I don’t need to be skilled to evaluate or critique their decisions.

AI is the stolen collective labor from all of humanity, thrown into a blender with magic mushrooms and LSD, then locked behind a paywall and operating out of massive datacenters, thats destroying communities and the planet and undoing 40 years of efficiency and environmental gains.

I dont need to be a skilled engineer, a brilliant software developer, or anything else, to know thats bad, and that every single cunt piece of shit that enables it, defends it, and worst of all, uses it are, at the very most positive outlook at it possible, thieves who are willing to sacrifice actual human life, just so they can generate a random emulsion of coding (in this case, or in other cases generate images of nude children, celebrities, your mother, or tell people on the brink of psychosis that they are actually jesus, or any of the other vile evil shit that it does) that might function, at the expense of actual human labor and well being.

And every single motherfucking one of them that make that decision deserve convicted, and to be hung from a tree.

If your game isnt in a state where it can be finished in 2 years (and i’m being very fucking generous with that 2 year window), then it doesnt fucking belong on early access.

seriously, palworld seems to have implemented most of craftopias shit from a glance… refund people for craftopia, cancel it, and give them a discount on palworld.

early access is bullshit, and is mostly either used for games that are finished but don’t want to be held accountable, or for games that’ll never finish and be abandoned once the devs got enough money.

Steam needs to put a hard limit of like… you can be in early access for 2 years, and if your game is not finished and released in that time, its automatic refunds for all customers.

Its almost as if its just another thing for assholes to feel elitist about.

What the fuck.

wah wah people don’t like things that i like, how dare they upset me with contrary opinions wah wah wah.

Its a small convection oven, that works more efficiency because the heating element is like an inch above the food, and heating a very tightly confined area, so intense temperatures can be more concentrated and easily achieved.

Many countries have HoA’s.

Why America has them is, simply put, racism. HoA’s got started after WW2, specifically to keep non-white people from moving into white neighborhoods.

and a lot of them are still used for this purpose to this day. just not as overtly

I’d rather have a shit neighbor with an overgrown yard than some wannabe dictator who alienated their children and takes out their hatred on the neighborhood with bullshit fines and harassment.

in America, at least… Racism.

Thats literally it.

HoA’s became a major thing after WW2, in large part, to keep black and hispanic people from moving into white neighborhoods… with rare exceptions for “servants”.

literally the first words out of my mouth. seeing a news headline about TiVo feels like i’m back in 2001

Just ban the sales of pervert glasses, period.

It’ll accomplish the same thing, but be a lot easier legally.

go one step further and open it up and unplug the wifi antennas, just to curtail it even further.

If you marginalize it so its no longer usable on the modern web to do all the things you need to do… Then yes, thats the same as effectively killing it.

Aside from, you know, not being able to access anything that looks for that OS okay, or worse…declaring people not on compliance in criminal violation of the law and mass arresting.

same thing in this context.

I wasnt a professional, Just the “computer guy”… and its been like 25+ years, but if I recall correctly they didnt hire me to reformat it specifically, I believe it was windows 98, and memory serves it hadnt been reformatted in years, and i think they slapped some new PCI cards into it without removing the software for the old ones? I dont remember the details, but basically told them that a clean start would have a 98% chance of fixing their system, and if it didnt… I’d still need the clean start to figure out what was wrong where.

They were over my shoulder the entire time, wouldnt have let me if i wanted to (Edit, and I wouldnt have wanted to, because I hate going through peoples stuff even with permission)… and quite frankly I just wanted to get out of there asap cause I didnt like the attitude i got for being there trying to help them.

I did run into them again at a later time, where they were sad to have lost their stuff, but said the computer was running faster than ever, not realizing how much the bullshit had been dragging them down.

I was once hired to fix a computer. I told them that the fix would just be a simple reformat, and asked if they wanted me to back up any files.

they said no, they had backed everything up already. I asked if they wanted to take one last look through the system to make sure. They got huffy and told me to just take care of it already.

So I did.

then they asked me to restore their files.

it was a CD-R of hundreds of desktop links to programs, and even photos. no actual data. just links.

They were not happy when I explained it to them.

i can totally believe the story in Op’s picture to be one that actually happened.

Sure Buddy.