I think it’s related to this

If Lemmy had awards, you would deserve one

True that. But I often find that the search engine is not very good at giving me a solution if I don’t know the name of a problem and only have my spaghetti thoughts on what the thing is supposed to do, and translating spaghetti thoughts into something a search engine can find is where the chatbot excels.

Oh man, I love ChatGPT for one thing in particular: “Hey chatbot, is there some library or standard library function for that very specific, yet still kinda generic thing I’m trying to do, so that I don’t have to write it myself?”

It does frequently give a helpful answer. That is, it doesn’t give me working code, but a helpful pointer to some manual where I can find good instructions for how to use the thing to solve my problem.

Making a new browser is easy. They want to buy a near monopoly over the browser market, not a browser.

Never seen this thread before, but I’m playing Factorio right now. On next week’s thread, I will be playing Factorio as well. Same thing the week after. At this point it’s not really my choice to make anymore…

Pick password Unga. Monkey.

Bonelab with would you even know, don’t fence me in and turn around. Some of my favourite video game music moments.

Don’t believe it. This is easily too good to be true.

Counter-strike works, as do all valve titles. Overwatch, Splitgate and Titanfall work as well and so do most “non-real-time games”, like Trackmania. Riot’s games and Rainbow don’t work. Check protondb for the games that ate important to you.