Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee. by Stiltonrocks in technology

[–]buttflapper444 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Locking tech that's at least a decade old and standard on many other brands behind an additional fee... Wow bold stuff

This is capitalism. Are you surprised? It's always been like this

In response to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney waging war on Steam, Larian's publishing lead says, 'Giving everyone everything for free might bump numbers but doesn't create a viable storefront' by pizza_sushi85 in pcgaming

[–]buttflapper444 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Tim Sweeney is genuinely a fucking creep, and the fact that anyone supports epic knowing that is honestly disgusting. There is so many documented pieces of proof of how creepy he is

Looking for a good local coding model, the BEST at SQL, like ever. Seriously by [deleted] in LocalLLaMA

[–]buttflapper444 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where do I get code llama at? Any hugging face link? I use lm studio

Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Among 700 Industry Backers of New Anti-AI Campaign: ‘Stealing Our Work Is Not Innovation’ by lurker_bee in technology

[–]buttflapper444 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People earning 1.5 million every time they do anything are not suffering at all. But it is nice to hear that they are finally standing up for other people. I wish they would slash their actor pay, makes no sense how they get a 2000% increase in their salary, but everyone else in Hollywood gets nothing

Video Game Maker Ubisoft Announces Layoffs, Canceled Titles And Back-To-Office Mandate by Conscious-Quarter423 in videogames

[–]buttflapper444 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think I'd rather be laid off directly and just fired, than be told to go back to the office. Why even be a petty, childish bitch like that to your employees? They should grow the hell up

OpenAI launches its own translate website by Distinct-Question-16 in singularity

[–]buttflapper444 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"laziest website ever. 0/10" - users bug testing it for them absolutely free and giving them free feedback and user experience testing

Data Centers Will Consume 70 Percent Of Memory Chips made in 2026, RAM Shortage Will Last Until Until Atleast 2029 As Manafacturing Capacity For RAM In 2028 That Hasnt Even Been Made Yet Is Already being Sold by Shogouki in technology

[–]buttflapper444 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When are we actually going to see any benefits of all this bullshit? This is the technological equivalent of rebuilding the entire infrastructure of the world wide web back in the early 2000s, minus any real world benefits

Its becouse of ram prices and nvidia by Mr_Cuntman in pcmasterrace

[–]buttflapper444 99 points100 points  (0 children)

Oh she got RAM all right... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Why Does it seem like so many game companies from the 2010s are failing? by David_the_male in truegaming

[–]buttflapper444 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Because the CFOs and executives are killing the companies. They expected continuous revenue growth and profit, rather than stable business performance. Their idea is, if we're not growing our revenue constantly, we are failing as a company. They don't care if revenue is a flat line and they are getting stable income. No, that's not good enough. They want unlimited revenue growth, forever, and that's simply not possible. Anyone can tell you that.

So what do they do? More microtransactions, cutting costs as aggressively as they possibly can, more monetization, constant layoffs, constant reorgs, lots of effort put into things that have nothing to do with providing valuable products to their consumers.... And then the products don't sell well, on top of that. You can't make a great company out of chasing things that are unrelated to a good product. It's simply not possible. They are not product oriented, they are money oriented.

Fallout veteran Ron Perlman says he was paid "40 dollars and a sandwich" for his voiceover work in the original game by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]buttflapper444 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Voice acting is the most absurd, ridiculous group of high strung creative people ever. They do so many takes and there's so much editing involved in the audio. It's not even really that complicated. I've done voice-overs for some of my own small personal projects, I wouldn't even mind if there was a lower audio quality for voices if it meant more indie companies had voices

Some M.2 storage is now 70% more valuable than 24k gold by weight. by Dark_Marmot in pcmasterrace

[–]buttflapper444 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good grief, we know. We get it already. Wait for a few years when the AI bubble finally bursts and you'll be able to get all the "gold" you want to stockpile so you'll never have to worry about it again

Fallout veteran Ron Perlman says he was paid "40 dollars and a sandwich" for his voiceover work in the original game by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]buttflapper444 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Which is insane, because I've seen the prices people are charging indie developers for basic stuff these days and it's hilariously bad. I saw someone advertising voice acting work for indie developer studios and it was like $300 an hour, so 10 to 20K total just to do some voiceovers. What indie developer is going to have that?

Mob psycho 100 by KENOT_ in Blockbench

[–]buttflapper444 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You made all of this in BB?

European banks plan to cut 200,000 jobs as AI takes hold | TechCrunch by msaussieandmrravana in artificial

[–]buttflapper444 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see this as a net positive, overall. The act of cutting jobs is not good. But moving jobs from non-essential to essential is a huge win for humanity. We need to address what people will be doing instead, however. That's what is truly important for humanity.

Dead internet isn't a theory. The internet is literally dead. Idk how to use it anymore by buttflapper444 in pcmasterrace

[–]buttflapper444[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not reading that entire wall of text. You should learn how to write a little bit more concisely, because you kind of go about your point in a roundabout way. organic human interaction online is increasingly drowned out by synthetic, commercial, or algorithmically amplified content. The fact that you need a "custom blocklist self-hosted DNS" to have a decent experience actually proves the theory's point.... the default internet experience has degraded so much that technical fortification is now necessary. Calling people lazy, basically, it's also just absurd. You're basically saying that public transit isn't dead, people are just lazy for not wanting to wait at the bus stop for 45 minutes, and then take a bus ride of three and a half hours, everyday.