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Zack Freedman is a big 3d printing influencer who got the system off the ground and has kind of become synonymous with it, most of the gridfinity community discussion still happens on his discord I believe. He wears a custom teleprompter eyepiece thing, calls himself and his community cyborgs, and is neurotically hilarious about puns and alliteration. He’s quite a character.

Nice to see a fellow cyborg! (And if you don’t get the reference and are just a casual enjoyer of the system, that’s cool too)

They can’t have been talking about Windrose either, then, because they very clearly said it was writing log file entries every 500 milliseconds. Either they misunderstood the scale too, or they were talking about a different issue, because 500 milliseconds is definitely not on the same scale as what Codex or Windrose are being accused of. The game issue they described is not comparable to either of those scenarios.

500 milliseconds is an eternity in computer time. Doing a 10KB write (very generously large for a logfile) write every 500 milliseconds is something it could do continuously for about 1,000 years before it used up the write capacity of an SSD.

That’s exactly right, and it’s clearly why they intentionally decided to let the businesses have guns and gave them all the other rights in the constitution, knowing they would someday be declared to be actual “people” by a series of what must be the stupidest and most destructive legal precedents ever set in the history of humanity.

I feel very educated from having all read this.

I’m more concerned about the dictatorial-feeling attitudes in the marketing than I am about the price. I’m all for a privacy respecting phone, but an even higher priority than that is respecting me and my choices. Blocking me from social media doesn’t feel like it’s catering to me, it feels like its nannying me and dictating my choices to me. That’s not something I’m interested in at any price.

I realize that I will, in reality, be able to choose whether to leave those blocked, but having them blocked by default feels just as aggressively judgemental and disrespectful as preinstalling them and shoving them in my face like most existing brands do. It’s not your place to tell me what apps to use or not to use. Give me a fucking blank slate, and let me decide, thankyouverymuch.

I want the subreddit to be at least 95% NOT AI, but without completely excluding AI content (which must be tagged) and I don’t want to see everything tagged “[NOT AI]” because that’s genuinely obnoxious.

I understand that this is maybe not realistically achievable given the technical limitations within the Lemmy platform, but those limitations are not going to make such an implementation any less obnoxious, even if it is implemented that way for my benefit.

I would rather trust the mods and downvoters to clean up not-tagged or dishonestly Not-AI-tagged AI content, personally.

The word I would use is “recognize”, implying you recognize its value even though it doesn’t meet your own needs. I recognize gnome as a decent desktop environment but someone will have to pry KDE out of my cold dead hands before I’ll use it.

This is a lot of fuss about realistically nothing but I completely understand why and frankly I am pleased to see it. People should be pissed off about age verification laws and the way they’re being implemented.

systemd doesn’t enforce anything about birth dates, this is totally optional and completely falsifiable, and if anyone ever tried to enforce anything based on it that would be a totally separate system and purely hypothetical at this point. This is never going to actually be a realistic part of any implementation that actually works (not that there is ever likely to be any implementation that ever works) because that’s the beauty of open source. As soon as anyone ever develops an implementation that actually works, it will be forked and removed just like this. Nobody is going to voluntarily use that, and if the law requires us to, nobody’s going to comply with the law either.

This is more like a shot across the bow to say “we will never put up with this and we’ll show you exactly what we’re going to do if you try” than it is a realistic need at this point. Still, good for making sure they understand we are armed and we are not going down without a fight (that they won’t win).

My positivity varies, honestly, the world’s rough right now. But the thing I keep coming back to is to realize how many of us are actually on the same page, as much as they’ve tried to divide us and keep us divided, controlling even the information we see, most of us are all still ultimately seeing almost the same things. We’re not divided on the things that matter, the things that are real. Most people hate AI. Most people hate what the tech companies and billionaires are doing. Most people hate what the government fascists are doing. Divided we fall, united we are unstoppable. They have not managed to completely break our grip on reality, and it’s that same relentless and unstoppable reality we all see that is showing us that we are all in this together, that we have more in common with each other than we do against each other.

Money, democracy, government, police, nations, these are not physical constants of the universe, they are just collective decisions we’ve made. If they’ve been corrupted, and I think they have, then they don’t have to continue to exist in the shape and form and traditions we originally made them in. We made the rules, we can change the rules. They continue to exist as they are because we all agree they do. Without our active agreement and acceptance, they mean nothing and they will have to adapt to civil pressure or die. Together, we can change them. The powers that be will not like it if we decide to change them, and they will quite probably try to use violence, but try is the operative word here, and if enough people are on the same page, and we can get enough of the people they would use to implement that violence on the same page, it won’t even matter, and the violence probably won’t even happen. Revolution does not have to be violent, it just has to be united. Unite the people, and this can all change. Sure, there will likely be some violence after all, but we have to accept that there already is some, and people are already dying in concentration camps and in wars that are far more pointless than the struggle to take control back of our own futures.

We have ended kingdoms. We have ended slavery. We have ended segregation. We can end this.

The revolution will not be televised – in fact it can’t be. The revolution is taking place at dinner tables, in workplaces, in conversations between real people interacting with other real people on a daily basis talking about how much they hate and are affected by what is happening right now and how much we all want it to change. It doesn’t have a manifesto, it doesn’t have a leader, it’s not scheduled at some date and time, nobody is pulling these strings, and yet I think it will happen just as inevitably as anything as long as people can stay united about the change we want to see in the world. A lot of the masks have been pulled off, and we can now see people and things for what they really are. Dispelling these illusions is painful and frightening, but it’s also necessary for real change to happen.

They’re desperate because they’re losing their grip. It may look like they’re trying to tighten their grip, and they are, but it’s because they’re slipping, so they’re also scrambling, and panicking. Attitudes are shifting and shit is getting bad faster than they were prepared for. Their hubris is catching up to them. Their tech-utopian dreams are now starting to contact and conflict with reality, and reality is going to run them over without even slowing down. Musk and all the rest going so quickly from tens of billions to hundreds of billions to now trillions (in a matter of years!) is not a sign of consolidation of wealth, it’s a sign of the currency they are depending on starting to lose meaningful, realistic value. It’s starting to look like hyperinflation for billionaires, and it’s going to end the same way. Ironically they’ve already gutted and robbed the and tried to automate and replace the middle and working classes so extensively that it’s probably going to shield us from the worst of it. It will be bad, but not as bad as it could be. Additional social support is going to be required on the other side, but we’ll also be able to take advantage of some of the very technologies and cost-cutting measures they’ve been using to replace us.

This is the way. I buy games primarily to support game developers, not because I don’t know how to pirate. GoG is generally preferred when possible, but I buy games on Steam primarily because of convenience and the other services they provide, not because I blindly trust those games will always be accessible, and I think for the services they provide they do deserve their cut, so I’m supporting them as well. I do also happen to trust them, and I believe those games will be available to me for the foreseeable future and if I didn’t, my buying strategy would shift quite promptly, but I’m not blindly trusting that, it’s a calculated risk.

I absolutely do know how to pirate games. This is not my first rodeo. But it’s mildly inconvenient, especially for updates and sometimes multiplayer, and I trust that process even less than I trust Steam. If Steam were to take my games away that I’ve already paid for (and supported) you’d better believe most of them are going into the download queue. Some I might choose to support again on a different platform, some have certainly earned it. But I know what I’m doing, and I’m doing it with intention. I decide who deserves my money and who doesn’t, and so far, Steam has earned what they get from me.

I know everyone has different learning styles, but you actually want the learning to be rote, like a book, despite using an inherently interactive media like a game? I would consider that a flaw, and perhaps even the wrong tool for the job.

If you want a textbook there are lots of textbooks available, lots of videos on youtube that explain topics in depth and in various levels from surface level to tedious detail, what do you even need the game part for? It’s way more work to make something like a game, and what is the game part doing besides getting in the way?

The point of a game is to be fun and allow you to experiment more creatively with different ideas to see how they work in practice so you can learn a thing by doing the thing. It’s a form of hands-on learning, and that’s great.

Something like Kerbal Space Program or Factorio or Cities: Skylines will force you to learn about things like orbital mechanics, telemetry, logic, data organization, observability, and traffic optimization just to proceed meaningfully in the game without ever explicitly telling you that you’re learning. A flight simulator or a farm simulator or a racing simulator or an offroad simulator allows you to experiment with and be challenged with (sometimes in very accurate detail) real issues that the real people in those fields have to deal with and with additional learning materials (again, books, videos) you will be able to learn the same way they do. That’s about as close as games get to being the kind of learning material you seem to be looking for. Maybe you need to be explicitly told what you’re learning, I get it, but if you’re not then allowed to play around with those concepts in real-time, why are you bothering with the game? Games are really not an ideal medium for that kind of education.

If you want book-learning, use a book? Use game-learning for the kind of things gaming is good at.

Chinese players don’t have access to most of the established feedback channels like the official discord server and social media accounts so their only option to reliably get the devs‘ attention is through Steam reviews.

But there is definitely a cultural difference as well.

I think these two things might be related. When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything is going to look like a nail. The devs can add all the in-game alternative contact methods they want, if Chinese players are only familiar with using the hammer and that is the only option available to them, that’s what they’re going to use. They’re not going to suddenly try something ad-hoc like finding a feedback button buried somewhere in the game, when the nail is standing tall right there, just begging to be hit with their hammer. They’ve been trained to use the hammer, they’re going to use it first, immediately, and liberally, and the idea of using or even considering an alternative will probably never occur to most of them.