Despair

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[–] Despair@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Ai generated trailer, the face around ~2:10 is pretty bad.

AI Generated Content Disclosure
The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

During the development and live service of the game, AI-based tools may be utilized to support in game visual content creation, marketing materials, live chat translation features, and partial in-game dialogue and script localization. In all such cases and regardless of the workflow, the final product is a reflection of our own development team's creativity and artistic expression.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3767660/Embers_of_the_Uncrowned/

[–] Despair@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It was more so a comment that they could have used a connector for the ram to make it user serviceable, instead of soldered on, and I combined it with a sentence that the storage should be user serviceable and upgradable instead of making my earlier comment overly explicit/wordy. The quote I took from ifixit right above even says that the mobile chip is why it was limited to 8 GB of RAM.

Some changes would have to the layout be made to accommodate fitting a physical stick instead of just the soldered modules, but there's CAD software that plots traces, so that really shouldn't be an issue.

[–] Despair@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

All it takes is putting a SODIMM socket into the device instead of soldering in the RAM, making it possible to salvage the device if the RAM begins to fail. It's a basic laptop, meant for browsing/writing documents, I can't really see anyone swapping in 16 gb of ram to a device like this, and seeing any performance uplift.

[–] Despair@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-repairable-macbook-in-14-years

The laptop is built on an A18 Pro, a mobile chip first seen in the iPhone 16 Pro, which limits the machine to 8 GB of RAM. Storage comes in 256 or 512 GB, and whichever one you buy is the one you keep.

https://www.canadacomputers.com/en/search?s=sodimm&filter%5BmemoryType_uFilter%5D=DDR5%2CDDR4&order=product.price.asc
They could have easily made the RAM and Storage user serviceable/upgradeable, and from what I can find, they don't provide a way for the enduser to expand storage with a secondary SSD/HDD either, so you're either forced to carry around an external hard drive for a product that is meant to be portable, or use cloud storage where you might not always have reliable access to the internet/data caps.

Anecdotal, but the only component that has ever failed on me is a hard drive, if that happened to me on the new mac book, it would be e-waste.

[–] Despair@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

There are lots of reasons for for wanting to delete comments without wanting to delete any replies.

For example in this comment, I bring up the use of macros as a solution to fix a mouse issue. If someone brought up a point that this software was against the games TOS, I would want my comment removed as fast as possible because I view my comment as potentially harmful (and from context, it would have been obvious what the deleted comment would have contained). If there were other replies giving advice on how to solder (one of the other solutions I give), I would want those replies to remain visible to anyone else viewing the post. Some people, like me, might not have been aware that deleting a comment would remove all other replies, I've never seen a warning message that this would happen when deleting something.

Deleting the comment on mobile instead of editing out bad information is also a lot more likely because it's a "one button fix", and a lot more convenient than trying to edit the post (some apps don't render markdown correctly, and may not display strikethrough text). With the above example, quicky deleting my comment would have been an appropriate way to remove harmful advice, and a reply warning about the use of macros and advice on how to solder would still be helpful without the context of the original comment they were replying to.