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  • What game(s) would you use to introduce someone to WASD/Mouse controls?

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  • Mechanical complexity as in the amount of stuff to learn to "actually play" Minecraft, aside from the controls. For example, which resources are which, what crafts into what, and how to find and gather everything. Its easy enough to punch wood, but trying to figure out (and then remember) how to craft tools or farm food while also trying to remember how to position your fingers on the keyboard is a much bigger ask.

  • What game(s) would you use to introduce someone to WASD/Mouse controls?

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  • Its going to be a lot harder to play Deep Rock Galactic or Portal 2 together if she sticks with her current perfered movement method: click and drag with the mouse.

  • Elon Musk decimated the government and saved almost nothing

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  • These dumb fucks sold 8 million as 8 billion

    Even aside from stuff like this, things they claim to be saving tend to be cut contracts. Contracts that have already been paid, but will no longer have to provided what they'd been paid for.

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  • Bears are predators evolved to hunt large game, primarily with brute force (unlike something like a big cat, which relies much more on ambushes).

    Gorrilas, as tough as they are, survive through intelligence. This means avoiding tough fights, and when absolutely needed, fighting as a troop rather than individualy.

    So bear. But...

    Does the Gorilla get time to prepare?

    The one advantage gorillas have is their intelligence. If both animals are given training, or tools, then I could see the gorilla potentially winning - mostly because a bear will struggle to get any use out of either, whereas a gorilla could be trained to fight much more effectively and possibly even make/use weapons.

  • tee-hee(ory)

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  • Not sure how I can remember the main charactor of a webcomic(?) I've never read, but not my own phone number. Its Brainrot Girlfriend.

    I checked, its chapter 2, although text has been changed.

  • NDP Faces Harassment Allegations and an Internal Collapse

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  • Unfortunately, given what I've seen from the party so far (and what I haven't,) I'm not suprised. I've seen almost no marketing or outreach, and what I have wasn't on their own marets, or even was outright deceitful. In particular, an ad that claimed that a vote for them was strategic and using an unrelated poll to prove it, which pretty much lines up with the attacks on the truth described in the article.

    I'm probably still going to vote for them, but thats only because my vote doesn't matter, (thanks FPTP.)

  • Fuck AI with "Fuck"

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  • Isn't StartPage just Google's results, but less personalized?

  • Has anyone thought about a Fediverse bot platform/app?

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  • Honestly, I don't completely get it myself. While yes, a lot of bots are unhelpful clutter like remindme bot, or low quality garbage like most LLM bots, there are many that are genuinely really useful or moderate enough to be funny and unobtrusive. I guess its probably just a mix of annoyance at their frequent overuse, and the pretentious attitude Lemmy often has.

  • Has anyone thought about a Fediverse bot platform/app?

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  • As is, its already very easy to make bots for the Fediverse, and there is pretty good support for it. The limit is just a lack of interested users, and a general dislike of bots here - esspecially novelty ones.

  • Should I feel guilty using AI? - Simon Clark

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  • My point, and the conclusion of the video is more of a "Yes, but..." As he discusses, AI use isn't completely insignificant, but much of the cost (in all aspects) is in R&D and hardware, rather than the results it produces. Its in the same vein as how yes, you should probably feel guilty for using a paper or disposable platic grocery bag over a reusable one, but even if everyone in the world did so, it would make little difference when companies (who do 99.99% of the damage) will continue doing the exact same thing at every opportunity. As AI is driven by speculation rather than by product sales, not using it doesn't stop their IP theft, it may reduce their energy use but likely not a lot (esspecially factoring in human cost to complete a task), and it doesn't stop these companies from manipulating our politics and walking over our laws.

    While, technically the video does agree that the answer is 'Yes', the majority of the video is about why that Yes needs a half-dozen asterisks. Simplifying it to just a 'yes' shifts blame away from the ones doing 99.9% of the damage onto individuals who do a tiny fraction of the damage, and who have much less understanding of or influence over the technology.

  • Should I feel guilty using AI? - Simon Clark

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  • Except it isn't because the point of the video is in large part, that individual users have little influence over the AI companies. AI companies, as well as their investors and those meant to regulate them (not that those two are separate groups) don't particularly care about the miniscule current revenue to be made. They're collectively gambling rule of law, money, the environment, ect. on the idea that they will make huge amounts of money when AI becomes a true general-purpose artificial intelligence. The way to fix this isn't to not use AI (not that it doesn't help), its to collectively stand against them and actually hold them accountable for their destruction.

  • Should I feel guilty using AI? - Simon Clark

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  • Tl;dw: Yes, but much like the idea of individual carbon footprints, putting the blame on individuals also directs away the the actions of those who invest in, direct, and (don't) regulate AI companies. This is esspecially true as AI is driven more than by speculation than by current success. Individuals will have little-to-no impact unless there is collective action to regulate AI companies and hold them accountable for their destruction.

  • Linux is too hard

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  • Play audio through my mobo's built-in 3.5mm jack (without a significant delay). For whatever reason, Mint just really didn't like my mobo, and no one was able to figure it out.

  • My VPN on Android fails to reconnect automatically any time the connection is interupted. Why?

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  • Sorry for pulling you back to an old thread, but you wouldn't happen to have any other ideas, would you? Since before, I've tried everything you suggested and switched VPN. Its an A53, so it really shouldn't be having trouble with memory or such.

    I also found this older Reddit thread which describes basically the same thing, but all the comments are removed, if that helps: https://old.reddit.com/r/nordvpn/comments/t8t1hf/connectivity_issues_with_new_phone_android/

  • Linux is too hard

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  • And after hours of troubleshooting, you give in and join the Discord where you're promptly ignored.

    Or if you're really lucky, people are willing to help, so you spend hours more troubleshooting, often repeating many of the same steps, only for all of them to give up too. (As was my experience when I tried to switch to Linux Mint.)

  • Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World?

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  • Isolated as in only used by a specific region or culture. So in Weibo's case, only in China with little connection to other countries. Another example would be 2Go, which was quite popular in Africa for years, but unlikely be to be known from anyone outside the region.

  • Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World?

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  • Stuff like Weibo are what I was refering to when I was saying more isolated platforms. A lot of regions have their own smaller social media platforms dominated by one or two cultures. As for Instagram and Facebook, those two are largely world-wide but often (again, massive generalization) less ubiquitous compared to social media in the west.

  • Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World?

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  • Social media in general (as we think of it) is much more popular in western nations. Thats not to say those outside the west don't use social media, but it tends to be much more dominated by group-chats (IE WhatsApp, Telegram) and by more isolated platforms or sections of platforms. Of the social media platforms we'll be familiar with, it tends to be mostly just the most popular and established ones like Instagram, Facebook, and now Tiktok, rather than something still relatively niche and nerdy like Reddit (nonetheless Lemmy).

    All that said, again, this is a massive oversimplification talking broadly about trends. We're talking about thousands of different cultures in entirely different countries and enviroments.

  • Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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  • The main thing is post more. Lack of content is the main reason people don't use Lemmy more, and the only way to fix this is to share/produce more.

    Its a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I think even (transparent, community-relevant) bots are a good idea at this point, given that 99% of interests have little to no activity currently. For example, if we had bots that post game update changelogs to their relevant communities, it would at least provide a baseline amount of content and make it easier to discuss for fans of those games.