Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the answer to the question that’s posted all the time on gaming forums of: “Phones are so powerful these days, especially compared to the Switch, why can’t we have real games on phones without microtransactions?”
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chaircat@lemdro.idto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the features Lemmy is missing that Reddit has?English3·2 years agoIs there a way to individually hide? I only hide the ones I’ve already engaged with or decided not to engage with on Reddit, not every post I see.
chaircat@lemdro.idto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the features Lemmy is missing that Reddit has?English51·2 years agoI used the hide post feature on Reddit as my main way of browsing to keep topics I was done with from clogging my feed and keeping me from seeing new things.
No option to hide here on Lemmy.
chaircat@lemdro.idto World News@lemmy.world•Researcher builds anti-Russia AI disinformation machine for $400English102·2 years agoGreat, now take the same freedom fighter bots and tell them to argue IP policy on social media online. We can hear all about the right minded ways to think about intellectual property and how all the comments around here are misinformation.
It’s like people lose their minds when you throw an enemy into the sentence. I don’t think these people crafting propaganda bots are heroes, even if they are on “my” team. Go down this road, and you can throw away forums like Lemmy, it’ll just be bots arguing with bots.
chaircat@lemdro.idto World News@lemmy.world•Researcher builds anti-Russia AI disinformation machine for $400English108·2 years agoHonestly, if you look at it in a vacuum, this looks pretty similar to what the other side is doing.
It’s a bot that draws from its own side’s narratives and pushes that line.
Take away Russia from the picture and think about how often our media pushes a spin on other subjects that isn’t exactly the truth.
Doesn’t look so much like “social media propaganda bots versus AI-driven bots arguing back” as much as propaganda bots on both sides spewing whatever their masters want us to see.
chaircat@lemdro.idto World News@lemmy.world•Arson attacks at schools in Belgium are believed to be connected to a controversial sex ed programEnglish122·2 years agoWhat poor quality journalism writing.
How can you have a headline like that without addressing what makes the contents of the program unusual and what makes the program controversial?
chaircat@lemdro.idto Technology@lemmy.world•Unearthed touchscreen iMac G3 prototype evokes a very different era of Apple | Ars TechnicaEnglish2·2 years agoI see a lot of people online saying this kind of thing, though I gotta wonder if it’s mostly old people who can’t adapt new paradigms.
I would never buy a computer without touch anymore. The thing the ergonomics argument misses is just because you have touch doesn’t mean you can’t use a mouse (or touchpad) also when it makes more sense. Tiredness is never an issue for me.
There are some things that are just infinitely more natural with touch, using an electronic device that lacks touch just feels like using incredibly outdated technology to me now.
chaircat@lemdro.idto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you deal with being "sure of yourself"?English181·2 years agoStay intellectually humble. It’s a huge component of wisdom in my observation. Understand you can always make mistakes that can be corrected, and that you have arrived at your opinions through limited information that can always be supplemented, so stay open to both of these possibilities.
You can be confident in your opinions that you arrived upon through spending a lot of effort thinking about them, and you don’t need to have self doubt when challenged on them baselessly. But when someone does point out an error or something you missed, it’s essential you haven’t become closed to accepting it.
Always remember what the basis are for your opinions and how well-founded they really are. For example: how much do you actually know about a thing when you’re relying on something you read in the news? How much do they really know about that thing?
As a check on yourself believing you’ve put a lot of effort into thinking about something, be on the guard for unwarranted confidence. If a professional has put their efforts into something in their field of expertise they’ve spent their whole lives working on, chances are you haven’t thought of something they haven’t in the first five minutes of hearing about their work. That might seem ridiculous, but you see this all the time on Lemmy, where for example commenters seem to think they’ve figured out key errors in scientific papers after reading a single popular science article about an experiment or figured out solutions to incredibly complex problems like fair taxation.
chaircat@lemdro.idto World News@lemmy.world•China wants to ban clothes that 'hurt nation's feelings'English1·2 years agoThere’s a better translation right here in this thread. “Hurting our relationship” is not so literal and so doesn’t sound daft in English.
chaircat@lemdro.idto World News@lemmy.world•China wants to ban clothes that 'hurt nation's feelings'English3·2 years agoIt feels shady the way the media uses this overly literal translation of ‘hurt the feelings’ all the time in order to make the Chinese sound ridiculous. Could make any foreign language speaker sound ridiculous by cherry picking funny but common phrases and translating them literally.
chaircat@lemdro.idto Technology@lemmy.world•ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a rowEnglish61·2 years agoYour phone keyboard statistical engine is not a very insightful comparison to the neural networks that power LLMs. They’re not the same technology at all and just share the barest minimum superficial similarities.
chaircat@lemdro.idto Technology@lemmy.world•Senate confirms Biden FCC nominee, finally giving Democrats a 3-2 majorityEnglish104·2 years agoI hate the cynical nihilism around here so much. It plays into the Republican and big business hands so well it might as well be propaganda.
We had net neutrality before under the Democrats. The Republicans got rid of it when they took power.
Bothsidesism is juvenile bullshit.
chaircat@lemdro.idto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is a personality trait that you’re working on?English1·2 years agoThat’s an axiom that people always just themselves by their intent and others by their actions.
This leads to excuses for themselves and harshness on others until proven otherwise.
I’ve been trying lately to internalize my understanding of this to fight my natural impulse to fall into this universally human trap. Basically, be a kinder person by judging the actions of others by considering plausible reasons they may have had for doing something that rubs me the wrong way. Also the opposite, and being understanding when someone flips out on me for something I did because they don’t have access to all of my mental state that led me to that point.
chaircat@lemdro.idto Technology@lemmy.world•Robbing Delivery Robots Is Now a ThingEnglish0·2 years agoI don’t think waving away being a Luddite just by saying so makes it so.
I can’t think of a single angle of principled moral theory that makes this okay. Vandalizing or stealing someone else’s property they paid for. Hurting both the restaurant and the customer by depriving them of their food. Holding back progress on an invention that can reduce the need for humans to engage in a type of work that is hard, dangerous at times, and low paid.
From a purely rational on paper view, it doesn’t look terribly different than saying vandalizing or stealing from delivery vehicles driven by people isn’t wrong. What possible justification could there be for this view besides Ludditism fuck robots?
chaircat@lemdro.idto Technology@lemmy.world•All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EUEnglish4·2 years agoAgain, just anti consumer bullshit spearheaded by Apple and gargled by Samsung.
Samsung was actually one of the later Android manufacturers to drop it is my recollection.
chaircat@lemdro.idto Technology@lemmy.world•All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EUEnglish15·2 years agoI used to do this. I thought it was awesome but I was literally the only person I ever knew who did this. It was not a popular thing to do.
chaircat@lemdro.idto Technology@lemmy.world•Judge clears way for $500M iPhone throttling settlementsEnglish1010·2 years agoIt always blows my mind some people actually found Apple’s defense convincing.
The iPhones didn’t inform users when they were throttling because they had an old battery. Apple kept the throttling a secret and coincidentally it helped them upsell new phones to people with old phones. This type of functionality was also unique to Apple, it’s not like this is the only choice they had and an industry practice.
chaircat@lemdro.idto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the best Video Game Soundtracks?English63·2 years agoGenshin Impact has an incredible soundtrack.
Considering that leaks have come from militaries around the world that aren’t allies, that seems pretty tinfoil hat.