Cursed.

Disney uses the hell out of Unreal Engine tho, they used it extensively for the filming of The Mandalorian.

I wish they’d go bankrupt but they will be fine off of Unreal royalties alone.

Why do you think she fucking fought it so hard? She knows where the bodies are buried from her time in Florida.

She’s a woman, she will be one of the few to take a fall.

It’s from a fake website from a fake news channel that was actually a UHF channel that closed shop 50 years ago

https://wkna49.com/news/technology-companies-face-scrutiny-over-data-accuracy-following-jd-vance-tragedy

I’ve generally heard 26.04 isn’t doing too hot right now, and I always thought there wasn’t an officially supported upgrade path until things are more stable in the new release, but maybe that’s Ubuntu proper and not Kubuntu.

I haven’t gotten a notice to upgrade, however. Also on Kubuntu 24.04.

Did you upgrade or is it a new install?

I thought upgrades weren’t officially available until August.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judiciary-hike-pacer-fees-fund-accelerated-system-upgrade-2026-06-26/

I have link shorteners blocked in my PiHole, this is for anyone else who does the same.

We gotta make sure to vilify anyone who “desecrates the sanctity” of the nuclear family or some dumb fucking shit.

Christ American news sources are trash.

“I don’t know how much we can do about it, but so help me God, if there is any way to press civil or criminal charges over this, we will,” he wrote on Substack. “Not just for our own sakes but to draw a line that I thought everyone already recognized: do not mess with someone’s kids.”

I mean… the people who do this literally support pedophiles and are often the same themselves. So “messing with someone’s kids” is like the fucking norm for these freaks.

Yeah unfortunately it does not have the same recommendation engine, just listening stats. I haven’t looked for a recommendation engine because I hadn’t thought about it. I’ll look to see if there’s anything like that now.

EDIT: I always forget about ListenBrainz. Not self-hosted, but definitely a good last.fm alternative that includes artist recommendations.

https://listenbrainz.org/

You can also buy music directly from artists on Bandcamp Fridays where they still get 100% of the sale going to the artists. I was afraid that would stop when it got sold but it’s not dead yet.

Also, another option is to have a locally hosted Jellyfin or Plex (ha) server and stream to yourself. My music collection is over 600GB so there’s not many phones that can hold it all.

I also self-host a music scrobbling service with Maloja and Multi-Scrobbler docker containers so I can get similar types of stats as last.fm while also having more privacy. I was able to import my stats from last.fm to it as well.

I mean, that part I understand, which is why I either download and keep installers if I can (GOG) or I pirate and store installers (usually also GOG copies). Despite being poor, I have that luxury of hard drive space for these installers.

I guess my point is, I do own those files, I am in control of them, they are mine, there is either no DRM to begin with or the DRM has been stripped.

I still consider that to be ownership on physical media that cannot be taken from me. Discs and hard drives both degrade over time, so either way, they must eventually be moved to a new medium of storage, which is always another type of physical media.

I think the conversation around physical media needs to change and people need to be doing a lot more buying from GOG and keeping torrents of those installers alive so we have a “public cloud” of game installers.

But I mean, I don’t know how to help people on consoles. That’s buying into a closed ecosystem to begin with, it comes with the territory.

Literally all of them because there is no way for a game to exist without physical media. If it’s on your SSD/HDD, it’s on physical media. If it’s in “the cloud” it’s in someone else’s SSD/HDD. It’s always on physical media, just not a nice little disk in a box.

Okay, let’s get down to brass tacks here…

Unless you’re paying for some kind of “streaming” video game service, the game lives on your solid state drive/hard drive… which is physical media.

The license is what allows you to re-download and re-install it over and over.

This isn’t a death of physical media, because even the streaming video game services are storing the copies of video games they stream to you on hard drives and solid state drives. The physical media doesn’t disappear, but rather corporations are using technology to force you to use it how the company wants you to use it, and the bonus to those companies of the increased price of gaming hardware. Now we will have a difficult time owning our own physical media because it has become so costly.

Just because you don’t have enough physical media space to install every game you’ve ever bought doesn’t mean they aren’t all living on a hard drive or old cd/dvd-rom SOMEWHERE. The “cloud” isn’t actually ephemeral. Surprise, it’s just a bunch of other people’s computers.

Which is what these corporations want, they want to be in full control of who gets access and when, because you’re on their property on their hard drives. There is no profit for the game companies in people like us having enough physical media space to keep data forever.

Well the good news is broadcast networks are dying and the Republicans don’t want the FCC to have jurisdiction over the internet (they killed net neutrality under the argument the FCC doesn’t have a right to regulate it), so this will mean fuck-all to places like Netflix or HBO and most folks watch stuff on streaming services these days anyway.

Also does this mean any sci-fi shows with alien races who don’t have genders will have warnings? Like it’s just fucking asinine.

LLMs have poisoned the word “AI” and reduced it to just mean… LLMs… despite all the other types of AI there are.

It just read “Who killed Tommy’s boy?”

It’s still $199 for me, which is the price I remember it being for a few years now but maybe I am wrong.

This is why I want one of these little motherfuckers so god damned badly.

I’m so glad that none of it’s components have been hit hard by the AI tech market disaster, price point still the same so far. (crossing fingers for it to stay the same)

“No shit, Sherlock,” Snot Flickerman says.

(Not disparaging the researches but rather NYT who should be ashamed of framing this as though climate change isn’t affecting literally everything including over the top heatwaves. Fucking dogshit rag. Everyone with a fucking BRAIN in their skull, not just fucking researchers, could tell you this without needing to do research. The fact that it’s presented like this in the news is WHY we have to keep doing research to keep proving it to chucklefucks who will keep acting like it’s a question to be answered and not one that was answered in the 1970s and then hidden.)