One example of this is repurposing old laptops into thin clients. In simple terms, a thin client is a device that runs services and software from a centralized server, allowing users to access their desktop environment from any device with an internet connection.

Since the laptop is now primarily acting as a gateway to cloud-hosted applications, it can appear that the hardware itself no longer needs to be particularly capable. (…) The physical laptop is still at the end of its refresh cycle, and its components are still ageing.

Author: Thomas Epps, IT Product Manager & Cloud Device Business Manager at LG Electronics.

This must be the kind of shit that’s pushed straight down high executives, because no one in their right mind would read a word of this shit and think “OMG HE’S SO FUKKEN RIGHT!!!”

a dedicated thin client delivers both architectural and financial advantages over a 10-year lifecycle, with lower maintenance, reduced energy use and a significantly lower total cost of ownership.

translation: your ownership cost is reduced to zero, because LG owns the glass. Win-win, mr leader!

It’s super ironic that online trust was much higher in dial up times, back when “don’t trust what you find on the internet” was the rule

Giardino suggested that developers can protect their work by first building a strong community around it, and then focusing on continual improvements: “Rather than relying on a single mechanic that someone can easily copy, you need to keep growing your game by adding features, personality, and creativity that stem from your own perspective.”

Not every game needs a fuckload of features. Not everyone has the time and skill to create and manage a community around their own game.

Steam could at least allow people to vote on whether some games are complete clone garbage or not, have the weight of the vote rely on the account level + age. Or let people indicate the original game on a clone’s page. Like any community feature, I can see this being a vector for abuse, but this AI bullshit is absolutely ruining online trust

That’s a very kunnin’ question, Gork will answer it

Sounds just like LG! https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-TVs-caught-logging-audio-with-screen-off-and-snooping-on-local-devices.1391214.0.html

if you’re on windows, you can try searching with qbittorrent’s built in search

You can also find a lot of stuff in the Internet Archive, though download speeds are slooooooooow - https://archive.org/details/ps3-games-part-2

Vimm’s lair has a bunch of games, too, but it limits downloads to 1 at a time, they’re all self hosted.

You can also search for sites on Yandex.com, they still show pirate sites. Be sure to have uBlock Origin on your browser

They’ve been failing at literally every step in AI coverage, especially at just parroting whatever the fuck anthropic and openai claim to be their newest breakthrough without questioning anything. Failing basic math is just icing on the cake.

Dude, I’m this close to trading my beenz for a million dollars!!!

I suspect this might be worse due to the amount of money being thrown around. As much as I want the companies responsible for the stupid bubble to go bankrupt, there’s a lot of money from pension and investment funds, so that’s going to hurt a lot of people who had nothing to do with that.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/credit-crunch/

The new feudal lords will own everything and be super duper kind enough to let the peons and slaves toil the soil and keep 1/100th of the produce. Pretty sure that’s literally how they want and expect things to become

Hey, at least it’ll be warm for a hot minute!

Just buy more RAM, bro!

RAM prices skyrocket 1000%

Just sell your house to buy more RAM, bro!

Anthropic is literally marketing this comic

f-list has entered the chat

They probably “anonymize” the stuff they send back to microslop, since they use the bing engine

Wrong place to post this, bud

Isn’t most of the people there just typical corporate shills? Like a company-approved xitter space

Funny, you’d expect this kind of thing to only be considered “a hit” if interest lasts more than a month, but gotta keep that bubble rolling, eh?

He expects more people to gravitate to AI shopping agents like Muse as they look to hand off cumbersome tasks, such as comparing deals across sites and tracking down products.

Because that was clearly impossible without AI. /s

In another sign of Muse’s growing relevance, Amazon confirmed to CBS News that it has blocked the AI app from shopping on its e-commerce platform, citing security and user experience concerns.

Less “relevance” and more “fucking bots eating our bandwidth”

When it comes to shopping, the benefit for customers isn’t just saving time; it’s also about helping them find deals, Mercer said.

THANK GOD SUCKBERG WOULD NEVER USE A BLACK BOX LIKE THAT TO PUSH BULLSHIT “BEST OFFERS” FOR THE HIGHEST BIDDER, RIGHT? RIGHT???

“People are still a little bit nervous about allowing AI agents to do the purchasing on their behalf,”

Noooooooo, you should totally trust AI with your credit card and bank info! Trust big brother!

The reading experience of this article on a PC is mildly infuriating. The font is fixed size, zooming out does nothing, arrow keys don’t scroll up or down. Everything is javascript, so Firefox’ reading mode shows zero actual text

then when climate change wouldn’t do the trick of killing all humanity fast enough

The problem was never about it “killing humanity fast enough”, but destroying the fucking planet, which is happening. We’ve had, what, 4 consecutive years of record high temperatures across the globe? These aren’t problems that happen in the span of a week, they’re slow cooking and will have a long lasting impact everywhere.