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  • Why are comments like "use Firefox" okay on Lemmy while "go vegan" is getting downvoted?

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  • Your examples would have more similarity with suggesting a vegetarian diet as an alternative to a mix or most meat diet. That would be a functional alternative, like suggesting a different OS or Browser.

    Veganism more like a political statement that if you eat meat your are a bad person for harming animals. All vegans may be vegetarians but not all vegetarians are vegan.

    I will admit there are many OS and Browser purists that might be more like vegans telling you, you are bad for choosing the one you currently use. There are FOSS purists that only tell you to use FOSS because it is NOT commercial not because the software is better for what you need.

  • iPhone users, what's stopping you from switching to Android?

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  • I went from an iPhone 7 to an iPhone 13 . I had replaced the battery on the iPhone 7 already, it still was getting updates but physically the charge port started wearing out and the NFC stopped working .

    Was a good run, phone was super reliable needed no tweaking to work.

    I have also been using iPhones since the iPhone 3G. Long before it existed on Android it was very easy to movie everything from your old phone to the new one, first via iTunes desktop then later via iCloud.

    Family sharing for apps and family backups pooled in iCloud is also very convenient.

  • What generation are you?

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  • Gen X / Xennial, analog childhood, digital adult hood.

  • On the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid?

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  • References TikTok as a source of knowledge

  • Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

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  • Likely has more to do with the cost of 1-2million per station vs 250,000 to 500,000 for a typical EV fast charging station

  • Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

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  • Electrolysis is at least 25% less as efficient than just storing the electricity in battery’s as it produces both oxygen and hydrogen and then you need to spend some more of the power compressing it…. Even before you get to transporting it. Otherwise we would just have electrolytes plants all over already.

  • Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

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  • There is no clean, cheap, efficient source of hydrogen. You still need to transport it around burning more fuel to transport it all around.

    There are already multiple ways to get clean electricity for BEVs and the supply chain is cleaner.. Plant, grid, car.

    Also coal is already a TINY TINY % of US power production, https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/ , going to natural gas sourced hydrogen would be a step backward.

    When source to consumption is considered BEV is the cleanest option so far.

  • Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

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  • Valve has a new Steam Chart for the most played Steam Deck games

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  • I used to use Steam link with my desktop but I find the experience of docking the steam deck way more reliable.

  • Valve has a new Steam Chart for the most played Steam Deck games

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  • I am surprised there aren't more local multiplayer games on the list. The steam deck is great hooked up to a TV with multiple controllers

  • Why do the vast majority of romantic comedies depict people who are wealthy?

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  • More concerning is that so many romantic movies contain an element of cheating.. IE the main characters meet while one or both are seeing someone else and often don't break it off with the other person. In the comedies they are often sneaking around and not getting caught is played for laughs.

  • Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

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  • Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

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  • You do know that nearly all fuel cell vehicles also use lithium and a battery pack, as well the fuel cell it self uses a number of rare earth metals.

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  • The self serve terminals and apps actually work well. I prefer using them over ordering at the counter.

    So ya I am surprised they rolled this out so poorly.

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  • Natural language is really messy.. Could go through many variants on things. Then you get text to speech issues due to audio quality / accents.. And you need an engine that can "best guess / best match" based on what it has or ask for clarification.

    Similarly you can ask for TWO of a complex thing: I would like Two.... meals, with,,, XXXX

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  • An LLM can somewhat smooth over variances in language without having to have all possible variances known just the valid options and the raw input.

    • I would like a Big Mac, no lettuce, no tomato, no cheese.
    • I would like a Big Mac, no vegies, hold the cheese.
    • I would like a Big Mac, no vegies, no dairy
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  • Mc Donald's already has customer self serve kiosks and mobile apps with the full menu that limit you as to which items you can add or remove.

    How did they screw this up and leave things open ended for the LLM?

    IE why was the LLM not referencing a list of valid options with every request and then replying with what the possible options are. This is something LLMs are actually able to do fairly well, then layer on top the EXACT same HARD constraints they already have on the kiosk and mobile app to ensure orders are valid?

  • What's the worst invention of the 21st century?

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  • To be used in most recycling programs you would need to fully remove the foil lid, and rinse out every k-cup before depositing them in recycling.

  • What's was your favourite fast food product that unfortunately got retired and never came back?

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  • McDonald’s Angus Burger , only burger they sold for several years that didn’t taste like cardboard.