Rhaedas

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 3 hours ago

Procrastination: Yeah, but not today. Maybe tomorrow.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

Without a banana I have no idea of what might be true here.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 5 hours ago

As presented it is the more cheery side of cyberpunk. The others tend to creep in older tech tells (steam or other), and the ship doesn't look very shiny and new, so there's a taste of used there, even if it's not very old, like Star Wars tech always feels, even in the brighter parts (like on Coruscant). Definitely AI source, a human artist would have put details like wear marks, debris on the ground, little things to give an age feel.

I'm actually working on figuring out my own scifi tech as background material for a novel, and AI is not create at coming up with things visually. I've hammered out the ideas in text, but now I'm trying to find ways like Blender to bring them to life to better see it.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 20 hours ago

Firefox is a heavier browser, so there are other options to use when RAM is an issue. There are tradeoffs in features though, so pick what works best. The default RAM I had with the Macbook (2GB) was usable but barely, I had to stay away from something like Youtube or it would crash. But I was able to bump up to 8GB which opened up doing a lot more.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 64 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

My first glance was at the bottom right, and literally said, "you son of a bitch."

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

In the 70s it was D&D that was bringing about the end of civilization. It's always projection. Those kind of things are actually good outlets for stress, not causing mental illness.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 0 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

Unsold food that is given away creates a liability if it causes problems. Food banks are the middle man in that respect, where they can toss things that aren't going to stay good and provide for people with the rest. So here's where government, regulation, and socialism comes into play. Companies should be encouraged with money to do something other than toss that food. Better systems should be in place to move that food to the food bank. Better regulation there to make sure that the food is being examined well enough. More places for all this to happen.

This ignores fixing the real problem, profit driven consumption, societies where people aren't able to provide for themselves, etc.

So by itself you aren't going to get unsold food to the needy, the risk and cost is too great for companies.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I questioned the other suggests that it was retrofuturism, as I had a different picture of what that meant, but apparently that is a very broad category that it seems most futuristic fiction seems to fall in if it has anything we think of in the picture, like flying vehicles or modernistic buildings. Everything from cyberpunk (both positive and dystopian) to steampunk to dieselpunk fall under the name. So I would maybe further narrow this to cyberpunk, aka Bladerunner/The Expanse type? Hard to say the environmental/social feel from just this picture.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The drive for absolute power has nothing to do with secularism. Religious power does the same thing.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

That is the core problem now. Not from some awakening of LLMs, but because they're being forced into everything for money, doing damage along the way. Sold as the ultimate tool for everything, only good at specific things.

LLMs and how we're using them is a test run for any potential AGI that might come along, and we're failing pretty badly. Imagine if one of them was actually AGI and was able to do more than just break things from being bad at it. AGI/ASI if it ever happened would be quick and unpredictable in the direction it takes. We better wake up and realize that with this pretend version that we screwed up implementing.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Good luck with the effort. I have a Chromebook that I was considering to do the same after messing with using it as-is but running Forefox under its Linux wrapper and seeing how painfully slow it was. But then I dived into Google's efforts in locking them down and decided it wasn't worth the effort (yet). I turned to an old Macbook that couldn't be updated anymore and discovered the exact opposite. With a bit more RAM and a swap to a SSD, it runs current Linux Mint with little issues. I may explore the Chromebook again when I have extra time, as it's doable, just a PIA.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 3 days ago

I don't know, that looks like lazy human. Definitely rubber stamp editor (if any at all).

 

Made something a few months ago and put it on Amazon. Have different variations of covers and two sizes (50 and 100 pages, for 25 and 50 observation nights). Looking for options on the concept, contents (you can view the interior pages for their layout on the Amazon page).

Wondering if it's too flashy and a simple cover might work better, or if it's just because it's Amazon and there's too much competition. Or of course if it's just not what's being looked for.

 

Running Ubuntu 22.04:

I've tried searching for a solution to this, but there's way too many false positives. I know you can enable/disable using a single instance in two places, but that's not my issue. If I open a video the first time, VLC works fine. If I have both the "only use one instance" off, I can click on other videos and they run too. But if I have any combination of those boxes checked I can only play the first video, and to play a new video I have to manually close the VLC player.

What I want to happen is to have one player spawn, but any new video will run in that player, overriding the existing video. Is that just not possible? I don't want to have to close the window every time I run something new, and I don't want to have to go back and lose a whole bunch of separate VLC instances when I'm done.

Update: I found the solution, and I should have tried it first before posting. Oh well, at least I didn't leave anyone who might find this hanging like a DenverCoder9.

Being Ubuntu, VLC was installed via Snap (I can't recall if I did it or it's default). I suppose I should look into the de-Snap process I've seen mentioned before, as I've also had a few non-crash errors since running Ubuntu where snap was the source.

So the solution was to install the Debian version in terminal, not Snap. It works like I expect and wanted, and I can run video after video and it uses the same window.

 

I have an older robot vacuum that has finally shown some age in its battery. The charger will charge for about 15 mins and then gets an error, but it's enough to do a decent vacuuming of the room if I charge then vacuum, then repeat once more. I can't leave it on the charger now due to the error repeating, so basically I run it dead until the next time.

So my question is, can I continue doing this since it works well enough, or is there potential problems/danger with the battery being at less capacity? I could buy a new battery, they aren't terrible in price, but if it works and is safe, why not continue what I'm doing until it completely gives out?

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