Man who is heavily funded by AI research and use continues pushing that AI is necessary.

Definitely not “Crowdstrike tarnished their brand so much because no one understands what kernel level is that no one is going to get kernel level access”

the bill that was passed essentially said that warrants are no longer needed for data because “save the children”.

I do, and I’ve seen about half and half. Half of the companies are rushing to pay Microsoft gobs of money, the other half are like consumers trying as hard as they can to turn it off.

That’s what annoyed me about minio. Started super crazy simple to set up, but I missed two updates and came back to AWS levels of mandatory configuration. Ffs I chose you because you were simple, not because I needed to replace s3

This is one of those things I stay out of.

It’s not healthy for kids. But they enjoy it. But it’s definitely used by China for spying. But people should know better than to put private stuff on there.

However the bill I’m against, they put a lot of internet spying in there too in the name of saving the children. So…

Yeah we’ll just see how it turns out

I don’t think it’s that simple. Cortana came out too late, well after Google and Apple’s assistants had fully taken over. Their speakers were large and clunky. To compensate they forced it in front of everyone, adding it to everything just like copilot. it’s just their poor approach to marketing, they think shotgunning it everywhere is a smart idea.

I think they’re going to face the same issues with copilot. I think it may have moderate success, but everyone I know goes to ChatGPT, they don’t use copilot. I see a lot of resentment too about it popping up everywhere, and not just from the super techie people here - but average users too. It just feels the same as Cortana. The problem is that it is cool tech, they just don’t understand how to market it well. ChatGPT is simple, it’s cool, it’s right there when you need it. Microsoft makes their products somehow always uncool, not fun to work with, and annoying.

It’s been Microsoft’s standard practice. Instead of focusing on their core item - games and the game experience - they keep following the latest gimmicks and trying to shove random products in where no one wants them.

A few examples:

• Xbox One focused on media. Where media was a great thing to add, watching Netflix, even TV, they made the entire thing about media, and gaming took a backseat.
  • Media should have been an obvious “and it doubles as a streaming device!” instead of the primary focus
• In addition they forced the kinect early on. It wasn’t until horrid sales and backlash did they finally release a console without it
  • They could have sold it as a great arcade system, or a family add-on for the living room, but again they forced something people didn’t want
• Windows 8 and their freaking tiles.
  • “Tablets are pretty big and we missed the boat there, what if everything was a tablet?!”
• Cortana. A fun assistant that was genuinely pretty helpful, that could have bolstered their offerings, instead forced on every single device and plastered on every page.
• Finally, we arrive at copilot. Which, how many times do we have to keep teaching you this lesson old man?

Personally, I am playing Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2 on easy. They come from an era where if you aren’t suffering through it then you must really suck. Personally, I don’t have time to fight the same boss for an hour only to die when he gets down to the last 5% and start over again, I only get a few hours after work to game. However, the story is honestly pretty good, and I recommend them - if you play on easy.

Godot is, because it’s open source. If the maintainers ever wanted to close source it, someone forks it and it continues on.

Gitea just tried that earlier this year (or last). Owners tried to make it for profit, community forked it, created Forgejo, and we continue on under that name now.

Plus for most “this new engine is free forever and built by other developers like me”. Why would anyone want to switch back after learning it?

Come join us over at !satisfactory@lemmy.world if you want to celebrate with us!

Isn’t that what Ford said?

It comes in any color you like, as long as it’s investor approved and will maximize their yield.

Because investors are. Less people=more money for them. This minority investor just wants to get their money and run. Layoff more people, temporary bump, sell off, and get out. Sorry mate, you bet on Ubisoft, every gamer knows that it was only a matter of time until people realized how shitty they were being.

I’m glad the crew and the general blandness of all of their games has finally caught up with them

It urged the board to consider taking the company private, “implement a comprehensive cost reduction program and optimize staffing levels to be more comparable with industry leaders”

Standard investor BS. He’s just calling for layoffs friends, fuck that guy.

What they need to do is just gut the entire executive team. Not just the CEO but everyone. They clearly have no idea how to run a gaming company.

We bought all these studios, slashed their budgets, made their projects boring, and now no one is buying them! Time to lay off the workers and boost exec salaries!

Tell that to my mother when I was a teenager.

slams. Thank God he did, I was worried he only talked about it.

And then you are basically hiring an infra team to run the services and have the redundancy, and then with salaries you’re nearing just paying for software again

Yeah when they said no quidditch I immediately thought “okay we’ll just take this dump truck of money and leave them, I guess”.

It sold so well, and they never wanted to do anything more with it. So freaking stupid. The main story didn’t even really take us into the southern area very much, so many things could be done with that for so little!