Wait, I *can't* send Bluesky DM's because I live in Australia?

Yeah... I am not doxxing myself to do that.

I feel we as a society allowing ourselves to accept price rises across the board was a mistake.

There will be a backlash to price hikes coming. Hopefully it's sooner rather than later.

Mainstream customers need affordable hardware, something that's a few hundred, no more. PS5? No middle class parent is paying nearly a grand in AUD to buy their kid a PS5. That limits developers.

Just because the knife is there, doesn't mean it has to be used.

But seriously though,

Having high hardware prices is a huge mistake imo.

PS5 adoption rates are still very poor. Half of regular PS gamers are STILL playing on PS4, 5 years into a console gen. It's unheard of!

Here's The New Aussie Prices For The PS5, PS5 Pro And PlayStation Portal Here's The New Aussie Prices For The PS5, PS5 Pro And PlayStation Portal

Late, but for the record on Sony being Sony again,

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Scumbag PlayStation - "Well, what are you gonna do? Buy a PC?"

Well I ain't buying a PS5 Pro anytime soon, telling you that right now.

Something tells me my launch PS5 is going to have a long, long life.

press-start.com.au/news/playsta...

"never accept the premise of assholes" - Louis Rossmann

What is up with me and typos lately?

I've never been great but jfc lately I make so many, I'm barely coherent sometimes - legit scares me. :S

Or maybe just need typing practice.

And actually played the Switch 2 version!

Do I wish the framerate was better? Yes.

But is it *great* to have a game like this content complete on the underpowered meh box the Switch 2 is for a 5 hour train trip? Definitely.

Do I prefer to have the game on Steam now? Good lord yes. :(

Okay, it was a week ago and had to just run final boss again just now,

But, like everyone - except that one guy I work with - finished Resident Evil: Requiem.

Scrubs Season 10, for better or worse, is stuck in the past.

It’s the show’s strength and it’s weakness.

UK peeps - vote out Labour and Kier Starmer.

USA - this is coming for you. Fight this immediately.

(Image @54JohnBull from Birdsite)

RIP bozo. 💩

Maybe Iran’s government should pay for the bomb that killed him.

Are you guys in the US just pussies now?

Land of the free, resistance. That place?

The fuck is this shit.

How did a bill *this far* beyond the pale even get this far there? Where are all of these anti-privacy bills coming from all of a sudden?

(From @Pirat_Nation on Twitter)

Again, MS says it now wants to be the biggest third-party pub, itself a downgrade in ambition. But the minute it slips from that position, it'll look for a way to bail out like it has countless other times. None of what it's done in recent years are serious decisions with long-term survival in mind.

Microsoft want to divest from Xbox.

It's obvious at this point imo.

"I want to know who is speaking out"

Says the rich, entitled, sheltered, weak man from the elite class who has money, institutional power and connections to protect himself.

Fuck I hate these people. Selfish, egotistical, sheltered cunts.

[from @disclosetv on Twitter]

MGS4 finally getting ports in Master Collection Vol2!

Which is great. But, *how* bad will it be? :/

It'll be worthwhile on PC, because a mediocre port can be fixed. But it's gonna be an awful port.

Local ones,
> Gemma is pretty good.
> Llama 3/4 good for local.
> GLM 4.7 is great, but can't run on 16GB laptops which 👎
> Minstrel heard was good, but haven't tried.

To do this - Ollama or LM Studio. Can run these things ON your machine, completely/mostly private.

Cloud ones,

> Grok is the best right now imo.
> Gemini is great as well.
> z.ai (glm4.x) seems alright.
> ChatGPT nah probably, because I don't like OpenAI or Sam Altman.
>Meta's AI is a waste of time, not competitive.

After experimenting with Gen AI, adding it to the list of things to use in my life, I think.

It's not the ultra-miracle tool the tech industry wants to hype it as. But for specific things, questions or collecting info in a concise way especially, I've found it really helpful.

Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come.

This speaks for itself.

This WILL happen to you, should you give in to a service asking for personally identifiable info.

Unless you have no choice, DON'T do it.

arstechnica.com/security/202...

"What about children!"

What about their fucking parents supposed to fucking parent their fucking kids?

The internet isn't going to be sanitized because parents are too lazy to do their job. Watch what your kid does on the fucking computer\phone you gave them. Retard.

@discord.com

Kiss my pale-white ass*, @discord.com

No.

*I'm ginger lol, I can say that.

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But also, saw this on the birdsite x.com/DynamoSuperX...

idk if this is accurate, but possible it's AdHoc censoring Dispach on Switch themselves rather than Nintendo.

If so, 1) wtaf why adults own Switch too and 2) would make more sense considering Nintendo's current content policy.

Do not buy Dispatch on Switch or Switch 2. Censored port.

The system requirements are reasonable by 2026 standards, it may well run on your laptop! store.steampowered.com/app/2592160/...

Still intend to dual boot, but Zara is one of those so... I guess I did lol.

Never surrender, never submit. ;)

Short version,

You want Linux? Linux Mint is great lol.

I need to get cracking on the world of Linux I feel, because Microsoft are going further and further off the deep end.

I need (the world needs) an exit strategy.

I might try OpenMandriva now. Shrug.

Keep in mind - seriously Linux novice. I do not know what I am doing lol.