Whereas im of the view that davibg me a click to a (likely) ad infested link and prividing a summary or full text is helpful. It woukd be good if it was easily shrunk or expandavke though, so it suits us both.

And where there is little benefit between generations for gamers. No wow for graphics or gameplay. Just more expensive and slightly improved. It’s similar to phones. In an effort to have mass appeal, they try to appeal to all levels of hardware, so can’t fully take advantage of the new. In the past, it just wouldn’t launch on older hardware. However, even the big studios were more like indies back then.

I imagine that while that maybe was involved in their reasoning, that they are more worried about steam deck. Xbox is circling the drain. Steam deck is gaining steam. Ahem.

Their model is based on subscription to use online features. That becomes a harder sell when the hardware is also much more expensive. So, they will want to make gamers miss out by not having a PlayStation, similar to past console battles. However, in the past people picked a side and stuck with it. A gen or two ago, many gamers had more than one console or a console and a gaming able PC. I think that’s going to shrink with the cost rises.

They want people to choose PlayStation as their first choice. I don’t think people will, so it might mean they lose on both, so it’s a gamble. However, they can port to PC at any time, so I expect that’s what they will do.

They kill them by making so much slop with the IP. They don’t die quietly. Look at star wars. Marvel etc.

All a Linux phone needs to succeed is an app store and to be able to securely process payments without google and then developers and companies are interested.

But they did this knowing that at this point there is not a viable alternative. It’s both monopoly, vendor lock, eee and enshittification all at once…

It was more that the character was a main character and was sexualised, in 3D.

I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.

Haha, yes. But they could. They just won’t.

Depends, who’s asking and what AI model are you based on? Pics.

This could be good for gaming if it’s the death knell of subscription ‘ownership’.

It’s not all bad. AI can make some great creative games with lots of soul. There will be hundreds.

If ram goes up for everyone, Microsoft is no worse placed. There will be less sales overall, but they could take a larger piece of that pie of they were good. They won’t.

One thing that might go in their favour is pc gaming. If ram and video cards get super crazy for long enough, people might have a single PC and gaming console. The steam deck should be well placed to take advantage. Microsoft could be too, with foresight.

A Linux launcher that can be used to launch games from the epic store and others. So, basically a workaround so you don’t need to use the epic launcher.

I was referring to both scraping to create the models and using the models to create infringing content.

I guess it depends on what kind of ipntheft you mean.

With open architecture, it should be possible for Linux on a ps5 to be just as good as ps5 software for taking advantage of the hardware.

It’s why open hardware is the next hurdle. It’s already starting to happen with routers and open drivers but it’s far from as good for open cpus etc.

With open hardware, we could start to eliminate security concerns about using American/Chinese/whatever hardware or software as it could all be verified. I think it’s partly why Linux is gaining steam. An open background allows anyone to build on what’s come before. Proprietary stuff only allows those with access to improve or start from scratch.

Linux is more mature and so building on the past builds new features, where windows can only lock down and try to gain revenue. They know they are losing. I am wondering if this is part of the push for ai as it would be harder to run at home. Not forever though.

Not really, given there are already multiple flavours of android in the Chinese market, that are Google free. Samsung has kept up pace on their alternative to keep Google at bay. Linux phone and other alternatives like e/os exist. The main problem seems to be adoption and Google apps. It just seems crazy to me that the hardware makers want to lock themselves in to one supplier that could turn on them in an instant. Open sourcing their drivers would give free community improvements and make tech enthusiasts favour them. The public often follows enthusiasts, provided it’s easy to do so.

I hope an alternative open platform emerges and google android goes poof. It would serve as a warning to others.

Yes, but still something they will look at. It means when it becomes unviable with the squeeze already on, those that chose to pay the higher fees lose access to everything as they shut it down. I’m sure they will thank their loyal subscribers, so there is that.

My guess is they realise that xbox users in general is likely on a downward trajectory and now is the time to milk them.

But also less new users and still the usual churn of existing users. It could be a downward spiral.

Behind, relative to the USA.

However, with a duopoly you can till Ansie market share.

Given android id more popular in Europe than America, you could say apple is behind in market share, so providing less features is not a great business plan.

And as processing doesn’t keep increasing, perhaps coding will have to become more efficient so older or cheaper devices will also be useful.

Currently there is little incentive toake code efficient if speed will double anyway over time.

Don’t worry, they are getting relatively cheaper as inflation is a problem. Unfortunately they are also getting more expensive as wages aren’t keeping up with inflation.

Plus tariffs. Plus moores law ended. Plus profiteering. Plus dwindling competition. Plus entry to market costs are too high. Thank you gods for the steam deck. It should correct a lot of those problems. Especially if the platform becomes an os and not just a product.

Just a heads up that anthropic have just lost a $1.5b case for downloading and storing copyrighted works. That’s $3,000 per author of 500000 books.

The wheels of justice move slowly but fair use has limits. Commercial use is generally not one. Commentary and transformation are, so we’ll see how this progresses with the many other cases.

Warner Brothers have recently filed another case, I think.

I think it’s more that we have fewer and fewer small companies or competition. So price rises don’t deter consumers as much as they should, by allowing competition.

You can set up a restaurant as a person with financing. But the costs of doing so, fighting against economies of scale of larger outfits are incredibly difficult, but only the best survive.

Creating a console. Not even super wealthy corporations can successfully do that with billions of dollars and teams of experts. So if one is successful, like PlayStation, there is no reason to lower prices. There is no valid competitor.

Similar for many things. Amazon. Sure you can shop elsewhere but it won’t have the range or shipping logistics. Same with apple and android. Duopoly instead of monopoly. Nvidia. Monopoly. Facebook. Monopoly. Google, monopoly. Etc etc

Our economies are broken. It’s become about lock in rather than competition. It was gradual and innocuous at first. Tie that in with enshittification and shrinkflation and we have an ever shrinking shit sandwich with no alternative.

While that’s interesting info and links, I don’t think that’s true.

https://share.google/opT62A4cIvKp6pwhI This case with Thomson has, but is expected to be overturned.

Most of the big cases are in the early stages. Let’s see what the Disney one does.

There is also the question, not just of copyright or fair use, but legally obtaining the data. Facebook torrented terabytes of data and claimed they did not share it. I don’t know that that’s enough to claim innocence. It hasn’t been for individuals.

The question is whether they are actually transformative. Just being different is not enough. I can’t use Disney IP to make my new movie, for instance.

That’s assuming you own the media in the first place. Often AI is trained with large amounts of data downloaded illegally.

So, yes, it’s fair use to train on information you have or have rights to. It’s not fair use to illegally obtain new data. Even more, to renting that data often means you also distribute it.

For personal use, I don’t have an issue with it anyway, but legally it’s not allowed.

Lol, you think steam decks won’t go up in price too? Sanctions affect everything. If you already have a deck you’re unaffected but if you already have a switch you’re also unaffected, for now…

I have a PS5. I don’t intend to ever buy a console again. That era is dead.

Yeah, I’d agree with that. However, they are also creative or adventurous with graphics and art direction.

Yeah, even look at Sony. Recent franchises include a genetically modified clone orphan living in a land of sentient machines with vivid colours.

A father daughter love story told in the time of a zombie apocalypse. (Recent is doing a lot of lifting, lol,)

A samurai warrior, believed dead in a beautiful version of Japan, who sues the wind for direction. Here it’s more the art direction.

Older hits, instead of using cars, used floating race pods. Some told stories using forward and back through time to allow a player and their inner soul/ghost explore areas differently. Others has you play as a set of androids staring to become sentient and making decisions for or against their programming, for their or others benefit.

The quirkiness has always been there. There is also lots of generic stuff and copied stuff. Wherever art and business collide, that’s always the case.

Sometimes the reason there is no use for it is because the data was unavailable. With larger data throughput, more and better services may become available.

Even when you consider common stuff like gaming, it often takes a while to fully download or update games.

Candy bars were 30p in Ireland in 1990s and that equates to about $0.50. I went on a trip to the USA around then and most things, especially junk food, was cheaper.

Lol, yes they do. Look at Ireland and Croatia. Ireland has gone from being one of the poorest to wealthiest. Croatia is moving that way.

Wealthy countries all continue to grow also, obviously. So it’s the rate that matters, so gaps close and people are better off on average.

Lol, no. It’s to help them catch up so they can purchase products the wealthier countries sell. It’s mutually beneficial.

In what way? I thought unemployment was down significantly, which is a big help for a lot of people.

You do know that these wealthier countries pay more into the EU and the poorer countries get structural funding for infrastructure etc to help them catch up to the wealthier?

Which worked. It also worked for Portugal and Ireland. Greece may or may not have been able to correct their issues on their own. However, there were lots of structural issues, including cultural issues around taxation.

Fun fact: the USA is a union of states.