irate944

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[–] irate944@piefed.social 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

My company forced us to use only Chrome on our PC's and one of the things I was worried about was the ads. I put youtube in the background while I work.

And I was surprised by how...... My experience was exactly the same as Firefox and Brave. Ok, actually, one or two ads managed to slip through and appeared in the front page - albeit rarely and randomly - but I never got those ads at the beginning of the video. On other websites, I never got ads.

I was wondering, then, if there was some catch. Maybe the trackers would still get through or something. But according to that link, not even that? lol

[–] irate944@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would love to read an independent study on this, but this is from Anthropic (the guys that make Claude) so it's definitely biased.

Speaking for myself, I've been using LLM's to help out with jumps in small gaps of knowledge. Like for example, I know what I need to do, I just don't know/remember the specific functions or libraries that I need to do that in Python. LLM is extremely useful for these moments; and it's faster than searching and asking on forums. And to be transparent, I did learn a few tricks here and there.

But if someone lets the LLM do most of the work - like vibe coders - I doubt they will learn anything.

[–] irate944@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

but they’re easily outnumbered by the console market

I don't think this is the case nowadays. I remember reading an article that PC market was outselling the console market.

But yes, the mobile market is a giant

edit: found it: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/new-report-says-pc-games-are-outselling-console-games-calling-pc-gaming-a-bright-spot-in-a-troubled-industry/

PC's consumer spending in 2024 was ~$30B, while consoles was $18B (including the Switch)

[–] irate944@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Anyone managed to download the report? Here it just says "form submitted" and then nothing happens. No emails no nothing.

[–] irate944@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

I’m having a hard time understanding where this is coming from.

Vista was hated for a lot of reasons, but visual design wasn’t one of them. If anything it was one of the few things it got right, and why Windows 7 built upon it.

[–] irate944@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Even on land. I’ve seen what lions do when they take over a pride