richmondez

joined 11 months ago
[–] richmondez -1 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I assume you also only buy hand crafted porcelain items, only buy hand picked produce and generally avoid all automation amd modern convenience. Take your clothes to a local hand-wash rather than using a washing machine too do you? I agree that the energy cost should be taken into account before we declare it to be cheaper to use "AI" generated content.

[–] richmondez 2 points 6 months ago

More like actively removed them for yes men at the last election because the competent ones opposed brexit. The current administration is more a populist brexit party than a traditions Conservative platform.

[–] richmondez 2 points 6 months ago

Don't let pesky things like facts ruin a perfectly fine feel good piece to make gammon feel a bit chuffed with themselves.

[–] richmondez 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm in the UK and no one I know considers the 360 to have won, regional preferences for one over the other perhaps?

[–] richmondez 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

My experience is that seems to be a US centric view that the 360 "won" it's generation, I've never encountered that view locally and it's ultimately not born out by statistics although it was the closest Microsoft ever came.

[–] richmondez 11 points 7 months ago

Turns out you can make more money by reducing usability and user choice in an entrenched product because hardly anyone will baulk and jump ship to a different product.

[–] richmondez -4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That should be "ownership" as actual ownership implies having control over a thing and no one who "purchased" this seems to have much control. Breaking the DRM and creating a self hosted sever is taking ownership of it. Don't pretend CD keys were physical ownership either unless the key was entirely validated offline which admittedly older key schemes were.

[–] richmondez -5 points 7 months ago

We are walking talking general intelligence so we know it's possible for them to exist, the question is more if we can implement one using existing computational technology.

[–] richmondez 3 points 7 months ago

They want to be the Gillette of gaming it seems.

[–] richmondez 9 points 7 months ago

I think the point is that "not having ads" shouldn't be allowed to become the premium experience when it used to be the standard experience.

[–] richmondez 5 points 7 months ago

It's exactly a monopoly for the chosen ones, gate keeping at its worst. Anything that isn't blessed is going to be a bit more effort to get working, but I wouldn't say Kodi is unsuitable for the average user on the grounds of the widevine module though, the DRM module extraction is automated when installing a plugin that requires it.

[–] richmondez 1 points 7 months ago

Except spirits doesn't mean tiny physical things, it refers to things outside of the physical that cannot be measured or quantified by definition. If spirit was just their word for biodiversity that would be fine but then we'd be talking about sites being biodiverse and not sacred because we'd have established that sacred isn't the correct translation. You keep repeating the same baseless justifications for spiritualistic and religious practices to be treated like some kind of science but they aren't and never will be. They are ritualised behaviours that are successful only because the competing alternatives lead to the collapse of the populations practicing them and would fare less well in alternative environments. We are done here, there is nothing more productive to be gained from you repeating the same misunderstanding of science.

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