HubertManne

@HubertManne@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic releases new AI Constitution for Claude⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  why would investors want that? it would result in loss of all investment as it is now an entity wth rights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  still ff12 but im kinda been getting an ich to put baldurs gate back on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark | ‘Make America Go Away’: spoof Maga caps soar in popularity amid Greenland crisis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  here in the us I can’t get a red colored hat that does not say im an asshole or some other equivalent phrase. I asked and they said that is all they print on solid red baseball caps like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking – Court of Appeal erodes independence of juries⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like trump is giving all other countries facist right cart blanche because they can be like. well we are not as crazy as this guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harvard Slips on a Global Ranking List, as Chinese Schools Surge Ahead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “on a list measuring academic output”. I mean given the long standing problems with publication quality that seems to get worse as time goes by im not sure how to feel about this. Its not just this but I feel the world has lost all ability to assess quality and just uses quantity. I realize this is largely due to americas “leadership”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Seed Oils Became the Villain of Social Media—And What the Science Really Says [15:48]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never been big on macronutrient things overall. I was raised on margarine and prefered the flavor but as an adult I have a bigger appreciation of butter but my wife and I for some reason love brummel and brown. Neither of us can explain why we are aware it does not have active cultures or anything that would give it a health advantage. Its literally the taste. Love avocado oil for its taste and high smoke point and coconut for taste. olive is fine and sorta neutral to me (which is funny because i have read avocado is the neutral one). I take fish oil pills because it has a noticable positive effect on my dry eye and now that I have been on them I really notice if I forget to take one. I like to add collagen to anything I can as its cheap and there is this whole thing from studies around cron with glycin to methionine ratios and im to lazy to keep real bone broth going. I do think its good to limit simpler carbs and fats. I view it as an arc that goes from sugars to simple carbs to fiber to protein to fats where fiber is the top and most healthy).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  um im using zorin with kde. maybe im using the term wrong but for me it means I can use the super button and arrow or mouse and moving the window to the edges or corners to halvies the windows or in the case of corners use a quarter of the screen. Its the main reason I installed kde is for it. It does not have stuff like being able to adjust the windows in tandem but that is at best a minor nicety to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you don’t hear about it because its really not much of a thing nowadays. Like my distro zorin uses gnome and I was fine with it for awhile and I would belly ache on forums like this that they should switch to kde. Finally I got off my lazy but and installed kde. once I had the window manager just lists the options. I actually end up with a few because I installed all kde and zorin has its own (well its just a different preconfig of gnome) so I have a drop down for zorin, gnome, kde plasma, and kde x11. thats it done. by installing kde I got that with nothing further done on my part. So its so easy now you just don’t get people talking about it really. Personally I loved the next step machines which is why I liked osx but then when ios influence went into osx it drifted away from what I like. Now I mostly just want window snapping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux is definately better in 2026 and I really don’t think it has more driver issues than windows now (which its not like windows has zero if you do a fresh install of generic windows instead of the vendors copy). So virtually zero. They can crop up and I have not seen any but I have seen people online still mention issues. Again not commonly. I personally use zorin because its an out of the box distro that uses the lte and I feel its very stable and functional. Thing is if you are used to mac you either would have to use the paid version to get the gui switcher function, or mess with the settings yourself to get it to act like a mac, or use another distro like elementary os which I believe is setup to behave like a mac. I was a big mac fanboy in the late aughts but went away from it when it went to all about being small and sleak over powerful with many ports along with apple care no longer being legendarily good. They use chromebooks at the schools I substitute and oh how I hate the reverse scrolling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the price is reasonable enough I can see it for gaming in general. Without gaming my laptop can have much more modest specs and I don’t really care about games running in the cloud unlike my documents and web browsing that I would prefer to keep control of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's documentation highlights the different ways standalone games run on Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope the ai draw on the supply chain draws down by the time this comes out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  just to be clear to folks. This is about wikipedia getting compensation for all sorts of ai providers grabbing data from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choosing to live fucking sucks sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  and ill just smile and give you a vegamite, sandwich (sorry to break the heavy conversation but maybe a few smiles will result in the etherwebs. and no im not from the land of down under.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choosing to live fucking sucks sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel this. If there is one thing is that many things really become obviously unimportant and it is easier to see what is important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choosing to live fucking sucks sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I 100% can relate. Heck even the choice is limited if you know how bad living can be. Want it to be painless and you don’t want to screw up and have them pull you back with half your brain damaged. I have said before that if humans had an internal off switch. An act of will that could perm exit out. Man would the global population crator. I think a major thing is the possibility of real improvement which has never been lower in my opinion. The world and humanity has a plethora of challenges that even if we all cooperated peacefully to achieve are tough to overcome. This goodly portion that wants for themselves but not for others and looks to use violence to achieve their goals. ugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US would reach 100% renewable energy by 2148 at current pace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ah. the wind is definately different near me. I sorta wonder though how constant or not they are at the elevation of the turbines. I almost always see them moving no matter the wind. I had heard they actually to much wind and they have to be turned off but I think anytime its been storming that bad I have not paid attention to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fed chair Powell says targeted by federal probe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate repeating these things but man the projection. weaponization of the justice department.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK backs US power play for Greenland's elusive minerals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  rolls eyes:

  “Still, Starmer’s silence and failure to challenge the threat of Greenland’s capture “whether they like it or not” — to use Trump’s own words — is a tacit endorsement of neocolonial extractivism.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should AI Agents Be Classified As People?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  no but we don’t just tax labor. honestly we shouldn’t. tax the coporate income and don’t allow them to dodge it overseas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US would reach 100% renewable energy by 2148 at current pace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  does the wind depend on long days?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fall into the anti-AI hype⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The hype goes both ways. Its fine as a further abstraction of search but its energy usage is still concerning although I hope hardware technology will reduce that. Its generative funtion can be useful but is disengenous and so far cannot replace actual talent. It can also be a crutch as one becomes out of practice. That being said with folks that lack talent like myself it can be very helpful when you simply don’t have or can’t afford someone to help you. Its certainly going to improve and not go anywhere. Avoiding it would be like avoiding web searching to find answers in the aughts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists discover a treatment that will let you live to be 1000 but it also turns you into a reptile. Do you do it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you ended this with a question mark. are you adding more detail or asking yourself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists discover a treatment that will let you live to be 1000 but it also turns you into a reptile. Do you do it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  humanoid reptile? like a gorn from sto or something? does it change my personality. like do the hormones or such make you act differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Renee Nicole Good said ‘I’m not mad at you’ before ICE agent shot her, video shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude. Woman in the chicago area had seven holes put in her because she was stuck in the same traffic as ice. They regularly threw tear gas out their cars while driving by. There is little you can do when under assault like this except move to a saner country but some folks don’t want to abandon the us military to come to the shores of the country they retreat to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you know your right. That one is still around and not a big thing for me. Its claim to fame is this gameification of discounts with double coupons and kohls cash and stuff that allows for purchaing things real cheap. I never liked it but I knew people who were all gaga and admidately they seemed to be able to get stuff deeply discounted without ever paying to much for things although they might buy some stuff that was at just a decent price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  funny beause we also used to have coles that was a department store. Ill admit to some retail nostalgia with woolworths, service merchandise, and marshal fields. Heck even sears a bit and oh wow there was actually a goldblatts still in chicago in the current millenia. Thanks for setting me straight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  they were in the us and pretty big when I was a kid. Did not even know they still existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump: The U.S. will 'now' start hitting Mexican land targets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  this must be what it feels like to be russian. stop it. stop using the military like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but what are they actually going to do. I have said here that they should tear up the streets in front of all their facilities and have inspections to make sure they are up to code. local police should follow them around and make sure to uphold the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oooh. my weekly ff12 posting. so I learned something about the diamon armlet and rare drops from chests at least in the zodiac version. Again this is not really outlayed well from web searches I have seen. What you do see is that the armlet has a 5% chance for a chest to do its rare drop. What is a bit less clear is each chest has its own rare drop and that is the only thing that will come from it. You may see mention that chests don’t only appear but what I do not see mentioned is it seems the chance of a chest appearing seems to be based on how rare its drop is. I can’t prove it as I have not collected data and plotted a chart or such but belive me. I have been running this thing in the cerobbie step that is supposed to have the darksword ninja sword thing. I initially had ran around and man I reallly was wondering if the rare drop had been taken out or something at some point but one finally happened. So I decided I would just start going for a few chests. this line from the save crystal entrace point going between two rocks that have a chest with two inbetween. After going back and forth many many times I can plainly see the darksword chest comes up way less than chests that have the dueling mask (which I got) and the sextant and ultima is much rarer than both of those but the darkblade is that much rarer to show up. So you have a 5% chance for the armlet to work but you have another percentage for rare loot that is smaller the rarer it is. So like lets say the darkblad chest has a 5% chance to populate (this feels about right or maybe lower). So then like if you respawn the zone 400 times then maybe 20 times that chest will spawn and maybe the darkblad will drop. Between zone cutover time and actually running around at 2x speed it results in a rediculous amount of time. I would have stopped if it was not for the fact I can play my steamdeck on the toilet. (sorry tmi?)