Jrockwar

I profoundly dislike the philosophy of renting rather than owning your compute, but with the current price of components, I just can't be bothered to buy a gaming PC. I have a steam deck and a £10 subscription to GeForce now, and with this I'm sorted for pretty much anything.

For the £120 that it costs me a year, I could barely buy a 16 GB RAM stick, let alone a 3060 RTX... It would cost me 10-15 years worth of the subscription to buy something equivalent and there's no way anything with those specs is staying relevant any longer than 5.

I've reported it too, probably it won't have an effect but we might as well try

They're absolutely failing because the execs are hype-driven clowns who focus on the wrong metrics.

"Failing to drive rapid revenue growth", WTF. Leaving aside whether GenAI is a useful technology or not, it's never been a technology to "drive rapid revenue growth", just like Microsoft Office, or calculators, or a million other technologies.

This is all just a pipe dream from a clueless exec class that prioritises short-term profits and hoped that implementing a glorified autocorrect would make people flock en masse to their random product. Why would you think an AI chatbot in your online clothes shop would make me like your ill-fitting jeans any better, you overpaid monkey?

Maybe you could have hoped for employees to achieve a "5% productivity increase" or something mildly realistic, but no, your brain-eating slugs told you to shoehorn AI into everything and 👏We 👏Don't 👏Need👏AI👏Fucking👏Everywhere👏

I know I'm preaching to the choir but I needed the rant.

Could any kind soul provide a TL;DW for those of us who can't watch a video (for whatever reason)?

Because if people's opinions didn't matter to you, you wouldn't be feeling insecure, and thus this post isn't for you.

Tolerance requires rejecting intolerant people.

I won't be the one calling the UK blameless, but that's rich coming from the country that's doing what they are with ICE (which is just the latest one in a long list).

In the countries where healthcare has existed (and worked) for decades, there are additional taxes to alcohol, sugar, tobacco, petrol to cover for this.

And also yeah, and I have no problem whatsoever knowing that a small part of my salary goes towards saving the life of people who wouldn't be able to afford private healthcare. That's called empathy - and I wish that'd sink in as well.

Because he might not be "Middle Eastern" or "Dictator" but he behaves exactly like "some sort of Middle Eastern Dictator".

Yeah she sounds like the particular brand of idiot that we have in the UK. I fortunately don't see that many of those... but still enough to find that sort of attitude recognisable.

In my experience, the more straight a person is, the dumber they are about anything computer, broadly speaking.

Wow, really hot take here. Who people have sex with has nothing to do with their capabilities or intellect. That's just as bad as staying "the gayer someone is, the worse they are at sports, broadly speaking".

The rest I agree, as someone who works in the field yes, many of us are LGBTQ+ folks, but still not a majority. Which still results in people like me meeting, and engaging with more straight men than gay peeps.

I have far more straight than gay friends. I think it is purely because of my hobbies. I like cars, computers, and a bunch of these things that someone once decreed are "heteronormatively manly" and as a result, my friends happen to be straight.

I couldn't care less who they have sex with, because I don't choose friends based on what they do in bed.