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- Comment on Boys and beans and... 21 hours ago:
I wore a pair of jeans like that yesterday…
- Comment on i broke 21 hours ago:
I have that problem and it’s still a problem for me but what I’ve found that sort of works is to keep a to do list of all the shit I need to do. Kind of like a bulet journal but less complicated. If someone asks me to do something then instead of immediately jumping on it (unless it’s an emergency) I put it on the list. Then when I am working on something and it stresses me out to the point I am reaching for my phone I move to a different item on the list instead (sometimes). When I finish something or review the list and see a bunch of things crossed off it also gives me a little mood bump. Also keeping my phone in my bag instead of within reach and just listening to podcasts or whatever on my wireless buds helps.
None of this is a perfect solution but it did help a bit. Usually if I can get myself in a groove I can power through several items and make up the time I lost dicking around so having a list ready is handy for that as well.
- Comment on i broke 21 hours ago:
“You don’t have to be mad at yourself for that any more”
“What good does worrying about that part of your past do your current self?”
For these ones I don’t really have control over that. My brain gets itself all worked up before I have any say in the matter.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 1 day ago:
It is an Nvidia card. Looked for a laptop option with AMD but there wasn’t one available locally and I’m not buying a laptop I haven’t laid hands on first to make sure it isn’t a piece of crap. Honestly though for Linux to be viable that shouldn’t be something you have to think about.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 1 day ago:
I’ve used both Mint and Bazzite. Bazzite I’m attempting as a daily driver now because it has all the gaming shit baked in already and I don’t know wtf I’m doing with that so it gave me a head start. However, Freecad runs like absolute dog shit on it, as well as every other system I’ve tried it on, so I need to keep windows around for Fusion360, I also can’t figure out how to program my G602 from it even though according to the docs I found Solaar supports it. I’m almost certain my headset won’t work on it. When I did my taxes it wouldn’t open PDFs from my network share because the PDF program doesn’t understand SMB. It already lost my Secure boot key once and I had to reinstall the OS to fix that even after turning Secure Boot off. I still need to figure out the best way to run VMs on it and I have numerous other peripherals that I haven’t even tried yet because it’s honestly exhausting to keep running into problems when I’m already stressed out from work and every other fucking thing going on in my life… I was able to get my media downloading stuff all running in Mint with only one issue that took me a couple hours due to gpodder not just having a fucking setting for the download directory and the documentation couldn’t just SAY how to export the path you want but over all that was pretty painless.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 1 day ago:
I certainly did. That good will got me buying their games up through Fallout 4 which finally crushed it. Didn’t even look at Starfield.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 1 day ago:
I am trying Linux but it’s not going well. I still might stick with it but it’s more because of Windows getting worse than Linux being better. Right now it’s come down to an evaluation of which things I want to not be able to do anymore because Linux doesn’t support everything I currently do or the alternative is ass or will require an inordinate amount of research to get set back up.
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 3 days ago:
It’s not all my data but I use backblaze for offsite backup. One of the reasons I can’t drop Windows. I don’t have anywhere I travel often enough to do a physical drop off and when I tried setting a file server up at my parents but they would break shit by fucking with their router every time they had an internet outage or moving it around (despite repeated being told to call me first).
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 4 days ago:
Hyper-V could literally suck my dick all day and I still wouldn’t use it if there’s a non-microsoft option that works. Not interested in being the test group for any more of their shit or get rug-pulled at the worst moment.
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 6 days ago:
In practice I don’t know if I’ve ever had a relevant short come up when I was trying to find how to do a specific thing. Usually if I need help with something it’s more complicated than a short would allow for. I have seen “How to” shorts for all kinds of stuff come across my feed though that were pretty good. So if one came up when I was looking for how to do something I would watch it. That quick, concise format is exactly what I want usually when I’m trying to figure out how to do something. It skips all the “Hi I’m xxxx, welcome to my channel, blah blah blah” shit that the longer videos have. My main point was that not all this content is worthless brainrot stuff. Regardless of if it’s useful to you or me in particular someone else may find it valuable.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 6 days ago:
Totally forgot Windows 8. We skipped it because of how shitty it was.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 6 days ago:
What is “half baked dog shit” about it?
The fact that they’re moving things over slowly instead of just fucking finishing it before they deploy it all at once. They’ve been doing this since Windows 10 came out, they have a trillion dollars. There’s no excuse to have it be half assed for so long especially considering “Settings” isn’t even an improvement.
What was easier to find in the control panel than it is in settings?
Literally everything? You don’t have to click through 14 different menus to drill down to what you’re looking for. It’s all on one window in Control Panel. Just look at Devices and Printers in Control Panel vs. Devices in settings or Programs and Features vs. Apps and features the newer versions have far less information available at a glance.
You’ve never actually used windows 11, have you?
I use it every day on my work PC. It runs like ass.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 6 days ago:
I know what the point is. It sucks.
Firstly they still have the control panel.
For now
Secondly they are slowly transitioning everything relevant from the control panel to the settings app.
The settings app is half-baked dog shit.
Thirdly even having everything in the control panel didn’t make it easy to find exactly what you wanted.
It was certainly easier than the current state of things.
This makes it so you can just say “set my power profile to balanced” and it would do so. That’s a nice, welcome addition.
Sure assuming the AI understands your request and the setting you want hasn’t been removed because they wanted to put everything in the settings app and the one you wanted conflicts with their data gathering and add presentation.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 6 days ago:
Perhaps you could just make them easier to find by putting them in one location… You could call it a “control panel”.
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 6 days ago:
I don’t really try to consume shorts but YouTube presents them regardless of if you’re looking for them or not. I don’t even search out woodworking or gardening, I usually look for specific “how to disassemble things” videos or guides for video games but the algorithm always seems to get there sooner or later. Sometimes something will catch my eye and I’ll watch it which is how I discovered these guys. I don’t really doomscroll on shorts and if I start it’s usually only 2-3 videos before I hit something stupid that snaps me out of it but I’ve literally never watched www.youtube.com/@WorkshopCompanion full videos or seen one of them on my dashboard but their shorts are insanely dense with information. They’re my ideal YouTube “how to” video. If all content creators where like that we’d be living in the futuristic part of that one meme. My point was not all short form content is bad.
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
Here’s a few that have been coming up for me lately.
www.youtube.com/@WorkshopCompanion/shorts www.youtube.com/@RexKrueger/shorts www.youtube.com/@GrowVeg/shorts
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
For the AI one to restrict it from children you have to determine the age of the person accessing it. How do you do that and still allow them to maintain anonymity? You would need some identification to do that reliably which means for the adults using it this site now has a database of whatever ID you had to send them to verify. Or if it’s using a credit card or some government hosted verification then those entities have a database of what sites you’re using tied to your name.
For banning short form content. How do you quantify what counts? Is it just the length of the video? You’re going to be throwing out a lot of very useful videos along with the brain rot if you use that. I could point you to several craftsman channels that produce very informative shorts. If it’s case by case who is the judge? What are the criteria?
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 1 week ago:
And sometimes things you really really didn’t want.
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
Instead I’m just doing 2 examples and keep it shallow :
Th is case: A 14yo should not have completely unsupervised access to an ai chat bot - it needs to be by family/child account, same as for e.g. Fortnite. Also, given the nature of the matter and looking at the article: if the chat turns ’disturbing’ the parent needs to be made aware. (Etc etc)
Another case is TikTok: honestly, I’d just ban it together with shorts and reels. IMO this rots the brains of the younger generation. I’m not even sure there is a healthy way of consuming this type of content.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 1 week ago:
Don’t blame AI for the fact that you married a whackjob lady.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 week ago:
My company decided we don’t need phones and makes us use Teams for calls. Every day I think about murdering the person who made that decision.
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
Okay. But by what mechanism would these things be enforced without encroaching on the privacy and freedoms of adults? It’s the same problems as policing porn or violent media. No one wants the government looking over their shoulder.
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
Regulated how?
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
Add mandatory therapy and counseling to that list.
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
If he was falling in love with a chat bot he wasn’t happy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How long does it take to break even from the pollution and electricity spent to make and install these?
- Comment on TRUCKIN' 1 week ago:
These things are already on the road in Texas. I’d be shitting my pants every time I got on the interstate if I lived there.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
Malwarebytes has worked out for me so far. I don’t think they offer it anymore though…
- Comment on TRUCKIN' 1 week ago:
and again when they finish figuring out self driving trucks.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Why wait?