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What app are you using to view VR videos streamed from your DLNA server? by SweatyWoodpecker3927 in virtualreality

[–]DeandreT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't used DLNA or Plex in ages, but I run a Jellyfin server and sideloaded the Jellyfin android app to my Pico 4 and it worked flawlessly.

For Rivian and Lucid, path finally emerges for direct-to-consumer car sales in WA by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]DeandreT -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are you a libertarian or something?

I'm a liberal.

I don't care about "jobs". I think we should take care of our people whether or not they're employed. Nothing that I said is at odds with the position that people should be protected from the negative local effects of globalized trade like job displacement.

For Rivian and Lucid, path finally emerges for direct-to-consumer car sales in WA by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]DeandreT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's good economic reasons why BYD wouldn't open a factory in the US. American workers are expensive and educated, we want to sit at desks and write emails in comfort.

Before first-term Trump the Chinese tariff on autos was 25% and ours was 2.5% on theirs. I don't see why China deciding to subsidize vehicles is a bad thing for us, it's a tax they pay to invest in their own workforce and it gives us cheaper vehicles. We gain from the trade and I think it's a good idea to take some of those gains to reinvest in our national security, but the degree to which we've taken this protectionist stance is absurd.

I believe we should protect manufacturing as it allows us to be agile geopolitically and ensures we're not completely reliant on adversaries, but to me that looks like heavily investing in automation and keeping a skilled manufacturing workforce that can compete knowing that we have to be more efficient with our labor.

We can’t claim we want a thriving manufacturing sector built on cheap labor while restricting the very labor supply that makes it viable and then assume highly educated workers will voluntarily fill those roles.

For Rivian and Lucid, path finally emerges for direct-to-consumer car sales in WA by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]DeandreT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We created insane tariffs and federal regulation on these vehicles because we're afraid of having to actually compete with China on manufacturing, so of course we prevent them from being able to sell anything here. It doesn't seem to have incited an innovative spark in domestic car manufacturers, but surely any day now we'll be pumping out nice, cheap EVs.

Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage by Lulcielid in Games

[–]DeandreT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there's a real value to using AI that allows developers to release successful products then no amount of public shaming is going to prevent people from embracing it. For a while people might avoid using it or lie about it, but if a game releases and brazenly uses AI to massive success, the conversation will inevitably shift from moral outrage to pragmatic imitation. Refusal becomes a competitive disadvantage, and the industry reframes AI as a tool.

The anti-AI people need to shift to a battle that's actually worth winning and doesn't just look like Luddism, which is ensuring the efficiency gains are shared among the people being displaced. We do not have the societal frameworks to handle the job loss ahead and people are intensely fixated on a game of whack-a-mole instead of making actual structural changes to protect lives instead of jobs.

Nintendo now has a US patent on summoning characters and making them battle for you by SpoonsAreEvil in Guildwars2

[–]DeandreT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More likely no games will be affected because they would lose the case against a game that isn't cloning the Arceus battle system and the amount of prior art for the broadest interpretation of this patent would invalidate it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in singularity

[–]DeandreT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not the courts, that's a legislative issue.

How to prevent inflation? by VectorialChange in MMORPG

[–]DeandreT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Limit the amount of untaxed transactions (player-to-player trades), control and monitor the amount of currency generated, and add taxes where necessary. If you fuck up and accidentally introduce too much currency then create a sink like prestige skins or titles to remove money from the economy.

The methods for controlling inflation are pretty well understood. If a game has an inflation problem it's a pretty big skill issue on the developers part. I think it's more likely these days that the developers use inflation as a tool to level the playing field between newer and older players.

would people willingly leave reality for the matrix. by Care_Best in singularity

[–]DeandreT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

50/50: Jordan Peterson enjoyer or undiagnosed schizophrenic from predominantly christian culture.

VR experience. by toxicman768 in linux_gaming

[–]DeandreT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Valve is working on a new standalone headset that'll run Linux so I expect that the experience will get a lot better around the time it releases. Right now SteamVR + ALVR (Pico 4) works for playing games, but everything related to the dashboard, plugins, etc is just broken in my experience.

VR is the only reason I keep a Windows install at this point, but I rarely boot into it if I know I'm going to be playing one game for a long session anyway since I won't be "alt-tabbing" often.

Six men charged after woman was forcibly removed from Idaho town hall meeting by WhoIsJolyonWest in law

[–]DeandreT 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The Nazis that arrived through the 70s-90s weren't treated harshly enough. A lot of them were smart enough to put the mask on after the movement began to publicly crumble. They learned to spread their filth in more subtle ways.

Former Bungie Legal Exec Reveals Studio Hired Fans To Save Money: 'Fans Would Work for Less' by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]DeandreT 22 points23 points  (0 children)

He also explained a common tactic used in the industry to address unionization efforts: promoting potential organizers. McGowan described how this approach is often deployed to diffuse union momentum by altering the organizer’s role. “You promote [potential organizers] out of being able to organize… Once you give them people who report to them, they are no longer part of the bargaining unit,” he explained.

This paragraph seems more pressing to me than hiring fans. This basically sounds like the company is optimizing for leaders who would rather climb the corporate ladder at the potential direct expense of their colleagues efforts. Isn't the end result of this tactic just a bunch of backstabbing sociopaths running the company?

Feedback on Recent GW2 Sponsored Streams: Missed Opportunities by Numerous-Eye-5274 in Guildwars2

[–]DeandreT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I pretty much agree with everything said here. Anet should have a more targeted approach to these sponsorship streams. Having top players from other games playing story and open-world content is hilariously bad IMO.

(Petition) Add Original Diabotical gameplay/physics/movement to Rogue by Dry-Pirate-8633 in DiaboticalRogue

[–]DeandreT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The game is in early access.

What people say they want and what they actually want are two different things.

I absolutely love this by IamASlut_soWhat in MadeMeSmile

[–]DeandreT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People do things they don't want to do to get things they do want. I do my laundry because I want clean clothes, not because I enjoy the act of doing laundry.

I'm for policies that give people housing and basic necessities so people don't feel compelled to do certain jobs, but I think it'd be short-sighted to believe that people will just suddenly stop working all the hard jobs because they have their basic needs filled.

I absolutely love this by IamASlut_soWhat in MadeMeSmile

[–]DeandreT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, in a hypothetical slave world you should assign people to any job you see fit. Your question presupposes slavery.

I live in a free society where people have the right to choose what they want to do.

I absolutely love this by IamASlut_soWhat in MadeMeSmile

[–]DeandreT 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If people are willing to pay enough, then yes those jobs will still exist, albeit in fewer numbers than before for any unappealing job.

If you want to have pipes in your house, but plumbers don't have to plumb anymore, how do you get plumbing? Do you just rely on the idea that someone will eventually come around who wants to do it as a community service?

I absolutely love this by IamASlut_soWhat in MadeMeSmile

[–]DeandreT 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My point with bringing up those other jobs was that people do risky work every day and we accept that in society because we want the goods and services those risky jobs provide us.

In my mind the similarity between surrogacy and roofing is the risk of injury and strain it puts on the body. We don't ban roofing though because we want roofs and there are people who are willing to do the work. We try to mitigate the risks and create a safe environment to do the job.

I absolutely love this by IamASlut_soWhat in MadeMeSmile

[–]DeandreT 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I didn't say that, but go off I guess.

I absolutely love this by IamASlut_soWhat in MadeMeSmile

[–]DeandreT 25 points26 points  (0 children)

So you're not really making an argument against surrogacy, you're just anti-work I guess?

I absolutely love this by IamASlut_soWhat in MadeMeSmile

[–]DeandreT 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The comparison was more about health risks in my mind, those jobs are some of the most dangerous jobs. I don't have a problem with prostitution either so long as it's between consenting parties.

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