You got a lot of good replies already, but I wanted to add that my “eventually” was intended to be vague enough to cover multiple decades. I occasionally play 30 year old games already, so half that is actually making good time in my book.

Also, it’s not like most or all of these exclusives won’t eventually be in emulation territory.

Yeah, YouTube is still great if you reject the algorithm and continuous feed junk. I’ve got my subscriptions categorized in a set order and just run through them every so often.

See my other reply here, but if you’re the admin for your account, open the desktop version of Excel (or Word or PowerPoint or OneNote) and navigate to File > Options > General. There’s supposedly an Enable Copilot checkbox somewhere there.

To anyone else who might find this comment later, disabling Copilot is not currently possible in any of the web versions.

An option to disable Copilot exists, but you need to be the admin of your account. I think most people still using Office (365 is a dumb name) have it via a work license, in which case the option to disable Copilot must be done as a company-wide policy by whoever administrates it at that level.

To add to what the other reply said, developer verification comes with the implication that Google reserves the right to refuse verification. There are also legitimate reasons a developer might not even want to attempt to verify with Google to begin with. Admittedly, the vast majority of Android users probably don’t use software from outside the Google Play Store, but it’s a right they’ve always had and one Google is about to make much harder to exercise or discover, hence a loss of true device ownership for everyone.

If you’ve only ever lived in ecosystems that only permit software installs via first-party means (think Apple or game consoles), this may not sound alarming. To those of us used to the software situation on PC, where you can freely run any software as long as it exists, this feels like a major hit to software freedom.

Just curious, did you play the original or the All Stars version? The water mechanics were designed for the GameCube’s analog triggers, so the Switch’s digital triggers forced All Stars to use a workaround. I never played the All Stars version, so I don’t actually know if that made much of a difference.

Agreed on boss repetition. I was definitely less sensitive to that as a kid. (Maybe I still am?)

Fair enough. I liked that the maps felt lived in and connected, so exploration was actually more compelling for me in Sunshine, and I tend to lean away from darker games in general. Different tastes.

I loved Sunshine and only learned later it was one of the more divisive 3D Mario games. What didn’t you like about it?

If you think LLMs are good at anything, I am almost 100% certain to disagree with you about pretty much everything, to help you understand this distinction.

Depends on what you mean by “anything.” The current obsession in the tech world of trying to shove LLMs into the AGI box? Yeah, not a good fit. Pure language stuff like translation or brainstorming? Very useful. LLMs now even surpass DeepL.

why do I even feel the compulsion to preface by saying my bit about ai and llms?

I have a similar compulsion to clarify that my interest in LLMs centers mainly around local open-source models that can run on consumer hardware.

Yeah, it really sucks, because LLM tech itself is amazing. Quantifying language and ideas into what’s basically a massive queryable concept map is a huge achievement. What do the tech giants decide to do with that achievement? Shove it every little place it doesn’t belong making everyone hate it.

Oh well, I’ll keep backing up the interesting local open-source models people make and playing with them in the corner.

I think LLMs are an interesting technology. Of course, the output is inherently untrustworthy, and that rules out a ton of applications tech bros are trying to cram it into.

In case it works for you, I use IsThereAnyDeal instead of Steam for sale notifications. You can either import your Steam wishlist or make a fresh one on the site, then make a notification system as simple or as complex as you want. I’ve got my setup to notify me only when my most anticipated games hit new historical lows or when anything else in my wishlist hits 90% off.

What a coincidence. My memory is also really shitty.

Not always. Most photos I take are really just intended for future me. A few of them have famous things I care about.

Possibly, but the AI they’ve got doing it is just bad. Even liking an innocuous comment like “you’re killing it, dude” is apparently enough to get banned.

The good news is that there are enough people feeling this that refuges from the enshittification are growing. We’re in one right now.

Also, while online personal computing has definitely been getting worse, offline personal computing is better than it’s ever been. Growing that is sort of like making your own walled garden.

That all said, only keep to technology as much as it improves your life. The other people saying to go into nature more have it right.

I say there’s no reason to be hostile to someone still on Reddit. I check here first for most things, but there are many communities whose presence here is either anemic or nonexistent.

Then again, Reddit has always been a desktop first experience for me. I pretty much only use old.reddit.com, and my line in the sand will probably be when it dies.

Is mayonnaise moon wizards a plot point?

Yeah, and even if the raw capability translated directly to performance, a 30% to 40% improvement is still on the minimum side of what I’d want from a full system rebuild. That said, I do expect an X3D chip to grab me within the next couple generations, especially if it’s AM6. I tend to keep old PCs running in various roles for decades with parts interchanging some, so if I end up skipping AM5 entirely, that’ll simplify part compatibility down the line.

For the GPU, I’m mostly just hungry for VRAM now (without going to the AI/enterprise cards), and the 24 GB in the 7900 XTX was a big part of me choosing it. The only sensible step up from there is 32 GB. I’m not going to jump to Nvidia for that though, and given the whole RAM situation and AMD dropping off the very high-end, they probably won’t have viable choices for that either anytime soon.