Also YSK:

Generally speaking you aren’t limited to just what’s at your nearest library. Other nearby libraries (or even those you pass by on travel) may have better/different offerings and will generally welcome folks with open arms.

What can you even do on an un-networked fridge screen? Play bejeweled while contemplating suicide?

If they do start adding AI slop it’ll all be cloud hosted, of that I’m certain.

Not sure I have much hope for Nvidia holding back on AI “features” in the long run

Don’t you have phones?

Tons will let you disable AI, or make it opt-in. Only a small few don’t have any AI features. I think Vivaldi and Orion (which is only on Mac/iOS, in alpha for Linux) don’t appear to have any browser-based AI.

Maybe? Hopefully? This makes people ask why its so important to Microsoft for Edge, a “free” service, to be your default browser…

Probably not, but still…

How some crazies want ability checks to work:

Player: I gesture vaguely towards the ancient dragon indicating I would like it to give me all of its gold and become my personal pet.

DM: Roll a persuasion check

Player: Let’s see… Minus 4 because I’m still only level 2… With a Nat-20 that’s totals 16

DM: Nat-20? By golly I guess that means you succeed - the ancient dragon and its entire hoard of treasure are yours now.

That’s the kind of check Soros gives me to cover my ANTIFA membership fees

Angus King of Maine

“Quantum emulation” all the hype, 1/1000th the efficiency, 1000X the excuses to sell hardware

You download the thing but then no screen.

More specifically, many of the 30+ people at the UK branch were brought to the HR office under the “friendly guise” of just needing to talk, only to be told they were fired and then “frogmarched” out of the building.

Wrong authoritarian corporate-controlled government.

“Describing rapid-response networks [and] moms as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are, and how incredible their views are,” Ellis said.

Shoutout for the proper use of the word incredible.

Honest question, what are y’all doing on YouTube most days?

I go on about once or twice a month when I need to repair a thing and I can’t find a good written description of how to repair it.

Also I visited the other day to make sure my bluetooth headphones were connected before a call (I watched a video of goats doing goat things for 4s).

I’m curious what content is drawing in folks on Lemmy who probably skew towards my demographic.

Getting the chunks off saves you from having to clean the filter as often (I recognize that’s probably different from “scrubbing”)

My dishes are by no stretch of the imagination clean when they go into the dishwasher, but they also look nothing like what’s in a Cascade™ commercial.

Bought a tire attachment for my air compressor the other day. You’d think I must live in a house with millions of tires to fill based on my product suggestions.

“Like, you really fucking love tires right? Have you heard of these 6 other tire-filling compressor attachments??”

Quite frankly one of the worst articles I’ve read in a long time.

A rambling post full of speculative guesses at costs and performance combined with authoritative-sounding opinions.

For a post full of “math”, only one chart made it in that they just copied from another source - I’ve seen better written rants on Lemmy.

Their whole thesis that it’s not viable to build a 24/7 renewable grid with just one renewable and batteries is not technically wrong, it’s a straw man argument. Sure UAE built this system, but its part of a much larger strategy, not alone in a vacuum.

The only renewables mentioned are solar and wind and only from the context that they’re unreliable sources, but at no point do they even hint at the complementary nature of having a diverse portfolio of renewable energy sources, nor that there are any other forms of renewables.

I could go on and on. This feels like someone from Chevron hired an intern to churn out anti-renewable astroturfy spam.

I’d also never put punctuation inside of “sarcastic quotes”. It feels wrong.

Evidence? From the “most transparent administration”? You must be new here…