Pod racing?

I mean, yeah… robots don’t take sick days or form unions. Kinda sounds like a no brainer for them. And hearing how many workers complain about crappy warehouse jobs and terrible pay everyone is better off.

Doesn’t mean I’m going to be giving them money though, however I guess I can’t boycott something I’m not using, but others should.

Not exactly the same. I don’t blame facebook for the rise, its just a place to post and share… I blame the algorithm that facebook created and keeps updating to enhance and expand those bubbles while pushing users to outrage and divide them into bubbles that empower and embrace conspiracies, right/alt-right, and other extreme viewpoints. Same thing with X/Twitter.

Wikipedia doesn’t have any such algorithm. They don’t have a team dedicated to pushing people to those extremes (or anything at all).

You do, “Cash is King” is why people canceling these things en masse makes a difference in the world… you make a difference in their bottom line.

My only regret is that I cant vote with my wallet against things I cant afford to buy in the first place.

A group of investors including private-equity firm Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund could unveil a deal for the publisher best known for its sports games as soon as next week, WSJ said.

It’s always the Saudi’s.

The reality of the Game-Key Carts is that they are the response to the outrage of digital only games not being transferable or resold. With the license on the cart, you can resell “digital” games. There are reasons why devs do digital releases for things in the switch… it wont fit or it’s too slow are some big ones.

It’s not just a new thing, when I bought Skyrim at launch on the PC it came with a disc… which did nothing but link my Steam account and download the game from there. That was way back in 2011, and damn I feel old now.

Honestly, if honestly, if you’re following that many things that its that overwhelming, follow less things. I regularly clear out things I find I don’t care about or are no longer useful to me. I’ve just found I absolutely can’t trust an algorithm to determine what I may or may not be interested in. There’s always bias in there that’s trying to shift me towards anything that drives engagement or clicks. It’s how they keep people on their site and make money for the platform.

That said, everyone has their choice of how they consume things. These are just two different ways and while I know I can’t stand yours and you can’t stand mine, if it works for you, enjoy it.

So, how do you know you’re not missing something important or interesting? Whats the point if you can’t guarantee things you want to see aren’t being pushed out of view by the algorithm? To me, that completely defeats the point of using something like that. Without using chronological, I’d regularly get told about things I cared to know, well after the event happened. I’d miss notifications from friends and family that were important to me. Even with favoriting certain things, it made having that feed useless and it’s one of many reasons I stopped using them. It’s useless without knowing that I can see what I care to see.

That would greatly depend on how many people/places you follow. I ran like this for years on FB and Twitter and never had an issue like that. If I refreshed it’s because I wanted to see newer stuff. That said I only had like 100-150 follows on either and those places/people don’t post THAT often. And with Chronological, you can stop when get to posts you’ve seen, or have some idea if you missed a chunk. It worked so much better and it’s how I sort Lemmy.

“The algorithm” is what interjects things “you might like” or “people you might know”. It’s what tries to push an agenda.

I ran Twitter and Facebook for the longest time in purely chronological order and it would literally only show you the people/places you follow. Nothing more, nothing less. It was the only way I made it useful to me and prevented me from missing things and finding info in time for the event/gathering/sale whatever. As soon as they dropped that option, my feeds got corrupted with people and places I didn’t care to know or follow. Shoving me towards causes and attempting to sway my opinions or enrage me against things it thought I should be enraged about. The Algorithm is one if the reasons countries become divided and set in bubbles.

Can it NOT have an algorithm? Just chronological please. Same with literally any other feed type site. Don’t throw random crap in my feed.

The only thing Ive heard that makes any sense and isn’t just “the CEO says so”, is in-person collaboration. I will say, pretty much everyone I’ve talked to says “yes, it’s nice to have a physical meeting and collaborate in person” however… most of the people I work with besides my immediate team are in other offices, dispersed across the globe.

I’d love to see some hard data that shows the difference. I guarantee they have hard data, but wont share it because it doesn’t paint the picture they want it to. They also had hard data that showed we were vastly more productive during covid lockdowns, even when people only worked during normal hours. Until they told us to come back, then people switched to malicious compliance.

… but why? What good does this post do? Not an Alienware fan, but I’d still want to hear why you think it’s great? This post is missing like, literally anything about the booth at all.