shneancy

@shneancy@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  i’m looking past it because my laptop is 7 years old and i’m happy it even runs lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rev up those 3D printers!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  gotta be international, my genitals are starting to get sore-

  spring has truly come i think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here the fuck we go again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  oh it’s here already? dang, there was one whole .jpeg of marketing and now it’s here… it feels weird for some reason

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Believe It Or Not, Black Licorice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  is your taste and smell different in any other way? or is it just black liquorice that transformed from disgusting to beloved?

  has the flavour of liquorice changed for you? or is the flavour the same but you now enjoy it?

  how many tires have you eaten and what does it mean that something tastes like a tire in a good way???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Believe It Or Not, Black Licorice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i have so many questions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Believe It Or Not, Black Licorice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  haven’t you heard? strawerries lost their berry status, and now they’re trying to lay low and avoid the identity theft lawsuits

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And then I'll sell my AI, so everyone can make drawings - EVERYONE can be an artist! And when everyone's an artist... no one will be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  machines today can be programmed to make the most intricate sculptures, and recreate the most famous of paintings on mass. and yet, actual artists are still here, because we know that it’s not the finished piece that matters the most, it’s the journey we went on to be able to draw what’s in our minds that matters, it’s human expression, painting, drawing, sculpting exactly in the way that we want to, flaws and all. every piece is a self-portrait, if/when AI aquires a self, then we’ll have this discussion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  but then i’d need to swipe to flip the page on both of them, that’s like, effort

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the 2 hour refund limit on Steam affect game design?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  imo the 2h refund window is not so you can judge if you’ll like the game, it’s so you can judge if you can tolerate it long enough to form an informed opinion

  there’s been a few games i played under 2h of and thought to myself “this is terrible, i’m not having fun and i actively dislike playing this”, Steam’s no questions asked refund was a cure for regret i’d have felt if i had to see that game in my library forever. Games that i know take much longer to judge i borrow from a friend who’s into fitness and a girl, that’s what saved me from buying Starfield or Avowed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  hey there’s also some of us who buy books we will definitely read eventually and they just keep stacking up, gotta put them somewhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  for the vibes of course, not everything has to be optimised for practicality

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Music wants me to verify my age.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t bother, there’s browser addons that just make that screen disappear

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope she found herself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  what

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope she found herself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  💀 if you think me pointing out that you insulted someone over reading comprehension that you failed at is bullying then dang, you might want to sit down and have a hard think about what happened here and the idea of irony in general

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope she found herself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  miiiight want to re-read the comment you replied to. they didn’t ask you why you did it, but what you did after. which though you answered, the “reading comprehension” comment is rather uh ironic there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur’s Gate 3’s biggest mod team now has hundreds of devs working on its huge custom campaign in an impressively professional production⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  bethesda taught us a very important lesson a while ago - if your game isn’t good, then the modders won’t bother. Skyrim despite its flaws is a good game, and has mods to show it, Starfield despite its budget is pretty bad, and after the initial hype most ambitious mod projects were cancelled.

  because of that i don’t think there’s any neferious plot behind the game makers celebrating their modding community, and the modding community certainly isn’t getting forced to work without pay - they’re passionate about the game and want to make something of their own within it, and honestly that builds a good portfolio for future use too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Curse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah alright that’s probably too late lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Curse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  r/piracy has a megathread with an easy tutorial on how to make that work, it’s honestly so easy it made me feel dumb for ever paying for adobe. you just have to run like one app, and then make your firewall block all outgoing connections for each of the .exes, the only app that doesn’t work despite that is lightroom BUT lightroom classic is fully functional and the same if not better, so no loss there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Curse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i’m pretty sure it’s not, since if you get through their bullshit AI assistant and talk to a human they can just undo it without a fuss if it hasn’t been too long since you’ve been charged

  i’m guessing they’re counting on people just giving up whilst defending themselves with “Your Honour people can technically do that, see they just need to contact support :)”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Curse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  nonono, go back there is a way. you have to battle through their FAQ, and then their AI assistant, when you finally arrive at the point of talking to a human being then they might be able to just undo that for you, i don’t know if there’s a deadline for giving back money after you’ve been charged, but if it was a day or two ago i’m sure it’s not too late

  it worked for me with adobe and netflix, they barely even asked why aside from what is required of them “why r u leaving i need it for a survey” type of thing. it’s a sleazy move to hide that you can get your money back, they try to squeeze just a little bit more out of you, but you if embrace your inner Karen there’s a chance!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Knock knock knocking on heaven's do-or-or-aawwhhh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  so the “can lsd kill” contunies to be a hypothetical question

  i’m so mad it’s illegal in most of the world. i’m starting to think everyone in governments of the world is either a coward who can’t face their own demons, or just copies US’s homework from back when the illusion of it being a competent nation was still there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Knock knock knocking on heaven's do-or-or-aawwhhh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean yeah, would certainly not be an easy or short trip for sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Knock knock knocking on heaven's do-or-or-aawwhhh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  could that much cause a seratonin syndrome? you’d need an ungodly amount of lsd to attempt to overdose, and drinking straight from a bottle seems pretty efficient

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah i was referring more to the chemical reactions. the 2+2 example is not the best one but langauge itself is a great case study. once you get fluent enough at any langauge everything just flows, you have a thought and then you compose words to describe it, and the reverse is true, you hear something and your brain just understands. How do we do any of that? no idea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  tbf, how do you know what to say and when? or what 2+2 is?

  you learnt it? well so did AI

  i’m not an AI nut or anything, but we can barely comprehend our own internal processes, it’d be concerning if a thing humanity created was better at it than us lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Embrace this Truth and enjoy life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  evolution is blind because all of it is an accident. life forms that survive long enough to make more life forms get their genes to live on. any life form that doesn’t, well, doesn’t. better survivability because of an error in copying genes? more offspring. worse survivability? less offspring

  there is no intention to evolution, it’s simply a consequence of the fact that some primitive life forms at some point felt a desire to copy their genes and the process of doing so is imperfect. That desire, probably a product of random copying itself, is what made all living things today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it doesn’t actually click on stuff. it “clicks” so that the advertisers’ and your digital footprint’s statistics get messed up, but you never see the results of the clicking, nothing pops up, nothing gets downloaded

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the community for stuff like this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh that’s what you meant!

  maybe typing it like “it will happen regardless, if you have the genetics” would avoid the confusion, because i thought the comman you get people (me) reading it wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the community for stuff like this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  regardless

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the community for stuff like this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  have you never met an old man with hair?