To be honest, my junior year English teacher forced us to read the bible “to have a stronger basis for understanding western literature” and it had zero impact on my lack of religious beliefs. Literally, we spent like 2 or 3 months on that crap. Looking back it was a pretty obvious scam by her, but it had zero impact in the direction that she wanted it to have impact.

They seem to be steering well clear of naming a price yet, I see…

Oh yeah, that’s a decent one.

Rules are for thee not me…

Meh, it sounds like the usual “AI will change everything!” bluster and disappointment.

I would try it out myself, just for the sake of curiosity, but unfortunately, my $1/mo 3 month thingie I got with my last phone literally expired today, or course.

So the next level is a two password system? Password 1 gets you into your personal partition, password 2 wipes the personal partition and has a prepopulated curated surfing history, address book, etc. so it looks like a lightly but legally used phone?

Sounds great for Lemmy usage stats?

Relevant to your interests…

So no, I don’t use a lot of those features. But having to go to $10/mo for unlimited searches is laughable pricing, IMHO. Even $5 for 300 searches is ridiculous. That’s basically a week of searches?

I respect the idea of it, but my feeling is that they will never grow the business past a very niche offering if that is how they’re going to price it. And I say that as a very privacy oriented person.

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I mean, I like Mt Lemmon and the bike riding here, but you are closer to Sedona so it’s a tough call… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Isn’t Kagi pretty expensive though? When I tested it vs Brave and DDG, I was basically unimpressed to the point where anything more than a buck a month seems out of line. (I can’t even remember what they actually wanted, just that it seemed like a lot more than that.)

I have a fully rigid carbon fat bike I’ve been riding since 2019. I only ride XC so it’s perfect. Gave up on 2 3-4” dual suspension bikes when I switched over to it and have never looked back.

To be fair, how will you tell the difference from FOX News?

“I may not be a general or a civil engineer, but I play one on Twitter.”

EDIT: He does possibly get a lot of global cooling for free though. (Aka nuclear winter.)

The bad Cap’n Tight Pants.

Yep. Maybe it could actually be “modules” that the individual devs submit with their game, essentially.

Current DLSS intent: We can only render this at like 720p with enough frames, so let’s do that and use AI anti-aliasing tricks so that when we present it at 4k, none of the jaggies are visible on-screen like they would be with raw 720p upscaling.

DLSS5 intent: Using our pile of stolen artwork neural net that we can now render at 60fps+ let’s “reimagine” the entire look of the game as we present it on-screen, even if it was already running at 4k just fine.

TLDR; How big the neuralnet is and what your train it for matters.

This was definitely something I predicted like a year or so ago. Richard Burns Rally will continue to be the default rally sim, but they will never bother to update the 2004 game engine. Rather at some point, AI will literally start MITM capturing all the 2004 graphical output and converting it to photorealistic modern graphics that are output to your screen instead.

EDIT: But yeah, this is such a “fuck your game, fuck your artistic intention, eat our AI slop and like it!”

It literally could have gone down that stupidly, but also, it smacks of “Is he dead yet? No? Perrotta—make the first ambulance go away however you have to.”

Don’t worry, guys! If some country bombed, let’s say for example, 2 of our buildings in NYC, would we treat that as act of war? Nah… probably not. Surely we’d just shrug and move on with peace negotiations!