Only if you’re using the Chrome extension, maybe. This is just Google trying to kill even the memory of Google Reader by fucking with the biggest competitor to social media in Chrome.

Now there’s a euphemism. XD

Information Women

Economic Women

Marital Women

Gender Women

Source: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.18.712572v1.full

Arch w/KDE Plasma desktop, of course.

“Smart” TVs should be kept off the internet and only used as video output for actual computers.

Gotta spend it somewhere. Charge some batteries or else dump it into a load cell.

IIRC, biological grey goo is called Pink or Green goo.

A lot of medicinal compounds are alkaloids, which are naturally bitter

Faraday cage, but it’s just a dog crate wrapped in aluminum foil.

As usual, shot placement is key. I imagine the navigation sensors are fragile enough that a small air rifle could do enough damage to disable them, but a .22 would definitely do it and maybe even be enough to lock up a knee or shoulder joint.

Detail Leaking Shabby Seer

Debt Limited Stereotype Sketcher

Seems pretty enforcable to me. Hell, they were even able to compel the U.S. Olympic committee to pay out hundreds of millions when their lead team doctor sexually harassed so many athletes that he’ll be in prison for the rest of his life.

What fact about yourself are you least willing to share with strangers?

If there is no way to tell if that is a reasonable question for me to ask, then by what metric do you decide whether or not to answer it? Does that metric act as a stand-in for “reasonableness” to you, and if so then how do you square it with your earlier insistence that drawing such a line is impossible? If not, why?

I’m confident in my “never” because of the capital economics; the service has to be expensive enough to pay for the infrastructure it requires plus some profit for the shareholders, while simultaneously being cheap enough to offer gamers a better value proposition than buying their own hardware. There’s no margin between those limits, so the only market left for them to appeal to are niches where local rendering performance is limited but network latency and bandwidth are not. Even then, gamers still have the option of streaming from their own hardware using Moonlight rather than paying for a third-party service, so the only customers left are the ones with more money than sense.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the concept (I even bought an OnLive microconsole back in the day and still regularly use a Steam Link to stream games to the living room TV), but it isn’t nearly convenient or performant enough to justify itself as a subscription service.

How, precisely, would this “uplift old games”?

Are you suggesting that their rights holders should commission some game devs to update their old titles to add support for DLSS5? Where’s the value proposition in that?

It can’t, remastering games is an entirely different process that requires artistic direction. Piping a game’s video output through an AI filter just takes the original game and smears a bunch of slop over it.

Double Latency Slop Slinger

What I don’t get not knowing much about the details is how LLM generation is faster than actual 3D modeling with more details?

It’s not, DLSS5 takes a frame as rendered normally by your GPU and feeds it into a second $3k GPU to run the AI image transformer.

There is no performance benefit, in fact it adds a bit of latency to the process.

That’s 100% correct, because the shareholders still haven’t learned their lesson from OnLive, Google Stadia, Amazon Luna, Nvidia GeForce Now, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, or Playstation Plus Premium.

Game streaming serices are never going to catch on because the capital needed to build out the infrastructure is ridiculous.

Without even counting the cost of hosting and bandwidth, a game streaming node already costs as much as a gaming PC, easily $2k. Say it gets 100% utilization with four customers each playing 6 hours a day, and that they’re paying $20/month for the service, then it’d take 25 months for that $2k node to pay for itself. However, by that time the hardware will be old and outdated, in need of replacement.

That’s zero return on investment for the lifetime of the hardware, absolutely no profit even in this idealized case unless you can charge more than $20. Add in the monthly expenses for colocation space, power, bandwidth, and overhead and you get a product with zero ROI even at $35/month.

Then, consider that this node can only realistically serve a small geographic area due to network latency limitations, and that using the service requires your customers to already be paying for high-quality broadband, and you’ve got a recipe for a tiny potential customer base and massive capital investment to make nodes available in close enough proximity to all major markets.