I find it funny Microsoft gave me a survey on my work PC asking about how I’m enjoying its products (I laughed in Linux, “how do you like windows customizablity” let me go off about KDE lol)

But back to the subject. Literally everything they work on seems to turn to shit — I wonder what kind of survey feedback are they usually getting? “Oh, Skypes cool but I really like Teams”

Ten-million-five-hundred-and-sixty-thousand bits.

Yes, I was about to say the same thing until I saw your comment. I had a little bit of success learning a few tricks with o3 but trying to use o4 is a tremendous headache for coding.

There might be some utility in dialing it all back so it’s more straight to what I need based more on package documentation than random redditor suggestion amalgamation.

Also with Wiimote support, which was a better experience imo.

Graphically, it’s a little silly in curscenes but everything else holds up except for a weird level up system. The combos and combat are somehow better than later games since it’s tougher and every enemy counts (polygon counts keep it from the comical amounts in later games where you attack once and like 50 people die). Every character gets a campaign with multiple endings, too, which is something I missed.

The quote is Okuni’s “a dreeaaaam, an illusioooon~” monologue in her ending because the VA is uh… not great, and my friend does the voice spot on.

My friend keeps referencing a quote from Samurai Warriors (the first one, PS2 era) so on a lark I surprised her with a co-op session via parsec. Best musuo era, for sure, although that acting makes us both laugh. (I never played it, why is Nobunaga Oda a Japanese Darth Vader?!)

Wow, did not expect someone to shout-out Tevi! That and Rabi are great (although Tevi isn’t nearly as hard lol)

NPR also mentioned that there just hadn’t been that much going on to filibuster. Nominations, sure, but Congress has been mostly taking a back seat to the presidency, for better or worse given executive actions aren’t as permanent as Congressional law.

I should use this as an excuse to finally get a NAS setup. Maybe.

Yeah, I’m afraid the tech bros cut costs by not saving backups and removing all the old ones. Hell, all our changes are made in prod, no staging allowed here.

I’ve met the type who run businesses like that, and they likely do deserve punishment for it. My own experience involved someone running gray legality betting apps, and the owner was a cheapskate who got unpaid interns and filipino outsourced work to build their app. Guy didn’t even pay 'em sometimes.

Granted, you could also hire inexperienced people if you’re a good person with no financial investor, but that I’ve mostly seen with education apps and other low profit endeavors. Sex stuff definitely is someone trying to score cash.

I’m not convinced at least half of those communities trust Reddit and Discord enough to leave forums, but then again I stopped using them mostly because I haven’t had time for those hobbies. My emulation groups are still active on forums, at least.

Gross but also… kinda curious from an A/B testing perspective to know when the user drop off happens. Kind of like, what’s the pain threshold before someone stops using shitty software. The answer really should be zero but the average user… ugh, it’s probably fucking 8 or 9 and we should be ashamed.

Too bad is Bing so the sample size is too small for any meaningful results.

Not crazy if you want to advertise on the down low. I worked a summer once doing that shit, it’s insidious. Blockers don’t even block someone pretending to like a product.

Yeeaaaah, I miss the dark humor, people here are sometimes a bit too literal. To be fair, they have their reasons, from being neurodivergent to being from cultures that just don’t do dark humor. Our All feed really is everyone.

Weeeelllll… technically there are a couple of Lemmy cliches, but you make a good point. Canned bot responses to farm karma are certainly awful, with the only human exception being “look up en passant” because that was intentional predicability.

Around here, you can say what you really meant quite outright and most instances won’t blink (except, ironically, the one you and I are on got a little heat for this exact thing, lol, they want to be most like Reddit).

Ironically, a lot of stock trading already is done by bot, it’s a problem from a while ago. Not LLM, of course, much simpler but it’s why it sometimes goes hive mind.

Oh, the stress? I remind myself that renters in my area are now paying twice what my mortgage is, and I bought just three years ago. It’s a quick boost, and believe me, I’ve got at least a dozen fixes myself to do that I don’t have the energy or money for.

If that’s not enough, take a few weekends to at least hit what you can. Make a list and tackle things slowly as to not get overwhelmed. One by one, step by step.

For example, I used a week break to paint the kids room and it feels like a brand new home, even patching cracks and dealing with water damaged ceiling drywall (was minor, and the roofing was already fixed before I moved in). The rest of the house needs it, but it still made me feel like I did something.

Man, I want to be at that shareholder meeting; “how about we just don’t have a CEO and pocket the savings?”