Yep, thats corporate monitoring software for you. Everyones got it, if you dont see it, assume its there. If the PC is not yours and or built with your own hands, assume its bugged or key logged. This goes for school PCs as well for the youngins, this is not to make people paranoid, just manage expectations on privacy. If you didnt make it, assume its recorded.

You know you can stand up your own Matrix-Synapse server as part of your home lab, its the “we have Telegram at home” answer.

My Fluke Intelatone copper cable tracer and pin mapper. Had one as a company tool back early in my career. Bought one for myself when I moved and just carry it around in my magic bag of tricks. It is just the best at finding its other half, so much so that ive had multiple employers buy their own because I use my own and wanted me to stop using the shitty cheap ones they get off amazon.

No, im of the opinion that the Amsterdam model is the most ethical response (so far) to drug abuse and mental health assistance. If addiction is a factor, punishment is not a deterant (and atleast in The US, an excuse for authorities to abuse the carve-out in the 13th ammendment). Treating people as patients instead of criminals provides the most good to society.

WELCOME TO THE OFFICE OF SECRET INTELIGENCE SAMPSON!

[Co. Gathers jumps out of the plane without a parachute]

Aww shit… Here we go again.

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was, and now what I am isnt it, and what is it is weird and scary to me.

And it will happen to you.

There have been UBI trial runs in the EU, they usually dont. Once peoples needs are met, they tend to want to want to continue doing things as they are. If they wern’t buying fancy cars, UBI isnt going to change that, and if a car is a need for that individual, then the system is working as intended.

Plus, the thing every counter argument to UBI seems to forget is that not everyone will be responsible with the funds or onboard with the program. The system will need to have to buffer for abuse and poor habbits, but unlike now, an unwillingnes/inability to participate in the workforce does not mean poverty. Plus a well designed system will help people use it effectivly and get them the help they need (see the current failures of the US mental health system).

Thats the neat part, I dont. I simply continue the routine of putting food in my face and if anything bad happens… Try and deal with it.

Due to my job, if about half of the fortold “end-timed” occure, its not an issUe not an issME. Ill probably be at ground-zero of what ever it is, or atleast down the block from it…

Have fun in the appocalypse. If its zombies, I get to do that one.

Avoiding slopification seems to be the main priority, and you would have to have the AI be incorporated into a game it would have to do something that AI is already passable at, otherwise it wont pass that barrier and will get shunned like the rest of the slop.

For example, you could have an LLM act as a character or have a neural net incorporated into the game-ai like how tool assisted DOTA2 competitions work.

I see three main problems, first is that you would need the hardware to run it locally, which may be a hard sell to some people depending on what the game it is, only online expirenes should endebt themselves to AWS, if its single player, its going to lose a ton of sales there. Two, its really hard to convince audiences electrons have feelings, remember Final Fantasy (2001)? Thats what happened last time someone tried to personify a digital construct, and well… It went swimmingly (Microsofts Tay, does not count). Lastly, impact, would a narrative focused title have the same impact of an AI wrote the script? How would you feel after playing through a title like “Papers, please” and when the credits roll it says “script generated by CoPilot”? I feel like it would ring hollow, the feelings would be cheapened by it…

I would be interested to see how this plays out, but im content to support the titles and studios that do things the traditional way.

Im very thankful that it appears this chapter of consumerist history is over. Last entry on Black Friday Death Count was from 2021 and I was going past my big local mall and I saw tons of parking. In past years that place was a zoo, but today, slightly more crowded than normal, but nothing dangerous.

It is the most unrealistic, dispite [gestures broadly to everything] because.

1. President Dwayn Elezondo Mtn. Dew Herbert Comacho has a problem.

2. They find the most qualified person to solve it, even though they are not sure 😉

3. They (reluctantly) listen to his advice.

4. Finally, once the day is saved, President Comacho does not take credit for it.

That is the most unrealistic part of the film.

No one ever truely grows up, some people are just better at hiding it.

A bit of internet history, account age was a measure of clout on Slashdot.org. Your account ID was posted as part of your replies, so the lower the number, the longer you have been on the site.

Mine personally is in the 1.3M range, and I still read the site and I still see users posting on accounts as low as 500k ID, those have been around since the late 90s.

The site is just a news agrigator at this point with a comment section full of boomers and greybeards (sys admins that probably should consider retiring), but its been my home page for ~20 years and I have no intention of changing that.

Gross…

Hey Canonical, hows that linux phone OS coming along?

Shhh, we do not speak of such places. We do not wish for people to know their names and seek such dark recesses.

Welcome to Port Royal, Mr. Smith.

You left out the funniest part about it being internet famous.

Tourist goblins kept stealing the sign!

Eh, dont let it get to you. This horse will serve you well and it affords you room to grow. You will hear it a lot on lemmy, but get a second SSD and give linux a go. I game on Pop_OS and its the closest thing to “It just works” ive seen out of the community (debian for most everything else… because home lab).

Plus, you put the effort into researching the model and its parts. In 6-7 years time, look into building the next one, further your learning and figure out what each component does and why a the manufacturer picked what they did.

If you need help with things/troubleshooting, the Lemmy community is here to help. Welcome to the club!

Dell has always had good warranties on parts. Its half the reason Alienware was held in such high regard for so long after they were aquired in the early 2ks. Even though enthusiests will scoff at the prebuild, if you dont intend the PC itself to be the project, you did good.