So, these people can't be bothered to make music themselves and can't be bothered to keep it at their own computers. Sounds like Entitlement with capital E, including a very, very false sense of trust on entities outside their little bubble.

Boo hoo.

I'd upvote if I had mod points. Not being able to middle click paste is absolute garbage especially on laptops where middle click is on the same surface as left/right click as you describe.

Wait, not for this one please!

Hahaha I meant if it was console or PC, but yeah pretty good list there :D Go buy a few from GOG and give them a go, worth it. Since you've enjoyed the HoMM games, if you haven't heard, definitely check out fheroes2 and HotA

Out of curiosity, what did you game on as a kid? My escape begins when I run the executable, but it has to be a desktop PC, but laptop is ok. Because that's what I grew up with, and associate escape with.

It's Microsoft, and they're shoving AI to it too - better run for the hills with your GabeCube instead.

I'd rather lay bricks rather than do this nonsense flimsy ritual that makes you hate computers.

Heh, of course it would be...

Blame my vocabulary! Well, new word acquired...

It's Steam Deck, not Stream Deck

If the algorithmic feed is opaque, no thanks, because it's going to be the same old disaster like Twitter, it's just too easy a direction...

A lot of BlueSky users use it because it's not supposed to be algorithmic, you're supposed to create your own feeds. Of course people are jerks and abuse hashtags, and for example I see a lot of political posts with game development or art hashtags, but you can just easily block these people. This "user personalisation" sounds like it's one step towards yet another algorithm-based shitty monetisation model, because clearly they still have no new ideas on that department. Well, there's always Mastodon...

At my university, we used to tell students "Use Grammarly instead of using AI". Well that ship has sailed. Students and academic institutions are in danger with all the AI integration. Fuck the human replacement attempts indeed, but the ones that should listen are too busy trying to replace humans for imaginary gains.

Seen on the first linked article's picture. Preaching to the choir here (I hope), but "This AI agent can help you with your ..." should always be replaced with "That AI company is now about to steal your ... wholesale".

I always think it's a bit sad that, when they started, GPUs brought pretty much supercomputing power to the masses using affordable hardware, democratising compute if you could frame your problem to be solved by GPUs. Now it's swung the other way - AI model training is only possible if you're loaded and shady enough to have access to big compute/data. 2007 was such a landmark year - CUDA and smartphones - who knew that these super-cool technologies would lead to such a crap timeline with social media, crypto and genAI