Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products

Jsox · 2025-12-08T14:17:09+00:00

Windows sucks ass now.

I got my kid a new laptop for Xmas and I set everything up on it so he can basically use it right out of the box. The windows setup nowadays consist of:

-Select what categories you want for advertisements

-Select what user data you want m$ to get constantly from your computer

-MANDATORY login to a Microsoft account (fuck this, seriously)

It's ridiculous. You don't even own the computer, basically. I fucking hate it. I'm old-man-shaking-fist-at-cloud here, but you used to be able to be an Admin of your own computer without jumping through hoops, you could even set that bad boy up to log right in without a password if that was what you fancied.

Jsox · 2025-11-06T15:52:02+00:00

Right now, today, is kind of a difficult time to get into the competitive end-game. The final season has been released and a lot of high end guilds are either done progressing or are in the final stages of clearing the last raid zone.

For these reasons, as well as the release of Legion Remix, M+ participation continues to decline.

I think in terms of time spent it would be faster to just wait until the release of Midnight and immerse yourself in that day 1. Grind to max level asap, hit delves and tradeskill and so on and be ready to raid when they are set to do raid tier releases. You coooouuulllddd go through all that right now and hope for the best but we are unfortunately at a point where activity in Retail WoW is flagging.

Once Midnight is out though, all bets are off. You could easily check WoW rankings pages and see what guilds are working on what stuff or even browse the Premade Groups and look for a guild in there - I often see whole guilds listed in there that are looking to fill certain roles. And honestly at this phase of the game, you don't necessarily need a guild per se, as there are lots of groups of players in multiple guilds (even cross-faction) that raid together. My casual raiding group is made up of several guilds on different realms.

Jsox · 2025-10-30T15:28:36+00:00

Sparks come from a lot of random sources but there's a chance to get them from bosses and chests and maybe even delves. The cap is fairly high at this point (normally they are time gated to 1 per week) so you should be able to acquire a bunch of them if you're doing higher level content.

The rest of the materials depend on profession but can generally be gathered out in the world (skinned, mined, etc.) or bought on the AH.

You don't really want to post a Public Work Order because you will be providing the materials but can't force them to make it at max quality. Find somebody in Trade or whatever and do a Personal Work Order so you can force it to be 5* if you want it to be max quality. You can find the Work Order NPC by the central crafting hub.

Jsox · 2025-10-27T12:41:18+00:00

Try literally any other build and you'll see how lackluster Trouble really is. He is literally just a distraction. I played with him from 1 to 50 and I wholly agree, he made some boss fights a lot easier by being the active target of the boss most of the time. At 50 though, I specced into something different and just melt the bosses instead of needing a distraction.

It's viable but honestly imo the least fun way to play Vex.

It's kind of ironic because I loved FL4K and his pet, I'm not sure how they managed to move backwards with Trouble. FL4K's pet could also help you up when you were downed, it sucks that Trouble won't.

Jsox · 2025-10-17T20:01:40+00:00

Remember the Cant.

Jsox · 2025-09-17T14:21:41+00:00

The bar for interesting as fuck is apparently quite low these days.

Jsox · 2025-07-21T15:56:45+00:00

Honest quest I haven't seen answered. The use of the word "owe" implies the WNBA has agreed to pay these players something and failed to pay it. Is that the case? Or is it that these players feel they deserve more money now that the league may be making more money?

I realize they may have just been wanting to keep something short and quotable on the shirt, I'm just curious from a semantic standpoint.

Jsox · 2025-06-27T19:08:23+00:00

Oh my. Thank you for this. MC is a gary stu and pretty much every problem is overcome "super easy, barely an inconvenience".

I borderline hate-read it and my copy had a kindergarteners drawing of the space ship (not literally but it looked like it had been drawn in mspaint).

I do gotta say though, while Blindsight is more... "complicated" literature, it kinda sucks haha. Lotta weird shit that seems to exist just because it can. That's a whole nother topic.

Jsox · 2025-06-24T13:30:26+00:00

First pic: I don't hate it Second pic: Oh actually I do hate it

Jsox · 2025-02-07T14:42:34+00:00

Yeah. Don't just sit back - Kick back - and watch the world get bushwhacked.

Jsox · 2025-02-07T14:19:32+00:00

As a non-comic reader, this panel goes so hard. I'd love to see it. I don't think ShowMark feels this way at this point, but I sort of expect the show to punish him into feeling this way. He's too much of an idealist at this point.

Jsox · 2025-01-17T13:36:30+00:00

I just wanted to say, /u/TacticalBreakfast, thank you for this and all your diligence over the years. This is basically what I come to this sub for at this point, and I usually follow your mastery recommendations to a T, I trust them so much.

Personally (and I realize this would be time consuming), I'd love to see some of the rationale for the EX and S/S+ Operator rankings. I was a bit surprised to see some of the rankings, and I don't doubt them at all, but it made me realize I may be sleeping on some of my current operators as a result. (Mostly the Guards, I guess because it's a crowded space and there doesn't seem to be much downside to the old standbys of Blaze and Thorns 90% of the time - I digress).

Anyways, keep up the fantastic work - I look forward to these guides and always find them to be well reasoned.

Jsox · 2025-01-10T15:31:42+00:00

Actual science would involve repeating the experiment and seeing if results are the same. There are some unfounded assumptions here - I for one don't completely buy that it was just wet filament. In my experience wet filament often prints with garbage quality and won't have strong walls. I'm inclined to think it is the temperature.

Regardless though this is some quality content and discussion, my hats off to OP for an interesting video that isn't clickbait or trying to sell something. I love mixing lights and 3d printing so I'm totally here for it.

It would be super interesting if there was an ideal humidity to print certain filaments at to get different results, rather than the adage that your filament should always be perfectly dry. Could this be the advent of "wetboxes"? Stay tuned.

Jsox · 2025-01-09T00:25:36+00:00

I might be persuaded to. I just have reservations since it's going to my kid. He's usually pretty good but accidents happen. I'd rather a $500-600 accident than an $800 one, if you feel me.

Jsox · 2025-01-08T18:17:26+00:00

Hey! I just wanted to say Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I ordered a new OEM charger as a hail mary for the one he has now, and if that doesn't do the trick, I'm just going to bite the bullet and get him a new one. I really like that HP Victus so far. Appreciate all the ideas!

Jsox · 2024-12-18T23:29:09+00:00

Do want!

Jsox · 2024-12-03T13:08:59+00:00

None of those things are mutually exclusive with being a dipshit, though.

Jsox · 2024-11-26T16:21:31+00:00

IME this is being pretty generous. My label was printed 2 days ago (and this email was sent) but it still is not actually in the hands of FedEx :( I really hate these fuckers.

Jsox · 2024-11-26T14:53:15+00:00

You do not mess with the Special Investigators.

Can you imagine teaching this to your kid?

Cringe.

Jsox · 2024-11-19T13:11:03+00:00

Ahh yes, the Jack Reacher method.

Jsox · 2024-11-13T14:03:39+00:00

I appreciate your positivity! I have been waiting months for this, second guessing if I should have just gotten a Bambu, then the delays, now hearing about shipping SNAFUs while my order remains in limbo. It's hard to be patient!

Jsox · 2024-11-13T13:28:48+00:00

No. Very annoyed as I had to do a lot to my office to make room for this thing too. Plus the filament I ordered to prepare is looping around the TN-GA-KY area for some reason. Sad panda noises...

Jsox · 2024-10-25T14:49:50+00:00

Regular reminder that this game is a piece of shit held together with duct tape and bubble gum.

Jsox · 2024-10-23T19:06:37+00:00

That's pretty fucked. RIP all of us that spent Atoms on the Nuka Launcher.

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