My friend keeps referencing a quote from Samurai Warriors (the first one, PS2 era) so on a lark I surprised her with a co-op session via parsec. Best musuo era, for sure, although that acting makes us both laugh. (I never played it, why is Nobunaga Oda a Japanese Darth Vader?!)

Wow, did not expect someone to shout-out Tevi! That and Rabi are great (although Tevi isn’t nearly as hard lol)

True, each os is counted each time. Not sure if my own custom build is interesting to them. Think they care about 8 hard drives? Lol

I did my part, I declined the survey because I was temporarily on a Windows partition when it asked.

Haha thanks, fixed. Autocorrect + sleepy morning.

Common problem with a lot of meds, including antidepressants and antipsychotics. I knew someone who didn’t want to take their meds because it made them fat, and that was to counteract delusions and paranoia from schizophrenia. It’s been decades, so I think the meds are better but the point is, yeah, lots of people have to pick and even if the side effects are less bad, you’re actively having to choose to cause that to yourself.

I should use this as an excuse to finally get a NAS setup. Maybe.

Yeah, I’m afraid the tech bros cut costs by not saving backups and removing all the old ones. Hell, all our changes are made in prod, no staging allowed here.

I’ve met the type who run businesses like that, and they likely do deserve punishment for it. My own experience involved someone running gray legality betting apps, and the owner was a cheapskate who got unpaid interns and filipino outsourced work to build their app. Guy didn’t even pay 'em sometimes.

Granted, you could also hire inexperienced people if you’re a good person with no financial investor, but that I’ve mostly seen with education apps and other low profit endeavors. Sex stuff definitely is someone trying to score cash.

Traditionally, yes, but I do want to note that modern takes use it to also argue for cooperation, since working with with others is good for survival and passing on genes. They also are the first to tell people how bunk the alpha male crap is, and the fact a lone wolf is a dead wolf.

I’m not convinced at least half of those communities trust Reddit and Discord enough to leave forums, but then again I stopped using them mostly because I haven’t had time for those hobbies. My emulation groups are still active on forums, at least.

Gross but also… kinda curious from an A/B testing perspective to know when the user drop off happens. Kind of like, what’s the pain threshold before someone stops using shitty software. The answer really should be zero but the average user… ugh, it’s probably fucking 8 or 9 and we should be ashamed.

Too bad is Bing so the sample size is too small for any meaningful results.

Not crazy if you want to advertise on the down low. I worked a summer once doing that shit, it’s insidious. Blockers don’t even block someone pretending to like a product.

You and me both, I graduated into a recession, held it together by getting into graduate school to pay the bills (research schools give stipends) only to graduate AGAIN into a fucking recession. I did work some black magic on my debt, though, so at least we leveled off during the Biden years.

Yeeaaaah, I miss the dark humor, people here are sometimes a bit too literal. To be fair, they have their reasons, from being neurodivergent to being from cultures that just don’t do dark humor. Our All feed really is everyone.

Weeeelllll… technically there are a couple of Lemmy cliches, but you make a good point. Canned bot responses to farm karma are certainly awful, with the only human exception being “look up en passant” because that was intentional predicability.

Around here, you can say what you really meant quite outright and most instances won’t blink (except, ironically, the one you and I are on got a little heat for this exact thing, lol, they want to be most like Reddit).

Ironically, a lot of stock trading already is done by bot, it’s a problem from a while ago. Not LLM, of course, much simpler but it’s why it sometimes goes hive mind.

Oh, the stress? I remind myself that renters in my area are now paying twice what my mortgage is, and I bought just three years ago. It’s a quick boost, and believe me, I’ve got at least a dozen fixes myself to do that I don’t have the energy or money for.

If that’s not enough, take a few weekends to at least hit what you can. Make a list and tackle things slowly as to not get overwhelmed. One by one, step by step.

For example, I used a week break to paint the kids room and it feels like a brand new home, even patching cracks and dealing with water damaged ceiling drywall (was minor, and the roofing was already fixed before I moved in). The rest of the house needs it, but it still made me feel like I did something.

Man, I want to be at that shareholder meeting; “how about we just don’t have a CEO and pocket the savings?”