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- Comment on Is there a portable swamp cooler with a window hose like air conditioners have? 2 hours ago:
Swamp cooler cools air by evaporating water which uses up the heat energy in the room. Air conditioner on the other hand takes the heat energy from inside and moves it outside. They work by a different principle. A swamp cooler with an exhaust went wouldn’t work because you’d then just be pulling in hot replacment air from somewhere else.
- Comment on Need opinions on screw types from someone with experience 3 hours ago:
A 4x4 feels like overkill, but personally, I’d go with lag bolts. The issue with screws is that, while they won’t pull out easily, they’re still prone to snapping due to their hardness - so their ability to handle side load is weaker compared to something like nails, which will bend rather than break. With lag bolts, though, that’s not much of an issue because of their thickness.
Whenever we’ve had heavy stuff delivered to job sites on pallets, it’s always been secured with lag bolts and washers. And yes - you’ll need a pilot hole, sized to the diameter of the bolt’s core (the inside of the threads).
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 12 hours ago:
Unless you’re causing harm, what others might think is rarely a good enough reason not to do something you genuinely want to do.
- Comment on Are any calls without caller ID legit? 1 day ago:
If I get a call to my private number and it’s not someone from my contacts there’s over 99% chance that it’s a telemarketer.
However, to address your question wether any of them are legit - well ofcourse. You’ve probably called people too that don’t have you in their contacts. I know that for example the police in my country always call you from an unknown number.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 2 days ago:
I don’t adopt views wholesale—I evaluate each issue on an individual basis, so my views tend to be a mixed bag. From a political standpoint, most people would probably see me as an unreliable ally as my views can be hard to predict. While I agree with many, if not most, “left-wing” ideas, there are still plenty of others that would get me labeled as a Nazi MAGA Republican.
That said, on Lemmy I’m definitely in the minority when it comes to holding certain beliefs that many would label “right-wing,” even though on other issues I can out–left-wing even most leftists.
- Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 3 days ago:
“Nothing’s new - same old”
- Comment on gross either way, but do friends actually talk like this or would this be from people who are dating or something? 3 days ago:
This is how guys pretending to be women roleplay with each other on horny chatrooms.
- Comment on “It Wouldn’t Be Surprising If, in Two Years’ Time, There Was a Film Made Completely Through AI”: Says Hayao Miyazaki’s Own Son 3 days ago:
Something I’d personally love to be able to do is to ask it to recreate an existing tv series but according to my personal preferences by removing stuff from them that I don’t like and adding things that I do. The Walking Dead for example wouldn’t even need that much tweaking to make it actually good. Another thing I’d love to use it for is to create new seasons for finished series such as Yellowstone.
- Comment on If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be? 4 days ago:
I’m pretty sure everyone can agree that it’s unpleasant.
I strongly disagree.
Personally I’d remove the need for sleep and effectively increase my lifespan by 3rd.
- Comment on “Art of the Deal” 4 days ago:
Anyone with savings can profit from buying the dip.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Yeah, the first time I tired it I got to 160kph on a -03 hatchback Corolla and it felt like the mirrors were about to fly off. The 200kph I did few years later was on a -01 Audi A6 and the ride was smooth as hell and the car felt very planted. It’s just that at those speeds even low bumps feel like ramps.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Doing it on empty highway at the middle of the night was scary enough for me.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Fastes I’ve driven was 200km/h and it felt like if I’d hit a pebble my car would’ve taken off. 300km/h is airplane speed.
- Comment on Why is society so hard to work within whether online or physically in person 6 days ago:
What’s the common denominator in all these difficult encounters?
You are.
- Comment on It is deeply bad that a moderator can remove any post or reply. 6 days ago:
I blocked all .ml communities so this problem no longer affects me
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Well, I say sorry, please, and thank you to ChatGPT knowing perfectly well that it means nothing to it. You’re just further down the same spectrum. Is what you’re doing a bit weird? Sure - but it’s not hurting anyone, so I’d say go for it. The worst possible reason to stop would be fear of judgment from others. I see AI companions kind of like online dating: the early adopters are seen as odd, but give it a decade and most people will be doing it.
Also, as I’m sure you know, Lemmy has a disproportionate number of AI haters in its user base, so don’t expect the responses here to reflect mainstream attitudes.
- Comment on Putin calls up 160,000 Russians for military service 1 week ago:
The Russian Federation traditionally holds conscriptions twice a year: in spring and autumn.
- Comment on Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025. 1 week ago:
I’ve never seen the point of a folding phone other than as a gimmick you show off to your friends.
- Comment on People who created AI will be replaced by AI 1 week ago:
Not if - when.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 1 week ago:
If someone claims to care about the climate, then using wireless charging makes them kind of a hypocrite. I asked ChatGPT to do some back-of-the-envelope math - so take these numbers with a grain of salt - but if everyone in the world switched to wireless charging, it would increase global energy consumption by around 12 TWh per year. That’s roughly equivalent to the total power usage of a small country like Iceland.
- Comment on Putin suggests temporary administration for Ukraine, Russian news agencies report 1 week ago:
A White House National Security Council spokesperson, asked about Putin’s remarks on temporary administration, said governance in Ukraine was determined by its constitution and the people of the country.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
I’m getting the sense here that you’re placing most - if not all - of the blame on LLMs, but that’s probably not what you actually think. I’m sure you’d agree there are other factors at play too, right? One theory that comes to mind is that the people you’re describing probably spend a lot of time debating online and are constantly exposed to bad-faith arguments, personal attacks, people talking past each other, and dunking - basically everything we established is wrong with social media discourse. As a result, they’ve developed a really low tolerance for it, and the moment someone starts making noises sounding even remotely like those negative encounters, they automatically label them as “one of them” and switch into lawyer mode - defending their worldview against claims that aren’t even being made.
That said, since we’re talking about your friends and not just some random person online, I think an even more likely explanation is that you’ve simply grown apart. When people close to you start talking to you in the way you described, it often means they just don’t care the way they used to. Of course, it’s also possible that you’re coming across as kind of a prick and they’re reacting to that - but I’m not sensing any of that here, so I doubt that’s the case.
I don’t know what else you’ve been up to over the past year, but I’m wondering if you’ve been on some kind of personal development journey - because I definitely have, and I’m not the same person I was when I met my friends either. A lot of the things they may have liked about me back then have since changed, and maybe they like me less now because of it. But guess what? I like me more. If the choice is to either keep moving forward and risk losing some friends, or regress just to keep them around, then I’ll take being alone. Chris Williamson calls this the “Lonely Chapter” - you’re different enough that you no longer fit in with your old group, but not yet far enough along to have found the new one.
- Comment on Short attention span 1 week ago:
Man… I think I saw this (music?) video where that picture is from like over 20 years ago when me and my dad went to buy something from a stranger and his daughter was watching the TV and showed her dad this scene. I don’t know why, but that moment stuck with me for some reason and now here it is again decades later. Where is this from?
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
I don’t personally feel like this applies to people who know me in real life, even when we’re just chatting over text. If the tone comes off wrong, I know they’re not trying to hurt my feelings. People don’t talk to someone they know the same way they talk to strangers online—and they’re not making wild assumptions about me either, because they already know who I am.
Also, I’m not exactly talking about tone per se. While written text can certainly have a tone, a lot of it is projected by the reader. I’m sure some of my writing might come across as hostile or cold too, but that’s not how it sounds in my head when I’m writing it. What I’m really complaining about—something real people often do and AI doesn’t—is the intentional nastiness. They intend to be mean, snarky, and dismissive. Often, they’re not even really talking to me. They know there’s an audience, and they care more about how that audience reacts. Even when they disagree, they rarely put any real effort into trying to change the other person’s mind. They’re just throwing stones. They consider an argument won when their comment calling the other person a bigot got 25 upvotes.
In my case, the main issue with talking to my friends compared to ChatGPT is that most of them have completely different interests, so there’s just not much to talk about. But with ChatGPT, it doesn’t matter what I want to discuss—it always acts interested and asks follow-up questions.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
How do you even have a conversation without quitting in frustration from it’s obviously robotic answers?
Talking with actual people online isn’t much better. ChatGPT might sound robotic, but it’s extremely polite, actually reads what you say, and responds to it. It doesn’t jump to hasty, unfounded conclusions about you based on tiny bits of information you reveal. When you’re wrong, it just tells you what you’re wrong about - it doesn’t call you an idiot and tell you to go read more. Even in touchy discussions, it stays calm and measured, rather than getting overwhelmed with emotion, which becomes painfully obvious in how people respond. The experience of having difficult conversations online is often the exact opposite. A huge number of people on message boards are outright awful to those they disagree with.
Here’s a good example of the kind of angry, hateful message you’ll never get from ChatGPT - and honestly, I’d take a robotic response over that any day.
I think these people were already crazy if they’re willing to let a machine shovel garbage into their mouths blindly. Fucking mindless zombies eating up whatever is big and trendy.
- Comment on Upvote/Downvote is the first mental skill that infants learn. 1 week ago:
That explains the downvotes - infants!
- Comment on I've never said "I love you" to my sister 2 weeks ago:
Should I have? Is this an autistic thing to wonder?
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- Comment on Maybe time travelers actually exist and this mess of a timeline is the result of their interference... 2 weeks ago:
Earth is by far the most complex thing in the entire known universe. I don’t know how you expect the events here to be clear or simple.
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 2 weeks ago:
So you do go to gym