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New comment by nonchalantsui in "Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue: warning after buying old copy of Bayo 3"

nonchalantsui — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:01:53 +0000

Yes, although if one is buying used, then you're likely already avoiding digital purchases through this online service.

So just keep buying used. Pretty easy workaround.

New comment by nonchalantsui in "Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue: warning after buying old copy of Bayo 3"

nonchalantsui — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:00:28 +0000

Article says you can still play those, just not re-download on the same system it seems.

New comment by nonchalantsui in "The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore"

nonchalantsui — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:58:18 +0000

Your examples disagree with your initial statement actually. How did you get the log? How did you carve the figure? Both of these require energy consumption, as we aren't at the stage where we are magically planting trees and teleporting them into our workspaces for carving/burning.

New comment by nonchalantsui in "Nintendo Switch 2 account bans continue: warning after buying old copy of Bayo 3"

nonchalantsui — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:48:40 +0000

Just to be clear, this isn't brick on a whim, this is disabling access to online services on a whim.

Seems a lot of commenters are getting that confused due to not opening the link.

New comment by nonchalantsui in "Alberta separatism push roils Canada"

nonchalantsui — Fri, 23 May 2025 20:15:01 +0000

Alberta does not pay for the welfare of Canadians in other provinces, it has never paid towards any equalization systems. It has taken billions in debt though, including during COVID when oil flatlined.

The reason Danielle et al were cozying up to US politicians at private events, pushing narratives like embracing America's new direction, isn't for independence or a new federal plan - it's to become the 51st state.

New comment by nonchalantsui in "Alberta separatism push roils Canada"

nonchalantsui — Fri, 23 May 2025 19:49:56 +0000

That's not at all similar. We know exactly how many voted for Bernie.

The only actual test of separatism in albert has been support for the pension plan and that has been so abysmal they've put the entire push on hold.

New comment by nonchalantsui in "Alberta separatism push roils Canada"

nonchalantsui — Fri, 23 May 2025 19:46:09 +0000

I mean if you don't pay attention to foreign affairs, of course nothing seems consequential?

You can begin here:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/19/how-has-bri...

New comment by nonchalantsui in "Alberta separatism push roils Canada"

nonchalantsui — Fri, 23 May 2025 19:12:38 +0000

There is no Alberta Pension Plan that exists today. All provinces also already run their own police forces. So there has been no movement on this in Alberta.

New comment by nonchalantsui in "If nothing is curated, how do we find things"

nonchalantsui — Sun, 18 May 2025 00:41:58 +0000

I heavily disagree with this one. On first glance what you say feels true, but there are so many mega popular people now that you will never know of despite even being from the same country. People with dozens of millions of fans, selling out arenas doing multinational tours and you won’t know them at all.

But everyone knows Britney Spears, even if you were never in her target demographic. This sort of global fame now requires so much more to reach because of how many are really locked into hyper personalized online experiences. I used to be able to reference the latest big movie or show and people would know, now that’s mostly turned into an explanation that the movie or show even came out and exists.

New comment by nonchalantsui in "There are two types of dishwasher people"

nonchalantsui — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:02:23 +0000

I'm surprised you made the switch to liquid and not to powder. It's so much cheaper and not as fussy as liquid. That plus a tiny bottle of rinse aid that lasts forever winds up giving me the cleanest dishes.

New comment by nonchalantsui in "There are two types of dishwasher people"

nonchalantsui — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:54:51 +0000

There is no research that states such. Most online articles are referencing a study done on professional dishwashers, in which they complete their task within 2 minutes and some rinse aid was still found on the dishes.

Home dishwashers, the ones that take 4 hours on average, are not going to result in the same thing. Claiming such would be like claiming you won't use dish soap since technically it can still be left on your dishes when quickly washed.

New comment by nonchalantsui in "Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'"

nonchalantsui — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:34:47 +0000

That's exactly how a digital ID system would work, and yet people argue against those all the time as well.

Additionally, the corner shop does not have far lower data privacy risks - actually it's quite worse. They have you on camera and have a witness who can corroborate you are that person on camera, alongside a paper trail for your order. There is no privacy there, only the illusion of such.

New comment by nonchalantsui in "Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'"

nonchalantsui — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:27:20 +0000

Do you feel this way when you enter credit card information when making a purchase online?

New comment by nonchalantsui in "Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash"

nonchalantsui — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:37:01 +0000

For their pricing and subscription practices alone, they deserve far more backlash than they get.

New comment by nonchalantsui in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

nonchalantsui — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:53:30 +0000

There is a cost burden to not being 100% correct when it comes to programming. You simply have chosen to ignore that burden, but it still exists for others. Whether it's for example a percent of your users now getting stalled pages due to the webgl shader, or your lunch scraper ddosing local restaurants. They aren't actually forgiving regarding correctness.

Which is fine for actual testing you're doing internally, since that cost burden is then remedied by you fixing those issues. However, no feature is as free as you're making it sound, not even the "nice to have" additions that seem so insignificant.

New comment by nonchalantsui in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

nonchalantsui — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:24:48 +0000

Your use case is in fact in the top whatever percentile for AI usefulness. Short simple scripting that won't have to be relied on due to never being widely deployed. No large codebase it has to comb through, no need for thorough maintenance and update management, no need for efficient (and potentially rare) solutions.

The only use case that would beat yours is the type of office worker that cannot write professional sounding emails but has to send them out regularly manually.

New comment by nonchalantsui in "Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool"

nonchalantsui — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 02:50:07 +0000

I wouldn’t go that far to say that they have fantastic interfaces. Tolerable? Better than what free options existed at the time? Either way, there is a lot of room for improvement but it’s also an extremely challenging environment to get interfaces right.

We are still in what is effectively the skeuomorphism for the music production industry phase (where everyone is just replicating real life tooling because that’s the expectation and with that comes a lot of unchecked baggage — except for Maya, Blender, etc it’s mostly about making assumptions based on past tooling and polishing that a tiny bit), eventually there will be a Logic to change those bad habits!

New comment by nonchalantsui in "Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth"

nonchalantsui — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:47:57 +0000

More like having a series of fake doors and rooms built out in front of your home, with most of them leading back outside and not into the home.

New comment by nonchalantsui in "FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies"

nonchalantsui — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:23:41 +0000

Are there any reputable anonymous micropayment services?

New comment by nonchalantsui in "Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees"

nonchalantsui — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:03:52 +0000

Each one of those “independent” points that can potentially fail is just added dependencies that increases inefficiency due do increased oversight, adds more red tape, and slows down production.