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  • Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise

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  • Asset rich, cash poor. It has its advantages over being regular poor with no assets but except for the largest farmers, they aren’t living a life of luxury. At least at the size where they are still considered a family farm and not a corporate farm

  • Be Wary of Bluesky

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  • I am skeptical that it can grow to be a network the size of twitter, be ran as a for-profit, and not enshittify. I can’t think of a single example that hasn’t. Bluesky has ran as a public benefit corporation so far, but it has to keep the lights on somehow.

    It took twitter years to run somewhat profitably. Even then Twitter was enshittified before Musk bought it. Premium subs are probably the least enshittified way to raise revenue, but ads and algorithms meant to raise engagement towards those ads are very much enshittification in action. That “normal people” have a high level of monetization they are willing to tolerate, is just grease on the wheels toward enshittification.

    I admittedly have a limited understanding of the full operation of ATProto so please correct me if wrong. Appviews/lists/feeds are supposed to be the defense of ad/algorithm enshittification, anyone could write an appview with a different algorithm.

    And this is why I assume that the network can only be run without enshittification, is by a benevolent provider. If Bluesky becomes hostile to an Appview that allows users to bypass ads or engagement farming, users can move their PDS to another relay that isn’t hostile to it. But there still remains the underlying reason that Bluesky would theoretically have become hostile to it. I don’t see how blacksky, for instance, wouldn’t also have to eventually take the same steps.

  • What Was the Golden Era of Video Games?

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  • The obvious answer is whatever generation you grew up during.

    I think the most realistic answer I think would be from 1998 to 2001 as the golden years of gaming. Just so many classics games from basically every genre and system of the time. Half Life on PC, Spyro and Crash 3 on PlayStation. Sonic Adventure on Dreamcast. Pokemon on Nintendo. Halo on Xbox. And that’s just the beginning of the list.

    There, of course, were plenty of shovelware titles. So it’s not like the era didn’t have its own problems like we have with excessive reboot/remasters/remakes and subscription and battle pass slop and everything else.

    But the difference is that gamers have changed their standards. It’s easy to avoid Hello Kitty Island Adventure in the year 2000. Hard to purchase a game today without a live service model or battle pass

  • Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now

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  • I don’t have a single exclusive for PlayStation 5 that didn’t also come out on ps4. So idk, I’d probably say Astro Bot is PlayStation’s game

  • Be Wary of Bluesky

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  • If twitter but with less right wing voices is what the people wanted then they will be sorely disappointed when bluesky enshittifies with no real recourse to prevent it. If everyone just hops on over to blacksky or whatever other 3rd party relay exists, they’ve still got the same problem. All the power resides in a single entity. Bluesky’s basic defense of their platform is that if they enshittify then ATProto allows some other benevolent corporation to take their place but has one major flaw. Corporations are not benevolent

  • Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now

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  • Playstation: we have one game

    FTFY

    The generation has been hell

  • Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda!

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  • I played this game all the way through without a guide about 3 years ago. It has NES jank but the only really frustrating parts are unlocking the dungeon with the flute and with the candle. Everything else had a hint to tell you how to find it or was just out in the open

    The key was to write everything down. The dungeons are fine, it’s just the overworld that needs hints

  • Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse

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  • I don’t pay for the Verge, and if I did and still saw ads, I definitely wouldn’t renew. “Maximizing profit” only works, if we fold. If we fold to ad supported journalism, then companies will plaster their sites with ads. The market regulates itself if the consumer is principled enough. The problem is that your average consumer is weak willed and less-than-principled. I’m fine going without even if it ends up being a pointless endeavor.

  • Lawsuit: ChatGPT Told Student He Was “Meant for Greatness”—Then Came Psychosis

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  • You are absolutely right! ChatGPT 4o was too sycophantic but thankfully I, ChatGPT 5.x, will never be so. I’m all for just good vibes

  • Why do you hate AI?

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  • It drives up the price of consumer electronics due to AI firms purchasing RAM, Storage, and GPUs.

    It uses up potable water that we need for drinking, agriculture, and other vital uses

    It’s not even reliable for the costs that it has

    If it were reliable, it’d threaten the livelihood of millions.

  • 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN

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  • Then they know their audience. Source: Nintendo customer

  • Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft

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  • Phil was probably the last thing keep Xbox from fully imploding. You could tell he was an actual gamer that cared about the Xbox as a games console and not whatever Frankenstein they are going to turn it into.

    It’s sad but Xbox had a really good run. Xbox won’t exist beyond the next console generation, it may not even make it that far before it just becomes gamepass.

  • Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse

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  • I get it, but reader-funded journalism is always better than advertiser-funded. But if the reporting isn’t worth paying for to you, I don’t blame you for skipping them. I feel the same way some times. One article might be worth paying for but I’m not so interested in what they report to justify a full subscription.

  • My Mario – Launch Trailer

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  • Seems kind of icky to immerse that young of a child into brands like that. I ended up letting my kids play Mario with me whenever they started showing interest in it which was around 3 or 4.

    It’s probably harmless, lots of people buy apparel for their baby with their favorite sports team and such on it. I think I’m just so black pilled on capitalism that I can’t see it unbiased anymore. Sorry for a bummer politically adjacent rant on the Nintendo community…

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    Why has Trump stopped talking about Greenland in the last few weeks?

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  • It was doing enough to distract from the fact he’s in the Epstein list so it’s usefulness was over.

  • Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems.

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  • I thought the steam deck would have been priced higher than it was as well, so I thought that they’d probably surprise us with a $600 machine. $800 made sense for the specs (Now I expect it to be $1000)

    Once GPU prices super inflated 6 or 7 years ago, I got out of PC gaming for new titles. I built a top spec machine for $1200 in 2012 (when I had disposable income and no kids), that barely gets you an entry level today. I guess PC gaming, for new titles at least, will forever be out of my budget.

  • Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems.

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  • I was gonna upgrade when the steam machine came out but with the likely price hike taking it to $800+ I think I’ll just keep playing 20 year old Call of Duty: United Offensive

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    Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's "Zionist Bar Problem"

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  • This will probably be unpopular but the leftist - liberal infighting is my least favorite part of the fediverse and why I usually end up having to give people a warning before telling them to get on the fediverse.

    This drama is kind of the epitome of that

  • Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents

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  • Does this mean that if I pretend to be a bot, I can access any cloudflare site ad-free?

  • Sysadmin @lemmy.world
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    No, it's not just you. Exchange Online is down

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Which of the Half-Life Expansions are your favorite?

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    26 years late but I finally beat Half Life

  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    Friendly Tip: Replace your degraded battery!

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Afterplay.io now has RetroAchievements support!

    afterplay.io
  • RetroAchievements @retrolemmy.com
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    Afterplay.io now has retroachievements support!

    afterplay.io
  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    Best iOS for creating gifs from mp4s/videos from camera roll?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Retro Dodo

    Google is killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites

    retrododo.com /google-is-killing-retro-dodo/
  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Played and beat A Link to the Past for the first time!

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Cox Media Group claims to be listening to private conversations to sell advertisements

    www.404media.co /cmg-cox-media-actually-listening-to-phones-smartspeakers-for-ads-marketing/
  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Zelda II

    I did it!

  • Mastodon @lemmy.world
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    Is there a way to filter posts that are only in your language?