This literally happened for me with the movie(s) Wicked. I didn’t watch the first part just to have it end half way through the story and be told to wait until next year. Then the second half comes out, and after the opening weekend where a couple downtown theatres had busy double feature special events, Part 1 was playing in theatres literally nowhere in my city. And no way I’m signing my life away for Bezos BS just to watch this. (Does a stream even earn the movie studio anything significant? The theatres get nothing…)

I only bought a ticket to watch Part 2 because I viewed Part 1 by other means. The theatres missed out on an opportunity for me to watch the first one in succession with the second. And if I didn’t watch the first, then I wouldn’t have watched it at all and the theatres and publishers would have missed out on a sale.

If the copyright industry calls missed sales “stealing”, the theatres and publishing licensors steal from themselves by making it difficult to view the full story.

Yeah it could have been that.

I can recall two instances of Lemmy making the news…

One, IIRC is of some person who carried out political violence or some other nasty thing who also just so happened to host a Lemmy server in the years pre-Reddit-exodus for unrelated reasons. I can’t remember enough details to find the article if someone can help.

The second is a 404media article crediting @[email protected] for spotting missing sections of the Constitution on the White House website (article, discussion)

B…B…B…BLOODY SCREEN! SO REAL!

In Canada: Vancouver, BC. Just don’t go beyond the city limits.

Kingston, ON: if you can get past big box suburbia near the highway, the downtown is small and charming.

Montreal, QC is also very cool. Downtowns of major cities in Canada are generally very nice places to be, but outside there it depends on the city how sprawling the suburbs are.

I’ve never shopped at a Walmart in Japan. It’s really fun to visit.

The writing style of the linked article reeks of AI prose… even if I agree with the point the author makes, and there appear to be linked sources, the article makes me retch a bit.

People can chop wood to heat their home if they want, and is great to see people come together volunteering to help cut and store firewood, I don’t think the existence of woodbanks are a bad thing. It’s just when people are forced to rely on the work of volunteers when government could have easily stepped in to provide affordable alternatives. Instead people who don’t have the ability to source their own firewood depend fully on the whims of the heating fuel market or on charity.

This is like an ebay auction for billion dollar companies…

For debugging there is the Google antigravity method: there can’t be bugs if it wipes the whole drive containing your project (taps head)

I did see someone write a post about Chat Oriented Programming, to me that appeared successful, but not without cost and extra care. Original Link, Discussion Thread

Successful in that it wrote code faster and its output stuck to conventions better than the author would. But they had to watch it like a hawk and with the discipline of a senior developer putting full attention over a junior, stop and swear at it every time it ignored the rules that they give at the beginning of each session, terminate the session when it starts doing a autocompactification routine that wastes your money and makes Claude forget everything. And you try to dump what it has completed each time. One of the costs seem to be the sanity of the developer, so I really question if it’s a sustainable way of doing things from both the model side and from developers. To be actually successful you need to know what you’re doing otherwise it’s easy to fall in a trap like the CTO, trusting the AI’s assertions that everything is hunky-dory.

My rational thoughts are telling me this is just so Google can stream video at doo doo resolution to save their server bandwidth and get a simple AI model and upscaling filters on device to blow up the image to a suitable level.

My emotional thoughts and conspiracy brain are telling me this is Google getting users used to AI slop by making legitimate human content look more like AI slop. I’ve noticed these filters occasionally and it really makes videos I know are real people more slop-like.

Edit: I think there are better answers downthread than mine, but I hope my first comment spurned them on.

Not the most experienced bash guru at it but let me see…

• does the while condition have to be within [ ] brackets?
• Also I can’t figure out what your condition is, it seems to have an unclosed quotation mark.
• Most bash while-do-done loops I’ve made have a comparator like -ne for not equal or -le for less or equal to. So for example: while [ $variable -ne 5 ]; do

Reddit was like this in 2009, here’s a random thread from there to illustrate, 35 score, no comment votes. The years prior Reddit was even quieter despite having only one community they had to post to, before subreddits were a thing.

Give it time, promote it on Reddit if you want to [email protected], tell your friends. As far as I know we are growing slowly, it will only blast up if Reddit does something extra henious again. Though the knee-high barrier of choosing a server and learning the etiquette will take a little time.

I think it’s okay as is, it doesn’t have to be more popular, but if it does become more popular then I don’t mind that either.

So this is essentially a dotted line which after the first simulation step expands into 2D space, but after a particular number of steps collapses back into its original 1D pattern, possibly translated some distance from its original position.

You can imagine the thing being comprised of smaller 1D lines, aligned on an axis with a certain amount of space between each other.

That’s IMO a big part of what’s different between the 7 transition and this one. Last time Microsoft was going around upgrading people’s computers for them, and even if people didn’t want to jump to 10 right away, they allowed Win 7, 8, and 8.1 keys to activate it pretty much whenever. Now with their hardware requirement, they’re official line is telling people without TPM that their hardware is junk when they stop supporting Win 10. That drove people to look for the better alternative Microsoft won’t tell you about.

Bazzite is a great distro if you want to jump in and start playing games and getting the software you need to use your computer. The intent behind bazzite seemed to me that it should be accessible enough for non-technical users but provide access to a large library of programs in just a few clicks. It has a few quirks that make it different than other Linux distros if you pick it apart.

Have you ever used command prompt, batch scripts or PowerShell on Windows? That’s what BASH, shell scripting or ‘the terminal’ is equivalent to on Linux (and mac sorta). It’s the virtual scalpel you can use to tinker, fix, control, or totally screw up your system. If you don’t have important data to lose, then feel free to just try whatever and learn from mistakes you make along the way. If not, then backups are your friend, and be EXTRA careful doing anything as the root user (that’s the admin account with total access over the operating system) or any command like sudo (it might even lecture you about it once)

For self-hosting, if you have a spare machine you can just try experimenting on it to your heart’s content. If your search-engine skills are good enough then you should be able to fumble your way through install instructions or tutorials. Another alternative is you could rent a VPS and optional domain for <$90/year, which then you can learn about SSH (secure shell) and fiddle with a computer remotely for fun.

People here can probably give you advice or support, if there’s a specific problem you’re having and you’ve couldn’t figure it out from the documentation and search.

Hello, and welcone to Lemmy. Glad you made it, here’s my overall advice:

• No need to get hung up over a few early downvotes on your comment that might cause its score to go negative for a bit. People can be strongly opinionated here. Not everyone agrees with me on this, but I do appreciate people willing to post honestly held unpopular opinions and play a reasonable devil’s advocate in threads. (This is different than just being a contrarian.)
• For your own and everyone’s benefit, try to engage in thoughtful, well reasoned and good faith discussion with empathy for others where it’s due. If you feel like a chain of replies is going nowhere good, there’s no shame in walking away from it.
• Report and block the jerks, trolls and spammers you might encounter like on any forum-like site. Don’t let them spoil your experience when most people here are respectful.

Enjoy your time here!

How often would you like to hear about Beef Stroganoff?

The stick on your switch just needs a new stick cover. They’re plenty of styles and a dime-a-dozen, so just replace it when it wears down. Don’t play rough with your switch until you get that otherwise you will break the stem like your 3ds and then need to replace the whole stick. Replacement sticks are available, I don’t think they make them in with anything other than plastic.

I gradually weaned off my Reddit usage and fully stopped by 5 months after I opened my Lemmy account.

There are echo chambers, there are ideologues, and there are jerks, compulsive contrarians and trolls, but I really do loving having more indepth conversations with people on Lemmy, even with whom I disagree.

The first thing these meme level economic takes about supply and demand leave out is the elasticity of both supply and demand that affects how sensitive demand is to price changes and prices are comparable to availability.