MonkeMischief

I feel like the down-vote squad misunderstood you here.

I think I agree: If people made software they actually wanted , for human people , and less for the incentive of "easiest way to automate generation of dollarinos." I think we'd see a lot less sophistication and effort being put into such stupid things.

These things are made by the greedy, or by employees of the greedy. Not everyone working on this stuff is an exploited wagie, but also this nonsense-ware is where "market demand" currently is.

Ever since the Internet put on a suit and tie and everything became abou real-life money-sploitz, even malware is boring anymore.

New dangerous exploit? 99% chance it's just another twist on a crypto-miner or ransomware.

I can't think of a better response than this. Way to go. :)

I remember people discussing hardware and one of the best advice comments I've ever seen was:

"Turn off that little FPS counter and just enjoy the damn game."

People get so wrapped up in the hardware hobby they forget why they care in the first place, which would be fine if it wasn't just fuelled by hardware marketing to make everyone else feel like they're "missing out."

I've yet to actually play it, shame on me, but A Blind Legend took an interesting approach to being graphicsless!

Wow. Completely nailed it, unfortunately.

Do you also start to get weary of how they're always dead-on when it comes to pessimistic predictions? :(

Those were pretty cool. My dad had a single one in a hard plastic case, I want to say it was like 100 MB or something? I loved how chunky and solid it was.

I do feel like it'd be cool to have a storage medium that at least feels like that again. Like sliding a big hot-swappable SATA SSD into a slot and getting a satisfying "kaCHUNK" and a little busy light.

For one, I'm just happy to see a hardware stat that isn't rapidly and constantly enlarging for no other reason than being incrementally released to pressure constant sales.

I mean it's a small thing, but neat! I did wonder why cache sizes tended to stay small even between generations.

Something I was able to do with my old OnePlus 3 phone, was use it as a Linux USB. It was a pretty neat trick!

It was really convenient to just snag a work laptop and boot it into Puppy Linux (which lives entirely in RAM) to browse around and such without my job looking too closely and being creepy about it.

Right along with...

But seriously I'm still pissed about that one. Screw Adobe. So much.

I'd argue art is a communication medium. You can communicate minimally, or you can communicate with vast detail, both require skill.

Art museums are full of work that says nothing, but passed a few gatekeepers with clout keys or shock value.

Skilled rendering with nothing to say is as unimpressive as deep ideas communicated by random spatter. The viewer isn't getting anything from it, no matter how trendy their turtleneck is.

I take a bit of issue with this idea that "the amount of skill involved doesn't matter", because that's the exact logic used to say artists shouldn't be able to afford a living, or could be replaced by algorithms.

(And yet we easily spot and mock visually exciting Ai renderings for how soulless and empty they are.)

Yes, we've seen impressive high-skill ultra-real pencil renderings that, in the end could sadly be replaced by a photograph, because there was no interpretation involved.

And we've seen awards presented for sticking bananas on walls as a "critique of modern society."

Art is a skill. It's a hard skill, because it's not a solitary pursuit solely anchored in visual perfection. If nobody can understand or appreciate your point, it falls apart.

"This is how the world ends: Not with a bang, but with frivelously cast ironic votes because lols."

How I bet that call went:

"Agent Krasnov speaking, may I take your order?"