PlasticExistence
@PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
- Comment on Rate my setup 5 days ago:
Pretty good, but needs more bean varieties
- Comment on godosaur 1 week ago:
Yoshi!!
- Comment on Trine Was a Masterpiece. Why Doesn’t Anyone Remember? 2 weeks ago:
You live long enough and you start to see the elements of a new game’s DNA. Most games build on another that came before it. For example, Undertale takes a lot of inspiration from EarthBound.
What this has meant for me is that new games have a harder time really gripping my attention because I often think “well, that part was fun, but this other mechanic was much better implemented in this other game.”
I don’t have the patience anymore - nor the free time - to stick with any game that doesn’t do something special. And for me, gameplay is more important than anything else. Great visuals don’t make up for unfun game mechanics.
To each their own, of course.
- Comment on Microsoft's AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, boss, but this girl-on-girl playlist is to protect our sensitive data from Microsoft
- Comment on I only ordered one because it's "realistic" 3 weeks ago:
#SixSeasonsAndAMovie
- Comment on I only ordered one because it's "realistic" 3 weeks ago:
When did Dildopolis open a second location!?
- Comment on I only ordered one because it's "realistic" 3 weeks ago:
Did the seller promise discreet packaging or discrete packaging?
- Comment on Is there an easy way to create blocklist of post or comment for other people? 4 weeks ago:
I hear you. I don’t know about the rest of the apps, but Voyager has a fairly robust set of filter options. I regularly block things for non-dramatic reasons (like I just have zero interest in a specific subject that gets a lot of posts).
I’m not sure about using Lemmy through a web browser and what options that affords.
- Comment on "Cheers", but set in a fantasy tavern. 4 weeks ago:
This is one of the things What We Do In The Shadows got right.
- Comment on MiSTer FPGA: SharpX1 core WIP 4 weeks ago:
We do have a very incomplete X68000 core, IIRC. It’s enough to play some games at least. I’ve played Castlevania on it. My understanding is that there isn’t much available documentation for the X68000, and what is available is in Japanese. Definitely a major challenge for recreating it in FPGA form.
- Comment on Can I sue my apartment management company? 5 weeks ago:
Do your math again. 4/3 to 5/31 is less than 60 days.
But also you’ll want to go through the rental agreement and your local laws to see if they can force this on you. You may just default to a month-to-month, but you may not.
- Comment on PC's for millenials (and Gen Z somewhat) is the same thing as cars to boomers 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on YSK: You can block almost all cookie popups with Ublock Origin. 1 month ago:
You can use uBO on iOS now too. The Kagi search engine people have made a mobile browser (Orion) that supports Firefox and Chrome plugins!
My web browsing experience has drastically improved since I was finally able to get uBO back since my switch away from Android.
- Comment on WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff. 1 month ago:
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 1 month ago:
And have it’s teeth whitened
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 1 month ago:
“A way out west there was this fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin’ parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that’s a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, like-wise. But then again, maybe that’s why I found the place s’durned innarestin’.”
- Comment on The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Will Be 60 Minutes Long, Nintendo Confirms 1 month ago:
Exactly what I was thinking.
I wonder if there’s any chance Nintendo will remaster the other two Metroid Prime games before 4 launches
- Comment on The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Will Be 60 Minutes Long, Nintendo Confirms 1 month ago:
And AND it’s not as though we can expect another mainline Zelda game on launch day. Maybe Metroid Prime 4, sure, but that series has never moved units the way Zelda does (as much as I wish it did).
I agree with your assessment. That’s where I fall too. I’ve got a launch day Switch and an OLED Steam Deck. My Switch mostly gathers dust since I got the Deck.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You can. It’s incredibly generous of you to do that!
You’ll need to know his account number and where the payment gets sent. It might be difficult to get this information quietly though.
Usually you’d want to call the company that is servicing the loan and ask them to calculate a payoff amount as of a specific date. That way when you make your payment, all outstanding interest is paid off as well as the balance.
That company may not give you this information depending upon laws and policies. Since you’re not the person they’re contracted with for the loan.
I used to be a loan officer / underwriter, but I never dealt with student loans which have different laws governing them, so this is the best info I have to share (it’s also been 15 years since I did that work). I used to give payoff amounts all the time to other people and organizations though. People refinance their loans all the time, so it’s very common to give out that payoff calculation when the requester has the account number and name of the loan account holder.
- Comment on professional 1 month ago:
It’s not just you. I might ask someone how they’re doing during a work call, but that’s dependent upon my familiarity with the person. If we actually know each other on a friendly level, that’s one thing.
However I despise being asked that question by basically anyone else. They don’t actually want to know. I don’t actually want to tell them. Why are we wasting time on BS. Just get to the point, please.
Especially when the call is unplanned. If you’re calling me during a work day and we hadn’t previously discussed anything over email or IM, then that calls needs to be about something pressing. If it’s about something important enough to interrupt me and demand my immediate attention, then we don’t need to waste time on pleasantries.
- Comment on Anyone know how to unlock Others? 1 month ago:
You have to defeat the entire cabinet first
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 1 month ago:
It might surprise you to know that you’re not entitled to a free education from me. Your original query of “What’s the difference?” is what I responded to willingly. Your philosophical exploration of the nature of intelligence is not in the same ballpark.
I’ve done vibe coding too, enough to understand that the LLMs don’t think.
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 1 month ago:
Then you should have an easier time than most learning more. Your points show a lack of understanding about the tech, and I don’t have the time to pick everything you said apart to try to convince you that LLMs do not have sentience.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 1 month ago:
Performance has been better for me too. I keep both installed on my media server, but I hope one day that I can easily ditch plex
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 1 month ago:
I would do more research on how they work. You’ll be a lot more comfortable making those distinctions then.
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 1 month ago:
Parrots can mimic humans too, but they don’t understand what we’re saying the way we do.
LLMs like ChatGP operate on probability. They don’t actually understand anything and aren’t intelligent. They can’t think. They just know that which next word or sentence is probably right and they string things together this way.
If you ask ChatGPT a question, it analyzes your words and responds with a series of words that it has calculated to be the highest probability of the correct words.
The reason that they seem so intelligent is because they have been trained on absolutely gargantuan amounts of text from books, websites, news articles, etc. Because of this, the calculated probabilities of related words and ideas is accurate enough to allow it to mimic human speech in a convincing way.
And when they start hallucinating, it’s because they don’t understand how they sound and so far this is a core problem that nobody has been able to solve. The best mitigation involves checking the output of one LLM using a second LLM.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 1 month ago:
I get that. I prefer to use what just works. Plex has for a while been moving towards putting barriers towards using it locally. Jellyfin has less polish, but none of the bullshit.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 1 month ago:
It increases on April 29th, so if you still want to buy a lifetime pass at the current rate, you have until then.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 1 month ago:
There’s an extension/plugin that you can install for that. I have been meaning to do that, but I keep forgetting, so I can’t say how good it is.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 1 month ago:
This is my experience too. The web interface is usable, but a bit rough. It is a lot like early Plex web UI. The options for clients are okay on Android / Google TV but they are kinda bad on Apple TV.
Hopefully as more people discover Jellyfin interest in development of both the server and the clients will surpass Plex.
I appreciate what Plex has offered for free for many years now, and I was once a subscriber, but I don’t love it anymore because I’m looking for the straightest path to watching my library on my devices. Jellyfin delivers this better most of the time.
