eldebryn

It's almost like unregulated capitalism is a certain highway to oligarchy and authoritarianism.

This isn't typical price gouging. It's an industry moving away from consumers because our buying power is nothing compared to large corporations running on AI circlejerk VCs.

Yes, I will concede to that. Supposedly LLMs help a lot in certain scientific research domains replacing tedious manual work.

The thing is, the prevalence of good vs bad scenarios are inversed between GenAI and aviation I would argue. Due to lack of legal regulation we see insane amounts of funding being given for the most greedy nefarious purposes, like the elimination of the working class or artists, privacy violations for the sake of control and literally weapons out of dystopian scifi.

It's really not the same.

I hate both the AI bubble (not the science behind it) and private jets and billionaires if that makes you feel better.

Also, global aviation serves an extremely useful function. Not sure that compares to fancy code autocomplete and media generation that either invalidates digital evidence in legal courts or looks like an insult to life itself.

That's fair.

It always felt obvious to me that it was a metaphor, I didn't think I've met someone who legit believed boomer shooters were boomer games.

Most boomers, I think, were too old by the time video games were exciting and commonplace to start drawing numerous people so it's fairly rare for a baby boomer to be a gamer.

Maybe the explosions played a role in the term being used like that but I'm fairly confident age is the primary dimension here.

Heck I've seen people use "boomer X" to refer to older-meta versions of decks in magic the gathering. Decks which had zombies not explosives.

People in comments are talking the "boomer cRPG" alias way too literally when it's just a metaphor for "old school" much like we had for years with unreal and older Dooms being dubbed "boomer shooters".

Yes boomer is used metaphorically to just mean "old" instead of "made in the 50s-60s or made by someone of that generation".

You're talking about a specific AC. Your OP was a general statement about all ACs. And it's not true because many simply do not offer this option to run in userspace mode only, as seen by battlefield and COD and other games like League of Legends.

Could they? Maybe? We don't know it's a bunch of proprietary black box code anyways.

But presenting it like it's a choice by Dev studios to just tick a box during AC setup is not a valid thing to say about all cases.

That's not the case with kernel-level AC, those don't run on Linux at all. They shouldn't run on anything really but that's a different story.

A bunch of desktop apps use electron anyways as a runtime. WASM could allow us to have better/more reliable software that doesn't rely on JS, which isn't ideal for many use cases.

Is it efficient? Definitely not, but for system apps we have other choices which are more performant like C and Rust. These days 90% of the software people use are either web apps in a browser or web apps with an electron gui running outside their browser but inside the Electron browser: P.

Those studies do not refer to item volume, they refer to monetary value.

If a business can earn more by selling 5 cars worth half a million each per year, instead of trying to sell 20 or even 30 Cars under 40k to average people their entire business model will shift to cater to billionaires and multi millionaires.

The bulk of average people are becoming irrelevant to the current capitalist market, that's the point.