When someone carelessly throws their trash on the ground, that says a huge amount about their respect for other people, their feelings about the environment, and even their views on social equality.
It's a tiny thing, but an immediate dealbreaker.
People who throw their trash on the ground are the same people who yell and get mad at minimum-wage staff, while those staff hold back tears. They are the people who take more food at a buffet restaurant than they could ever even eat. They are the people who think the world and everyone in it owes them whatever they want, but without ever giving anything back.
I bet we all know a person whose car looks like a scary biohazard of old drive-through cups they haven't cleaned yet, but I'd much rather date that person than someone who throws it all out the window.
On one hand it's entirely normal to target merchandise sales to the stores where that merchandise sells well, but in the case of pride, it sends a really clear message.
Target are basically saying they will 'support' queer pride, but only in liberal communities where support is already strong.
It's places where queer pride is WEAK that need a show of support, not where it's already strong!
The clear message is that as expected, this isn't truly about Pride at all, it's about money, and Target will happily allow homophobia to reign victorious in places where standing against it would hit their bottom line.
The new ARM-based macs are actually very powerful, but as another commenter mentioned, the ARM architecture would normally be a bad fit for gaming as not much runs on it.
That said, there are ways around it.
I'm personally gaming on an M2 Macbook Pro, and am able to play almost my full Steam library of Windows games using a tool called Whisky
Whisky uses Wine (a longstanding Windows emulator commonly used on Linux) along with other toolkits to translate DirectX graphics instructions into Mac-native 'Metal' graphics instructions. There is a performance hit in doing this, but the end result is actually pretty good.
The result you get will depend on your hardware. I'm personally running a high-end M2 Max configuration and get 50 FPS on high settings in Deep Rock Galactic (a first-person shoooter game) but lower configurations would be okay for casual gaming.
There is another product that does the same thing as Whisky called Crossover. It is paid (unlike Whisky which is free) but is otherwise similar. You can watch this YouTube video on Crossover to get some idea on how it works, how to set it up, and the performance you might expect.
As for Minecraft, I personally play that too, and it actually runs natively on the new Apple Silicon macs anyway and doesn't need anything special :)
I live in Europe but sometimes shop at Asian supermarkets here. One of the things I notice with almost everything I buy there is that plastic packaging feels a lot thicker than that on European products. Is there a rational reason for this? Are plastics simply cheaper? Or do people worry more that products might spoil? Are these...
I've previously lived in Japan and there is always so much wrapping!
A large amount of packaging creates a perception of quality, as if a lot of care has been taken in the product, and culturally that sells well.
Kinda ironic as another thing you see everywhere in Japan is 'eco' this and 'green' that, they are very big on the perception of "saving the environment" and yet everything is covered in so much unnecessary plastic.
President Biden vowed Tuesday to rebuild Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after it collapsed into the water when a cargo ship rammed into it, echoing what some Maryland officials said earlier but adding that he expects the federal government to foot the bill....
Yes, but ascertaining liability and securing a payout is a process that may take many years of being dragged through the courts, if it is even successful at all.
The government making money available immediately does help get things going with less uncertainty about who can foot the bill.
I read about WhatsApp and how people can't part with Meta because of it, however no one on my continent uses it. Why is it so popular in the EU and other parts of the world?
From my own experience as someone living in the UK, probably two reasons, for those countries at least.
Early adoption of the iPhone in the US vs UK
Different price structures between US and UK
In the 2000s, most people who liked to message a lot in the UK (generally young people and teens) were on pay-as-you-go 'top up' plans where each individual message had a cost. SMS messages cost anything from 1 pence to 5 pence, and I remember on my plan, MMS (picture messages) cost a ridiculous 12 pence each! It was expensive. Most people (and especially younger people) had Android phones, and so as soon as a credible Internet-based messenger became popular, people flocked in droves to jump to it. It was WhatsApp in the UK which won that race, and it remains the de-facto messenger to this day.
Things were different in the US. The iPhone got a huge early foothold in sales, and iMessage became dominant simply by being first to market and gaining critical mass. It was also more common (versus the UK) for people to be on contract plans that had SMS and MMS included as part of the plan cost, so even for people who didn't have iPhones there was less financial incentive to dump those technologies, and SMS remained prevalent.
I first played Riven as a child, together with my mother on the family's first-ever PC, which was a Pentium 133 MHz with 16 megabytes of RAM and no Internet.
At one point we got totally stuck, and after days of fruitless wandering we were forced in desperation to call the premium-rate phone number that came on a leaflet in the box, just to get some hints on the solution.
Different times.
I played every Myst game since, and I'll probably play this too.
The one that stumped us wasn't even that! It was in a forest area where there is a 'dragon' statue and his mouth opens up to reveal a staircase to the upper level. And you do that by clicking something nearby, but the clickable area was really hidden and we just never found it.
Which was sometimes frustrating, but when they are funny and good bugs it's amazing they can't be patched out.
There's a reason so many speedruns on older consoles use the Japanese cartridges, because those versions came out first and have exploitable glitches which the western release later fixed.
Bugs at that time were almost never totally game-breaking either, fortunately. That could be a nightmare recall for the publisher, and so the final builds were tested more intensively than games now.
hardware seems solid, software is so old even SSL certificates are out of date. I downloaded the ISRG Root X1 certificate to update them and even then stock safari doesn't work with many webpages, including apple's....
Just FYI, asklemmy is intended for interesting and open-ended subjects of discussion, not for single-answer support problems like this, so I won't be surprised if this thread is deleted.
That said, I feel your machine should be compatible with opencore. Its running Yosemite 10.10 which meets the minimum.
When checking your model make sure you are looking in the right place - press cmd+space, type "system information" and go there. Should be an entry like "MacBookPro[number],[number]" - not the model number, but the device identifier.
I personally have an older Macbook pro which is running Linux, so that's also a decent option if you want to do it. Pop!_OS is a very mac-like distro that supports pretty much all mac hardware out of the box.
The article talks about factors like type of game and advancements in technology, but doesn't mention what is surely a big factor - the age of their audience.
My personal intuition is that 10 to 20 years is the sweet spot because those people who played the original as a teenager will now be in their 20s and 30s, where they have disposable income and plenty of desire to spend it on reliving those happy childhood memories.
If you wait too long for a remake, the market will shrink again because those original players will be more likely to have family, other commitments, and less time to game.
Just like with Bethesda games themselves, a trailer is absolutely zero indication of how good the show is really going to be.
With a good trailer you can cherry-pick the best parts and polish even a turd until it shines, but who knows if the show will actually have any real interest or narrative substance.
We'll simply have to wait and see - and try not to get our hopes up too high :)
No, I'm only saying that I've been disappointed enough times that I prefer to wait for the final product to make my decision, and I'll save the excitement for then.
As someone who now prefers digital, but grew up with mostly analog, I think I can understand what your teacher was trying to say, and it's really a difference in how the brain is interpreting time itself.
When your internal mental state of time is represented in numbers, then analog clocks feel awkward and clunky, because to use them you have to look at the clock, think "okay the big hand is here, the little hand is there, so that's 7:45. School starts at 8, so 15 mins to school". It's like having to translate through a foreign language and then back to your own.
For people who use analog clocks almost exclusively, as I did in childhood, then your concept of time actually begins to become directly correlated to the position of the hands themselves. Not the numbers the hands are pointing at, but the shape the hands make on the clock face. I think what your elementary teacher was trying to say is that the clock itself becomes a direct physical representation of the 'size' of time.
Someone whose brain is working like that looks at an analog clock and immediately thinks "It's quarter to school" - without any numbers being involved at all. In fact you could completely remove all numbers and markings from the clock face, and the physical comprehension of time would still function equally as well for that person.
So yeah, I understand why analog is bad for people who don't like it, but I think I see the appeal for people who do.
You're right to be fair, a lot of them do retain that shape for purely aesthetic reasons, but it's not a functional part of the light source any longer.
The most annoying thing is that carmakers didn't move to touchscreen-only because people want it, they're doing it because it saves them money to ditch physical controls.
"Hey the touchscreen is already here, may as well just put everything on it!"
Yeah how about don't. It's such a pain having to fumble for things like climate control that used to just be a knob.
Exactly. Touchscreen can be a positive because you get dynamic and contextual menus, and the sort of rich user interface that people expect from modern devices.
But for the most common functions, nothing beats the tactile muscle memory of physical controls that are always immediately present when you need them, and can use with your eyes still on the road.
Yeah. There are two kinds of 'want' to consider really - one being what sells cars, and the other being what people actually enjoy using.
Nice clean interiors with huge full-console touchscreens look modern and have that wow-factor that impresses in the showroom, and that's what matters as far as getting a purchase.
So yeah, you're right that people do want it, but only until they've had to live with it for a while.
I think because most buyers have never been in this position before, they aren't considering what the driving experience would be of not having those controls. They assume and trust that the manufacturers will make sensible design decisions and that the car will first and foremost function well and intuitively as a vehicle, because that's the whole point of a car, right?
We have lived through many decades of car controls getting better and more intuitive all the time, so people would naturally assume the manufacturers know what they are doing. And then only now suddenly get slapped in the face by changes that make the experience actually worse for the driver.
Incognito mode is such a terrible choice of name for this feature, and Firefox's "private browsing" name is almost as bad.
To the average non-techie user, 'incognito' implies being anonymous. And when you go anonymous then nothing you do is linked to your real identity, right?
Wrong.
In real-world analogy terms, it's more like using a pen-name as an author. Members of the public might not know the person behind the mask, but your publisher (ISP) and your agent (Google) certainly do.
Pretty obvious why people would get the wrong idea.
As a developer, my primary use-case for incognito is a new session to test a site with clean state, or - in absolutely dire circumstances - to cheat at Wordle.
The most truthful thing to call it would be "Temporary Session" but that name requires an understanding of what a 'session' is, in terms of a container that scopes your locally-stored browsing data. It's immediately comprehensible to tech-types, but probably meaningless to the average user.
There's not really any name that can accurately and succinctly describe what Incognito or private browsing actually does in a way that a normal person will understand from the name alone, but Amnesia mode is a good suggestion at one!
I'm pretty sure that a lot of these virus and malware scanners began as normal and well-intentioned businesses, and only later went bad.
I used to use Avast and AVG back in the day (like 10+ years ago) and they mostly just sat back and did what you'd expect, without being intrusive about it.
But of course the inevitable march of capitalism happens and they all start trying to make more and more money. Intimidating users with scare tactics. Aggressive pop-ups. Selling user data.
Wouldn't go near them these days with a shitty stick.
The answer is in the movie. When explaining the Matrix to Neo, Morpheus says: "There are fields, endless fields, where human beings are no longer born, we are grown."
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I wouldn't expect it's because there's a server call - I'm sure the developers are smart enough to have all the analytics and tracking be async in the background.
Instead it's likely because these days every aspect of the TV is implemented in software running on the TV's CPU. With pre-smart devices, changing inputs would just activate some discreet on-board electronics to switch the signal over with no latency. Now you have to wait for the processor to get around to it, and it's probably busy loading up a bunch of app launchers and other crap you don't need, and doing some fancy whoosh-in animations, all of which is just getting in the way of what you actually want.
The "x years of upgrades" model is okay when it's for an app, where you can just keep using it with the old feature set and no harm is done.
But Unraid isn't an app, it's a whole operating system.
With this new licensing model, over time we will see many people sticking with old versions because they dont want to pay to renew - and then what happens when critical security vulnerabilities are found?
The question was already asked on the Unraid forum thread, and the answer from them on whether they would provide security updates for non-latest versions was basically "we don't know" - due to how much effort they would need to spend to individually fix all those old versions, and the team size it would require.
It's going to be a nightmare.
Any user who cares about good security practice is effectively going to be forced to pay to renew, because the alternative will be to leave yourself potentially vulnerable.
Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount | Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions::Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions
From a technical perspective then absolutely, systems should be built with sufficient safeguards in place that makes mis-selling or providing misinformation as close to impossible as it can be.
But accepting that things will sometimes go wrong, this is more a discussion of determining who is in the right when they do.
My primary interest is in the moral perspective - and also legal, assuming that the law should follow what is morally correct (though sadly it sometimes does not).
With that out of the way, then yes, if a human agent said "sure fuck it I'll give it you for $1" then yes I would expect that to be honoured, because a human agent was involved and that gives the interaction the full support and faith of the company, from the customer perspective. The very crucial part here, morally, is that the customer has solid grounds to believe this is a genuine offer made by the company in good faith.
A chatbot may be a representative of the company, but it is still a technical system, and it can still produce errors like any other. Where my personal opinion comes down on this is interpretation of intent.
Convincing a chatbot to sell you something for $1 when you know that's an impossible deal is no different morally than trying to check out with that $3 TV in your basket that you equally know is a pricing mistake
It is rarely ever purely black-and-white from a moral perspective, and the deciding factor is, back to my previous point, is whether the customer reasonably knows they are taking an impossible deal due to a technical issue.
In summary:
The customer knows they are ripping off the company due to an error = should be in the company's favour
The customer believes they are being made a genuine offer = should be in the customer's favour (even if it was a mistake)
I think that's probably all I can say.
And oh, just for the record I wish we could put AI back in the box and never have invented any of this bullshit because it's absolutely destroying society and people's livelihoods and doing nothing except make the 1% richer - but that is again a separate point.
Apologies if my comments appeared to be moving the goalposts. I am not trying to talk about morality in a wider sense. If I was, this would be a whole different argument because I believe that corporations are generally unethical as all hell, and consumers are usually within their moral right to exploit them as hard as possible, because that barely even scratches how badly companies exploit their customers or damage wider society. But this is - as you point out - not about that.
The aspect of morality I was interested in from the perspective of defining law is the very restricted aspect of whether the customer is acting in bad faith, knowing that they are getting a too-good-to-be-true deal, or whether they believe the offer made is legitimate.
You ask what makes a human customer service representative so special, in comparison to a bot, and my answer there is simply that they are human
Remember that my argument here, and the deciding factor, is specifically about whether or not the customer believes the price they are being offered is genuine.
Humans agents are special in that regard because they have a huge amount of credibility in reassuring and confirming with the other person that the offer is genuine and not a mistake. They strongly reinforce the belief of an offer being legitimate.
The law itself already (at least in the UK) distinguishes between prices presented (e.g. on a web page or the price on a shelf sticker) and direct agreements made with a person, recognising that mistakes are possible and giving the human ultimate authority.
Really, this entire argument comes down to answering this: Should information given by a chatbot be considered to have the same authority and weight as information given by a person?
My personal argument has been: "Yes, if it reasonably appears to the recipient as genuine, but no if the recipient might have probable cause to suspect it is a mistake, knowing the information was provided by a computer system and that mistakes are possible."
For most people in this thread however, it seems (based on my downvotes) their feeling has been "Yes, it has the same authority always and absolutely"
I can accept that I'm very much outvoted on this one, but I hope you can appreciate my arguments.
I agree that's 100% what happened in this specific case. The customer had absolutely no reason to suspect the information they were given was bad, and the airline should have honoured the deal.
A top-level comment on the post was also mine, by the way, in which I expressed the same and said "Shame on Air Canada for even fighting it."
Air Canada were completely and utterly wrong in this case - but I haven't been talking about this case! At least, I wasn't intending to!
If it seemed that way I can understand now why people were so vehemently against me.
My comments in this chain have all actually been trying to discuss how to determine, in the general case, which party is "in the right" when things like this happen.
There are cases like this Air Canada one where the customer is obviously right. We can also imagine hypothetical cases where I personally believe the customer would be in the wrong - for example if the customer intentionally exploited a flaw in the system to game a $1 flight - which is again obviously not what happened here, it's just an example for the sake of argument.
My fundamental point at the start of this comment chain was that I don't actually think we need any new mechanisms to work this out, because the existing mechanisms we already have in place to determine who is right between a company and a customer all still apply and work exactly the same regardless of whether it is AI or not AI.
And that mechanism is, fundamentally, that the customer should generally be considered right as long as they have acted in good faith.
That's why I'm very pleased with the ruling that Air Canada were wrong here and they cannot dodge their responsibilities by blaming the AI.
I'm honestly glad I can put the stress of this days-long comment chain behind me, since it seems we weren't even arguing about the same thing this whole time!
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