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I mean even disregarding the environmental cost, it’s rapidly accelerating our decline from the “Information Age” where knowledge about anything can be found in an instant to the “Disinformation Age” in which it’s impossible to tell what is fact from fiction because information is overflowing everywhere but most of it is bullshit.
Ended up ruining my soup the other week because I got the recipe from someone using AI. Can't even follow 2023+ video recipes anymore because the creator might have used AI to plan a video with an inedible recipe.
It can't be trusted with foods, medicine dosages, or basically anything with a hazard rating.
Oh shit, dark cloud! Is your name based on the RPG?
No I'm just grumpy all the time.
Did you know you can get a real dirt cheap handheld console like the R36S (for $40) that can run most PS1 games, as well as many PS2 and N64 games, and anything below that... Even a few GameCube games.
For twice the price you can get more advanced chinese made android based portable handheld emulator consoles that can run all PS2 games and most PS3 games... For even more money you can get similar devices that are SteamOS compatible.... Meaning you can get a low end SteamDeck for half the price of the real thing.
So one of those options can probably get you your preferred Final Fantasy game in a pocket sized portable console.
You may think this knowledge is a blessing, but it's a curse. Spoiled for choice and it ultimately comes down to money and whether you actually want more screen time.
I mean I can do that all off my phone without buying a cheap handheld (I've actually considered the R36S itself and find no indication it'll even run PS2 properly, let alone the PSP well enough) or some pretend laptop with a gAmiNg Linux distro. Finding a side mounted controller with a headphone jack in my local area is the hard part.
Tell me more about the R36S, actually, please. Alternatively I'm considering a Gamesir Tegenaria controller, I can already tell it'll be very nice in my hands, although its software is Windows-only and I'm not going to install Steam or create an account for it to manage a controller.
I installed Retroarch directly from the Android Playstore on my phone today. Using an 8bitdo controller (they're really cheap and good quality). Pretty good results so far!
RetroArch's touch controllers are horrible, the interface as well, and the devs are bad enough to make emulator devs quit. I only have it on the Vita and PS3 where it kind of makes sense.
Unfortunately I don't know of a good, easy, free replacement. Lemuroid is the closest but I'm not a fan of how it needs to scan ROMs first, but this is what I use now. The .emu series almost cost me my Phantasy Star I run twice. Thankfully it's better for other consoles, DuckStation, PPSSPP, and Vita3K (I still prefer the Vita itself though). Undecided between this build of NetherSX2 or the totally not LLM assisted ARMSX2.
I'm honestly terrified of the person I'd be if I had a console with me at all times. No one needs that, least of all me. But I genuinely am very curious about these handhelds and I'm currently reading through handhelds.wiki to see how things have developed over the years. It feels quite a bit like rediscovering video games. It's gonna be a minute until I can start to hold a cohesive opinion on 'em
i've been running PS1 games off duckstation on my android for... i don't want to count how long. just need a BT controller to play properly
Retroarch is available on the Playstore. All seems to work pretty well!
I've been having a hard time finding videos with any human on certain subjects lately. I'll see a video with a ton of views and a few seconds in a realize the voice is too perfect and vacuous sounding, and that the entire thing is an AI. I'm not even sure if the comments are humans either.
With video or written media I've started looking for imperfection as a metric for quality. It feels so good to watch a YouTube channel that is a normal dude with a shitty camera talking about something interesting.
Just exclude anything posted after 2023 and you'll get solely human slop. Unfortunately, that's my only strat
I fucked up a concrete mix last month because I was in a hurry and trusted the Google ai summary instead of my own intuition. Lesson learned, hopefully
Shit like this makes me trust humans less because so many are willing to lie.
It'll balance out. Same thing happened when we got the priting press and the internet. Any revolutionary technology is like this and will always will be.