You can’t get symmetrical 1Gbps residential connections, but I imagine the EE plans cost more than $500/m.

I’m on Leaptel 1000/400 for $166/m and it’s fantastic. Fingers crossed they offer the nbn multi gig speeds later this year.

It's crazy to me how different it is across the Tasman - in NZ you can get 2 or 4 Gbps symmetrical for $150-180/m NZD in major cities.

That’s right, we should continue to exploit workers instead because of vague contract terms that they “must work extra hours when required”. Workers should remember that the business is more important than their non contracted time.

The capitalism dream right?

I’d love to see a real improvement in games where the NPCs think further than a few if statements. If AI could track context of conversations and include player actions such as quests, relationships, deaths etc to influence decisions or outcomes it would add lots of enjoyment for me.

For me it’s either Stardew Valley or Paradox type games for my single player itch or in the past I’ve ventured off to MMORPGs like Eve or Wurm and play in “single player” mode.

MMORPGs have a greater sense of world change as players can carve mountains and build estates while slaying champions and such in Wurm online and you can stick to your plot of land and have nothing to do with it while enjoying the benefits. This doesn’t exist in single player games but it could and should.

Although I don’t agree AI will be taking jobs but it will just be another tool used in the industry. We need to embrace change and use these new tools to make better content and not just assume jobs will be lost.

> If AI could track context of conversations and include player actions such as quests, relationships, deaths etc to influence decisions or outcomes it would add lots of enjoyment for me.

From what people say about them Bethesda games try to do this, but it seems like the result is they're impossibly buggy because noone can test all of that.

Undertale is low tech, but does track player deaths and use them in the story.

Backblaze has been slowly releasing SSD stats, but their usage of HDDs dwarfs SSD usage, so it won’t be as useful.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-edition-2023-mid-year-dri...

I’m the opposite of this - I can only listen to music with lyrics as it gives me something to “listen to” even though I barely hear a word of them let alone remember or be able to sing along. (Faster music like rap or metal is great)

Brown noise is probably the only sound I can tolerate for a long periods of time without lyrics, even better than this is ANC headphones with nothing playing.

I love this idea, I’ll add it to the back burner and probably forget about it.