Though I can say I haven’t heard of any new phone features that made me care. I did purchase a new phone in the past year, but that was about wanting to get out of google’s ecosystem before they finish building the wall around their garden.

So, for me at least, at this point it’s more about avoiding anti features than looking for a shiney new feature.

I’m really not sure what a phone could even offer as a new thing to get me interested at this point. And I wonder if that will eventually be 6G (or newer) when they shut down the 5G networks.

That’s disappointing that they have different methods for each physical layer. That should be handled on the link layer using common methods once the physical layer is able to send bits back and forth.

Getting an IP address shouldn’t be affected by whether it will be transmitted using fibre, dsl, cable, a 56k line, a quantum teleporter, signal fires, or carrier pigeons.

I mean, if there’s only three ways, couldn’t routers be set up to just try all three to see which works? Or if they each need specific parameters that aren’t discoverable, have a form that takes all of them but says “just enter what your ISP gives you, the others are optional”. Or set it up such that the client can just get whatever information it needs from the server to communicate with other nodes beyond the server. IPv4 has DHCP. Is there something in the way of applying a similar solution to IPv6?

Yeah, if I want to know what the colour is to find other instances of that thing easier, it takes 2 seconds to determine the colour. But I can’t remember ever actually doing that.

That retunr typo will be caught by the compiler. That’s what pass 1 is pretty much for, spell and syntax check.

Yeah, inceldom is a mindset, choosing to be bitter about their state of affairs and lash out at others for not wanting them. I don’t frequent their areas, but some of them blame various ratios of their facial positioning when their face is fine, it’s just their attitude that is shitty.

I guess it could be argued how much one can change their personality to be less off-putting, but I’ve known some real ugly dudes that have had fine dating lives.

Plus with the size of my library, even if they do eventually complete the game, there’s a good chance I won’t ever get back to it.

That’s why I find the idea of heaven to be self-contradictory.

One person’s idea of heaven might be one where they don’t need to worry about others wanting sex with them. Another’s might be one where everyone is happy to have sex with them. And another might be most happy in a monogamous relationship where they are with their partner and no one else is even interested in their partner. (Also what about widows and widowers who remarry?)

Or hell, a simpler example: three people, one of which considers the other two their very best friends while the other two only like that one and would rather not spend time with each other.

So unless there’s a new version of heaven for each set of desires (maybe even with a version of you that is happy there, to make those who want to be with you in that heaven happy), the whole thing will be great for some but probably miserable for many more (because you can’t please everyone), which defeats the entire premise of paradise for everyone.

Not that this disproves anything, for all I know the many versions one might be the case or maybe heaven exists but is only fun for some people (which honestly is consistent with how religion generally works on earth anyways).

Edit: fixed a word, plus added the bit about widows.

Googley eye napping.

While what you said is true (at least from the second word on), your argument boils down to “the truth is out there so propaganda only works on people who want it to work on them”. And while I wouldn’t say that is necessarily false either, it does drastically oversimplify things.

And even if anyone who does fall for it deliberately so, it’s still good to know that there is a propaganda effort going on and that inceldom and the manosphere aren’t just happening because that’s how men are. They likely started naturally (because there absolutely are men like that, and women and others) but it’s all being amplified to pull in as many as possible.

A part that complicates things is that incels, contrary to what the name implies, choose to be incels. Also, working with incels specifically could end up giving a perverse incentive (or whatever it’s called when an effort to reduce something instead becomes an incentive to increase it) to be an incel to get help.

I’d consist Dark Souls 1 open world, there just isn’t a lot of open space and you have to fight to get anywhere.

Breathedge has the subnautica kinda feel to it, though it might be tuned a bit on the pain in the ass side (I’m still early in to it and haven’t yet decided if I like it, but it has that feel).

Or for a game with more of a crafting/building emphasis, Planet Crafter also gives some of those vibes.

Yeah, I was put off by about everything in that game.

I don’t disagree with you on the evilness that is involved with pretty much all conquering imperial powers (whether it’s an empire or republic backing it), but Rome didn’t invent that. They made some advancements in military tactics, strategies, and logistics. But conquest was done before them.

Alexander the great had an empire that rivaled Rome’s side when he died (and there are other example in recorded history of it being done earlier, like in Egypt, Gilgamesh, and many others). And even the whole “you can keep your culture as long as you join the empire” was done by Persia before Rome did it.

I think it’s a product of having grown up during the time when accessing commercial applications was about as easy as accessing the free ones at a time where many of the free ones were just pale imitations. And before the enshitification had really gotten going.

What is with this art style that makes it look both really good and really bad at the same time? Is it just the poor understanding of anatomy putting the poses into the uncanny valley while shading looks good or is there more to it?

Edit: I think the facial expressions play into it, too. Everyone looks like a meloncholy neutral.

Under capitalism, it’s not enough for a person to be able to make a living providing a good or service to society. They need to be able to make enough to pay the people that do it for them, plus a profit for the owners. Without that profit, owners have no reason to make a corp to provide the good or service, so it doesn’t happen, or if it did happen, it gets sold to someone who thinks they can either turn it around or get more than they paid for it by liquidating everything.

But this means that there’s pretty much a whole economy available for people to provide those goods and services without giving a profit cut, meaning they can both undercut the for-profit corps doing it while making more than the corps would be willing to pay them.

Think about this any time you see something about a failing company, because it doesn’t mean you can’t make a living doing that thing, but just that you can’t make enough to cover loan costs (which can also be a big factor since business schools like to preach leveraging to the max) and still profit afterwards, after paying all of the workers.

So far I’ve been impressed with what AI can do with coding. I had it write some scripts for me on one of my previous work tasks and it did the majority of the code writing and even majorly assisted the debug process.

And now I’m using it for another task and it’s already improved significantly since the last one. You can now interrupt it if if gets stuck in some kind of loop and the required debug phases are fewer. Hell, it’s even reading between the lines of my prompts effectively and implemented a verbosity feature in a second script just because I had requested it in the first one.

With the first task, I was holding its hand as far as data structures and such were concerned. This time, I’m instructing it at a higher level. And while it does help that I can understand the code it generates, I said last time that it was good enough to start replacing interns, I think at this point it’s ready to start replacing junior programming positions.

Ah, so the technological singularity is here but it’s in the opposite direction from what was expected as the technology takes over its own enshitification in an ever-accelerating manner.

I gotta wonder where do we go from here?