Very loose butthole

I think its usually in some Microsoft subscriptions if you’re on PC/Xbox, could give you a decent chance to give it a go. If it turns out to be a forever game for you, that might end up more expensive in the end – but maybe that’s fine in that case

It was just boring and empty, except for Space Pirates using clean language and some other really bland factions. It tried to cater to everyone and just sucked. That’s to say nothing of the endless load screens and RNG planets

We can imagine a dystopian scenario where a sitting US president loses an election but claims he didn’t. That the election was rigged. Then he sends a mob of people to storm the legislature, either to pressure the vice president not to enact the election results or to have him killed along with leaders of the opposition before he does (the traitor!).

I mean we can imagine something like that happening if a truly deranged person was president, but why would we.

On my death bed, one of my many regrets will be having played Starfield

Yes, I find this credible. At the same time, FOSS and Linux seems to be all the rage now, with big tech’s ties to the Trump regime etc. Even though it’s been nearly two decades ago since I first installed Linux (in the late 00’s I even had an awkward “FOSS as an ethical alternative to piracy” phase), I am not in the tech savy crowd that’s been mainlining this stuff for life – rather I identify more with the growing number of tech illiterate dummies that think “FOSS = good” because Pewdiepie said so or copy/pastes sudo commands that replaces half my boot drive with North Korean crypto malware.

There are actually a few closed apps that do it, some claim to make your phone discoverable as a Bluetooth HID and others via a server/client combo. But I don’t really want to have an internet enabled device being able to track all my screen interactions and control another internet enabled device without some assurance that there’s nothing nefarious going on behind the scenes.

Thanks, yes, I came across it and it looks very good but the target device is an IPad so I didn’t consider it an option (well, I found no closed or open options I liked, really).

I understand you better now. Yes that’s certainly possible, plausible even. But it would seem useful for someone who wants to boost the credibility of their (hypothetical) keylogger app with exotic permissions to have a way to independently be recommended as a good open source option by two leading models in mainstream use.

Strictly speaking, it doesn’t know anything. But regardless of the merits of LLMs, the AI box is the top result on the biggest search engine in the world by default, and what I’m wondering is whether this is an example of intentional manipulation of the search results to give people who don’t know better the false impression that apps are open source.

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For me this is the year of building a media and music library of my own, legal or not. I’ve already cancelled my music streaming subscription, now it all just comes down to finding new, joyful ways to still explore and listen to music

Yeah, as ridiculous as the record labels are – their reaction is exactly what one would expect after such a high profile move.

Yeah and, like Starmer with his burner phone, using Tim Apple™ Phone with “trust me bro, I’m not gonna tell anyone what you’re doing on your phone, bro, I only gave the fascist president of that hostile country 24 carat gold as tribute that one time, bro, it’s not like I’m on his side or whatever” security features.

Then again, people with nefarious purposes are usually highly motivated.

I agree, but the high global integration has also been a winning hand for Europe in the last few decades. There will be some pain and odd bed fellows.

I’m guessing it wouldn’t be very effective for European travellers to the US that already have a lot of their communication based on American servers/infrastructure.

I thought Anon meant movies that people say they liked because of their undeniable, objective quality, but not genuinely enjoyed watching. I guess they’re saying There Will Be Blood is some kinda masturbatory “quality porn”.

It’s the difference between a nice gesture and giving away his life’s work to take a stand. It’s still a nice gesture, but I doubt he will financially notice the lost streaming royalties from his fanbase on Greenland. Boycotting Amazon is probably the bigger thing here.

The thing with the CoD lobbies of 19 years ago compared to today is that they are filled with the same players. Only now they have boring jobs, cholesterol medications and just want to put a game on to relax, it’s like what a bar would have been like 20 years ago. It can get rowdy, but mostly it’s civil and passes the time between chores and problems.