IIRC the reason Luigi isn’t in Mario 64 is that they couldn’t afford the extra few kilobytes that would take.

It’s not like they wanted parts of the game to be empty, cartridges were tiny. Mario 64 had a one megabyte cartridge. They had to cut things to the bone to manage to fit the game on that.

As the owner of a non-Tesla EV, it’s pretty great. And not paying weekly tribute to some fuck in the Middle East is also nice.

I can’t give that up, it’s my emotional support truck.

If you ask an AI image generator for a bed shaped like a pineapple, it’ll give you one without having a single pineapple-shaped bed in the training data. It has beds and pineapples and it can mash the two together.

If you’ve got naked adults in the training data and you’ve got children in the training data, it’s going to be able to generate child porn.

I suspect the stuff Firefox stores in ram is more sensitive, too. A lot of games load tens of gigabytes of textures, but a bitflip in that stuff will lead to a pixel somewhere being the wrong colour instead of a crash.

I actually did switch my gaming PC to Linux because I decided it was going to be less effort than trying to force Windows to obey.

It was the way Microsoft was progressively disabling workarounds that was the final straw. As soon as a way to disable telemetry or something became widespread, it wouldn’t work any more with the next update and you needed to find new methods.

Linux just does as it’s fucking told.

I mean, we have some far right nuts. The thing is, the Venn diagram of far right nuts and people who might buy an EV is just two circles.

Yeah, the point where companies don’t want to run those services at a loss any more is going to be interesting.

The issue isn’t the ‘never stop working’ part, that sucks but isn’t illegal. It’s the ‘stop paying but don’t stop working’ part that’s a problem.

Breaks might not be required, but you still aren’t allowed to take a break from paying an employee while still making them work.

Apparently there’s also AI generated guidebooks, which look completely legitimate but are actually random nonsense.

Still doing their best to bring back slavery after all these years.

I think if they were more effective at manipulating people, I’d hate them more.

The more ads you show people, the less each ad is worth. Because people have a fixed amount of money and only so much time and attention, so each ad is competing with all the other ads they’re being shown. People are skipping your ad because all the previous ads have them sitting with a finger already on the skip button.

If people spend more time watching ads, they don’t have any more money than they did before, so each ad has a smaller chance of leading to a sale. We’re racing towards a world where there’s flashing, moving ads on every surface around you and you don’t buy any of it or even see the advertising, it’s just visual noise to ignore. And advertisers will inevitably respond by looking for more things to put more intrusive ads on.

And none of the advertisers want to be the first one to advertise less, they’re all fighting for advertising market share, trying their hardest to get a larger cut of the profits and making things worse for everyone including themselves in the process.

It’s hilarious to me that Youtube, through their low payout for advertising, has pushed everyone into doing paid sponsor segments. Which means that paying for Youtube Premium doesn’t work, you need Sponsorblock if you want to not see ads on Youtube. And if you’re installing Sponsorblock, why not just get uBlock Origin too?

They’re saying that US vehicles are also government subsidized, they just pocketed the money instead of actually improving their products. So comparing the Chinese products to the US ones isn’t unfair, the US products really are that bad and they deserve to fail.

Okay, but buying terrible, expensive vehicles from companies that fight tooth and nail to continue focusing on huge petrol SUVs isn’t going to help.

Also there’s the fact that Australia doesn’t have a car industry, so it’s a choice between imported cars and other imported cars.

Longcat is long.