Companies only care when there is pressure. When I was laid off there was a woman literally in Africa at the moment of the layoff adopting a child, and she had just bought her home 2 weeks prior. Absolutely no notice, 2 weeks severance. Everyone rallied behind her, suddenly when we threatened to go to the press they “found” that they could afford to give her 6 months severance.

Fuck these executives. Absolutely no shame or morals.

This is where tech and business are fundamentally different. Us tech people are like “wow it will speed up work like translation so much! You can have it do the first run, so the overworked translators can simply be a double check and sanity, checking for nuances”

Suits though only see “let’s lay them off” with no nuance

Oh man I love when companies make stupid tonedeaf decisions like this.

Hey you know how we haven’t made a great first party game in over a decade?

Yeah?

Well, what if to boost sales numbers we add a tier that ONLY gives you our lame first party games!

Because they refuse to see games as a creative artform. Or, they think they ate, but then do the worst corpo bs to them. This all reeks of some boardroom joining all their MBAs together to come up with this brilliant shit covered plan.

I mean it’s simple. It was a ploy to attract younger people into working for them, for long hours, less pay than they deserved, and never once to think about a union. All while they did everything they could to flood the market with more talent to deliver down costs.

Amazon and Microsoft never once gave a shit about women coders, or impoverished urban kids coding. They wanted to boost the number of coders to make the job normal, a lower salary that now you’re fighting over everyone else to get. And here we are.

Them removing the fun is just the final step of the plan. No more charade. Get your ass in here and work, and after you’ve given up your nights and weekends you better say thank you.

I’m optimistic about this. She has a deep passion for games and who makes th, she doesn’t like corpos but knows how to work in their system. Could be good.

Exactly. Could be useful for confirming the person. Like “we found this this and this and the scene, and we believe to to be x person” AI can confirm some of that like “its a 80% match” and so they can say good, we think we’re arresting the right person.

It should NEVER EVER be used as the sole reasoning. But lazy incompetence cops will of course use it that way, which is why it should be banned from them. I do not trust that “a few bad apples” will avoid using it.

Honestly the amd 6000 and 7000 ones are pretty legit

Replaying mass effect right now and feel this. You go to the boarding dock area and here mechanical buzzing and whirring with a distinct wheeeeee womp… Womp… Womp…

Gives you vibes man

I mean, that’s not the ending, that’s the entire point of the movie you’re upset with

This guy is particularly bad. I’ve watched his videos a couple of times and he puts a heavily opinionated spin on everything.

I’ve seen a couple of these, who is the artist? Is this a series?

I totally agree, but hopefully with some advocacy we can get it from 99 to 98%. Doesn’t sound like much, but that’s 2 million people who have switched then, and whoever else may live in their house using their non-routers.

They actually did. They called it Google Play Music, and Google TV/Google Play Videos. I paid for those. Youtube Music and Youtube premium are the enshittified versions of those, and they will continue to make them worse.

Routers are incredibly simple. You can run your own using openwrt or opnsense. Then some dumb switches and access points and you’re good to go.

Oh don’t worry, I’m there, I’ll happily give money to them

How can you possibly be nostalgic about a concept like a little while ago?

This used to be the case, but it’s a different equation now. Ads used to be one or two per video. Fine, I get there are bills to pay.

Now it’s pure greed and pushing us to a subscription for a service they purposely made shitty so we would think exactly what you are. 4-5 ads, with forced ads interrupting the videos, and auto redirects to more ads after the video fonishes. Unskippable multi-minute ads.

And if you’re thinking “well then just pay for it”, tell that to Netflix, Hulu, and all of the streaming services that were “ad-free” until they decided that actually, pay twice as much or watch ads (even though your paying).

So while I understand you’re saying, you’re assuming Google will play fair. They won’t. They will up the price, they will still force ads, and it will get worse. I’m taking a stand now saying enough is enough. I’m not rewarding them for enshittifying the service.

Yeah let’s smash-cut back 48 hours ago where he told us we were all wrong. Dude is Backpedaling and desperately trying to do damage control.

Oh he’s clearly very desperate for the hype to keep going. His ass is literally on the line. (I mean, golden parachute, but he’ll never work again), so no more infinite money glitch.

I forget who said it, but if AI doesn’t literally surpass all current realms of thinking and automate everything, i.e. what they promised, it has failed. To the investors it means it failed. With that, the stock does not continue up exponentially, which to investors also means it failed. Then they demand he resign, and they put someone else in there.

He could have stayed realistic through the whole thing. “Hey everyone, we’re learning day by day, and we’re proud to be the chipmakers to bring this to you.” Modest growth, but sustainable long term growth. Instead they drank the kool-aid full on, and said that it’ll cure all disease and wipe out hunger and everything else. Now he’s freaking out because all of the latest ideas are duds, people aren’t buying the hype anymore, and that means Jensen might be looking at the end of his tenure.

Mass Effect is the best/worst when it comes to this. It’s such a good game, and you join up and befriend your squad, you go through so many things to get to the ending, and then it’s over. You put down the headphones, you get up, and stand alone in your kitchen for 20 minutes, realizing that it is over.