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teawrecks

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  • folders is inherently a bad idea

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  • Can you please save this somewhere you'll find it in 10 years?

  • I spent the last year working on the Fediverse. Here's what I've learned.

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  • It's an appeal to non fediverse netizens to use the fediverse. He lists the usual pros: the services are designed to interact with each other, there's no algorithm, it feels more old internet.

  • Are comics more in demand than stories?

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  • You misread what I said. For the fediverse to work, it needs to be distributed. OP said they didn't see a stories community on "this instance" (was unclear whether they meant lemmy.world or lemmy.ml, but both are notoriously monolithic). Centralizing all users and communities onto a single instance is antithetical to the fediverse.

  • What movies and shows had a positive influence on your life in your childhood?

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  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version)

  • Supreme Court blocks Trump from deploying the National Guard to Chicago | CNN Politics

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  • But then if there are riots, he can deploy the national guard.

  • Are comics more in demand than stories?

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  • I don't know why you decided that this is a superiority complex

    It is entirely possible you didn't intend for it to sound like you believe writing is superior in some way to drawing.

    I don't trust other places because there's no way to know if an AI story is created or not.

    To be clear, there's no way to know that here either. I'm not saying go to those other communities, I'm just answering the question about where everyone is.

  • Are comics more in demand than stories?

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  • This is what I imagine asklemmy posts would have looked like in the 1950s.

    There are so many levels one could answer at. First off, we don't want every community to exist on lemmy.world. Just because it doesn't exist there doesn't mean you need to make it. Second, I consider graphic novels/comics/manga to be just as out of fashion as books these days. AFAIK kids barely read at all anymore. Third, I consider drawing much harder than writing, but that's a personal thing. Heck, both are trivially generated by AI these days, so the idea of having a superiority complex about one seems silly to me. Artists should stick together. In the same medium, if they want to.

    If you don't like seeing visual art next to written art, that's a personal preference. I don't think it says anything about the state of people's brains that one community is larger than another, if anything, visuals are probably just easier to market in a world with a LOT of "content" going around. But at the end of the day, there just aren't a whole lotta people using Lemmy. So I'm not surprised when you say a specific community doesn't have a lot of activity. It could be that people interested in stories just have more established communities on [competing sites].

  • After watching the latest Veritasium video: why is the spin of a proton/electron decided at measurement, why not at creation?

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  • Maybe give it a second watch. Your proposal is literally what Einstein suggested, and what Bell's experiment disproved.

    Even if my parents never observed me, I would still be a boy.

    Technically, quantum mechanics says no. This is the Schrodinger's Cat situation.

    What happens if a particle doesn't get observed, does it not have spin?

    It is said to be in a superposition of having both spins. It collapses to one spin when observed.

  • The Legion Go 2 might ditch Windows for SteamOS - and cost less

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  • That just means it'll be an officially supported conversion.

  • At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein

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  • It's crazy that the people can't use impeachment to remove the president, but the president can unilaterally pardon unlimited crimes. One day in the future historians are going to be embarrassed for us.

  • Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

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  • Welcome to the internet. No one knows each other, no one considers context, no one reads past the headline, everyone makes snap judgements based on half understood heuristics, and then rushes to the comments to grandstand. A job that could be trivially done by AI, and almost certainly is, but instead we'll all pretend like we're the last bastion of human sanity.

  • Sony collars Snoopy in £340m deal to take control of Peanuts franchise

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  • Yeah, as a kid I definitely remember seeing the "kid pissing on

    <insert brand>

    " bumper stickers. Honestly, I never even recognized him as Calvin because it was so out of character for him. It wasn't until years later that I was like, "hold up, that's definitely Calvin, how was that ever allowed?"

  • Sony collars Snoopy in £340m deal to take control of Peanuts franchise

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  • Bill Watterson really doesn't get enough credit for his integrity. He could have cashed in on C&H so many times, he still could, but he felt that even so much as a plush Hobbes would tarnish the canon and pervert the IP. He made a set of strips, he ended it before it overstayed its welcome, and he drifted back into obscurity. It's possibly the only artwork that I would be perfectly fine to never see enter the public domain.

  • ‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition

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  • Never connect your TV to the internet.

  • Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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  • The ability to fork is core to the FOSS movement, and I certainly don't trust any govt to decide how all browsers should be made. I don't consider FOSS or competition to be a workaround, I consider that to be the best possible solution to this problem.

  • Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'

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  • No one 👏👏 is 👏👏 excusing 👏👏 being 👏👏 shitty.

    The "cat" does not refer to unethical training of models. Tell me, if we somehow managed to delete every single unethically trained model in existence AND miraculously prevent another one from being ever made (ignoring the part where the AI bubble pops) what would happen? Do you think everyone would go "welp, no more AI I guess." NO! People would immediately get to work making an "ethically trained" model (according to some regulatory definition of "ethical"), and by "people" I don't mean just anyone, I mean the people who can afford to gather or license the most exclusive training data: the wealthy.

    "Cat's out of the bag" means the knowledge of what's possible is out there and everyone knows it. The only thing you could gain by trying to put it "back in the bag" is to help the ultra wealthy capitalize on it.

    So, much like with slavery and animal testing and nuclear weapons, what we should do instead is recognize that we live in a reality where the cat is out of the bag, and try to prevent harm caused by it going forward.

  • Why did you move from Windows to Linux?

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  • There's nothing wrong with a DE, those are great for the people who want an experience that "just works". But I switched to Linux because I was tired of someone else deciding to install hundreds of packages I'll never use, and start up dozens or hundreds of services in the background that I never asked for.

    Part of the feeling of owning my machine has been looking at the list of packages installed, and the list of processes/services running and knowing why each one is there.

  • Why did you move from Windows to Linux?

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  • If you want an OS that lets you own the machine you bought, Linux is the most viable option. Conversely, Windows is not an option. I don't consider an OS where you are the product to be one that works for me at all, much less one that "just works".

    Linux users seem to enjoy problem solving and tinkering for fun

    Like with any OS, those are a subset of users, but not all. The thing is, Linux users spent the last 30y building a set of tools that enable you to use as little effort as possible to do very powerful things with your hardware, and yes, with great power comes great ability to break everything. But in the last 15y, there are distros designed for people who want an OS that "just works", that don't require you to know or use the risky tools that could break things, and they're getting better every day.

    Why did you switch

    I wanted to use Linux for the last 15y, but gaming was a sticking point. Around 5y ago, thanks to valve, it is no longer a sticking point. I do all my gaming on Linux.

    what was your process like?

    I first switched to fedora on my laptop about 12y ago. I didn't do a lot of gaming on my laptop, so this was fine. Eventually I switched to Manjaro. Around 5y ago I put Manjaro on my desktop. Then eventually switched both to endeavor.

    I'll admit, I create problems for myself by refusing fully featured Desktop Environments. But I always learn something more about my machine in the process. As a result, I believe I can now simply do more with less effort on Linux than I could on windows. I have bash scripts on keybinds that open custom UIs for various things. I can seamlessly access multiple servers on my network running various services. I don't ever have to worry about some update overhauling my UI and sneaking an AI in the background. Any experimentation I do with AI is on my own terms, and none of my data gets shipped off without my consent.

    What made you choose Linux for your primary computing device, rather than macOS for example?

    I used a Mac 20y ago. It was solid. But eventually the cost outweighed the hardware capabilities. And then they deprecated every graphics API but Metal. Now there's relatively nothing in the way of gaming on Mac. On top of that, it's just as bad as windows when it comes to doing what some company wants it to do rather than what I want it to do. So I don't consider it an option that works for me.

  • Trump brands fentanyl a ‘weapon of mass destruction’ in drug war escalation

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  • He legitimately believes that being a wartime president is his key to holding onto power. Either because history shows that wartime presidents poll well, or because he can argue that we shouldn't change leadership during a war. He desperately wants a crisis that he can throw the military at, not the inevitable collapse of the economy that he is unable/unwilling to do anything about.

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Do you have any rules you try to follow when engaging with others online?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Open casting alternative (by Amazon?)

    www.trustedreviews.com /explainer/what-is-matter-casting-new-airplay-rival-explained-4407108
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    qpwGraph vs wireplumber vs pipewire

  • Sopuli's Default Community @sopuli.xyz
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    404 when trying to access a new community?