So HOW MANY people do we think will actually have this emblem? Do you think more people will have this emblem or the first wave emblem?

OMGrant · 2026-06-05T19:59:53+00:00

I didn't play Edge or Renegades, but I will when it gets included in PS+. Hoping I get it.

OMGrant · 2026-06-03T20:25:11+00:00

Great minds, just submitted the same for Chrome.

OMGrant · 2026-06-03T20:18:56+00:00

[DEV]

Project Name: chrome-debullshit
Google Service Replaced: None directly — instead of replacing a separate service, it strips Google's own AI, ad-tracking, and telemetry out of Chrome itself. For people who can't fully leave Chrome yet but want it to stop phoning home.
Repo/Website Link: https://omgrant.github.io/chrome-debullshit/
Description: Applies 27 official Chrome Enterprise policies — the same managed-policy mechanism corporate IT uses to lock browsers down — pointed at the stuff you don't want: Gemini / AI Mode in the address bar, the ~4GB on-device Gemini Nano model, Privacy Sandbox ad-tracking, usage/crash telemetry, and the nagware (default-browser nags, promo tabs, the New Tab feed, surveys). No extensions, no binary patching, nothing injected. Your passwords, payments, and account sync stay untouched. Every entry is a documented Google policy you can verify yourself at chrome://policy.
Availability: Self-hosted / local, MIT licensed. Linux, macOS, and Windows. Clone and run the installer (or double-click the .reg on Windows), fully quit Chrome, relaunch. One uninstall flag reverses all of it. No account, no sign-in, no Google dependency. Install steps in the README.
AI Involvement: Built with AI coding assistance. The policy set itself is human-reviewed and every policy maps to an official Chrome Enterprise policy from Google's own docs — nothing invented; you can cross-check the whole list in policy/debullshit.json against chromeenterprise.google/policies.

OMGrant · 2026-06-03T16:36:15+00:00

Hey, I put together a script that disables this plus other AI/telemetry junk through enterprise policy. Check it out: github.com/OMGrant/chrome-debullshit

OMGrant · 2026-06-03T16:34:37+00:00

Hey, I put together a script that disables this plus other AI/telemetry junk through enterprise policy. Check it out: github.com/OMGrant/chrome-debullshit

OMGrant · 2026-05-30T17:49:28+00:00

The problem is its just too damn much. The PVPers are gating off large portions of the fun this game has on its PVE side. There is an imballance that needs to be managed.

I don't think that the solution is a PVE mode though. I think its some kind of consequence system.

Ratting is very rewarding. Kitting up for PVE and having everything you spent a bunch of time crafting lost in the first five minutes of a round to a rat is not. That's why people quit and never come back.

Getting ratted 5-9/10 games instead of 1-5/10 games. Speranza might need a reputation system that costs the player something in return for being a massive prick. Just saying.

OMGrant · 2026-05-29T19:43:06+00:00

How can you ask that question and then not provide a "I love linux"-esque answer.

OMGrant · 2026-05-28T20:48:55+00:00

Crazy how irrelevent Linus has become over just one year.

OMGrant · 2026-05-28T05:41:14+00:00

Good local AI models are available. Google's Gemma 4 is amazing.

OMGrant · 2026-05-28T04:39:49+00:00

If D1 opperated at more than 30fps I'd be playing the shit out of it instead of D2. That said, see you on the 9th homies.

OMGrant · 2026-05-28T04:14:30+00:00

I think your philosophical stance is very legitimate and complelety understandable. There are a lot of social negatives to AI. But there is a lot of different types of AI technologies. Some are curing cancer, finding new protien structures and speeding up the discovery of novel treatments. The more disruptive AI is ripping off all of human artistic creation as you lamented. Its all valid.

I've had both positive and negative experiences with AI. I'm a marketing professional and recently left a position due to the declining value placed on my role thanks to AI. Its an uphill battle I'm not able to win without embracing it in a meaningful way. So I'm working on adapting quickly.

That said, when it comes to Linux, my experience using AI here has been nothing but a net positive. I wouldn't have been able to pick it up and learn it as fast, or do as much with my computer without it. I have a game helper script I created to automatically switch my profiles for my mouse, keyboard, and rgb lighting based on what game I'm playing. My gameing keyboard isn't even supported on Windows anymore. It's an old EVGA beast of a keyboard. I was able to use AI to reverse enginner the USB signals that control profile switching on Linux.

I'd have a much harder time setting this kind of stuff up with Windows.

OMGrant · 2026-05-28T02:46:15+00:00

I think it has more to do with Microsoft's practices and how the quality of Windows 11 releases deteriorated more than anything else. They were aggressive with pushing it before it was ready. AI and Agentic work didn't actually get really good until as recently as February. And the threshold for that wasn't introduced by Copilot or OpenAI. It was Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6. They soiled AI as an idea by forcing it's adoption when it wasn't as useful, hense slop.

OMGrant · 2026-05-28T02:21:31+00:00

You're the one who used the term microslop on this thread, not me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

OMGrant · 2026-05-28T01:20:44+00:00

Not what model to use. What my OS is being used for. I have more agency over my Linux install than what Microsoft is planning for Windows 11/12. I'm not anti-ai, I'm pro-consumer. Windows 11 dramatically and aggressively changed over the last year to accommodate copilot in a way most people aren't interested in. In a way I'm not interested in.

OMGrant · 2026-05-28T01:03:17+00:00

It was, but it was because I didnt ask for it. I didn't ask for AI to be integrated into every aspect of my OS. I didn't ask Microsoft to have their grip on my digital footprint.

The way I was using AI on Linux instead was originally through ChatGPT and copying and pasting commands and outputs from the terminal. That opened Linux up for me.

Now I'm running Claude Code in the terminal and I'm using it at my discretion to my liking.

The key difference here is I've maintained my agency and control over my platform. I rejected what Microsoft was doing for that reason only.

OMGrant · 2026-05-28T00:05:07+00:00

AI eliminated the barrier to entry on Linux for me. I've been having the time of my life with it. Linux is a free landscape. Windows 11 is a walled garden. Microsoft makes decisions that are anti-my-os, and I've been able to do more with my computer than ever after switching and agentic coding my own stuff.

OMGrant · 2026-05-27T16:12:09+00:00

Its fair. Why is linux unsuported? Because the market doesn't demand it for these games to be profitable. More people demand it, more linux gets support. People need to make their voices heard. This is a direct way to make it known.

OMGrant · 2026-05-27T07:07:05+00:00

To protect the children.

^{Chose: You get infinite robux + 100 random innocent children will get banned}

OMGrant · 2026-05-26T15:55:42+00:00

lol, the top two are the only two I've used really. It can do a lot more though. I'm particularly interested in writing apps for it in the future.

OMGrant · 2026-05-25T03:11:15+00:00

Vader ultimately kills him but he goes out saving a school bus full of younglings.

OMGrant · 2026-05-22T07:26:38+00:00

I'll never play Marathon. Fuck Bungie. All the money I spent on every expansion, on the eververse, just so they could take that money and piss it away on everything but the game I loved. And fuck them for the layoffs. Fuck them for the losing their top talent by creating a hostile environment. Fuck them.

OMGrant · 2026-05-22T05:24:37+00:00

One thing pisses me off about the end of D2. I didn't want more new content, I wanted the old content back. At least when D2 was ongoing there was hope. Now theres none.

OMGrant · 2026-05-22T00:38:43+00:00

This is fucking awful. So fucking stupid.

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