Patch

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[–] Patch@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

FFIX is my favourite FF game (yeah, fight me on it), which means this news is either very good or very bad depending on how the remake ends up.

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In my limited experience experience, Gemini responds better with flat, emotionless prompts without any courteous language. Using polite phrasing seems more likely to prompt "I can't answer that sorry" responses, even to questions that it absolutely can answer (and will to a more terse prompt).

So I think my point is "it depends". LLMs aren't intelligent, they just produce strings based on their training data. What works better and what doesn't will be entirely dependent on the specific model.

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

trying to tell us that in a couple years we'll have a full-on AI film

To be fair, he never said it would be any good.

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We need a US Community on Revolt too not just Lemmy

Never heard of it before.

What's the elevator pitch?

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 9 points 3 months ago

"We don't like the proposed new Coke recipe, so we're switching to drinking raw undiluted sewage instead".

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's a direct quote from the company.

According to a statement sent to The Verge by Eddie Garcia on behalf of Nintendo, it says preorders will no longer begin on April 9th:

"Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged."

I'm also in Europe.

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Presumably the same tariffs will apply to PlayStations and Xboxes too (both made in China with components from Korea, and the former being a Japanese company).

Also, most PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones.

American gamers aren't going to be overwhelmed with cheaper choices.

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 8 points 3 months ago

They're definitely creatively stale, but they're also undeniably good at what they do. They have by far the best selling console of the last generation, and are the only console company to consistently post healthy profits on their operation.

Is it a bit naff that their next generation of games will almost certainly be yet another Zelda, yet another Mario, yet another Pokémon? Absolutely. But if their next Zelda game is yet another best-selling critically acclaimed success, who are we to say that they've got the wrong approach?

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago

Depends what you're after. I'm a Thunderbird user, but if user friendliness is the aim then Geary is quite good.

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu Touch is such a nice user experience. If it had an Android-tier app ecosystem it'd be a very nice daily driver.

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I guess it could have been four people ordering 2000 cars each on back order?

Or perhaps one person ordering 8000.

That person's name? Nole Ksum. You've not met him. He goes to a different school.

[–] Patch@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

There's also just no real incentive for them to do it. The number of devices running fully de-googled Android forks are miniscule in the grand scheme of things. Everyone running devices with non-standard Android but which still uses Google Play Services and the rest are just as valuable to Google as the ones running stock. And it suits Google to have the small ultra-privacy hobbyist market still running Android forks, even de-googled ones, rather than moving on to something else entirely.

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