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It's fine if they reduce the price accordingly.

If it's still the same price after they take the cable out, it was never about reducing waste to begin with.

Knowing Apple, that wouldn't surprise me in the slightest, which is why I never have and never will own any of their products.

I feel like you either fear and/or despise generative AI, or you think it's the best thing since sliced bread.

There seems to be very little in-between.

Car manufacturers have brilliantly managed to convince me never to buy a car made after ~2015.

Your opinion is posited as an absolute: "This is useless"

That's not even correct. I said "not all that useful" and then "next to useless". Never "absolutely useless".

The whole point of this feature is to provide something built into Steam that works without a whole bunch of fiddling like other recording software. It currently fails at that on Linux because the implementation of it is half-assed. That is my position. End of conversation.

I see this as a substitute for Shadowplay, which records your microphone if you enable it, which I previously used on Windows to record gameplay clips, but it doesn't exist on Linux.

Steam Game Recording can record your microphone on Windows, but they haven't bothered to make it work on Linux for whatever reason.

As currently implemented on Linux, it captures all system audio and cannot be configured to do anything otherwise, so if you're talking with friends on TeamSpeak, it'll only capture half of the fucking conversation. Making it next to useless.

I'm getting really annoyed that people are going out of their way to invalidate my opinion here.

It's an ideal that's only achievable when you're able to set your own priorities.

Managers and executives generally don't give two shits about yak shaving.

Tip #1: if you're gonna post your programming blog to social media, make sure it can handle the traffic...?

It's not as if voice actors and composers are expensive or hard to find.

If an artist uses AI in the creation of an otherwise original work, that's one thing. But replacing creative talent wholesale with the output of an AI is another thing entirely.

Make sure that the other person has a very easy way out of anything they might not like. Then you know they're enthusiastically consenting for whatever comes next.

Well yes, absolutely. Consent is paramount and enthusiastic consent is the best kind. Bad choice of hyperbole on my part, I'll admit.

But even so, if you're not conventionally attractive or charismatic, even just checking can result in getting treated like a creep. The people who constantly say "they worst they can say is no" have likely never gotten "eww, no" as a response before.

But if you have, especially more than once, you kinda just get used to assuming that's the default answer. That's kind of what I was getting at.

I'd rather just not have to guess.

From the article:

IolaCorp Studio consist of just five developers, although the impressiveness of the project is somewhat soured by their disclosure of AI-generated voice acting and music, so just something to be aware of going in.

Don't show them this, it'll shatter their reality