I don’t think so, I believe Biden is the real reason Harris lost. She had too much ground to make up for Biden’s stubbornness to realize he was a weak candidate. Trump’s entire strategy was based on how weak Biden was and the party turning against him in the 11th hour only reinforced Trump’s claims. Kamala was doomed from the start, I believe she could have won if she had taken the lead from the start of the race. She wouldn’t have been my first or even my second but I still think she could have won if Trump didn’t have a head start and Dems taking so long to pull their heads out of their asses.

It’s 2 factors, FOMO and the hope to replace the labor force with software.

Our IT tech support has already been replaced by AI and now they are experimenting with replacing HR live support, estimators, and legal tech writers. The company is selling it to employees as a tool to make us more efficient, but it’s pretty obvious that if one person can now do the job of 5 then 4 lose their jobs and the company saves hundreds of thousands of dollars, it’s simple math. The one person now doing the job of 4 won’t see a dime. The first jobs that will go will be anything related to collating data and setting up work for more experienced workers will start to disappear. Then as the more experienced workers move on and don’t pass on the experience, the companies will be forced to face AI rot.

Eventually the workforce will balance and this will become the new normal but for the next 10 years or so a lot of people are going to lose their jobs and the rich will widden the gap.

History and normal market cycles. I’ll remind you of the great GPU shortage caused by Bitcoin miners.

The “shortage” is temporary and artificial, so that’s a hard NO. The ram shortage doesn’t present any incentive to make apps more efficient because the hardware and software that is already in people’s homes won’t be effected by the shortage and people who currently use the software won’t be affected by the shortage. The very small percentage of people that will be affected by the temporary shortage wouldn’t justify making changes to software that is currently in development.

There’s no incentive for software companies to make their code more efficient until people stop using their software so stop using it and it will get better. Just as an example Adobe reader is crap, just straight up garbage, but people still use it so the app stopped getting improvements many years ago. Then Adobe moved to a subscription based system, and cloud service for selling your data but guess what, it’s still the same app that it was 10 years ago, just more expensive.

As cheesey as it was, I actually loved MD Geist, I bought the VHS taps.

I whole heartedly believe my company would have replaced everyone in my department with remote workers from India if government regulations didn’t require US citizenship or qualified people. What I mean by qualified I don’t necessarily mean their quality of work but government regulations that require certificates and licenses to do the work.

So I guess AI will be after my job very soon

Well they probably had record earnings for a few quarters then their backlog caught up to their inability to deliver.

It’s a little slow but Northgard is a fairly slow game anyway so it balances. I use the track pad and triggers like a mouse and use the stick to move the camera, you have to play around with the mouse speed until you dial it in, takes a little getting used to but it’s definitely do able. If I have time and a table I also have a Bluetooth mouse that attaches to my bag.

It’s slow using the touch pads or touchscreen but I have The Mechanism Bag and attach a mouse to it, the bag holds the Steam Deck, mini folding keyboard, wall charger and a battery pack. For extended trips or for small parties I bring a USB monitor and extra controllers that go in a backpack.

Recently God of War Ragnarok

9bit Armies, Northgard, Spyro, Cuphead, World of Warships, The Expanse, The Last of Us 1&2

The only way I see this sort of working is getting people together similar to Abandonware and either making emulators or someone figuring out how to fake the server authentication on a local PC for a console to ping. It would probably send the console manufacturers into a frenzy, especially Nintendo.

I can see the hardware part being easy enough, a miniPC for $200-$300 or an older junker PC running Linux from storage and a CAT6 from the console to the miniPC. The hard part would be figuring out what every single game needed to authenticate itself.

But where it really falls apart are systems that only partially run on the local console or require lots of online players to even function. So anything after Gen 7 or 8 probably wouldn’t work or would be very limited.

I’m hoping that by installing all of my game discs and updating everything before putting it away that it will remain somewhat functional if I pull it out of storage. I will give is a little more time then try it, so fingers crossed.

This happens on your device for your privacy, then we make it public by selling it later

It must be my birthday

Haven’t seen this meme in a while. Next we will see the Kinder Surprise meme.

Also a if a 16oz cup is filled to the top with ice then it’s about 8oz of liquid before the ice melts. So this meme is for spreading ignorance for a laugh or a marketing scheme to convince Americans to by smaller cups without lowering the price.

I have the problem of it giving me very vague answers. For example: I recently made the switch back to a Samsung from using Sony phones for years because they don’t want Americans using their phone, I am a little salty. Now I can’t find simple settings and customizations because they are turned off or hidden by default on Samsung. So I go to the Google and it’s basically telling me to find it in settings, an hour or so later that’s when I find out it’s turned off and I have to turn on the feature because AI sent me on a wild goose chase, only to find the answer on a darn AI generated YouTube video.

That was so frustrating and I think AI was just messing with me.