PlasticExistence
@PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK: You can block almost all cookie popups with Ublock Origin. 5 days 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. 6 days ago:
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 6 days ago:
And have it’s teeth whitened
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 6 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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.
- Comment on I kinda do know but I'm posting this as a joke. 3 weeks ago:
867-5309
- Comment on Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year 4 weeks ago:
Which is what makes it valuable enough to sell. There is an HDMI mod too.
- Comment on Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year 4 weeks ago:
I never even thought to do that. I was angry that their previously-perfect track record for quality hardware hadn’t carried over to that purchase as well. I did exchange my first unit for a second new one, but obviously it was no better.
I still have it. I don’t use it, so I’m going to sell it in the near future.
- Comment on Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year 4 weeks ago:
My American toploader has those really grating vertical lines running through the picture - as all of them did apparently. It was a rare known defect that Nintendo just rolled with rather than recalling and fixing them. I’m still a little bit salty about it.
These days I play through other means, but I definitely understand wanting to use original hardware.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 4 weeks ago:
Inflation is also not what the guy with the sign is taking into account in his complaint. He’s at least 40 years older in that picture than he was when he bought his property if he’s getting social security. The real purchasing power of whatever he paid back then is much smaller than the same number of dollars is now.
$5000 in January 1985 would be the same as $15,055.50 now according to the inflation calculator on the Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 4 weeks ago:
She’s keeping you on the hook. She also doesn’t sound very stable.
What do you gain from keeping this person around? Never mind her, what’s in this for you personally?
For me, this relationship would have run its course at this point, and I’d move on altogether.
- Comment on I don't want to enhance my productivity 4 weeks ago:
Sounds to me like you’re just looking for a hang job, turnip
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 5 weeks ago:
Ironic username, but no, there are none righteous
- Comment on Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing? 1 month ago:
- Comment on God I love Michael Bolton 1 month ago:
Speaking of no-talent ass clowns
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 1 month ago:
Outrun, especially Outrun 2006. I like arcade style racers the most.
Also in that vein, San Francisco Rush.
- Comment on Most people do not know how they died 1 month ago:
My intended nuances are often missed on Lemmy.
I can relate. There are a lot of users who insist on assuming ill intent where there is none.
