These are still pretty popular today. Maybe not this particular model, but talking watches are still used by many blind people.

It’s so lifelike!

Other than just making everything generally faster, what would be a use-case that really benefits the most from something like this? My first thought is something like high-speed cameras; some Phantom cameras can capture hundreds, even thousands of gigabytes of data per second, so I think this tech could probably find some great applications there.

Normies are only just now learning about it.

Huh, TIL. Thanks!

A Google Image search for eggplant seeds shows something much larger than what OP’s talking about.

Meta’s AI policy chief who voluntarily enlisted for the IDF in 2009 under a program which enables non-Israeli Jews who aren’t eligible for military conscription to join the Israeli army.

“There are much greater models [that we can skim a 30% fee from]”

Here’s my “Fuck BofA” story. A long time ago now, I was really tight on cash on a Friday and needed a few things before my next paycheck on Wednesday. I knew how much money I had in my account, and knew what I could afford, and what I couldn’t afford. I couldn’t afford the gas for my car if I bought my groceries and paid a few other bills, which meant that I would just overdraft the card for the gas. I’d be about $10 short of filling up the tank, so I was okay with paying the $35 overdraft fee for the gas, because I needed it to get to work. I did the math, and I’d be roughly -$50 when it was all said and done.

Come Monday, I find that I’m at -$500. I look at my account history, and I see that BofA reorganized all my transactions from the weekend, processing them from largest to smallest. So instead of ONE large purchase overdrafting my account and accruing a single overdraft fee, they hit me with like 6 overdraft fees because of all of the smaller, ~$5 purchases I had made that weekend.

I fought with them for months, telling them that I’d pay the single overdraft fee if they agree to charge me based on the timeline in which I actually made the purchases, but they refused to budge, and eventually closed down the account, and also blacklisted me from opening an account with any major bank again.

The next year, a law was passed that made it so they can’t do that anymore. But the law didn’t make them pay back anybody that they already fucked over.

If I had to guess, it’s probably to keep pricing parity across regions and avoid a clusterfuck of import loopholes.

For what it’s worth, the screen durability has gotten a lot better with recent phones. Some of the early models were way too easily damaged, but the current ones can withstand being treated like a normal phone.

That said, I still won’t buy one until the price comes down. I think it’s cool tech and I wouldn’t mind having it, but it’s nothing I need, especially not for the current prices.

It doesn’t read like AI to me at all. I think some people, especially here on Lemmy, are becoming increasingly paranoid lately and think everything they see is AI-generated. I saw a comment here a few days ago where somebody accused an article of being written by AI because the writer used a lot of em-dashes. Like, some dude out there is getting accused of being an AI just because he’s an English major. The amount of distrust in the most trivial of things these days is just wild.

Hon hon hon

~$3.50

Realistically, the gameplay loop doesn’t look too different from something like Helldivers 2; go into a mission, fight enemies on the way to an objective, complete the objective, return back to your escape point. Really, the only difference is inventory persistence, but Arrowhead manages to stuff a lot of story into that.

I don’t think it’s the most conducive medium for storytelling, but it’s far from impossible, if you ask me.

I really like the aesthetic, but the gameplay looks pretty much identical to every other extraction shooter I’ve seen. I feel like that’s such a niche genre that already has a lot of big contenders, so it just seems like a weird move for Bungie to invest so heavily into this genre without offering anything substantially different.

What makes you think this will be lacking in the lore department? Lore is what Bungie does.

I think $800m may be enough to place it as the biggest scam in gaming industry history.

The problem is that a live service game has to be a “complete” game, even at launch; ie. playing any one “season” on its own should be a satisfactory experience for a player. Star Citizen is nowhere near being a completed product.

That method isn’t without its own flaws.