• letsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    60 minutes ago

    So tempting to name a country that rhymes with Erika. But I won’t.

  • renzev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    303·
    10 hours ago

    I’m gonna get downvoted for this but… gaming consoles.

    Gaming consoles made sense back in the day before home computing took off, and for a while they actually had superior hardware than computers when it came specifically to running games. But nowadays gaming consoles are just locked down user-hostile computers with a subscription service attached. The gaming equivalent of inkjet printers. It’s an industry made irrelevant by advancements in technology, propped up by misleading marketing and artificial hype that sadly many people fall for.

    • TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      There is value in static hardware so you can perform specific optimizations and target framerate. The subscriptions are 100% bullshit though.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      3·
      7 hours ago

      You’re not wrong. There definitely used to be a difference back when consoles would get way better support and PC ports were terrible.

      Sound On / Off

      – The entire options menu of a PC port in like 2006.

      But nowadays I struggle to understand the point of getting one of those big chonky tower consoles like whatever the latest Xbox or PlayStation is. (PlayStation even selling entirely new consoles for a simple graphics/RAM upgrade, smh).

      At least the Switch’s portability made sense.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 hours ago

      The old consoles also were just plug the game in and boot up.

      No Hassle.

      Now they sounds like Windows boxes.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        2·
        7 hours ago

        I LOVED how the original X-Box had an “desktop” in it. Unfortunately that’s gone way too far anymore.

        Nowadays I find these interfaces so overly complicated and fiddly that it makes the UX of an N64 far superior.

        I pretty much went PC-only after the xbox 360 though, when ports finally started getting good. :)

      • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
        6·
        11 hours ago

        Yep, but it exists because of the existence of these districts in the first place. Which weren’t put there because the founders figured the populus was particularly bright.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
    33·
    10 minutes ago

    Facebook. (When Zuck was asked how he amassed so much personal information about people, he famously answered: “They ‘trust me.’ Dumb f*cks.”) Growing up, we were told it was foolish to post personally identifying information to the Internet, then the generation that told us that flocked to facebook.

    Credit scores. (Less the concept, namely the fact that they’re used so extensively to judge people based on arbitrary rules. It’s stupid that the companies behind them are still operating after major breaches involving more information than they should have had in the first place. The average person seems too dumb to care what happens with their personal information, sadly.)

    Services like “Grammarly”. Some folks noted below that there are some legitimate use cases as an accessibility tool, but the service itself seems to target the English-native people “Oh whatever you know what I meant” crowd, to help them sound smart in emails.

    And all this other Ai stuff that seems to market itself on the premise that the user is a complete moron who needs to escape the consequences of their ineptitude.

    Almost every Ai commercial features someone using Ai tools to quickly cover up the fact that they forgot their partner’s birthday, or quickly cobble together some work memo because they were sleeping or something. (Okay that last one can be kinda based amirite lol.)

    Edit: Explanations added because I’m fine being disagreed with but maybe I didn’t communicate very well lol.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        1·
        7 minutes ago

        This sounds interesting and I actually haven’t heard of it being used for this before.

        What about dyslexia-friendly typefaces though? Would that be more practical?🤔

        I’ll be honest a lot of my opinion of the service comes from being spammed ads featuring a targetted customer that’s just too lazy to be hassled with the burden of learning decent communication, and has money to spend lol.