Oh also, it's completely possible to stream games from one room to another nowadays. You could put something small like a RaspberryPi - which is easy to hide or even put on the back of a TV - in the TV room and have the computer that runs GTA6 in another room. I do this to play games that my SteamDeck isn't powerful enough to run, in my living room. Obviously you'd have to also buy a RasberryPi or something, but again it's more useful.

Sorry, I didn't think there was anyone on Slashdot that didn't already have a computer.

Obviously you do what you want, but you can have a computer with exactly the same amount of clutter as a PlayStation or Xbox, and it would be much more useful - much wider variety of games (including an extensive backlog, and emulation) to play for cheaper or free, no need to buy a whole new one and new controllers and etc. when GTA for the next generation of consoles eventually comes along, etc.

Just wait for it to come to PC. You've already waited this long.

No, that is obviously caused by Dungeons & Dragons and Rock & Roll.

I don't begrudge anyone for making different choices either. I'm annoyed when those choices put me and my family in danger (as car-centric infrastructure, car pollution, and people not paying attention while they drive does).

Personally I don't because -

Using the computer isn't always the last thing I do, when I leave it at night I may come back to the computer, I might not. I don't want to come back just to shut it down.

It use to be said that turning off HDDs shortened their life span, and there is debate over if that is true or not, but there's no denying that spin-up is a common failure point... so I just got used to not turning computers off (and I still use HDDs for storage).

I have my computer set to do things during the hours I usually sleep. Download stuff, do backups, do updates (it will ask for permission to do a reboot the next day if needed, but it only rarely is - not using Windows) etc.

When I come back to my computer, I want everything to be as I left it so I can continue whatever I was doing. All the same applications open in the same place, all the same files open, file browser open to the same folders. Although, I didn't think until just now that there's likely a way to set things up so it reopens everything when it boots back up.


Oh yeah and, uptime bragging rights.

That sounds great actually. You won't use it unless you actually need to. In my book that's much better than cars that encourage people to use them for every single trip, rarely get out, and be so comfortable that they stop paying attention.

Children are going to be assaulted and taken advantage of by people they know who are in positions of power.

While this is true, the power isn't always obvious and actually the most common people to harm a child are family members. The second most common is people known to the family, not just the child - so yes priests or pastors are included, but aren't most common and this also includes friends of the family, coaches, babysitters, etc. People that the family trusts.

It's parents' job to protect their kids, not any site/game (and I say this as a parent). And it's infinitesimally easier to protect your kid from people you don't know on the internet than it is to protect them from someone that has gained your trust over years and that live with you, or that you let into your home, or that you let your kid into their home, or you trust to give your kid a ride home after practice. Really, I think that's why people are up in arms about this, and stranger danger in general - because it gives them something to focus on that they feel like they can control. Even though actually not talking to strangers isn't feasible (because everyone is a stranger until you get to know them - classmates, teachers, neighbors, doctors, cashiers at the store, the mailman that may ask you to sign for a package, heck family when you're first born), you can feel like you're doing something by preaching stranger danger, or by forcing Roblox to change. But it's not feasible (and wouldn't be mentally healthy for the kid) to actually protect a kid from the people most likely to harm them (you'd have to, just for a start, never let even the parents be alone with the kid; but even then, who could be the supervisor? Any family is just as much danger. You'd have to hire people and replace them often enough that the family doesn't get to know them, but even then predators could take the job...), so we have to live with the assumption that we can trust the people we trust.

When you're driving, you don't notice because you're moving fast (which means it gets more data) and hopefully not looking at the map (so you don't necessarily notice if it's inaccurate for a moment). You're also bigger, likely to be on one side of the street depending on which direction you're traveling (so if it just estimates, it's usually right), etc.

I've certainly noticed a problem in downtown Chicago while walking and biking. (In other places with skyscrapers too, but I'm in Chicago a lot so I notice it a lot). GPS often can't accurately gauge which direction I'm traveling, will say I'm a street or two over from where I actually am, etc. This at times renders the directions completely useless.

I recently went on a long bike trip somewhere there were no skyscrapers, and it was like night and day. I was just amazed at how well the GPS worked.

Maybe 10 years ago. If you're too stupid to use Wine directly, Lutris, Heroic, or Bottles makes it just as simple as using Steam on Windows. Or you can simply "add a non-Steam game" to Steam - it doesn't care if it's not actually a game.

You're supposed to be imagining you're not a complete idiot, which means you would say that Google Maps isn't giving accurate directions. The agency might have already gotten different directions, because you're not the only person using Google Maps. But yes, calling the place is also an option. Maybe don't trust AI to give you the phone number lol

Now imagine the same situation, but without you being a complete idiot. You'd use that phone you just used Google Maps on to call the agency and ask for directions, and not lose any income.

If you have double check everything the Chat bot tells you, why bother with it in the first place? Seems like a way a stupid person would waste a lot of time.

Why indeed? You're right, that does seem stupid.

Asking the AI if the hardware store is open when the consequence of it being wrong is I drive a few extra miles to Lowe's and deal with the more limited selection of whatever there. Is a great use of AI. I have saved time trying to make a call waiting for someone to answer or not, or trying to find their website, trying to locate their hours on said website, so on. If I drive by and see the open sign isn't lit i don't even have to stop the car, the consequences for being wrong are low.

Or you could have saved even more time by just driving past and not asking AI at all. So yes, why bother wasting time with AI?

It's just BS "to drum up engagement". There are signs (with English too) that say the ropeway operating hours (09:00 - 16:00). And besides that (she got me on her site long enough to find this out so I guess it worked), they live in Japan and she is preparing for the N1 exam which means she speaks and reads Japanese very well. And with running a blog about traveling in Japan, there's no way she's that clueless.

Well for the people using ChatGPT to plan their hike, the fact that they were using ChatGPT should have been their first hint that the information was AI generated.

Aside from that, we could get into the intricacies of identifying AI-generated content and argue about if it's stupid to be fooled, but it's irrelevant. You don't even have to know information was AI generated; it's stupid to not double check and to trust Google Maps or a Youtube video, because even if it was posted by a human, humans can lie or be wrong. If there's no official website that has clearly been recently updated (so you know it has up-to-date information), then you call, or ask when the last ropeway is before you go up a mountain, or look at the signs. If you can't do these things because of a language barrier or something, then consult with a translator or guide, or just don't for example hike up a mountain that you can't hike back down. That's being smarter, and it would indeed protect you from getting stuck on a mountain top.