I stopped asking questions there because I usually spend about twenty to thirty minutes writing them to make sure they’re clear and not duplicates. I take time to explain why they aren’t duplicates of similar questions. The I get downvoted and I get my question closed. Then the site tells me to do things and I do them but no one else knows what I’m talking about and I get mocked for not knowing how the site works. That community is toxic as fuck. Genuinely, users spend more effort and energy looking for reasons to not answer something than they do trying to make questions answerable. Heaven forbid anyone give a reason for any of this. Just gotta get their daily stats to rank up.

Seriously, the one thing SO could’ve had going for it in the wake of AO is the human aspect, but they haven’t fixed their community problems in years.

I got a new 3070 ti GPU back in like 2022 but my CPU is from 2009 so a lot of stuff has been bottle necked. I got everything but the case for my new computer. It will be here Saturday. I’m so excited!

I’m looking forward to Death Stranding and Helldivers 2 which both physically couldn’t run on my CPU because they used instructions made after 2011 or something. Elden Ring wouldn’t get more than like 20 to 25 FPS for me. So many little things I’m looking forward to.

I’m hoping they work with Linux, though.

“I know I never get it, but the game and dev both say it really is 1 in 4! So surely I should buy this!”

Nope!

🤡

Oh shit, is it? Should I check it out? I could go for some zen!

I’m annoyed because I know my purchase is going to count towards showing the success of AI in their product, when in reality it’s just coincidental.

I mean, they’re clearly thinking about sweet versus not sweet. The discussion isn’t really about what a tomato is and isn’t, it’s about what the words mean and how they’re using them. There’s no doubt about what a tomato is. Everyone has a clear understanding about it. It’s just that people mean different things when they say it is/isn’t a fruit. People saying it isn’t a fruit say that because it isn’t sweet. Which is fine, there’s nothing wrong with that. But if they’re disagreeing that a tomato is the fruit of a tomato plant then they’re being foolish. And I don’t think anyone is saying that.

Whenever people are arguing about this it’s just so exhausting because they’ll hear something like “a tomato is a fruit” or that “all fruits are vegetables” and rather than try to seek understanding about how the other party is using the words they just dig their heels in and insist that’s wrong. When the whole reason they’re upset is because they’re picturing their own usage of the terms and imagining the other person saying a tomato is that.

Right, the fruit of the plant is what we consider fruit.

This is part of the reason why my parents got my grandfather and iPhone. It was getting harder and harder to find feature phones (flip phones) and this way they have the same phone as him so when he’s having trouble describing something they can see the same thing on their phone.

I wonder why so many Democrats left the party during the civil rights movement? I wonder why David Duke left the Democrat party? I guess we’ll never know.

How does this person think things like ICBMs work? They just go straight up and away from the earth and can’t turn?

I hate when people get into minute arguments about what is visually happening on screen versus the story that’s being told. It can be a single jump narratively but two jumps in production. (I’ve never seen the movie.)

All fruits are vegetables, not all vegetables are fruits. All edible plant matter is vegetable. Fruits are, well, the fruit of a plant.

The best example I can think of, and this is being very generous to the AI bros, is that they’re trying to compare it to obsolete creative positions. Think about animation. Each frame used to have to be hand drawn and colored entirely by hand. There was a lot of heavy lifting going on in the process that weren’t necessarily creative but still required for the final product. I think they’re trying to say that we’ll need less work like this.

I’m not sure I agree or how accurate their claims are.

Edit: I’m just explaining what I think their point of view is. It’s not my personal opinion.

I got a 2024 LG OLED TV. It has “AI” but idk what it does exactly. During the setup process there was a step that had a shitty still image of a baby with some crappy music playing. There were two toggle switches to enable AI picture and sound. It was so cheesy. I can’t make this shit up. When you turned on picture AI the baby image became HD and a video instead of a still image. I was like “Oh my God, wow! Look at the AI! I wonder what the AI sound is??” So we turn it on and the sound gets high def and adds more instruments in.

In case it isn’t clear, none of this was actually AI or enabling actual features on the TV, just some weird required step in the process of setup. It wasn’t an AI animated video or sound, just a different video of the baby and a different audio track.

Quadruple the amount of questions you get with this one weird trick! With great questions like “Is this not Windows? I asked if you could set me up an ad blocker, what the fuck did you do to my computer? If you were upset with me asking, why not communicate boundaries instead of vandalizing my belongings?”

Do do both. The text of the alert and a link for minor updates that don’t warrant a new alert.

I sincerely doubt this was anything targeted at Amber Alerts specifically.

I don’t see this as Twitter/X’s fault (very much), I mostly blame them for linking to a Tweet instead of just sending the details in the Amber alert. Or, here’s a bright idea, why no both? Send the details and a link to a tweet for updates.

Never attribute to incompetence what may be attributed to sleepy posting.

Fedora was going to be my plan. Arch just freaks me out, I don’t want to do that much work. I think I know Ubuntu the best, but I haven’t heard anything good about the direction Canonical is going.

I just want something that works good enough. I have a 3070 ti GPU.