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  • Do you like AI? What model(s)? If so, or not, why?

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  • I dunno that 'like' is an accurate description; I don't 'like' my wrench, but it's useful for turning bolts. AI is the same. I'm working on a novel project and I've been using ChatGPT and related tools to help with things like worldbuilding, naming, formatting, structure, grammar, etc, basically everything but the actual writing itself. It's been a big help, but I can also see the concerns of people whose jobs/livelihoods/etc are threatened by it; that wrench also works pretty good as a blunt object to chuck at peoples' heads.

  • ASCII Diagram, offline, Linux, FLOSS

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  • I don't have an answer for you, I'd never heard of ASCIIFlow, but holy shit that takes me back to an oooold piece of DOS software called FormTool. Used to make dungeon maps and character sheets and such with it back in the early 90s. Good times.

  • What is your age range for dating? 🤔 😮

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  • None, but I'm asexual/aromantic, so..

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    1. I spent a lot of time on BBS's back in the day. One day a friend from there told me about this number I could dial with my computer to connect to a server at the local university that had a simple shell that couldn't do much more than telnet, and a few MU*es to check out. I played one of htem for a little bit, then learned about unix machines and shell accounts and managed to get myself one, but even then it was all text-based. I used gopher (before www was really a thing) and then lynx (text-based web browser) to poke around a bit, browsed some newsgroups, etc.

  • What are your notable stories of selling or giving away things online?

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  • The only thing I've ever sold online was an item from the MMO Everquest. I ran a top raiding guild on my server and had just gotten a really rare end-game item but I was coming up short on rent so I jokingly offered to sell it to some guildies. None of them took me up on it, but one guy had heard about someone who was looking for the item and willing to pay, so I chatted him up and wound up selling him the item for $250. I was super nervous about it but everything went great.

  • What browser are you using?

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  • I just switched back to Brave after using Firefox for a couple years. I switched away from Brave over the Manifest V3 thing but it turns out they're preserving compatibility with V2 extensions and their built-in shields have gotten pretty good at blocking most things without even needing uBO. I had lots of little issues with Firefox that are like known-issues that have been around for years or things I haven't been able to find solutions to, so I was glad to switch back. Brave isn't perfect either, but.

  • The real reasons for the US-Israeli war on Iran, explained [Geopolitical Economy Report]

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  • Ah, the long shadow of shock therapy. smdh.

  • What do you think are the worst carbon causing human activities? What do you think are the most beneficial activities to counter carbon output?

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  • The excess production of useless shit that nobody would need or want without the manipulation of advertising convincing us otherwise. Cell phones and such are nice, don't get me wrong, but do we need thousands of factories around the world churning out cargo ships full of cheap plastic junk that's designed to fail? No. It only exists because it makes some rich people even richer, and it's burning our planet down. If all that productive capacity was bent to the purpose of meeting peoples' actual needs/reasonable wants it would be a different matter.

  • If life is an experiment, and there is a measuring tool. How do you think we are doing?

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  • We're optimizing our fitness function as living beings (ie, we're still alive), so I'd say that's a solid thumbs-up.

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  • As a member of genx please allow me to say: we're not all bad, some of us quite enjoy the taste of the rich. :P

  • The Terminal Question

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  • Fair, although I am reasonably comfortable with the terminal (just don't know all the commands and such, always having to look that sort of thing up). I used to run linux installs many years ago back when stuff like slackware and redhat were the standard distros and X was iffy at best so I've done a lot of that sort of thing, just not in like 20+ years.

    But I'm seeing lots of recommendations for alacritty, I'll check it out, though most people seem to think konsole is fine unless I have specific needs which I really don't. Thanks!

  • The Terminal Question

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  • Yeah I have been, I've just seen discussion about terminals that do all kinds of fancy shit and I'm wondering if I'm missing out on features by using the default (konsole), though it seems fairly full-featured. shrug

  • The Terminal Question

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  • Fair, I'm definitely not a 'serious' terminal user.

    Yeah I was wondering about that, it'd be nice to have an LLM that's specifically trained on like linux system configs and shit, but that's well beyond the scope of my capabilities, so if it doesn't already exist I'm just SOL on that one.

  • The Terminal Question

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  • Sorry, by 'general terminal stuff' and 'nothing fancy' I mean I just like edit config files, run system commands, that sort of thing. But yeah I'm not like doing complex data management or programming or whatever.

    I'll check out Warp/Wave, thanks!

  • [Video] An Israeli interceptor missile misfired and appears to hit a building in Tel Aviv

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  • Happy to help. I'm by no means an expert and I could be wrong, I just played a lot of Kerbal Space Program so I guess I have an eye for rocket trajectories and such. shrug

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  • Fair enough. Personally my hardware isn't that new; the GPU is 3-4 years old at this point, the rest of the PC is ~5 years old so you would think even the latest LTS which is only a year or two old would support it. shrug

    But yeah I'm liking nobara's rapid update cycle so far, though I haven't tried to change GPU drivers with it yet, so I suppose I will reserve a tiny amount of judgement until I have to do that. ;)

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  • Hm, yeah that is definitely a weird thing to do, I'm using nobara (fedora) and it has the app center for snap and flatpost for flatpaks plus dnf for the package manager.

  • [Video] An Israeli interceptor missile misfired and appears to hit a building in Tel Aviv

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  • No. The one in OP's video was in post-ascent mode and not full burn and was spiraling wildly all the way in, but the one in the video you linked was clearly in terminal descent phase and flying far too fast and straight to be a match for OP's trajectory.

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