Oh, thanks. It’s been many years since I’ve seen that movie. Had completely forgotten the name too.

There was a stud sci-fi movie where surrogate robot bodies were used for everything. Only very few people actually lived their lives using their real body. Was a pretty cool concept.

Washing the dishes. VR edition. While you’re playing the game, the maid bot does the household chores. Just try not to drop anything valuable in VR, because the bot might break something IRL.

In a mostly theoretical sense. America can’t fix its politics without making some radical changes to the voting system, but I don’t expect that to happen anytime soon.

The current system naturally gravitates towards a two-party system, which isn’t quite what I would consider a coalition government. If you have three or four parties actively negotiating about major decisions, that’s when you begin to see the benefits.

Have you considered forming a coalition government? That’s how much of Europe has been working for a while now. There’s usually a little bit of blue, red and green in the mix. Maybe some other colors too.

Speaking of passing through PD communications, I have a cheap Chinese power meter that sort of does that but not properly. Hopefully, OP has a good hub that plays nice.

If you use a setup with a power supply, first cable, power meter, and a second cable, you can measure things when connected to a chargeable device like a laptop. It obviously tells the PS to give it 12 V, which it will. Once you unplug the laptop from the second cable, the voltage reading doesn’t drop back to 5 V. Apparently, the power meter doesn’t let the PS know there’s no load anymore.

As a result, you get a USB-C cable that gives you 12 V without asking any questions. Guess what happens when you plug in something that can only handle 5 V? Bad things. Don’t ask me how I know.

Anyway, once you unplug the power meter from the first cable, the PS finally gets the message and drops the voltage back to 5 V. Makes me wonder if a hub could behave the same way as my power meter.

It’s also possible to speak to two audiences simultaneously. Just vaguely allude to some values without being too specific about anything. With this clever hack you are basically doubling the bandwidth.

Here’s an example: “We stand at a pivotal moment where the choices we make about the resources beneath our feet will shape the world above for generations to come. Our shared future depends on managing what we value with foresight and responsibility.”

So, was I promoting the fossil fuel industry or opposing it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Either way, both sides are happy to hear this kind of talk.

That seems to be one of the unwritten rules on Lemmy.

Using any kind of AI, or even supporting the idea of using it, will result in downvotes. If you openly hate LLMs, you’ll be rewarded with upvotes.

Yeah, the LLM is ok, but nothing amazing. When you have a moderately hard problem, the LLM won’t provide a magic solution. For example, finding a specific movie based on a long description instead of the name, seems to be almost impossible. I have problems like this rather frequently, because I tend to forget the name of the movie but still remember fragments of the plot.

When the LLM screws up movie searches like this, I just end up watching the wrong movie.

It’s a problem if you still use Google. Somewhere around 2015 I switched to DDG, and it quickly replaced Google for me. Since then, I’ve been experimenting with some other search engines too, and currently I’m using Qwant on my laptop.

I rely on smart devices to tell the time, but it’s easy to notice DST when the few dumb devices I have are out of sync. If I didn’t have any of those, I would have missed the switch entirely.

Yeah, I just found it. Missed the last movies, so I guess I should check it out.

I have seen some reviews of the live action remakes, and I was not impressed. As a result, nowadays I actively avoid being exposed to those movies.

I think it’s just Hollywood style engaging story telling. Who cares what any books have to say about Satan. Write some dichotomy and conflict into the story, and people can’t get enough of it.

I can see why you ask that. Since I didn’t think that comment though very well, now every downvoter considers me a racist. Fair enough. Should have rewritten it entirely, but it’s too late for that now.

Long and nuanced posts are boring to read while short and snappy ones involve skipping all the important details. Also, swiping away carelessly doesn’t help.

I was mainly thinking about the fact that Disney tends to change things significantly and abruptly. For example, many Star Wars fans were disappointed by the changes, so I thought that 007 fans could face similar disappointments. What those changes actually are do not really matter to me. What matters more is how quickly they happen and how much the direction of the entire series changes.

I don’t use the term “woke” to describe the changes Disney makes, since I prefer to distance myself from the crowd that uses it. Focussing more on the rate of change and its magnitude is more interesting to me.

Didn’t expect a strong reaction like that. Then again, I didn’t think it through before hitting send. My bad.

Oh. Totally missed that one. Oops. Haven’t seen the last few films.

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Can’t wait to see someone shove AI into egg times, flashlights and calculators. This kind of innovation just makes me sad.

Those were the days… :-)