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- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 2 days ago:
I think it very much depends on the type of and source of pain.
For me, Tylenol works for headaches and some cold/flu stuff but I’ve never really found it effective for strained muscles etc
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but Nintendo doesn’t always seem to give a shit just because something is legal. They’ll still play the “but our legal department has more money than YOU” card
- Comment on A last-minute SteamOS update has saved Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck, and it runs surprisingly okay-ish 3 weeks ago:
All these Doom sequels… a proper Descent would kick ass
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 3 weeks ago:
Or just use the smartphone camera that almost everyone is going to have anyhow…
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 3 weeks ago:
You miss the part where the copyright owner did not assign them the rights to use the material for such a purpose, and yes most copyright does cover a ton of stuff like retransmission, reproduction, public production and a bunch of other shit which is all separate license. It’s not so simple as “they did what a human does” because even the WAYS a human uses said material is limited under the terms of the copyright
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 3 weeks ago:
a) An AI is not a person. We do not WANT an AI to be regarded as equal to a person under law. That’s a terrible idea
b) How is that AI training material being generated? Did they buy copies of every copyrighted song and every movie by every artist to include in the training data? If it’s music and streamed, are they paying the artist royalties based on every “play” the AI is processing during training the same as of a human played the song over and over again to learn a long? How about sheet music? Because if a PERSON is learning from training material, the license for sheet music and training materials is different than a playable copy of the same work.
I’m willing to bet that the AI companies didn’t even pay for the regular copies of works much less ones licensed for use as training materials for humans, but it didn’t matter because an AI is an advanced algorithm and NOT A HUMAN.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
I wonder how hard it would be for an “unofficial” patch to “somehow” be released that restores the previous functionality
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
Yeah it “works” on LG TVs but only if I don’t use SSL, possibly due to the (perfectly valid) LetsEncrypt certificate in my case.
That’s not a huge deal for my LAN access but it’s still pretty dumb. It would be nice if more devices properly supported it.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes 5 weeks ago:
Cool. Let’s go with criminal impersonation, defamation, and slander/libel instead them!
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. My buddy lived with his SO. They had kids together. I believe they did have plans to get married but there were financial/planning considerations. At the time, the house was in his name.
He died unexpectedly and without warning due to a previously unknown medical condition. I don’t believe he had a W&T.
The paperwork she had to deal with - much of which would have been not required had they been married - was horrendous, especially anything bank related. The bank also seemed to be doing their best to fuck her over in regards to the family home. It was a nasty ordeal.
- Comment on An unreleased version of a Waymo privacy policy found by Jane Manchun Wong says it may use interior camera data to train AI models and sell ads. 1 month ago:
Free for life? Here is always been free for only the first few years of ownership and then you pay, plus the system is fucking terrible and doesn’t work half the time.
- Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back 2 months ago:
I still have my circa-2016 email confirming my pledge for the Time 2 Silver, which ultimately got cancelled just before the fulfillment date due to Pebble selling out to Fitbit.
While I loved my original Pebble back then, I would really want something similar to look and function of the T2S so will watch this project in hopes it too is resurrected
- Comment on You guys have to end it 2 months ago:
Yeah I’ve got regular back and ankle issues. It’s annoying when they flare up but really not that bad. Unfortunately manuals are harder and harder to find so this will likely be my last
- Comment on Little girl shows duck how to use a slide 2 months ago:
This is the most wholesome thing I’ve seen here. Kept expecting something “off” to happen
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 2 months ago:
Yeah, hard magic is not necessary. It’s like “fit living and exercise” is conceptually easy, but the majority of people aren’t really that fit and certainly not Olympic level athletes etc.
Magic could be a combination of luck, genetics, and ability to stick to it and study. THOSE can be hard for a lot of people in practice, but in concept easy at a lot of levels.
- Comment on Minecraft server hardware benchmarks 3 months ago:
It really depends on the mods. Stock Minecraft and even many mods would run fine on a potato, but some of the bigger mods actually require quite a bit of CPU/overhead.
There are also various mods that require certain (older) versions of Java etc to run, and those versions of Java may have known security issues.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 3 months ago:
Yeah I looked into the Kobo store and a LOT of the books I have - which are not exactly small titles - aren’t available there.
In some cases they’ve got the first couple books or audiobooks out of a series that currently has 10
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 3 months ago:
The color might make more sense if you’re into manga or graphical novels as opposed to just ebooks
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 3 months ago:
This doesn’t track.
To pull my books into calibre, I need to first download them onto the Kindle, which requires wifi.
- Comment on good replacement options power efficiency and affordable "large" storage 6 months ago:
Oh hell yeah. I wouldn’t trust an SDCard to anything important except maybe a Pi where the actual OS is fairly unimportant and the data is stored elsewhere.
I had been wondering about the G series Ryzen. Is this running in a standard tower or something rackable?
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- Comment on Migrating from Nextcloud AIO to Owncloud Infinite Scale: Good Idea? 6 months ago:
I used NextCloud in a Docker container but found that unless I was really on top of checking versions for updates, it was very easy to get behind and then unless one way VERY careful about going up in the correct increments, it was quite easy to end up with a version mismatch between the files and DB structure.
As much as I hate SNAP (mainly due to them being overused on Ubuntu desktop and bloaty blobs full of weird permission issues) I’ve got to say that moving to a SNAP version of NextCloud on my server has made my life so much easier. A scheduled job runs a “snap refresh” regularly and it’s been fairly stable for over a year now, except for one small incident where it broke the reference to the internal office suite install and for some reason stated trying to go with a localhost version
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 6 months ago:
Damn, that’s actually pretty sexy for a fresh-air rack How’s the noise levels?
- Comment on Colours of Blood 7 months ago:
Must not look this up… Must not look this up. Must not…
- Comment on Colours of Blood 7 months ago:
Well “hey baby wanna look at something purple and full of blood” hasn’t worked for me yet
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 7 months ago:
And that’s ridiculous on general because you know who also does regular work hours? Everyone else!
That means if you need a call with your doctor, bank, whatever, it’s likely gonna be during the workday
- Comment on Honey 7 months ago:
Damn. That’s a good one!
- Comment on Honey 7 months ago:
Degenerate poultry hentai
Excuse me sir/madam, but I’d request that you respect the preferred literary sub-genre of some without resorting to terms such as “degenerate”. Poultry Hentai may not be overly popular and only have a niche following, but it truly is an art form in and of itself. Whether it’s “2 hens, 1 cob” or the better-known “Lady Chick&Lee’s Lover” it truly does represent a formidable contribution to the art.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 7 months ago:
He’ll amputate your limbs but replace them with fairly functional robot parts?
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 7 months ago:
Trying to figure out where Dr Doom would fit. Supposedly he does have a doctorate but it came from Latveria so could be a bit… biased