Yeah, there’s legitimate complains against GAI and most of all the companies trying to lead it. But having a community where the only point of view accepted has to be direct and absolute hatred including towards people trying to look at adequate and ethical usage of the technology is just plainly bad and stupid just like any other social bubble.

I guess it is inevitable that self centred ego-stroking bubble communities appear in platforms such as Lemmy. Where reasoned polite discussion is discouraged and opposing opinions are drowned.

Well, I’ll just leave this comment here in the hope someone reads it and realises how bad these communities actually are. There’s a lot to hate about AI (specially companies dedicated to sell it), but not all is bad. As any technology, is about how you use it and this kind of community is all about cancelling everything and never advance and improve.

And I could rebute to that, that if someone is interested enough to check it with AI then they were likely to try and check it anyway without AI, maybe it would take longer, it would be harder to find… But they’d be the intended audience that now are redirected elsewhere.

To quote myself:

It’s a really complex topic that no simple straight answer would solve.

We could rebute again and again and again, and get nowhere because either option is hard to discuss as it is simply impossible to give proper data to prove anything. And worse, when defending the use of AI for it can lead to being told you are allowing it in the first place and that’s not even telling how many people still believe that AI needs real sample images to produce those (whether the algorithm is trained or not on CP is irrelevant on this particular point, as it is not needed to be created)

Hmm… In my mostest most humblest of opinions, no, you didn’t get carried away. You explained it in just the right amount. Maybe even stopped too soon, would have loved the version for Mac.

I’m not the kind to hate on nuclear power itself, but let’s not assume it’s perfect either. There are good reasons against nuclear power, its just not the usual reasons raised by people.

The cost and time effort needed for building one plant is one drawback.

The fact that you can’t say “let’s turn off the nuclear reactor now that we have enough renewables and later today we start it again when the sunlight is over”. It’s a terrible energy source to supply for extra demand needed without perfect planning.

Nowadays, nuclear is not so worth it in general, not because of fearmongering about the dangers (an old plant badly upkept is a danger, independent of what energy source you use, but specially for nuclear plants). Ideally a combination of different renewables would be best, with some energy storage to be used as backup, plus proper sharing of the resources between different places. There’s always sun somewhere, there’s always wind somewhere, …

So after half a century of being alive you have just decided there’s nothing else to learn and nothing you could be mistaken about. No reason to talk things out and hear others’ opinions. Because you are the oldest wisest human being ever.

I (not the person you answered to) do believe I am right on the opinions I hold, but I’m not certain of it. So I read, and I discourse, and I consider other points of view, in case my opinions could have been mistaken. That won’t mean I will suddenly consider “hey maybe the Nazis were right killing all those people they hated”. There will be some aspects where I won’t budge in my opinion, but most things are nuanced and harder to draw a line for than the nazi example.

But then again, why would what I say matter, all arguments opposed to you are garbage and wrong.

As a counterpart, the fact that it is so easy and simple to get those AI images, compared to the risk and extra effort of doing it for real, could make the actual child abuse become less common and less profitable for mafias and assholes in general. It’s a really complex topic that no simple straight answer would solve.

Normalising it would be horrible and should be avoided, but there will always be some amount of people looking for that content. I rather have them using AI to create it than having to go searching for real content. Persecuting the AI content is not only very inefficient, it might also be harmful as the only other content left would be the real one that is much harder to catch those who make it.

Since you have experience DMing games for different ages than yours (or I expect that’s the case since you talk of birthdays and after school programs), what would be your advice to lead a game with kids that you think it’s different from just a bunch of friends playing specially if they are old enough that no theme is out of bounds.

Like I mention in some other comment, I want to start a game and DM both my kids and my wife using the Adventure Time RPG books based on 5E. My biggest issue is that both kids are quite far apart in age, 4 and 8 and I’m inexperienced being a DM so handling both and making the game fun for all feels like a daunting experience. So as an extra question, have you ever been the DM of a game where players had meaningful difference in age?

Man this all is amazing. I have never DM’d but I want to start soonish. Long ago I grabbed the pathfinder book and the master guide to start some group locally, but that never actually happened (got kids, no time or energy left for much (: ).

Now kids are growing up and I would want to make a small game with them and my wife to teach them about RPGs. Waiting to get the adventure time RPG from kickstarter based on 5E to make the game with them. All your comments are amazing to read and prepare mentally :)

Me too, the problem is how many have to suffer him until that happens. And I dont mean just having to read his every damn comment.

Really? Ah wow, never thought it would be that hard… That’s sarcasm by the way, since we are stating the obvious. Also you forgot to mention, one does nothing against FElon and the other ends FElon.

I anyway hate the idea of inciting violence (but sometimes you just need to get it out) and can’t really wrap my head at how many people are in comments in Lemmy out for blood (well, I kind of understand, the situation is bleak to say the least, the issue is how many think violence is a good solution for real, there’s a discussion for violent revolution, but violence alone is useless, but I digress), I’d rather he rots in a cell somewhere and all his money is taken away to do something useful with, he’d probably hate that much more than anything else. Same with Amazon Dickzos… Well that’s lame, couldn’t come up with a good name for him yet. Bezos anyway.

But anyway, if the first lady trump is still free and worse, in a position of power in the government, after all he has done (literal treason, rape, …), I’m not holding my breath for the nazi asshole to get to prison.

Why so many people are cheerfully cheering for burning teslas owned by random people when it seems it would be easier to burn this fucking nazi asshole? Just get rid of the source of the problem…

Oh man absolutely this…

For me it was a bit before, must have been 2005 or 2006… Managing to get the drivers working for the graphics card and finally getting Compiz to work and get all the funky window effects… But the best one had to be the cube desktop. Having 4 virtual desktops and turning them around was always awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QokOwvPxrE

Ah… Mikrotek sounds interesting, would love to support a small European company. They seem to have nice hardware…

Yeah, the other site x) since I removed my accounts is a pain to visit, if anything at some point I’ll do some search on the laptop to browse more comfortably.

Thanks for that other link! I have some reading to do… Lots to learn. Networking was never my forte, but alas, can’t trust any company and need to build things on my own… So be it.

Ah thanks! That’s a great idea! I entirely forgot about the existence of openwrt, and anyway would have never thought that the google devices could accept it… I’m definitely going to try that and then slowly plan and learn about what I would need to start using the MoCA network and reduce the dependency on WiFi.

Alright! Thank you so much for the detailed answer. This has led me in the right direction, I had an inkling that given the old installation in the house I might be able to use something more adequate than WiFi. Now I finally know how to call it, MoCA. So I am going to spend some time checking where can I get in the house the wired access using this MoCA stuff, try and set up a couple access points or like you say just one good one. I guess I have a lot to consider now :)

So I was checking the whole line of ubiquiti, when you said you don’t think there’s a lot of positive feedback on those products, where you referring only to the Amplifi one?

Again, thank you so much, I finally feel I got the key knowledge I was missing to go forward.

Then not for me, I didn’t mention in the post it would be for the EU market.

But when I do that I don’t get WiFi everywhere in the house… And I made sure to stuff the RJ45 well and deep in the turkey.

I already have the hairy back, can I say I am half neanderthalensis? Better than homo sapiens seeing how things are going…

It really does not… Or do you think anyone over at Tesla gives two damns? Do you think this will affect the shitshow in the USFA? Tomorrow no one will remember this crap, except the people that were locally affected in France. Luigi killed a person, I can’t condone violence like that, but I have to admit that that was a strong message. Imagine if instead he would have burnt some healthcare centres… It’s the 0.1% that’s the issue, here you are damaging the other 99.9%. Again, not condoning violence, but a guillotine makes less damage and well used give a real strong message.