Yep, and I’m still never buying a Playstation. Not worth chasing exclusives when there are plenty of good games on PC.

Dude, know your audience. Lemmy is not the place for this SEO stuff. This belongs on LinkedIn or something.

Same. It’s nice to have a way to quickly look through a bunch of options (even if 95% of them are shitty Chinese counterfeits). I’ll even look through the reviews and see if anything glaring jumps out. But I haven’t been a prime member since they put ads in prime video and haven’t really missed it.

I’m currently working for a place that has had recent entanglements with the govt for serious misconduct that hurt consumers. They have multiple policies with language in it to reduce documentation that could get them in trouble again. But minimal attention paid to the actual issues that got them in trouble.

They are more worried about having documented evidence of bad behavior than they are of it occurring.

I’m certain this is not unique to this company.

Same. I’m a little surprised it took them so long to build out a 4-player coop mode. Would have expected that with OMD3

Gaming historian did a really interesting documentary on Oregon Trail. Definitely recommend checking it out

Here’s the link https://youtu.be/8QbjlHeoLdc?si=BmxLQj_yIDn_Kzhl

Just got Stardew Valley. I’m a little reluctant to start it though- it seems like one of those games I could sink hundreds of hours into and I have a huge backlog. But I’m excited to try it.

Yeah I think the masses are going to be a tough sell on Linux until computer manufacturers start offering Linux builds with a pre-installed instance.

I’m sure there are places that do it but there’s probably money to be made in just setting up Linux on machines for people.

Got it right after launch. It is fantastic. Puzzles are fun, characters and plot are entertaining, and it’s just frickin adorable. It’s really short- I’m hoping because the dev team is releasing additional cases later, but right now you just solve one case. I finished it in an evening taking it slowly. I don’t regret paying full price, but I definitely want more. Would recommend for sure.

Wow, this is bleak.

I read somewhere (I think the deloitte tech survey from a few years ago) that many people have replaced their pc with smartphones and use their phone as their primary tech device. Would be interesting to see if any of these low-level skill folks are actually high (or higher) on mobile skills.

I look forward to Apple Marketing coming up with their usual line of nonsense, like a meaningless name for an existing capability that they are claiming to have invented.

Nice! I got it right after the latest version came out but that’s been a while. They do sales pretty regularly though. It’s definitely not as massive as Adobe wrt features, but they cover the essentials well.

Guys, seriously. The entire Affinity Suite is $150. Paid for updates through the current version. It’s solid.

Dump Adobe.

Holy shit what a ride that was.

It’s clear from a lot of stories like this (severe customer mistreatment) that United employees are miserable people who hate their jobs but this is nuts. I hope Dr. Dao got a huge settlement from United.

I don’t have much direct experience working in agile since I tend to work on the business side but I can tell you that the term agile is WAY overused. So many projects are described as agile when they are just waterfall with more steps. Leaders love to say they are working in agile because it sounds ‘techy’ and cool, but I don’t think they fully appreciate what it is vs other methods. I wonder if a lot of the failed projects described in the article are some of those agile in name only kind of things.

The story in Horizon Forbidden West is pretty good too. There’s a whole bit in the dlc about Ted Faro that I did not see coming, but it makes me think a lot of the tech bros running things today.

My thinking is that it reads like the author is dismissing the whole notion that AI has risks and that the folks raising concerns were just repeating an overblown doomsday narrative.

That’s what I thought and I expected to see a lot of promoting for the shiny new things and dismissing safety efforts as dampening innovation.

The title of this article is misleading. It’s actually a nice summary in how AI firms have conveniently forgotten their own warnings and predictions of the dangers of AI now that they no longer need to use that messaging in making pitches to investors.

Yeah, but the non-tech savvy business leaders see they can generate code with AI and think ‘why do I need a developer if I have this AI?’ and have no idea whether the code it produces is right or not. This stat should be shared broadly so leaders don’t overestimate the capability and fire people they will desperately need.

What I don’t get is that most of these acquisitions are reviewed by a govt body somewhere. And every single company trying to buy or sell another always says it will support growth of the business, but that is literally never true. There are always layoffs; sometimes right away and sometimes 6 or 12 months later, but they always happen. How companies get away with claiming the sale will create jobs and people are surprised when they turn around and do layoffs is totally beyond me.