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averyminya , 1 day ago

37 million Chrome users have downloaded Ublock Origin (if that isn't including duplicate downloads/multiple accounts on one user).

5.3 billion people use the internet. 307 million in the U.S. as of 2022... what is that, 10% of Americans using Chrome using adblock? Less?

averyminya , 8 days ago

Lmao it just starts showing AI results but using the flag stops showing the qualifier that it is AI results.

averyminya , 11 days ago

Under "Publish by web & e-mail" section the short video shows adding a product listing, which looked pretty straightforward to add. Right click, scroll, add product listing.

The template it adds looks nearly identical to the affiliate product links I put together for my site, just a bit different on how it fills it in.

I'm in a similar situation, but I don't really have physical products. I've been putting together my blog using google sites and I've come across a few other e-commerce sites, like Ecwid which I ended up using. I'm not sure if it's temporary or not but they have 5 free listings which I did a quick mock-up for, and that just uses embed code. I can direct people to my Ecwid store ({websitename}.company.site) or simply direct them to my website.com/shop page.

The main difference with Ghost I'm seeing is there's no immediate product page for each shop listing, but that shouldn't really be an issue unless for some reason it prevents you from creating site pages for each specific product.

In short: I would say if you are able to create a shop page with 5+ listings (which you can see details and add to cart), and then you are able to click a product and have it bring you to its specific page to see more details and add to cart, Ghost is probably as good as anything else.

averyminya , 10 days ago

It wasn't a linked video it was just the background gif that was playing on a loop, sorry I should have been a little more clear!

averyminya , 15 days ago

The extreme support that Intel has gotten from our government to move chip production stateside agrees with this

averyminya , 17 days ago

I wish I could say that I spent even 5% of my time on Windows troubleshooting it, within the last 5 years. Linux rant incoming (but not against it)

A decade ago I would have agreed. In a couple years I will also agree again, because W11 is pretty awful. However, W10 after the first year has been really, really solid for me. The few issues I have had were hardware related and a fresh install solved anything angry that lingered.

On the flip side, I have a home server that I want to run a bunch of local services on. Anything past Plex starts getting extremely difficult extremely quickly, and I have been playing with Linux on and off for the last decade as well (2014 was actually one of my first projects getting Linux on a laptop). I have trashed hundreds of Linux installs, I just trashed one a couple months ago and now my steady reliable Plex server is am expensive box until I can take the time to reinstall and re-set up this now decimated Linux install.

I have issues with both Operating Systems. I fucking despise Linux so often of the time I'm using it because I want it to do something very simple and basic and it forces me to learn its unconventional and weird systems where there's no "right" way to something with 3,521 ways to accomplish it (but don't do those 5,320 other ways, that's the wrong way depending on who you ask.). In many ways, that's the beauty of it. In many ways, there is nothing wrong with having to learn how to use your computer. At the same time, that is the very thing that I attribute to the failure of Linux (both Linux and its wider adoption). If you are familiar, you may see a parallel between iPhone and Android here. One is a more walled off garden (Windows/iPhone) and the other is a looser but more complex system (Linux/Android), but at the core ONE set of users CAN'T switch because they don't want to learn the other side. They are familiar with their swiping patterns, so switching from an iPhone is reprehensible, how could we possibly ever re-learn something? (FWIW, I'm not saying this is all iPhone/all Android users. My partner has stated she can never switch to Android, because she took forever to learn the iPhone. This is not the only person I know with this sentiment.)

With that in mind, it becomes clear that we have made computers accessible to everyone. Linux is at the furthest opposite end of accessibility for anyone who needs to do something outside of installing a program from a package manager. There is a reason so many Linux GUI's specifically try to look like Windows (and MacOS). It's because those Operating Systems have pretty much solved the issue of the unknowledgeable user. Just the simple fact that someone can't plug in a hard drive and have it work every time, they have to go into a specific folder and write a specific arbitrary un-memorable UUID and tell it to always mount it on boot. And that's not even getting started on something like networking. Or GPU drivers, and we can not even try to deny that this is probably the most common bane amongst even well versed Linux users.

I'm sorry, that is really stupid. In the name of security you are sacrificing basic functionality, which is what inherently will prevent this O.S. from being used. I think I only need to point to the Steam Deck to prove my point -- make Linux easy and functional and people will use it. Lo-and-behold, the Steam Deck requires ZERO Linux knowledge and you can use it as a fully fledged PC. And even despite all of that effort, people still had issues setting and forgetting their password. THAT is the bar we are working with here.

Which of course, brings us to Windows (and in a way MacOS but this isn't really about them). For Windows, you are sacrificing security for functionality for the unknowledgable user.

That said I’ve been on Linux for ages so a lot of the issues I ran into on windows were frustrations with knowing how easy it would have been to resolve technical issues in Linux.

Windows users, scratch that, COMPUTER users in general have the exact same issue, but for their familiarity. You are familiar with Linux and have memorized the workflow to get your reliable answers. The average person is familiar with Windows and has learned that right clicking for the context menu allows them to open the settings. There is a literal SEA of knowledge between these two users, which appears to me to be the fundamental issue with Linux. You have to learn it, actively. This in itself isn't necessarily an issue, but it is a huge inhibitor.

What it comes down to is project reliability. When I spin up a Linux project I want it to be pretty much permanent, but I very quickly learned that it is very difficult to keep it stable. I have re-scrapped installs more times on Linux in 10 years than I have in Windows/MacOS for over 20. I have had more frustration, failure, and time waste on Linux than either of the others. Honestly, I hate it and I think I hate its philosophy too. Which is silly, because the whole point of Linux is that it very easily can be LTS, often specifically is. But that doesn't matter, because as I USER I am not stable. I don't know what to do, therefore I will break things. It could be as simple as trying to follow instructions for a project online, and doing all of the exact steps listed, getting an error, and now the user is stuck unable to progress. They have also changed things that they no longer know about. It's only a matter of time before something conflicts and causes issues.

But goddamn, when it does work and make sense it is really nice. I just don't feel like I should have to know the contents of a textbook to accomplish that. There needs to be a middleground between telling your computer exactly to a T what you want from it, and from having an OS that actively inhibits the more heavy duty tasks due to imposed limitations. Don't get me wrong, I have no love for Windows. I'm only using it now because it's more reliable with the types of programs I use for it (VR, Photoshop, and editing mostly) both in software and in reliability. At the same time, I would never use Windows as a server PC again despite how frustrating I can find Linux to be, because quite frankly Windows is much worse at the same job, and the deeper you look into these niches the fewer and fewer Windows is able to perform well at.

Windows can do Photoshop. It can run a Plex server. It can run Stable Diffusion. All of these things at the surface level, IMO, are easier to do on Windows - you download an .exe (or clone from .Git), you run it, it downloads stuff and it works.

Linux can do Plex. It can also install hundreds of extensions, such as DizqueTV. Windows cannot do this. Linux can run Stable Diffusion, and you can configure it to do even more things that are frankly, nearly impossible to accomplish reasonably on Windows (training data on Linux is SO much easier.). Linux can also configure networking, using things like NGinx Proxy Manager. Windows can't really accomplish this to the same effective degree that it can be in Linux.

What this comes down to is utilizing the tools best available for the job. I would be an idiot to try and host an extremely customized Plex server through Windows, because I'd be severely limiting what extreme customization I can do.

Similarly, I would be an idiot to try and use Photoshop on Linux.

You can do both. That doesn't mean it's worth doing.

Tl;Dr easy is relative to each O.S. and the abilities of the average user. Windows is much better at some things than Linux ever will be. Likewise, Linux will be better at things than Windows ever will be. Heh. Lemme just say, there's a reason Linux users have to use VM's...

averyminya , 19 days ago

These are never the sort of answers I would want to ask AI for anyway (not a slight against your example, this is a common thing I see).

@u_tamtam

I also haven’t seen any practical advantage to using LLM prompts vs. traditional search engines in the general case:

For general temporary facts I would agree. Even Amazon's surmized reviews, it can be handy to know that "Adhesive issues" is commonly sighted... but I'd learn that from reading the reviews anyway... Like, a lot of the time it comes down to AI being used when the human should do their own due diligence. I will even admit to this in the very next paragraph.

I find AI to be especially good at things I am not, like math. I am very good at estimations, and I can work out some stuff over time. However, I am much slower compared to asking "I currently make 2.1-Z a month and I have 397-Z earning that interest. I would like to make 65-Z a month, how much do I need earning interest to make that?" (Roughly 13,100 btw) and getting that answer along with the formula showing its work. It spits out the answer in the amount of time it took me to work out that verbal question, both of which were far faster than the time it takes me to pull up a calculator and do the same math. It's not that I can't, it just takes a lot of time that could be better spent actually doing the thing I want to do, which is how many months based off what I earn will it take to reach that number.

Similarly, this reigns true for a lot of things with "facts." Perpetual facts or immutable facts are the best use for AI. In my opinion based on experience, of course.

A fact about a song will always be in the key it was created in. A key will always have a specific set of scales that can be used with it. Math will always be the answer to an equation. These are, for the most part, immutable facts. A person on the other hand, will not always be their age, or even living, nor will their net worth stay the same. Let's not even get started on the weather! These are temporary facts.

Quite a few people tend to ask AI temporary facts (rightfully so, it's what we would like to do on a day to day basis for casual questions), but and it gets a lot of flack for not doing a great job at it (again rightfully so since it's a basic question.) But I have found that AI is actually quite strong at perpetual facts. When time is short and at the end of the day I just want to jam to my favorite songs, I can get a quick reminder of the key and scales I can use to play along with. On my own I know and can remember these things, but asking a question and getting an answer possibly even faster is really nice.

Not to be pro-AI -- In this case I really think it comes down to using the tool you have. We live in the present and the future, so it seems ridiculous to rely on something trained on data rooted in the past and expecting that it will always be that. Hence, immutable facts tending to be more reliable to work with when using AI.

I like tech, so I have used and played with local LLM's and Stable Diffusion models and worked on a model based on my own art of Zentangles, I don't think I would ever actively rely on this technology for anything more than cursory fun when I'm short on time and energy, or as a supplement to something that I, frankly, am going to take far too long to learn and will forget in the span of a couple months when I no longer need it. I don't exactly feel the need to memorize the 300,000 Excel sheet tricks, but I will sure as shit ask BarGemeni about it. Using it to confirm my estimations to see that I was roughly accurate compared to an AI that is roughly accurate is good enough for me for some quick and dirty math.

Ultimately that's what the LLM-AI debate is for me. Relying on it for anything that is ever changing, using it for anything more than just basic fun is setting yourself up for a bad time. Using it here and there as a calculator or for some non-important details about something that has remained static since the dawn of time? You can net yourself some pretty nice futuristic "Hell yeah's". Packing these things up into little boxes like supplanting a phone (or adding it to your phone), using it to create non-existent support (both support staff and supporting terrible products to trick people into buying it), or adding it to rice cookers and refrigerators is... the direction expected but not the one I was hoping for.

averyminya , 19 days ago

Oh.

I'm not Transphobic I just hate Butcher-surgeons And castrators But that's Just Me.

His twitter.

Here's a nice article that is freely available, it has plenty of examples. As does his aforementioned Twitter.

https://oncanadaproject.ca/blog/jordan-peterson-is-the-worst

Frankly, it's alarming that you have apparently had to ask multiple people this question:

I’ve asked people who criticize him to quote any passage, even as short as a single sentence, either uttered or written by him that they consider wrong.

And yet all you ever needed to do was take a glance at his twitter to see the vile things he has said. And these are just a few from a literal 5 minute search, because if you actually listen or read what he's saying, it is clear what he is saying. He is a sad, angry man who promotes hate under the guise of "self-help". "Did you know that taking care of yourself is good for you? Oh and by the way,

So here's another to really hammer it in: https://www.axios.com/2022/08/02/youtube-demonetized-jordan-peterson-videos which even links the video where he says it himself, so you don't have to take someone else writing what he said to believe it.

averyminya , 20 days ago

Haha glad that I brought it up on your radar! I like this one cause it seems much more medically oriented, vs. Neurolink existing "just because it can".

Which normally, I don't really have an issue with. I think it's great to do things just because we can (within reason ofc!), but I am definitely more skeptical of the fraud-Hyperloop flamethrower space-car man.

averyminya , 20 days ago

I've had conversations with this person before, in my opinion many of the things they fault Valve for are... extreme nitpicking.

Also, IMO Corsair's patents are BS and are drastically inhibiting accessibility controller availability. Their stranglehold on something as simple as buttons on the backside of a controller shouldn't be lauded.

averyminya , 20 days ago

Taking his ethics and actions out of the equation for a second -- I would have no issues with his businesses weren't scamming states out of legitimate transportation and fucking with people just because he could.

While dangerous, I'm not really against the idea of selling flamethrowers, kind of. It is kind of the American right, which may be dumb, but fuck if I have anything to say about it. And while it produces a lot of space junk, I'm not against Starlink or SpaceX. especially the former since it does do a lot of good. Coverage in the middle of the U.S. is not good, and anything more is good.

Ultimately what it comes down to is the fact that the more money tends to side on less regulation, and reintroducing ethics and actions into the mix he is abusing that. The flamethrower ploy could have been snark against the United States for not having regulation on that (if it were something that were actually important, that may have mattered...), and similarly the Hyperloop scheme could have been some form of commentary on how easy it is for a billionaire to manipulate voters with obvious pipe-dreams, then gone ahead with the high speed train plan.

Instead, he gets butthurt and lashes out. I know we're on the same page, if anything I'm disappointed specifically because he is in a position to be doing a lot of good, has convinced some people that he is.

averyminya , 21 days ago

I'll wait for Gabe Newell's version, since it seems pretty clear to me that's where Musk got the idea.

averyminya , 24 days ago

What do you think about WhoIs data for websites?

(I don't disagree, I'm just curious)

averyminya , 25 days ago

There are a lot of non-Apple options for a very similar experience. I have a Fiio X1 Gen 2 that I like. They're not widely available new anymore but they are still about the same price as when I got it.

averyminya , 1 month ago

The linked A1111 is definitely by far the easiest to set up!

averyminya , 1 month ago

Its also great for readmes. I have a template that I follow for that and only work on one section at a time.

Templates in sections are somewhere where it shines. I set up a template for giving information about a song -- tempo, scales used and applicable overlapping ones, and other misc stuff. It's really nice for just wanting to get going, it's yet to be inaccurate. It's quite nice, having a fast database that's mostly accurate. I do scrutinize it, but honestly even if it were to be wrong one day, it's just music and the scale being "wrong" can only be so wrong anyhow.

averyminya , 1 month ago

Remember when Mollusk sold the flamethrower? It's all I can think about

averyminya , 1 month ago

The new toggle can be found in T-Mobile’s “Privacy Center Dashboard”. You can click here to go straight to it, or follow the steps below.

Login to your account either on the web or in the app as a full permissions user (typically the account holder’s main line).

On desktop/the web, click “Edit profile settings” at the top. On the app, tap “MORE” at the bottom of the app and then “Profile settings”.

Scroll halfway down the list and choose “Privacy and notifications”.

Find “Privacy dashboard” and open that.

On this page, you’ll have all the privacy opt-out options. Take the time to opt out of all of them, if you haven’t already and want to. Otherwise, scroll down and find the new “Profiling and automated decisions” section, as shown below this list, and disable it.

If you have more than one line, go back to the top, and choose “Manage a different line >”. You’ll need to toggle this for each line on your account.

averyminya , 1 month ago

Idk, there's a backup system that I've put on a hard drive with a very easy to find GitHub steam drm remover. Haven't had any issues playing my games without a steam account -- sans online services for some, but most of the time I'm on trips or without Internet anyway. That said, if the idea is that in some 5-10-20 years this will happen, I feel like a lot of the online services won't be around... For as much as I love Helldivers 2, I don't really expect it to be around in 7 years. Online games from 2013 aren't all around either, and those that are aren't super populated.

On the other hand, a lot of these online services do rely on Steam, so if it went down a lot of them would need the same unofficial online servers.

I'd be more concerned if Steam were to have extreme DRM, but it's so laughable that it's literally worth paying for the game just to have the streaming/per game notes/cloud saves and for current games to not have to deal with updates and online services. But a Steam Library of mostly single player games? Anyone who is concerned can get a $50HDD and install/backup their games with Steam to and then apply the patch. Of the issues Steam has, I think this particular one is low on the list. And per the articles issue, I would actually blame the OS more than the storefront. I used to game on Mac's from 2007-2013 and let me tell you, Steam was a freaking triumph. All the Mac game stores were truly short lived, had poor support while they were alive and had things like license activations per machine, so good luck past 5 computers (talk about 15 years). Back then Aspyer ports were really great too, always something to look forward to.

Back then Steams issue was that it didn't have refunds, Tuesday Maintenance, and sometimes it would just be buggy for a bit when trying to open (on OSX -- never really had an issue on Windows). Since then they've only made it more service oriented, doing things they absolutely should, but didn't have to, like refunds applying to everyone after the AUS lawsuit instead of just that region. Looking at Apple for this one.

I would implore the author of this article to go back in time, get their games on the macgames store and other similar storefronts for OSX and I would wonder how they fare today.

I have my accounts. I have no access to those games because licenses were activated too many times or because they no longer support the current OS. So I'm effectively limited to a previous version of OSX which cannot download the app because I need a new version of the OSX store. I don't have the right terms but it was hours of hassle to find out that my OSX copy of Borderlands, Assassins Creed II and Brotherhood, and a couple others are just gone. To add insult to injury, I had to log into the account every year to keep my "platinum points" that you got for buying on that storefront, to use for discounts etc. I didn't log in so byebye incentive!

My point? I had about 250 SteamPlay games that I bought and used on OSX as a Mac gamer, which seamlessly downloaded on PC when I switched to Windows for my desktop computer. None of this is to say that Steam doesn't or can't have shortcomings, but rather that it is a substantially better service than than pretty much every alternative right now, save for GOG probably.

averyminya , 1 month ago

I think they're implying that the digital items such as TF2 hats and weapons skins are NFTs

averyminya , 1 month ago

You mean the trivially easy DRM that is a single patch found on GitHub?

averyminya , 1 month ago

It is now? That's cool Would have been nice to not have lost my entire childhood library because it was locked behind iTunes.

averyminya , 1 month ago

I also just don't see donations ever funding a long term development team. $20 an hour? For how many people? (X) to doubt. Idk it's a rough circumstance

averyminya , 2 months ago

Can you list the filepath?

averyminya , 2 months ago

That music example is how I've used them, it really is spot on. Key, tempo, scale, overlapping scales that could be used, plus factoids included. It really can be very helpful.

averyminya , 2 months ago

Serious question - aren't maps for navigation? I've heard this rhetoric a few times and I just... don't entirely follow the logic. Like I do to an extent, insofar as Open Street Map data is for information like rivers, buildings, updating cell data (used to do updates here and there in my city.)

But to me all of these maps, and initially starting out, maps are for... navigating?

Idk lol, not judging, mostly just confused at the intention. "We plot out maps! But dare to try and follow it to get where you are going at your own peril."

averyminya , 2 months ago

I think context matters a lot. Green Day's "Dominated Love Slave" isn't very political, and to be honest it would be kind of dumb to try and make it out to be. Similarly, for "Pulling Teeth" by them as well - they're just stories about them. "American Idiot" on the other hand is political, and it would be quite dumb to argue that it isn't.

As such, all things can be. Now, if the argument is that everything can be made to be analogous to a political statement, like how "I'm all busted up, broken bones and nasty cuts, accidents will happen but this time I can't get up" for domestic abuse and our current state of the government then by all means yes though our human perception we can make that jump, but I wouldn't necessarily say that it was the point even if I would agree. Exactly the way I likely would for someone's argument about "American Idiot" not being political, like argue all you want but objectively it's false.

Anyway not really sure what my point here is. I guess not everything is political, but it can be if it is reconstructed through multiple lenses. Kind of like memes!

averyminya , 2 months ago

From a humanitarian perspective I think he's already shown how he would act.

Palestinians - they're great people but not for America, it'd be a shame if someone were to...

We don't need his rhetoric :(

averyminya , 2 months ago

New mediums was exactly my thoughts as well. For example, think of a music magazine versus a tech magazine. The former can appeal to anyone while also delving into specific details, because there is an idea of inherent connection. Generally, music makes you feel something, even if you don't understand it, and you can talk about that. The latter may have to focus more on specific details, making it more difficult for anyone to engage with it without having an understanding of the content, and then there's also an almost inherent lack of connection, unless the reader already is "in it".

From a readers point of view, "music go brr" and "big GPU go brr" can evoke similar reactions initially, but I would hazard to say that there's more depth to the music aspect of it for the general population. They don't need to know that the chord progression and the scale used with it are what make the atmosphere, the writer can just talk about how calming and serene the music is, then supplant that statement with details about music theory.

For the GPU and the average reader, it pretty much stops at "cool that GPU can play a game and be used for a specific task on a computer". Then we start going into all the details about how the tensor cores used are reaching numbers and sizes of transistors suggested by Moore's law for theory, or PCB and hardware design. Up until you get hands on with it, it's almost entirely material desire.

The tech side has very little emotional relationship outside of the material object and the knowledge surrounding it, whereas the music side can have material objects (instruments), can have the knowledge surrounding it (music theory) but then it also connects those two things to an expressive outlet. While Gear Acquisition Syndrome is a thing, music doesn't have as inherent of a material desire. So for as much as I do love to read tech magazines, everything you're going to get from it is essentially "I liked this device because it makes doing this thing easier.", which can be handy information. I like them for that reason. But I can certainly see how from a much broader perspective, books and essays, would be generally more difficult for the insider tech industry. You need someone well versed enough to understand what they are investigating, while being capable of making it readable to the average person. All while keeping the intellectual integrity of the work. Certainly can't be easy lol

averyminya , 2 months ago

That's what I don't understand from the don't vote crowd.

Okay, nobody left leaning voted. Now what?

averyminya , 2 months ago

Wow, so the one thing I was actually interested in 11 for is gone, right after they killed VR.

Glad I didn't update, dismayed at the direction.

averyminya , 3 months ago

Every OS is a nuisance, it's about how each affect the user and the users preferences on those interactions.

averyminya , 3 months ago

I've posted this recently but I'll say it again, we need to charge at minimum manslaughter to fetuses that absorb another fetus in utero. These people are born and walk around with us, the monsters!

averyminya , 3 months ago

Think about it - corded phones died because we needed to walk around and talk. I mean, you all remember how ridiculously long some of those cords could get so that people could do light chores. Then wireless landlines became a thing (and I swear the audio quality seemed to drop) and as cellphones became more predominant they were almost phased out entirely - certainly phased out of necessity.

But now two decades or so later we're just in one spot all the time again. If we're not at work we're at home and if we're not cooking or cleaning we're probably just in one spot (likely at the computer or the TV). So it makes sense to me, although I do wonder how much of this is more of a micro trend than Gen Z bringing back landlines lol.

averyminya , 3 months ago

I think the key for success will be what the device is able to replace hobby-wise. My favorite part of VR is that it allows me to do this with space restrictions, with some cost offsetting.

For example, there's a program on Steam called SynthVR. It lets you create a synthesizer rack with as much space as you can imagine. You don't need a huge room to store all your equipment, you don't need to spend money on each piece of equipment, you just open VR, load a scene or build it from scratch and you've got synths.

From a hobby perspective, I could have spent $1,000 on the Valve Index, or I could have spent it on getting ~5 components for a real synth rack, which I then have to have space in my home for.

That $1,000 for VR however also lets me use Vermillion, a VR oil painting program. I enjoy painting but I'm not the greatest, most of the time it's tiresome to set up the paint space and put it all away, worry about my huge dog knocking everything over... Or I just have my VR space and paint for a little while.

I also use Paradiddle, a VR drumming program. It can connect to live equipment, or just use it with VR. I don't have e-drums so I use this for when I'm feeling like using a drum set and not my pads.

IMO, these are what Apple should be aiming for with this device. AR or VR, the best aspects of it always come down to utilizing empty space to give the user a replacement. Even productivity in VR is enjoyable for me because I am huge on VR overlays (like OVR Toolkit or XS Overlay) where you can be in VR and pop open a floating window of a video, or text guide. Rows and columns of documents floating in space, or pinned to your head/hand. I use my phone in VR this way, by connecting my phone to my computer with SCRCPY and then opening it as a panel in VR.

I haven't kept up with this device too much, and I can't even say that an AR variant of what I described is worth $3,500, but I could see some promising applications for the device. Not to the extent that people would be walking around with them outside though. At least, not until it's a few thousands dollars cheaper, and quite a bit smaller.

averyminya , 3 months ago

The literal first AI was an analog computer that the guy gave feedback to images on. If it's a circle or a square, if it guesses right or wrong.

It's literally the same training that we have used for models ever since and currently, and there are people trying to say Generative Imaging isn't AI.

Y'all. It's the exact thing AI was created in mind for.

averyminya , 4 months ago

Try this one

averyminya , 4 months ago

How do I pay for my groceries with Bitcoin?

averyminya , 4 months ago

I just want to say I hate disposable vapes with a passion, they are so terrible for the environment because people inevitably litter them, leaving the plastic and batteries to leech into the environment, let alone the nicotine remnants.

If you use nicotine, please switch to a refillable vaporizer.

averyminya , 4 months ago

So rather than fixing the issue they just removed it entirely.

That's kind of a joke from a "privacy" based browser.

averyminya , 4 months ago

R.E. politics, the tail-end millennials (me) grew up during the death of education which I think is a huge factor. For every good part of our education was two dying branches of it. Funding going down, extracurriculars being cut, food quality going down, strikes in colleges for pay and I mean so, so many others. And I grew up in California where education was a heavy focus, especially for anyone who wanted to get out. But despite all the shortcomings of our education system, we had teachers who cared and some students who wanted to learn, these teachers were mostly all within a decade of my age now and so they were fairly young and politically minded. Some were Teach for America staff so they were literally just out of college, I'm sure many remember what it's like to have that mindset. We also grew up in the Obama years so we had the full range of "holy shit first black President representing us!" to "oh God he bombed Syria" which pretty heavily politicized us (and then we got Trump who appointed Betsy DeVoss as Sec. of Education which set that politicization further). I can't speak for all millennials of course but I feel like all this led to us being hyper-aware of our politics making it especially easy to see the insanity that Fox News peddles, and more recently the transition of CNN from biased but informational to Fox News lite. All in all it's a pretty strong foundation for young leftists to form some convictions.

It seems to me that Gen Z did not have these foundations by design. In 2016 with the appointment of Betsy DeVoss as Secretary of Education our school system was absolutely butchered. Fox News wasn't even under the guise of news anymore, it's just "pundit" talk shows providing "statistics" that they use to push hate. They grew up with the tail end of Obama culling any possibly early sense of hope that the millennials had. That apathy only further onset when Trump was elected, but not just apathy. Since in red states where the changes to education hit the hardest it became identity politics, now the identity of an individual has become politicized, something that has only been exacerbated by our media. IMO that's why the events of Kyle Rittenhouse went down how they did, a child was politicized by their area and family and instead of being politically minded about it they made it about some identity that doesn't exist. And nevermind the societal changes they grew up with, as they're the first generation to grow up fully inundated with technology and the Internet, getting barrages of >1 min clips that can never tell the full story.

I agree with you overall in that millennial and gen Z are closer generations than most, but I do think there are some important distinctions that likely influenced how each of these generations grow up to interact with the world. I also think that it seems likely that these polls probably won't get as many responses from certain demographics due to potential lifestyles. Someone in a liberal city may not answer the poll because they've got the city life to live, whereas someone who gets the poll and they're done with their school day and the neighbors are 40 minutes away.. sure, nothing better to do let's fill this out. So I don't think Gen Z is entirely set to be conservative, however I do think their elders have been heavily gearing up to try and brainwash them with their archaic mindset. I don't particularly see a reason why a group of highschoolers would campaign for conservatives otherwise.

averyminya , 4 months ago

They also don't have plastic housings which is nice from a waste perspective

averyminya , 4 months ago

The real solution is to cut a square cube than the square needed by the end of travel, cut the large cube into a sphere and then transport it then cut the sphere into the cube with the right size.

Or use wheels.

averyminya , 4 months ago

Analog computers Sam, analog computers.

averyminya , 4 months ago

Food Maxx in the U.S. employed this in low income areas to prevent cart thefts. So, that's nice.

averyminya , 4 months ago

It's hard not to care when you can smell them, but tbf that says more about the individual and not what toilet attachments they may or may not use.

averyminya , 4 months ago

How else would we know what niche to exploit with it other than brute forcing it into everything!

averyminya , 5 months ago

It's not about it happening, it's about the results of those who leave.

Basically, if in the U.S. voters leave to another country based on a political choice, they are now removing their political choice meaning any dissent there may have been is now gone.

So, with Linux being like Canada, Windows refugees are removing any option of OS improvement for Windows.