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* What happens when the price of renting it from a few handful of corporations is suddenly jacked up because Sam wants a new yacht?

* What happens when these services arbitrarily restrict it's usage based on what they deem as unacceptable?

I don't know who Dara is, but they should probably put down that bucket of paint thinner and stop huffing it for a moment.

You should probably break them down a little further and throw them straight away in the bin.

FWIW, I've used their Latitude line of laptops and they've been excellent on Linux.

But that could possibly be an exception, and the rest of the company is staffed with shit flinging monkeys, at least that's what I infer from the horrid design of the XPS product page.

Huh, I don't use AI much/or at all anywhere, apart from googling something and reading the Gemini answer before scrolling down, without facing any backlash. Though people are more likely to discuss and brainstorm their work/problems with me because of this, which I consider a positive. Maybe I've been lucky at where I work.

That is if I ignore the slop MRs with 60+ files changed that I have to painstakingly go through and then politely tell the author to fix the crater sized holes in it, while a vein in my forehead almost explodes. And some part of my sanity is lost forever.

> (read: customers suffer, but they don't leave), do we still need to pay the cost of reading code? Is it better to invest in stickiness, lobbying, and market capture?

Translating this from Linkedin-speak: Is it okay to subject our users to shitty software and while we use the money saved to bribe politicians, circumvent laws and buy our competitors to kill them?

I dread for the future where "you have to think" is considered a controversial statement.

What will change is more and more software will be moved over to a cloud based subscription model with the end user device just being a crippled thin client.

And I can already see the shitwank bean counters salivating over this prospect. Imagine the possibilities, we can stuff as much DRM as we want, charge as much as possible monthly, arbitrarily restrict the terms of usage in the future. What will the user do? Run the same heavy duty software on their Intel N150 + 4GB RAM shitbox? Blah.

I have bridge to sell you if you think that is likely.

I was surprised to find Miniclip is still kicking around, hiring developers half an hour away from where I live. Was really tempted to send my CV but sadly they seemed to pivoted to peddling mtx filled slop nowadays.

Amazing how differing the opinion is here based on who is being fucked over by legalese, if it's an individual -- yep you signed the agreement, can't do shit. If's a company who bungled something -- woops, it was an honest mistake.

Almost as if people here go an extra length to be shit eating morons.

Lol the original comment was only in half jest knowing the ass lickers who congregate here, but it went from 4 points to 0 within 5 minutes. _Not suspicious at all._

> I don't feel like Andrew made any particularly great points, but comments both here and on the youtube link have mentioned really liking that point.

What they completely missed was that LLMs are a golden opportunity for the corpo-ratfuckers to completely work around the issue of those pesky OS licenses. Who cares if it's GPL/AGPL, just run it through the slop machine and everything is fine.

Open-source doesn't exist in a vacuum, they rely on inherently restrictive licenses to force corporations into contributing back instead of just sucking up everything.

iirc the real point of contention was the "boundary count" rule. The super over ended in a tie, then instead of having a another super over the winner was decided based on who had hit more boundaries. I'm pretty sure this did lead to the rule being removed[1]

[1]: https://www.cricinfo.com/story/no-more-boundary-countback-as...

This along with the Aussie sandpaper-gate is probably one of the most infamous incidents in cricket history. I doubt anyone who follows cricket doesn't about it. Also the 2019 world cup finals! ;)

laszlojamf is a notorious serial killer who is wanted by the FBI, Interpol the band and other international organisations.

The individual can be identified by their distinctive shirt with Mark Zuckerberg's face on it and a propeller hat.

They are also a known carrier of rabies. Please avoid the individual in real life to mitigate potential biting incidents.

It's the flamebait detector. Any post which gets a lot of comments in a short time gets pushed down quickly. Though the mods usually push it back up if it doesn't involve touchy topics like politics.

That's great, but then can you ask the manufacturers of the devices to support them for 20 years? Raw numbers mean jack shit if the device itself is completely abandoned and cannot run any applications. Banking, authentication and bunch of services require the device to be on the latest iOS/Android version, which is hard to do because the manufacturer dropped it like a hot brick after 5 years.

Realistically this will just be used to force people into even more subscriptions.

Want to edit a video? Pay a subscription for a Microslop Pro Max Windows $50/mo, then pay another $50 the NVidia Pro GPU add-on (the gaming version is slightly cheaper, but we can't let you use that since it's against the ToS), then another $50/mo for Adobe Premiere + $20 extra for the 4K export option. But you've already used up your monthly quota for it, so you pay another $50 for reset the limit. Then your machine doesn't have enough storage, I guess it's time to upgrade the cloud storage subscription too, that will be another $50 please.

Thank you and have a nice day!

It's 2026, the _WANTS_ are reserved for the ultra wealthy. The rest of us plebs should be happy we're getting 1500 calories everyday with a room to go back to in the evening, after increasing shareholder value everyday. Oh and don't forget to reduce your plastic usage to save the planet.

I think it does, since the updates are from the manufacturer. I have a OnePlus tablet configured without an account and I'm able to update it no problems.

Surprisingly no, you can use an Android phone without an account. Though you cannot install any applications from the Play Store, tbf I'll count that almost as a positive.

Yeah, the community run TCRF wiki is banning VPNs just so they can mine your data along with the luxurious $400/mo they're getting from Patreon. And not because they're constantly being besieged by rampant bots that they have to resort to such drastic measures.

If the excavators only worked half the time, sometimes goes out of control bonking someone in the head and costs a billion dollars, then yeah they're pretty bad CEOs

Most major platforms already have enough asset flips cluttering their storefronts[1][2] -- generic games made from preexisting engine templates with some assets bought from the store. Using AI will just make producing the slop easier, it wouldn't make something that's worth playing.

Anyone actually looking to make something genuinely fun will probably go the old fashioned way of spending countless hours honing their craft, which in turn gives them a good eye to make sure what they're making doesn't have the shovelware stink.

[1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Sony-delists-700-PS4-and-PS5-s...

[2] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/shovelware-is-a-bigger-problem...

I use them to buy refurbished enterprise machines -- laptops & mini PCs, books and DVDs/BluRays. Works pretty well actually, never had any issues with the quality as long as you stick to reputed sellers.

Funny how the vibe-coding speed grinds to 0 the moment people catch on to their bullshit. A name change requires a week but shitting out 200 commits with Claude takes barely a month.

Been using their latest models for work for the past 5 years, I still use a Latitude for personal work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe because I don't want my personal machine to turn into a brick if the storage/memory fails.

+1

I have the first gen Framework sitting in a drawer because of some issues and one of the nitpicks is the fact that it looks like a cheap knockoff of a decade old Macbook complete with the Temu apple logo on the front.

I'd rather they made something similar to a Thinkpad/Latitude. But then again, there seems to be a mass delusion that anything non-Apple is a graveyard of garbage regardless of the price. So they're catering to that market.

Maybe I've been extremely lucky in picking refurbed enterprise machines running Linux in the past decade that hasn't faced any of the issues people complain about.

> you can now move the taskbar to the left side of the screen

Windows 11 is finally catching up to MATE desktop (which is maintained possibly by a single guy from their basement), what a time to be alive!

> The ideal is that something intelligent understands what you want to do and gets it done.

I think you and I have very different meanings of "intelligent", "understands" and "gets it done"