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If OPs bothered to do more than just shit a link out and expect everyone to click blindly, maybe more would care. Even a tiny bit of effort would be appreciated. Especially from the bots.

A couple of the apps were even made by reddit app devs that abandoned the platform. So some of the lemmy/piefed apps are literally those remade.

So why doesn’t he have a second reasonable vehicle for when he doesn’t need the truck to haul the trailer?

Getting a second car as a daily driver is 100% going to be cheaper than paying for gas in a truck not being used to haul anything. Trailers aren’t cheap either unless they’re rust buckets. And if he’s got a pavement princess truck… I doubt his trailers are rusting apart.

This is lemmy where truck drivers are despised, hateful MAGA fucks.

It’s not in any way related to MAGA, it’s because so many truck owners don’t use them for anything you need a truck for 99% of the time. They’re driven by millions of people as a daily commuter vehicle, with the excuse of needing to move something occasionally, which could be handled by a rental. Then there’s the shitty fuel economy and increased pollution from it, and needlessly massive designs now that are a hazard to pedestrians and other vehicles.

There are real uses, and a ton of truck owners use them for what they’re designed for. Especially for small businesses. But you can’t deny there are a large number of pavement princesses and truck owners that are just overcompensating.

Bioware management doesn’t get a pass for mismanagement of Anthem development just because EA is involved. EA bought Bioware in October 2007.

In that time before Anthem they released:
Mass Effect - 2007
Dragon Age: Origins - 2009
Mass Effect 2 - 2010
Dragon Age II - 2011
Star Wars: The Old Republic - 2011
Mass Effect 3 - 2012
Dragon Age: Inquisition - 2014
Mass Effect: Andromeda - 2017

Are you trying to claim that EA didn’t interfere until we got to Anthem? Or even that it didn’t interfere until the last few years before? Because that doesn’t seem likely. If they were going to, they would have from the beginning.

It’s still a developer management lack of decision making. They don’t get off scot free because they don’t want to make a decision that EA might not like. The result of that… was a piece of shit EA didn’t like. That’s still on the developer.

Unless EA is telling them to change something, decisions are still on them. Like EA saying the demo is terrible and developer management deciding to add flying back in to try and fix. That comes from an EA decision/request rather than the developer being indecisive.

Are you trying to separate the Bioware team between developers and management, and lumping Bioware mangement into the EA side? Because that’s not the discussion here. Bioware management being indecisive is still a developer issue, not an EA issue.

Why were they not allowed to take it back to the design board when the design fundamentally changed?

I feel like they were, effectively. There is no reason for them to not reuse assets they created from before flying was added back in after X-mas 2016, that was still 2 years before launch. 2 years is enough to develop a game, especially if the assets already exist.

That’s where the other development issues at the studio come in.

The most common anecdote relayed to me by current and former BioWare employees was this: A group of developers are in a meeting. They’re debating some creative decision, like the mechanics of flying or the lore behind the Scar alien race. Some people disagree on the fundamentals. And then, rather than someone stepping up and making a decision about how to proceed, the meeting would end with no real verdict, leaving everything in flux. “That would just happen over and over,” said one Anthem developer. “Stuff would take a year or two to figure out because no one really wanted to make a call on it.”

That’s not a publisher/owner issue, that’s a developer issue.

IMO, it’s nigh equally likely that they started with the verticality design as part of it and didn’t have the time to cook the idea into something neat, vs it being a later mandate after some core designs had development.

Well it’s a good thing that we have commentary directly related to this then, alongside basically ever major development decision… Because that’s apparently what happened…

https://kotaku.com/how-biowares-anthem-went-wrong-1833731964

As development progressed, it became clear that some of the Anthem team’s original ideas either wouldn’t work or weren’t quite solidified enough to be implemented. Take traversal, for example. The mandate was that Anthem’s world would be massive and seamless, but how would you get around? The team played around with prototypes, exploring different ways in which your exosuit could move vertically across the world. For a long time they thought it’d be climbing up the sides of mountains and ledges, but they couldn’t get that quite right. Early iterations of flying—which, developers say, was removed from and re-added to Anthem several times—were more like gliding, and members of the Anthem team say it was tough to get the system feeling all that fun. Every time they changed the traversal, it meant changing the world design accordingly, flattening and stretching terrain to accommodate the latest movement style.

The most common anecdote relayed to me by current and former BioWare employees was this: A group of developers are in a meeting. They’re debating some creative decision, like the mechanics of flying or the lore behind the Scar alien race. Some people disagree on the fundamentals. And then, rather than someone stepping up and making a decision about how to proceed, the meeting would end with no real verdict, leaving everything in flux. “That would just happen over and over,” said one Anthem developer. “Stuff would take a year or two to figure out because no one really wanted to make a call on it.”

Certainly sounds like the developers had no idea how to make the game.

One longstanding BioWare tradition is for their teams to build demos that the staff could all take home during Christmas break, and it was Anthem’s turn during Christmas of 2016. By this point, BioWare’s leadership had decided to remove flying from the game —they just couldn’t figure out how to make it feel good—so the Christmas build took place on flat terrain.

Around the same time, Electronic Arts executive Patrick Söderlund, to whom BioWare’s leadership reported, played the Anthem Christmas demo. According to three people familiar with what happened, he told BioWare that it was unacceptable.

Now it was time for a new build. “What began was six weeks of pretty significant crunch to do a demo specifically for Patrick Söderlund,” said one member of the team. They overhauled the art, knowing that the best way to impress Söderlund would be to make a demo that looked as pretty as possible. And, after some heated arguments, the Anthem team decided to put flying back in.

So they removed flight entirely by Christmas of 2016, that would mean the entire map design had to lose the verticality. If you can’t fly, then you have to flatten the world do accommodate for ground movement instead.

And it was an EA executive that got them to put flying back in as a focus, flying that the team had removed entirely by that point. Even if they weren’t specifically told to do so by EA. And then designed the entire game’s map and movement based around that flight by the launch just over 2 years later in Feb 2019.

They were clearly meant to fly in some way, even if it might’ve been in a Halo jetpack sort of way early on. (which has less evidence)

I love that you try to hedge your comment and try to say that jetpack jumps and gliding are somehow even remotely in the same ballpark as flying around like Iron Man. You’re honestly trying to say that Link or Aloy on a glider is similar to Anthem’s flight? That’s a ridiculous thing to try to compare as similar.

Are you looking at the same game? The world was vertical in the sense that you had to fly anywhere… but none of the combat or gameplay used it in any way beyond going from one place to another. That’s exactly what would happen if verticality and a new map was added later in development. They just put clearings in to place the flat missions.

IIRC there were numerous articles after launch talking about how it was EA that actually made them add the flying mechanics, easily the best part of the gameplay, after it got stuck in development limbo for years.

Whether that was truly accurate or not, it does fit the extended development timeline, the lackluster story in the end product, and the failure to revamp the game after launch like the developers very publicly said they were trying to do. If they couldn’t do it the first time, and couldn’t do it the second time… it seems they were the problem, not EA (for once).

Follow the money. Or investors in this case, as there’s no real money involved but lots of speculation of payoffs in the future.

There’s money on the Nvidia side, only because they make the hardware everyone is buying. They have an actual product. They’re then investing that money into propping up the companies that will fail, to then get more incoming revenue as those companies again increase their debt. That investment isn’t expected to actually increase in value in the end, at least not in the traditional sense. It’s intended as a short term instrument to make the bubble as large as possible now for profitability.

They’re not taking out massive loans to buy hardware and build datacenters with no revenue falling into debt so deep it reaches the center of the Earth. They’re not the ones that will be holding the bag at the end when it all comes crashing down. Their revenue will tank alongside the collapse of course, but they’re not in the negatives. They’re net positive about $350 Billion. The only other companies with them are AMD and the RAM manufacturers, again all hardware manufacturers with real products that can’t be easily replicated or replaced quickly and will still be necessary after the collapse even when production slows again.

One of only 3 companies related to AI that is actually making money. Because they make the hardware, not vaporware.

I looked at it earlier… and it seemed ot be just another media app. Decided to take a closer look since you’re so gung ho about it, and came to the same conclusion based on their website. Given what you’re saying about it, and the complete lack of any of those claims by the company… you’re the one not including relevant information.

The Nuvio website doesn’t mention bittorrent usage at all. In fact, it doesn’t mention acquiring media in any way. All of the advertising says the exact same thing that Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin all say.

Nuvio does not come with a catalogue. It plays the media you already have, and adds everything around it: the artwork, the numbers, the subtitles, and the memory of where you stopped.

That’s literally what all of these media apps do. They take your existing media and make it pretty anbd easily accessible across devices.

It plugs into what you already use.

Nuvio plays from your own media server or from the addons you install. Tracking, ratings, artwork and skip markers come from the services you already use.

Hmm seems to be advertising the app as something that i playing YOUR existing media, going going out to get new media you don’t have… except for that bit about addons. What you’re describing doesn’t seem to be native functionality of the app, but probably something provided by one of the add-ons they mention. Of which there is no apparent way to browse their addon library without installing the app, and I’m not going to do that just for a random discussion online with someone that is leaving out relevant information to try and make the claim something is better, when the app claims to do the exact same thing.

In fact, the subreddit, also seems to indicate that content acquisition isn’t in the scope of the app or community.

Nuvio welcomes community addons that provide metadata (TMDB, Trakt, Simkl), subtitles, and custom catalogs. However, discussions or addons that facilitate access to copyrighted content, stream scraping or debrid link troubleshooting are strictly prohibited on r/nuvio. Posts containing images of unauthorized streams or stream-scraping addons are subject to removal. Violations of these rules will be removed.

So you’re entire basis for proselytizing this app over the several other existing ones the community has already verified and ensured quality of for years… is an unsupported addon that the app’s own community denounces and could stop working at any point because it’s not officially supported in any way

You can keep your year old app that already seems to have a dozen other vibe-coded forks using the same name without anyone enforcing any sort of trademark. I’m sure there’s absolutely no astroturfing going on here at all for what seems to be a chinese clone. I’m sure the piracy community has gone through the entire source code with a fine-toothed comb to ensure there’s nothing hiding in the main apps or the community addons and that all code review is d=properly verifying quality and security. /s

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Ah yes, the better option is to… use a streaming service that works by downloading random bittorrents in a completely opaque manner you have little to no control over.

I don’t think you’re understanding what they’re trying to say.

You don’t need to use Grok/Claude/Copilot/Gemini/ChatGPT/etc. at all. Hugging Face currently lists 111,953 text-to-image and 2,893 text-to-video models available.

You can run an image or video generator model at home on your own hardware you currently have. This technology doesn’t require a $10k rig to run. The massive data centers are only necessary for the Software as a Service providers like ChatGPT to operate their systems as fast as possible to tens of thousands of users, with dozens of agents processing multiple steps and reasoning to accomplish a task. One person making one image doesn’t need much.

While the SaaS options definitely need to get better at detecting and blocking usage like CSAM… those services are by no means required. You can do this on any gaming system made in the last 5 years easily, and older if you’re willing to wait longer for the result.

Torvalds had spent 18 months running a broken version of his own fix for the page-cache reference-counting bottleneck, while other developers had encountered problems with their approaches.

The article mentions he had been working on solving the issue for 18 months already… so at least that long.

Is it an understanding failure, an unexpected interaction, or just an existing issue now exposed? A 23x performance increase could very well expose an existing race condition that systems weren’t fast enough to run into.

People make mistakes. Software bugs existing at all is proof of this. This is certainly not the first time a change Torvalds approved has an issue, and it won’t be the last.

There’s a reason code is reviewed, and there’s a reason people still go through after it is approved and verify. The process is working exactly as designed, the way it has for decades before AI coding.

Expecting absolute perfection is ridiculous, the anti-AI circlejerk acting like only AI fucks up just makes them look ridiculous. Any developer could have developed this fix, and there would be no article. Nothing in this issue is specific to AI usage and treating it like it is somehow special just undermines arguments against AI slop and vibe coding in general.

There’s zero benefit, and neither existed before 9/11

And nothing they do now would have stopped 9/11.

They also don’t have to do any product development on the design team, they can outsource all of that to the tech team instead.

Given the many people that send death threats to actors for the actions of the characters they portray… you might be underestimating the number of “stable” people on this planet.