jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why Custom Clergy Shirts Are Essential for Men and Women in Ministry 4 days ago:
Technology? Really?
- Comment on Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss 5 days ago:
AI is a little bit more complicated than that due to the flaws that pop up in generating.
For example, here are some AI comic books that were created. What the author did was write the overall story, then used an AI prompt to create each panel of the comic.
Each panel took dozens to hundreds of attempts, out of which the author made the artistic decision to choose the best one.
“The Lesson” is probably my favorite of the bunch, but they’re free to download, check them out.
- Comment on Can't figure it out.d Been staring at this picture for an hour and have no idea what it means 6 days ago:
Somebody took a shower, sat on a towel on the bed, and then stood up? 🤔
Not sure about the blur line on the pillow though…
- Comment on Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss 6 days ago:
Computer based art was being used to sell books in bookstores 40 years ago.
- Comment on Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss 6 days ago:
In the 80s, comic book art was produced entirely with computer based art tools. It didn’t raise an eyebrow beyond “Oh, that’s neat!”
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 week ago:
Why would you ask AI to delete ANYTHING? That’s a pretty high level of trust…
- Comment on Winter burrow SBI controversy 1 week ago:
Bought the game on the strength of the “Mouse Guard” inspired imagery.
Finished it tonight, it’s a delight and anyone complaining about “wokeness” clearly has not played the game. Demo is free guys, rest of it plays out just like that.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 1 week ago:
Read the plot summary of the play Equus linked above.
Like I say, this sounds like the gaming equivalent of Equus, which, when performed, involves a character supposed to be 17 doing exactly that.
The horses on stage are supposed to be “real” horses, but are performed by human actors. The male actor in these scenes is also typically nude.
NGL, it’s a HEAVY play to read and even heavier to watch, but it also won the 1975 Tony Award for best play…
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 1 week ago:
Sounds like the gaming equivalent of the play “Equus”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_(play)
I can see why some would shy away from it, but banning it is the sort of thing that will keep gaming from becoming a unique art form. 😟
- Comment on Games you played inside video games. 1 week ago:
“No weapons” Melee combat only.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 week ago:
Until someone has to go up to unplug it and plug it back in again. 😁
- Comment on My thumb stick on my 3ds is disintegrating, and my switch is starting to follow. Please help. 1 week ago:
3,000+ hours in Destiny and Destiny 2. LOL.
- Comment on My thumb stick on my 3ds is disintegrating, and my switch is starting to follow. Please help. 2 weeks ago:
Happened to both sticks on my PS4 controller, only thing I could do was get a new controller. 😟
Not sure how to fix the 3DS, but for the Switch I’d just replace the Joy Con.
- Comment on The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago 2 weeks ago:
I miss Xbox Live Arcade with the requirement that all games have free demos.
Remember demos? Or magazine demos? Or magazines? 😉
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You still need some way of identifying individual devices on the Internet, if not an IP address, then something that may as well be.
Every network card has a MAC address, but those aren’t routable.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 2 weeks ago:
And Infinite is likely the end, at least for me…
- Comment on How many instances have you been orphaned from? 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy.one and kbin. 😟
- Comment on Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing 2 weeks ago:
FTFY:
Lawmakers
Want to Ban VPNs—And TheyHave No Idea What They’re Doing - Comment on AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures 2 weeks ago:
LOL - Hey, if you’re willing to help haul food, sure! 😉 Seriously, loading and unloading the car I think will be the trick…
- Comment on AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures 2 weeks ago:
It’s really good soup! 😉
- Comment on AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures 2 weeks ago:
I hope so, I’ve had 2 heart attacks and technically died a couple of times. I don’t want the recipe ending with me.
- Comment on AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures 2 weeks ago:
Thermometer! Always a thermometer! Not even meats, it’s great for breads, and also temping oil for deep frying.
This year, my family decided on a big get together. I have no idea who all is coming.
My plan is to start Wednesday with cranberry sauce so it has time to sit in the fridge overnight.
Thursday morning I have it all planned out…
2 loaves of banana bread (350°)
Scalloped potatoes (350°)
3 loaves of bread, white, medium wheat, dark wheat (425° oven, internal to 180°)
Sweet potatoes with toasted pecan topping. (stovetop +450° in the oven for toasting).If I start by 10:00 it should all be done by 4:00 which gives me time to clean up, pack up, and get to the house.
- Comment on AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures 2 weeks ago:
I mean, if you want a soup recipe, this one has been feeding my family for 100+ years. Great grandma Hulda brought it from the old country, taught grandma Joan and auntie Sandra. Grandma Joan taught me. I’m the last one making it, though boy, everyone loves eating it!
Caution: As with all old recipes, makes a metric fuckton of soup. Don’t do this if it’s only 1-2 people.
Ingredients
2 Cups of flour (250g)
1/2 Teaspoon salt
1 Teaspoon baking powder
2 Eggs whipped to a froth added to 1/2 to 3/4 of a cup of warm water (118 to 177ml)
4 Potatoes
1 Onion
1 1/2 Pounds (24 oz., 680g) of beef sausage (also called German Summer Sausage)
2 to 3 Tablespoons of butter, lightly mixed with a little flour
1/2 Quart (2 cups, 473ml) of milk
1 Sterile pair of scissorsChop the potatoes and onion into bite size pieces. Put them in a pot and pour in enough water to not only cover them all completely but to cover them to a depth of 4 inches (10cm). Bring to a boil and cook for and additional 15 minutes.
While the potatoes and onion are cooking add the water and eggs to the flour, salt and baking powder and mix in a bowl. Knead the dough repeatedly until it is completely smooth with no lumps, rough spots or wet spots.
When the dough is ready, break off strips and roll them between your hands until they are about 1/4 of an inch (6mm) thick (slightly smaller than a bread-stick).
Cut the summer sausage into bite size pieces. You may flour the knife as needed to keep the meat from sticking to it.
By now the potato and onion mix should be well cooked and it is time to add the dumplings and sausage to the mix.
The preferred method of adding the dumpings is to use the sterilized pair of scissors, hold the strip of dough above the pot and snip the dumpings straight into the pot (watch out for backsplash!)
If you don’t have a sterile pair of scissors you can cut them manually with a knife and add them to the pot with the meat.
IMPORTANT! Dumplings will swell to 3 times their cut size as they cook!
Make
them
SMALL!
Stir well and cook for another 30 to 45 minutes or until the dumplings are well boiled. Be careful at this stage because it is likely the pot will boil over if the temperature is too high.
If you place a wooden spoon across the top of the pot, that can help limit boil over.
At this point the soup may seem too thin. Add the butter and flour mixture as well as the milk as thickening agents and cook 10 to 15 minutes more if needed to thicken the broth.
Refrigerate any leftovers and re-heat like any other soup.
Grand-dad alway put vineagar in his, but you do you! 😉
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 weeks ago:
I still say Enclave was a great game. The reviewers at the time absolutely misunderstood it.
Most of the complaints from 2003 are things people love about the Souls games now…
HD version:
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
So what’s a PC with the same level of performance?
store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
CPU
Semi-custom AMD Zen 4 6C / 12T
up to 4.8 GHz, 30W TDP
GPU
Semi-Custom AMD RDNA3 28CUs
2.45GHz max sustained clock, 110W TDP
16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAM
512GB NVMe SSD
2TB NVMe SSD
$1,000?
- Comment on Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard 2 weeks ago:
You have been eaten by a Grue.
- Comment on Burger King now selling "Mystery" menus 2 weeks ago:
+ cheese. Soooo much cheese.
There’s actually a whole reason behind that too:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Surely nothing bad will come from this.
“Honey? Did you remember to feed the computer today?”
- Comment on Burger King now selling "Mystery" menus 3 weeks ago:
Some of the stuff Wendy’s does is obscene.
- Comment on Burger King now selling "Mystery" menus 3 weeks ago:
Bad for people with food allergies…
