TexasDrunk

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean we’re (we as in local taxpayers, not me personally in this case) already paying for the infrastructure they use in increased bills. We’re paying for their tax holidays while they’re talking about all the new jobs they’ll bring (lots of short term construction, 25-50 long term employees once the tax holiday runs out, so very little money in the local economy). We (all of us) are paying the price for the mothballed coal plants that are coming back online to support them. We are paying for federal government contracts on them.

  It’s corporate welfare all the way down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Follow the rules!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You must be a sys admin. I used to be and that was my first instinct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are allowed flavor⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would assume that the texture of the onion is part of the appeal. So if you grill it you’ve got to either toast the bread or add a few chips to get that crunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Quietly Withdraws Under Fire MMO Ashes of Creation From Sale As Fans Wonder Who's Left to Maintain the Servers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, yeah.

  However, in this particular case I think the CEO was running this as a pump and dump for nearly a decade, claiming to be fully funded and having no board (because he claimed it was self funded), and giving himself massive raises year over year.

  So a private equity firm bought something hollow. I have some guesses about it. Probably a friend of his, probably got it cheap, and is about to gut whatever is left now that the guy who did own it got out with what he could. Why would PE buy it otherwise? There’s no goodwill or name to cash in on like what’s being done with Native Instruments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One in 10 Japanese creatives see income fall due to generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it does depend on what you call a circle. There are maybe a dozen of us in one. In the other there are probably three or four dozen. I don’t know everyone. I got invited because I like genre bending. We’ve got a private forum where we share things.

  Even outside of that, there is a place that used to be less private but has now gone private (guess why) where we would do Sunday songwriters. We’d get a topic, record a little something before the next Sunday, then share. After sharing we’d critique, do mashups, genre hop, create genre crossovers, and generally just have fun with each other’s music.

  I do not know how prevalent this is. I know of two private places, one of which is very small, and a third place that used to be public (with no expectation of anyone actually seeing it) but went private because of Suno.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One in 10 Japanese creatives see income fall due to generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s already mystery music out there. Small circles of folks putting things out that they don’t expect or want people outside the circle to hear. I’m a nobody and I’m part of two different groups who share music with each other, build on each other’s works, try genre mashups and new shit that may never get done again, many times because it’s a mess but sometimes just because it was a fun one time thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One in 10 Japanese creatives see income fall due to generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think short term, yeah, I think so. Medium term and I think we’ll see a bunch of model collapse or people will get tired of the same story line repeatedly so it won’t be profitable (or won’t be regaining the money they thought they’d save on actual creative folks). Long term, I have no fucking clue if they’ll get around the fact that training AI on AI makes it even weirder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reaper, Studio One (although we’ll see what Fender does to it, we all remember the Gibson Cakewalk fiasco), and Bitwig are all native. Kind of depends on what your workflow is and what plugins you’re using. Yabridge is workable for a ton of stuff and not difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paracetamol is safe in pregnancy, says new evidence against Trump autism claims⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I thought they just made the claim to tank Kenvue so Kimberly Clark could buy them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I said no contact, dammit!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people have a terrible relationship with at least one person. An ex, a parent, a grandparent, an old friend who stole all your alcohol and refused to give it back or pay for it even though he knew you needed it for a get together you were having so you had to go buy all new alcohol on short notice which means you had to leave your brisket smoking unattended so you could drive to the next county and ended up with a brisket that was overdone, whatever. I don’t think it’s “wife bad” so much as it is “everyone knows a shitbag”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby girl⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe you’re really mine

  You’re a true gift from heaven

  And I loooooove you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cosmic Christmas Tree⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that was The Grinch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everyone warning!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Entirely unrelated, but the only thing I could think of

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To add to your point, Xiaohongshu has plenty of people on it who aren’t Chinese as well. Loads. It’s not like they’re in cultural blackout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It also kills my retail therapy that keeps my depression in check.

  I’m only half joking there. I don’t want disposable things to fill the hole. I have a stainless steel pan, a carbon steel pan, cast iron, and enamel cast iron. I’ll never need another pan in my life. Whoever gets it after they die likely won’t either. One of my cast iron pans is over 100 years old and works great. Looks almost like new.

  But I do want something to fill the hole some days. I just keep buying old world craftsmanship so I never have to replace shit so I never get my retail therapy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, there are tons of places where you can’t even start a frank discussion about it without just being spammed with the suicide prevention hotline and have your post/comments taken down. Yeah, it’s SUPER important that people know those resources exist when they’re in crisis but you can’t just send them that, block them from talking to people when they may not have anyone else to talk to, then congratulate yourself on a job well done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oechslegrad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My friend!!!

  And you already know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Memory Foam doesn't actually "Remember," it just deviates from the base and goes back. It's more like Forgetting Foam!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a memory foam Texas King. It only remembers the Alamo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oechslegrad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s when we bring the horses inside the house and pull out the first winter brisket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personally, I never travel anywhere without it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A dry man ain’t worth knowing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just seen the latest American Opinion polls.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless they’re being sent into a war. Then at 18 they’re men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm cooked, chat.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did you find that picture of my beard?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scandal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. And for anyone saying they’ve never heard that nickname for Clinton, Bubba Clinton is also mentioned in the docs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  -Michael Scott

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A place for conservatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Awww, look at the triggered little snowflake! How cute!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Boston⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s painfully accurate in some places down here. And if you’re ever through that way again there’s some decent fishing in Lake Texana. Got a whole mess of catfish out there a couple of weeks back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parkinson's sufferer wins six figure payout from GlaxoSmithKline over drug that turned him into a 'gay sex and gambling addict'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a dopamine agonist. Impulse control issues are a possible side effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guilty ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If your friend’s car looks like this, check on them. When my car was that bad it’s because my mental health was in the gutter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a stack of old 14.4 modems I’ll sell them if they’ll grift on that for a bit.