Quoting: GustyGhostOne thing I've learned is that the masses will always make the wrong choice. Large populations of humans do not make decisions that collectively help the best interests of themselves or others.

I think that's a very anti-democratic stance to take.
I argue that people do tend to make the right choice, so long as they are informed and not under duress. The problem is that people are subject to a great deal of propaganda and hardship to keep them from making better choices.

I have friends who want to switch to things like Linux who are just so burnt out that they don't have the mental energy to make the change. Even if it turned out to be easy for them, making that choice and starting the process of doing that is not nothing.

The world would be a better place if everyone had access to good journalism, healthcare, and a full night of sleep.

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Honestly, I would have accepted his argument if he didn't decide to hide it.
I definitely get too much secondhand propaganda due to a family member in enterprise software, but the quote (emphasized bit aside) seems broadly correct to me.

I still hate generative AI, it's still seemingly the culprit behind half of every problem I see in the world. I do at least understand the perspective of people who are trying to make the best of it.

And, sort of relevant to all of us is that Linus Torvalds seems to at least selectively approve of AI tools, even though he also condemns slop, etc. Not saying how anyone should feel about that, but I feel it bears acknowledging in this context.

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I like Valve, but I'm not giving them any sympathy on this. Lootboxes and gambling suck.

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Quoting: GustyGhostThey could use this extra time to polish up the Linux client with 64 bit and other things that don't rely on semiconductor manufacture.

That's surely handled by a different team, right?

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Can't hear the NVIDIA updates over the fans of my perfectly functional GTX 1070...

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Too cheap and lazy for voices, why'd anyone expect cybersecurity? Maybe they "generated" that, too.

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Not quite as bad as their new government-approved 3D printer bill but hey, it's nice they're trying to give it competition.

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While every platform may eventually need to confront age verification laws, Discord is an untrustworthy company. They will abuse the opportunity.

This announcement should be taken the same as "Google backed away from locking down Android!"
Because, according to F-Droid, that never actually happened.

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Quoting: chickenb00Balanced take: there is no conspiracy, this is simply a market reaction, and once these data centres are built but the envisioned demand does not materialize, prices for all components will fall as data centres stop being built.
I thought about panic-buying HDDs too, but they're expensive now, and anyways I have nothing to store.

I've had someone share an article with me about datacenter hoarding also causing a sudden rise (and then following crash) in chip prices during the pandemic. I think the problem is the ridiculous concentration of economic power that big tech companies have to outbid everyone on the majority of supply in short bursts.

I don't think it's an intentional conspiracy. I also wouldn't be surprised if they considered it a happy accident.

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They're taking away our right to own private computers

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