“Should you put glue in pizza?”

Oh, I get it now.

These “mysterious drones” have all been flying from the police this entire time so articles like this will be written which in turn helps the police get more funding.

Then the moment the police get their kill drones they’ll somehow solve the case!

(This is all tinfoil hat nonsense, of course)

“We made Siri faster but each request now drains a lake.”

For me the best new feature on macOS is the ability to natively put the temperature in the menu bar. You click on it, and it gives you some more info and from there can launch the full weather app.

It’s a small addition and could have been there for a decade, but I like it a lot.

I like Bluesky, but I don’t disagree with this. When I started there last year it was A LOT of furry art and furry stuff. And they have every right to do all that. Go to town; I don’t care. But I also don’t really want to see it all over my feed(s).

I ended up subscribing to a list that mutes a ton of furry stuff, and that’s really helped clean up the feed.

genAI is currently very stupid, and each new version is having diminishing returns on what the models can provide.

I’m really not that worried, though some jobs may shift to instead of simply doing the job the worker will be required to fix all the mistakes the genAI came up with.

What in the world? Is that European thing?

You’re welcome!

The NPCs will follow your lead in the dungeons, so they’ll never run up ahead on their own, giving you the opportunity to go at your speed and take down mobs the way you want. The NPCs also have a knack for getting out of the way of danger, so in boss fights they can help you learn the fights because they’ll most likely be in good/safe areas during various boss mechanics.

Friend, get ready, the story only gets better from here.

You may already know this as well, but at this point you (or your wife) should be able to run most if not all of the dungeons by yourself with NPC characters - though sadly you can’t use them if you both party up together.

But it’s a good way to do a dungeon and get a better feel for that content to get the jitters out.

Duty Support and Trusts are what you’d look for in this instance:

https://www.destructoid.com/how-to-enter-dungeon-solo-in-final-fantasy-xiv/

I read it yesterday from a link a friend shared - if it is the right document, that is. It seems like it is.

And it’s what you expect: insurance screwed over his mom, and then him, so that plus a lot of stuff he was reading radicalized him to do what he did.

These are fair points.

It’s like Mario Kart, GT7, and Forza are all racers, but wildly different.

I still am happy with my M1 Pro.

And, honestly, for a while I was using it with a monitor, and that dual screen setup wasn’t too terrible. However there are just enough issues with Stage Manager to make it annoying to use for long stretches at a time.

That is to say: I agree they have too much power that isn’t being used well.

Animal Well.

We have The Division, Rainbow Six, and Ghost Recon (and Farcry if you want to add that) as military shooters Ubisoft already makes.

And among the seemingly thousands of other military shooter options out there, it’s hard to be surprised yet another military shooter didn’t do well in this landscape.

The result for the people who block them is still the same, though: they no longer see the troll garbage.

I look at it this way: I don’t let in the crazy person on the street screaming racist garbage into my house, so I also don’t have to listen to or engage with that person on the internet, either. That doesn’t make my house an “echo chamber.”

For a long time I tried to treat “internet people” with some level of “respect” so to say. That is, I didn’t spend time blocking people and whatnot. But now? Screw em. I don’t have time to listen to nonsense, so if someone tries to come in to a conversation in bad faith, it’s very easy to block and move on.

Or on short-form social media like Bsky or Masto or whatever if someone posts a racist thing. Or a bigoted thing. Block and move on.

Those trolls live off of engagement so just don’t give it to them. And those same trolls are the ones complaining about “echo chambers.” “Waaa, no one wants to listen to my racist nonsense. It’s an echo chamber!” No, you are just a trash human, and no one is obligated to listen to you.

Troy Baker sure is Troy Bakering in this one.

Really?

I mean, do what you will. No worries either way. But it does surprise me to hear lots of people turn their computers off all the time. I tend to just let them go to sleep and then wake them back up.

How often do you turn off your computers?

I feel like “buttongate” is one of the biggest non-issues the internet has gotten riled up with in a while.

The moment you stop having a sub for something like FF14 (which has no in your face upsell garbage in-game), you turn in to something like LotR: Online (which when I played that briefly was FILLED with windows trying to get you to buy gold or other nonsense).

You pay a sub so the servers stay online. So the writers/coders/management get paid. In the case of FF14, so the game can continue being great.