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I'm not saying I agree with it, just what I've observed in other discussions.

I'm not happy with generative AI in general. It's worn out the novelty and is very clearly just another tool to extract as much value out of people while giving next to nothing in return.

Unfortunately, the cat is out of the bag, and the vast majority of people don't understand how it works or why it is a problem. Meaning that, not enough people make a fuss, to the point where no action is taken towards legislating against it in a meaningful way.

The end result is games like this, which find a position where it's not quite objectional enough for most people to make a fuss about it.

I think the reason most people are okay with it is, firstly, because it runs locally, not on some massive datacenter somewhere.

Secondly, the type of AI used is either not generative; for the "smart Zoi", feature, where it's basically just an AI driven NPC logic system; you tell them what they should act like in a prompt and it informs what they do and why, taking it a bit further than their basic needs.

Or, where it is generative, it's within its own ecosystem. It's generative, but for its own consumption, rather than polluting the general web with garbage content like most generative AI is. If this causes their own ecosystem to be drowned out with garbage, it's their own problem solve, not ours. They have a financial stake in keeping that ecosystem healthy to engage with, since I believe it's a source of monetisation?

I've played the game for a few hours, but unfortunately I've aged-out of enjoying this type of game I guess. I used to be a big Sims fan, but neither that nor Inzoi grab me as it would have 20 years ago.

The fact that this is normal in the US is incomprehensible to my European brain. I don't think the fluoride is harmful, I don't think there's anything nefarious about it all, I just think it's weird to add things to the water supply?

Water coming from the tap should just be ... water? If you want fluoride in it for better dental health, just add it yourself? Or use fluoride toothpaste?

I feel like if you start doing that, you kinda open the door to mass dosing of other "potentially beneficial" agents. And things we think are safe today, may turn out to be unsafe a few decades from now (see lead, plastics and a number of pharmaceutical compounds that turned out to be unsafe later after decades of use).

At this point there are so many of them, its literally just spam. Also, a lot of the time it's very NSFW stuff that doesn't get flagged at all.

The way you handle the maintenance and openness of communication, and your nuanced take on the world of federation reinforces my opinion that I made the right choice signing up here! Thank you for doing a great job!

And of course, congrats on the kid!

Stability, reliability, don't fix it if it ain't broke.

Some companies have a need to reinvent them every 6 months to justify some middle Manager's existence so they can pad their resume for the next overpaid job position.

This Is what it looks like when you don't have that problem

Also, when developers have lots of cross-team and cross-skillset coordination that needs to happen, you can spend the majority meeting, documenting, and reviewing.

Case in point; my Cloud team spends a significant chunk of time coordinating between backend and frontend, Ops, Firmware/Hardware team and DevOps.

Product Owner wants a feature, specs how the feature should look in the frontend, and what the device needs to do when used. Backend has to spec the cloud logic and API glue between them. A feature might need support from DevOps if infrastructure needs to be updated, and Ops needs to know how the feature works to support customers.

It's a whole lot of talk and documentation so that the amount of time we spend coding is as little as possible. That's a good thing. If you're spending the majority of your time writing code, you're probably doing something wrong.

The new app doesn't require a log in at all, the old one did.

The old control panel was anything but snappy though. There is a long standing bug that makes it incredibly slow to respond under certain configurations, where a single click can take several seconds to register.

Give me the Steam Deck layout sans screen and I'll buy several.

So fucking fed up being charged out the ass for a few extra buttons and/or shitty build quality.

I went through RMAing SIX god damn Xbox elite 2 controllers before just giving up and getting my CC agency involved to get my money back.

I just want a controller with back pedals and touchpads for mouse emulation. Is that so hard?

I'd consider it if it was SteamOS, since I love the Steam Deck, but it's performance is just shy of where I'd like it to be.

No SteamOS is a hard pass from me though. I've just finished ditching Windows on my gaming PC, I don't intend to back step back to Windows, especially on a handheld.

I frequently amaze new colleagues when I show them that deploying an update for our backend application is a sub-second affair. Our pipeline keeps track of what git tag was deployed last, diffs between that tag and the new release, and uploads the files to each of the deployment targets. It takes longer for the pipeline agent to spin up from Cold on a Monday morning, than it does to actually deploy.

The core of the application is just php scripts, and those are either immediately up to date whenever the next call is, or swapped out the next time that component finishes a processing cycle.

Docker containers are nice, but nothing beats the cause of a stack trace being fixed, tested and deployed to the acceptance environment within minutes of it arriving.