Yikes, that dude is such a slimy git! Being a bag of crimes isn’t particularly erotic (maybe to the unhinged GOP they might give him some pay to see what’s hanging). ROFL

Thank goodness I switched to Apple before this nonsense got deployed; their Apple Intelligence is opt-in and not being forced on users. Google and Microsoft truly botched the deployment of their LLM experiments by forcing it into first party apps and not giving users a choice.

Gaming is going to get worst thanks to these shameless executive leeches trying to please Shareholder Daddy and get his approval. They need to stop lying about infinite growth, ripping off the bandage is the fastest way to please Shareholders. The second faster way would be to enjoy the savings from jettisoning overcompensated executives. Purging studios is just a short term solution.

Honestly, I’d accept something much better but not a massive upgrade. The thing enough power under the hood to make it easier for devs to port their games. Making the Switch an attractive choice and for games to run smoothly on their handheld/console. I would prefer Nintendo bring back home consoles, as it would be easier to make a strong performer.

My hope is that they make a true contender, however, this might not be Nintendo’s plan. They very well may choose to make another gimmick; perhaps Nintendo will refine a gimmick this time with their next hardware release?

Eh, if there’s no announcement, I can’t be bothered. As of late, the Switch has been showing its age to me. I don’t want to buy games for out of date hardware; I will play the games that I own, but not buy another game until Nintendo gets vastly improved hardware out there.

Good, Microsoft needs to face the consequences caused by their preventable security lapses. Keeping corporations honest by punishing their security lapses with strong penalties is needed! Companies and services collect so much personal data that they need to have stronger security to deter malicious actors from attacking their systems. Cybersecurity needs to be made a priority in this age of cyber-terrorism, identity theft, scams, and fraud.

We need this in the USA too! Innovation is stifled when platforms can directly affect the growth of other services, too bad the majority of our politicians are useless. I will continue to vote those fools out to pave the way for this type of legislation! I’m using Apple due to them not being as awful with LLMs as Google is; however, I don’t approve of their anti-consumer and anti-competition measures in their ecosystem.

ROFL That is the point, failing to adhere to any court orders means there are consequences for that violation. These MAGA fools need to feel the consequences of their actions to understand they can’t play stupid games, it results in stupid prizes.

By being a chaotic and unsuitable person for public office, is the cause of people waking up and realizing they made a mistake in believing in Boebert. Consequences for playing stupid games, are always paid in full eventually!

I think it’s due to a combination of the tech still being relatively young (it’s made leaps and bounds) and its thoughtless hallucinations that pass as valid answers. If the training data is poisoned by disinformation or misinformation, it makes any output potentially useless at best, at worst it’s harmful. The quality of LLM results purely depends on the people in charge of creating them and the source of its data. After writing it out, I feel that I mistrust the people in control of LLM development because it’s so easy to implement this tech incorrectly and for the people in charge to be completely irresponsible. Since, the techbros behind this latest push for making LLMs into AI are so gung-ho about it, the guard rails have been pushed aside. That makes it all the easier for my fears to become manifest.

Once again, it sounds all well and good what Apple is likely trying to do with their implementation of LLM. However, I can’t help but wonder about how terribly wrong it can all go.

ChatGPT is a disaster in my opinion, it really soured my opinion on LLMs. Despite your educated opinion on the matter of Apple Intelligence; I have deep-seated mistrust of LLMs. Hopefully, it does turn out fine in the case of Apple’s implementation. I’m hesitant to be as optimistic about it. Once this is out in the wild and has been rigorously tested and prodded like ChatGPT; only then might my opinion on Apple Intelligence be changed.

No, I purely meant Apple making AI an opt-in feature is setting is an appropriate choice. Users should and have full control over their data and how a company can or cannot access it. My opinion on AI (LLMs in disguise) is that it’s very much a project which is not ready for general use beyond Autocorrection and Grammar checking.

I am no Apple Fanboy, but a decision like this in regards to Apple Intelligence being opt-in is a better move than what Microsoft and Google have done. I sure as shit will be keeping an eye on Apple as I don’t trust them enough to give them the keys to my data readily. They were a better option at the moment until Linux Phones are amazing enough to abandon iOS.

I 100% agree, LLMs are a security threat at the moment because and need far more work before I would consider them remotely safe! Users who aren’t technically savvy should not be forced to harbor LLMs on their systems. As the risk of a malicious user breaching and siphoning that data off is ever present. There have to be huge guardrails in place which allow users to have precise control over their data and where it goes.

In regards to iCloud, users should always have a choice as to which apps are opted-in to iCloud at start-up. I know they think iCloud is the best shit, however, letting the user decide is king. The same could be said for all the data harvesting enabled by default on iOS/Mac OS (I vindictively turned that shit off making a WTF face).

As for Apple making Apple Intelligence temporarily opt-in, I’m not sure they would do that. As they’ve seen the outrage caused by LLMs, I think Apple might make an exception and remain opt-in. Though, this is only an opinion and could be proven wrong in the near future.

As for Linux, I did switch almost a week and a half ago to Ubuntu because Microsoft pissed me off! I experienced the pain points caused due to reacquainting myself with the OS, found out several tools I loved and used back in the 16.04 days do not play nicely with 24.04; I borked Ubuntu 3 times before getting it right. ROFL Now it works just fine since Canonical pushed patches that solved underlying issues in their code. I was able to customize and play games, it’s just the lack of proprietary software for iPhone management. I’ll have to get a Mac Mini for that purpose.

This trailer got me interested! I’m fascinated by the cozy and survival elements of Winter Burrow.

I think Apple is handling their foray into the LLM space better by making Apple Intelligence opt-in instead of opt-out. I took umbrage with Microsoft and Google due to not being able to at least opt-out and remove the ‘features’ from their respective OS.

Apple setting a better example is a good thing to see.

I’m pretty excited about this game! S.T.A.L.K.E.R has always been an interesting game series, mixing a post apocalyptic with strange phenomenon. They recently did a shadow drop of a remastered edition of all the PC games on Xbox; those can tide me over until S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 comes out.

They are masters of hype, not sure if they’ll be able to actually deliver because Starfield wasn’t their best work.

Fallout 76 made a comeback? I was pretty sure that one is beyond saving…

Hmm, I’m less skeptical of this game. I won’t get it on launch though because these games benefit from plenty of time for post launch patches. This will be on I play when Ubisoft puts it on sale for like 25% or 50% off.

I’m excited about this game! It looks like a lot of fun, and has so many paths to follow that this dev team hasn’t mentioned!