For some, that is the point.

I want to buy a game online. How do I use cash?

Gay hook-up/dating app that pre-dates Tinder. In fact, it inspired Tinder.

There is a solution, but y’all aren’t going to like it.

The solution is blockchain. Actually, it’s even worse, the solution is NFT’s.

Not the scammy, crypto bro, nonsense it has been used for; but the actual technology.

A cryptographically secure digital token that can track where something was made, where it’s being used, who has the rights to it, and ensures that it’s authentic and not some copy made with AI.

Unfortunately, thanks to crypto bros, the technology has become so tainted by scams that most people get upset just hearing the letters NFT, so adoption isn’t likely.

I have yet to see a single item have a significant discount on prime day, it’s not even a sale.

Pixel has a built in feature that screens my calls and sends spammers to a bot. Graphene has no equivalent to this.

Yea, this one isn’t an issue. If you are dropping off passengers, you are allowed to stop in a fire lane because that is not parking.

Have you been living under a rock the past 10 years? If you think 95% of users give a single shit about E2E, you have a vastly better view of humanity than I do.

I just want my GameCube adapter to work again

Wrong. I choose not to.

That’s not the argument. You said the statement “You have to pay to use the C button” is wrong. How is that statement wrong?

So you have a way of using the C button without paying?

So explain how “You have to pay to use the C button” is a wrong statement.

Part of the problem is there is no hard line between what is conscious and what isn’t.

Oh sure, there are things you can definitely call conscious or non-conscious. A dog is conscious, a rock is non-conscious. But what about the things that fall somewhere in the murky middle?

Are jellyfish conscious? They have no brain, and seem to react only to the most basic of stimuli. On the other hand, they do exhibit behaviour like courtship and mating, show aversion to things that harm them, and have been shown to have at least a rudimentary form of learning where they will associate certain stimuli with specific outcomes to help with things like avoiding predators or obstacles.

How about plants? Are they conscious? They certainly react to some stimuli. They communicate with nearby plants to warn them of dangers and to share nutrients in times of stress. More studies are needed, but evidence has been coming out that not only do plants respond to music, but different plants have different tastes.

It’s one of the hard questions in philosophy, and one I’m not sure we’ll ever be able to fully answer.

Do you scratch surfaces with regular mice?

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You don’t have to have a feeling. The data is right there.

Looks like it was 43k active users at the lowest and 46k active users at the highest. That’s almost a whole 7%. So if that’s your definition of a “lot more activity” then sure!

Super Mario Kart 8++ Ultra 2

People have gone insane on both sides of AI.

Pro-AI people are delusional, thinking it can solve every problem under the sun when it very clearly can’t. They refuse to acknowledge the limitations and try to ham-fist it into every technology, even when it makes things worse. AI should not be used for what should be human decisions, it’s fucking crazy that we need to say that. AI should not set the price of goods, AI should not decide if your medical procedure is approved or not, AI should not be used to write scientific papers. AI in weaponry is literally asking for a black mirror scenario. Those that are trying to force it into things are usually only doing so because it’s a buzzword and never stop to consider if its actually adding any value.

On the other hand, Anti-AI people are insufferable. They have a visceral, knee-jerk reaction to anything AI related and refuse to acknowledge the benefits. They shit on anyone and everything that DARES to use AI while ignoring that it’s a tool that absolutely has a place. The people shitting on things like DLSS are out of their fucking minds. “Noooo, it uses AI slop to generate fake frames! It’s not reeeeeeaaaalllll!!!” Ok, but does it make games look better and increase the perceived FPS? Yes? Ok, so what’s the fucking problem? People are seriously complaining about a technology that will make hardware remain in service for longer without becoming obsolete.

The only people I respect at this point are those who are standing on the sidelines going “well, let’s just see where this technology takes us”.

Yes, but if you have to convert from Fahrenheit to another scale anyways, why in the hell would you not just go straight to Kelvin?!