing.

Ultimately, this does indeed come down to "if you use a big product, you're likely being spied on", but this shouldn't be the individual consumer's fault.

I think the bigger issue is that Apollo (and other apps such as RIF) were amazing tools for moderators, with the official app lacking a lot of features the unofficial clients had.

Classic hug of death, it seems.

The core tenant of legalise to use many word to say few thing

Unfortunately, it's a natural result of Discord moving from being a useful little service to a "platform" with investors and needing to constantly be updated with useless nonsense to keep the "value" of the product alive.

Realistically, once everything was up and running, and they had moved their DB over to their current platform [1], someone should have taken the keys away from them and just said "Discord is done, it's complete". We likely wouldn't be having this much of a problem with useful information being hidden away behind Discord server invite URLs.

[1] https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-mes...

Pretty much everything within PowerToys and SysInternals [1] feel like they should be made default on Windows.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/

I was so confused when I tried to scroll through this and couldn't do it; seems like such a missed opportunity!

brb setting up my personal site to redirect people with the evil bit set to a "jail" page, kinda like how all cheaters in Fall Guys are put into the same server by themselves [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/FallGuysGame/status/1305486780851007489

I'm torn about the decline of physical game stores.

On one hand, it's nice to just press "buy" on the console and get on with it, but it's also nice to have a physical copy (particularly so when companies can just shut down their digital store front whenever)

That being said, fuck GameStop's absurd pricing and trade in models.

That being said, how far can you drive a service purely based on "we don't have <person> working here"?

I'd be willing to wager a good chunk of people don't care who runs their platforms so long as they can talk to the majority of their friends / see large swathes for new content / etc. - see Facebook, for example.

Not an exact answer to your question, but where I work we've been using OKdo Rock 4C's [1] in place of Pi 4's, since they seem to be impossible to get.

From what I've heard from the people that are using them, they seem to be pretty decent, but unfortunately not quite a simple drop-in replacement.

[1] https://www.okdo.com/p/okdo-rock-4-model-c-4gb-single-board-...

To be fair, it's realistically not too far off how most humans make "reccomendations" for packages.

Still doesn't mean that it should be trusted, though.

Unfortunately, all it takes is something like Genshin Impact's anti-cheat system - which runs at the kernel / ring 0 level [1] - to be compromised, and then it's game over anyways.

Not to mention the potential of "what if the anti-cheat is deliberately programmed to be malicious?". A dismal state all around.

[1] https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/news/detail/103720

How have you found it for hosting services? I found it struggled with something as simple as an Apache webserver, though perhaps that's just something to do with my internet itself.