Even taking the alleged benefits at face value, and assuming anyone wants it, this still doesn’t make sense. They already promised all their GPUs to AI datacentres. Exactly where are people supposed to get hold of the 5090s required to make this work?
I notice you don’t bother to address any of my other points, and boldly declare the time for talking to be over. I suspect that’s because you can’t.
As long as you don’t have to use it, its fine to charge money.
Look at the state of gatcha games. Yeah, sure, you technically -can- access all the content without paying, but in practice it’s not going to happen in a human lifetime. It isn’t that much of a stretch to picture games that are “technically” humanly possible, but so difficult that most people will resort to the AI. Remember the oldschool quarter-eaters in arcades? Same business model but with more steps. I also wouldn’t put it past MS to offer “incentives” in the game store for titles with AI integration. Also see the comment upthread about enshittification.
And if you really don’t understand the difference between a paid subscription service and a family member, I feel sorry for you.
Yeah this is where it’s going. Putting that AI exec in charge of Xbox really paying off for MicroSlop.
Cheats (and big brothers, to an extent, I guess) are free.
So they’ll sell you the games, then rent you an AI model to play the games for you.
I can just not play games on my own, for free.
La Rage by Keny Arkana
I mean, no shit. I thought that was obvious from the … everything about it.
I don’t know why but I find this viscerally unpleasant.
How many times is this now that they’ve nuked users’ PCs with an update?
Recently upgraded to an Elegoo Neptune 4 Plus, although I wouldn’t exactly call that ‘cheap’. No complaints so far, but I did replace the firmware with OpenNep4tune straight away so I can’t speak to the bone stock, out-of-box experience. Initial calibration was a little annoying but it auto-levels before every print, works really well with Orca and has its own remote web interface. I’ve only used it with PLA so far, but now that I have it dialled in I haven’t had a failed print that wasn’t my own fault.
Seems silly to limit it to one month of the year.
Prusa and Cura are available on flathub and work fine. AFAIK Orca isn’t in the main repo but the flatpak is on their github and works fine for me too.
The OG Legion Go supports eGPU, at least on paper. It’s one of the reasons I bought it. Mine runs bazzite fantastically, but haven’t personally tested the eGPU piece yet.
When I lived within walking distance of my work, I used to try to take a slightly different route every day. Not by a lot, just a different side street here or there. You might see some cool street art or a nice flower or get to meet a friendly dog or cat.
Or you could use a fork that strips out the AI shit.
On a regular basis, probably classic DooM / DooM 2.
I feel like people might be misunderstanding the request. Are you after something like AlarmPi?
Curve - Forgotten Sanity
Actually a lot of Curve’s catalog probably fits the bill one way or another, but this is the first one that comes to mind.