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New comment by genldd in "Patrick Stewart has died"

genldd — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:53:18 +0000

Oh man, Patrick Stewart is a base rock part of my personality. Star Trek The Next Generation was formative for me ages 7-12. Sad to see him go.

New comment by genldd in "Apple's New Touchscreen MacBook Pro Costs Up to $14,549"

genldd — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 02:56:09 +0000

I'm sure someone will buy it, but it does seem very niche.

New comment by genldd in "Anthropic's IPO Explained"

genldd — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 06:08:43 +0000

Typo, meant "this"

New comment by genldd in "Anthropic's IPO Explained"

genldd — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:06:25 +0000

Sorry, I just can't see how this isn't a desperate money grab before a collapse.

The Chinese companies won't let this succeed.

New comment by genldd in "Play your Steam library's Windows games on a jailbroken PS5"

genldd — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 03:09:26 +0000

I'm not sure what the overall principle is here, can't quite put my finger on it, but if your PS5 just inherently is able to play steam games like this and it is just an artificial limitation companies place on the hardware that prevents of from doing so... it just seems _wrong_ that you should be prevented. That this requires jailbreaking is the injustice

New comment by genldd in "Apollo says AI has delivered 'zero financial payoff' outside the tech industry"

genldd — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:04:49 +0000

My biggest doubt isn't whether AI will find applications for speeding up people outside of tech, but that it will atrophy learning and cognitive development to the extent that in 20 years human ability without AI will be on average much lower than it is today. Overall with AI augmentation we may be more effective, but strip away that tool and the human left behind will be less

New comment by genldd in "Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats"

genldd — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:26:47 +0000

Honestly, given the surveillance capitalism of it all, I take this as a win. The termostst should have been dumb the whole time, not an avenue for harvesting our data.

More dumb electronics please.

New comment by genldd in "Amazon cloud capacity sold out through 2027, CEO Jassy says"

genldd — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:22:02 +0000

I have sensed a trend in the industry of companies in the tech industry reporting immense scarcity of the products they want to sell you. Seems like age old used car salesman tactics, but I'm cynical.