Reading from NTFS is nearly flawless. Writing and actively using it is pretty bad occasionally though, to the point where steam doesn’t support it and recommends against it for game libraries on Linux.

It’s almost like unregulated capitalism is a certain highway to oligarchy and authoritarianism.

This isn’t typical price gouging. It’s an industry moving away from consumers because our buying power is nothing compared to large corporations running on AI circlejerk VCs.

It always felt obvious to me that it was a metaphor, I didn’t think I’ve met someone who legit believed boomer shooters were boomer games.

Most boomers, I think, were too old by the time video games were exciting and commonplace to start drawing numerous people so it’s fairly rare for a baby boomer to be a gamer.

Maybe the explosions played a role in the term being used like that but I’m fairly confident age is the primary dimension here.

Heck I’ve seen people use “boomer X” to refer to older-meta versions of decks in magic the gathering. Decks which had zombies not explosives.

People in comments are talking the “boomer cRPG” alias way too literally when it’s just a metaphor for “old school” much like we had for years with unreal and older Dooms being dubbed “boomer shooters”.

Yes boomer is used metaphorically to just mean “old” instead of “made in the 50s-60s or made by someone of that generation”.

To be fair, Poe’s Law on the Internet has been at the peak of its power in the recent years due to AI and geopolitical events.

Out of legit curiosity, how many models do you know trained exclusively on public domain data, which are actually useful?

Private platforms have every right to ban you, even if they just don’t like you or your political beliefs. Censorship is mostly happening by the government and systematic media.

And that is why federated platforms are so important. If most people don’t wanna see someone’s bullshit they can ban him. And he has the right to run his own instance.

Note that I’m not defending Tate here. Many of his words and actions are actually harmful or hateful and he deserves to be arrested.

But there’s a line between “illegal/harmful” and “unlikeable” which we need to remember.

Spamming, scams, and many forms of white collar crime are a result of people either getting desperate for a decent living or being greedy and wanting infinitely more than others have.

If you take out these two possibilities guess what gets almost entirely extinct.

That’s basically saying that “big tech” (as we know it today) and competition-friendly capitalism just cannot coexist. Which I’m inclined to agree with.

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