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Except this is breaking both trends. By quite a bit. China has never been flat over a year. America had been trending down and now a sharp rise up.

And we know why: China is adding green and nuclear, the US is going burn baby burn and avoiding green options.

Worth pointing out that over the last year China leveled out while they brought more green choices online, while the US suddenly shot up and looks to continue to do so.

Nothing better than patient gaming. It will be around eventually when sony wants to milk a little more.

Xbox has games on Steam? Who knew.

At first I read that as Xbox isn’t going to allow Steam on Xbox, which I thought was interesting and also didn’t know. That would have been crazy, but it was my first thought.

Xbox? Never. Not even once.

Meh, less plastic crap is a good thing.

That was the ps2.

Personally I don’t give a fuck about physical media, I don’t get the desire to have more plastic.

But I am still pissed about their twice Linux rug pull.

And basically if the hardware is locked to only one vendor at this point I simply have no need for it.

Whym isn’t it available elsewhere?

Debate? You are just a troll. There is no debate.

How often do you set up a new browser?

Doesn’t those follow you if you set up sync?

I am indifferent. They could do better but everything else is chrome.

Firefox forks and whatnot just don’t do much for me. I have zen, blorb, and IronFox (probably my favorite of the three) but none are compelling enough to switch.

Has nothing to do with the internet though.

And if you must, you could do reporting via internet but no control.

There is still no reason for it to be on the internet.

And why do I have the feeling a vendor got involved with pitching the internet…

Ps2. Still have two today that are on the network and have hard drives and they get played.

Xbox can go fuck itself. Never microsoft.

And why are water systems online in the first place?

Fedora is solid these days, well the last few years. It’s been so easy and everything is up to date, not lagging behind lke Ubuntu.

Ubuntu been awful since the beginning, always buggy always needing to be rinstalled at some point.

It lives on hype alone. I would choose anything over Ubuntu.

Slop has a long history as word used about art. Joeseph Cambell mentions it, people criticsed hollywood of it, publishers complained about it.

I remember those days using the term slop for lazy, uninspired, thowing anything that stuck on the wall, etc. AI is just a logical progression of the same term.

I mean yes… kind of. You can go to your library in gog and download (slowly speed-limited and broken into 4 gb chunks for some damn reason) which means no client needed.

But steam does have games that are DRM free after that first install. Ones that you can copy directly out of the folder and put them anywhere and run. Steam no longer needed.

There is a list here https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam although it suggests its about 600 games more that arent on the list yet.

Distinguished credentials, but at the same time I am not buying it. You can control AI. You can turn it off. You can have it not interact with systems you don’t want.

Remember this guy is saying “you cant control AI, we are all doomed” while also saying that we live in a simulation and he is very close to being able to hack us out of it.

Grain of salt and all.

By the way his belief is thus “AI can’t be contained, therefore the simulation can be escaped; by contraposition, if the simulation can’t be escaped, AI can be contained” Since AI cant be contained, he reasons, we can escape the simulation, quite possibly by using a super AI!

There might be a reason he has a podcasts and visits Joe Rogan

Cool. That is a step up. They used to play on the radio and the artist got nothing. They moved to digital and managed to get a pay per click. Pretty good.

The pay went to the publisher and songwriter back then, does it now? Do these numbers reflect that cut?

Music on the radio was an ad. People would go buy it if they liked it or see the band when it came to town. I wonder how much streaming converts to merch, performance, and possibly direct payment if at all for support?

There is a LOT more artists than ever before, the barrier to entry is low. Cut throat industry as always.

The comments after that article, people are completely missing the point.

This is how I see it:

The EU pays Morocco to externalize its borders. Morocco has used these migrant dumps in the past as leverage to get more money or protest things it didn’t like. The EU is paying Morocco to be its border guard, so there is a structural dependency where Morocco holds the stronger hand.

Yes the court ruling in Spain happened that makes it look like this is why its happening now, but there are so many people, it seems allowed. Morocco denies they are officially involved, but they also denied this in the past when they clearly did. There are a lot of news reports of their border guards standing down, and even reports that they helped spread the social media news on purpose.

Why then? Because Spain recently strengthened diplomatic ties with Algeria, Morocco’s arch-regional rival. Seriously for a looooong time they have been rivals.

I also would see the ruling as a negative for Moroco’s government, as this removes a bit of their leverage. So they would like that reversed.

Edit: oh I forgot to mention, these people are just pawns in this game. Everyone wants to complain about the people they see in the photos, but it is the ruling classes on both sides that benefit from this, focus should be on them.

Well except during the Plex outage today.

And last week.

And I am saying it always has been this way. The guardian had a nice write up on the more famous ones through history.

I get that you could argue that it is easier and cheaper than ever, which is a fair point.