Mereo
Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source software.
I switched from: https://lemmy.ca/u/Mereo
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Games@lemmy.world•Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi ArabiaEnglish
3·8 days agoBut everyone was hoping the next Mass Effect game would return to its sources, not continue the “My face is tired” series. But I was hoping too much.
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Games@lemmy.world•Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi ArabiaEnglish
2·8 days agoThey should be in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Save.
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Games@lemmy.world•Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi ArabiaEnglish
7·8 days agoThat’s what I’m worried about. I played the Mass Effect Trilogy several times and they’re my all times favourite.
But this Saudi Arabia deal is not good for the industry because as we know, Saudi Arabia is a very conservative muslim country and it will destroy the creative process.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Scammers Are Cloning OnlyFans Creators With AI Telling Fans a Kid Is Sick in the Hospital Then Vanishing With the Cashapp MoneyEnglish
31·9 days agoI hope you will have better standards soon.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Scammers Are Cloning OnlyFans Creators With AI Telling Fans a Kid Is Sick in the Hospital Then Vanishing With the Cashapp MoneyEnglish
72·9 days ago!sanitation@lemmy.today, I notice that you post a lot of garbage like this post.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Chinese CXMT to Match Micron's DRAM Manufacturing Capacity This YearEnglish
92·10 days agoWatch how quickly the US government will try to ban them in the name of security. They’ll claim that they transmit RAM data to the Chinese government 😛.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed CodeEnglish
86·16 days agoIn my opinion, I just don’t understand permissive licenses. For example, with FreeBSD’s license, companies can essentially “steal” the hard-earned efforts and use them to enrich themselves. For example, FreeBSD could have been a gaming OS, as the PlayStation’s OS is FreeBSD. However, they didn’t give anything back to the community.
Copyleft licenses, on the other hand, require companies to contribute any changes they make to the code back to the community so that it benefits the community as a whole. In this case, there’s no “stealing”, companies need to respect the community’s efforts by giving back.
That’s my two cents anyway.
Mereo@piefed.caOPto
Games@lemmy.world•Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the CompanyEnglish
8·17 days agoIn my opinion, only PC and Linux matter. We desperately need Linux to succeed because it’s a community project. Yes, companies contribute to it, but it’s still a community project with no for-profit objective.
For many in the open-source community, contributing is an affair of love, not a way to enrich shareholders. We need this ecosystem to compete with console companies and Microsoft in the PC market.
Mereo@piefed.caOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Big Companies Are Starting to Hire Again, Defying Predictions of AI WipeoutEnglish
31·18 days agoIn my opinion, AI is here to stay. But OpenAI and Anthropic will suffer because companies realized that don’t need a Ferarri all the time, they can do with a Honda (Chinese open-source models) 90% of the time.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employeesEnglish
643·19 days agoChinese open-source models are becoming the norm. You don’t need the latest model from ChatGPT (e.g., a Ferrari) to complete your task. A simple Honda will suffice (open-source models), and it uses a lot less energy since it runs on your home or company’s infrastructure.
Because of that, I predict that we’re going to see a lot of financial hardship among AI companies.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•PSA: the bitwarden clients got an upgrade that makes them incompatible with vaultwardenEnglish
13·20 days agoThank you for the PSA good friend!
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•New Jersey bans grocery stores from using shoppers' personal data to set pricesEnglish
20·20 days agoAnd the fact that it is a debate tell you everything about the state of the world today… sigh
Mereo@piefed.cato
PC Master Race@lemmy.world•Framework nearly doubles Laptop 13 Pro memory prices overnight after suppliers demand more than twice as muchEnglish
341·21 days agoI feel for Framework. They’re not a big company like Apple with any sway. Even Apple had to raise its prices, which speaks to the state of the market.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[AIP] 🎉 Dreeve v5.0.0 released (formerly Statistics for Strava). No more Strava or any 3rd party dependencies.English
33·21 days agoWe should care, vibe coded projects are not maintainable.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosted photo options for the family?English
2·23 days agoI didn’t give them their own accounts but you can if you want to.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosted photo options for the family?English
3·23 days agoIt does. My Immich installation is behind a reverse proxy, and I simply share the link to the albums with friends and family.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200English
143·26 days agoThis article ISN’T AI slop.
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Technology@lemmy.world•New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is targeting deceptive AI-made apartment listingsEnglish
27·28 days agoWhen politicians are not beholden to lobbyists, they are truly serving the people because they have no conflicts of interest.
Mereo@piefed.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•SpaceX stock sinks below $135 IPO price for the first time(70% off from its peak); SpaceX has lost more than $800 billion in market value from its closing high seen a month agoEnglish
3·29 days agoWealthsimple Canada advertised that clients could buy shares at IPO prices, but they couldn’t sell their shares right away. Why would I do that?!?













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