[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 52 points 2 days ago

Or, you really enjoy a hobby but your hyperfocus makes you research the hobby instead of doing it. E.g. you like photography and your hyperfocus kicks in researching places to go take photos, or gear to buy... Or you spend hours choosing the best cycling route until it's too dark or the weather changes and you go "What happened to my beautiful afternoon??".

My hyperfocus tends to kick in whenever the ADHD gremlin inside my brain chooses, not always when I'm doing whatever I enjoy. I wish that was always the case.

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 7 points 3 days ago

HAHAHAHA King Boo and Kirby. In that order. Annoyingly it works well.

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 68 points 1 week ago

the shutdown command was a warning not a request.

Such wise words.

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 51 points 1 month ago

Re: security: I imagine many women being more comfortable getting a waymo than an Uber/Taxi. It's anecdotal and from a different country, but most of my female family/friends have had an uncomfortable interaction in a taxi, like unrequested sexual advances or things like that.

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 56 points 2 months ago

Maybe we need to rethink economics in a way they don't require an endless growth of the population like we're a cancer to the earth. Maybe Bezos could pay a bit more than 1.1% in taxes, an extra 1% would free a cool couple of billion for retirement. And so could Musk, and same with the companies, a bit from Amazon, a bit from Microsoft, and the rest of S&P500...

I'm all for a bit of population decline. The system needs to crash to get rebalanced.

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 45 points 3 months ago

Oh boy. £120 to just unlock the base characters or "dozens and dozens" of hours of grind for each of them.

We'll see how this goes, but I see this going the way of Suicide Squad. I wonder when, if ever, Warner Bros. Is going to learn that players are actively pushing back against corporate greed and live service games are already way past the limit of microtransactions that players deem acceptable.

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 137 points 5 months ago

God this is equally terrible and hilarious 😂

For example, The Associated Press reported that an official Meta AI chatbot inserted itself into a conversation in a private Facebook group for Manhattan moms. It claimed it too had a child in school in New York City, but when confronted by the group members, it later apologized before its comments disappeared, according to screenshots shown to The Associated Press.

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 57 points 5 months ago

Thanks GPT, very useful

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 115 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oh that's rich. So what they're saying is somehow every other smartwatch company can engineer not only a way to solve the technical limitations, but a full smartwatch in under three years, while one of the most powerful tech companies somehow thought "naah, connecting to android is a lot more difficult than a self driving car or a VR headset with an integrated computer and video passthrough, we better shelve that idea".

Yeah ok Apple.

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 48 points 6 months ago

$749

Windows

Done, I've read enough.

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 53 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He pointed out that one of WBD's latest big games, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, was a disappointment for the company.

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"Rather than just launching a one-and-done console game, how do we develop a game around, for example, a Hogwarts Legacy or Harry Potter, that is a live-service where people can live and work and build and play in that world in an ongoing basis?" he said.

How do you say "whoooosh" in corporate?

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 65 points 1 year ago

These assholes used to spy on people - their app used to keep users' microphones open, so that together with location, they could detect whether bars were airing football matches, and try to find unlicenced ones.

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/12/732157537/spains-soccer-league-fined-for-using-app-to-spy-on-fans-in-fight-to-curb-piracy

I really hope they don't get away with deleting apps from people's phones.

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