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Why Android? Linux with Proton would make so much more sense, Android games are mostly mobile trash…

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What about a smartwatch stressed you out?

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There is watchy, pretty sure it is from the same guy who made the pebble.

[Fortune] Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds (archive.ph)

Researchers found that ChatGPT’s performance varied significantly over time, showing “wild fluctuations” in its ability to solve math problems, answer questions, generate code, and do visual reasoning between March and June 2022. In particular, ChatGPT’s accuracy in solving math problems dropped drastically from over 97%...

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According to who? Who defines what a “basic necessity” is? It could easily be argued that hobbies are a necessity.

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Ubiquiti, an American company.

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You can run UniFi Protect on your own server, or use one of their appliances with it, just not as a router, akin to a Eufy HomeBase.

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I keep being tempted to pick one up but I’m not a huge fan of old handheld games. Even growing up I was always like “I wish these were more like the PC or console versions.” My first system was a GBC so maybe a bit before my time. Happily playing PC games on a steam deck these days though. My childhood dream is real now! lol

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Those were all before my time, so I don’t really have any “favorites” I would want to play.

What type of game do you want to play that doesn't really exist?

Have you ever played a game and wondered what if you could do something that it doesn’t really allow you to do, for example being able to move around blocks in Minecraft fluidly instead of in sectors, edit the world in Hogwarts legacy with spells, be able to fly in a world like Elden Ring or Elder Scrolls with epic sky...

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FF7 Crisis Core is a prequel to FF7 and pretty great, but it is a PSP game.

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Nothing like Facebook. Signal, Discord, Email, SMS otherwise.

Corsair acquires mechanical keyboard specialist Drop (www.theverge.com)

Corsair has acquired Drop, an online retailer known for its mechanical keyboards and keyboard accessories. Drop will continue to operate independently under the leadership of CEO Jef Holove. Corsair hopes to expand Drops brand globally through its supply chain and distribution network. Drop intends to continue its enthusiast-led...

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It hurts hearing them referred to as a “mechanical keyboard specialist.” Running an Ultimate Hacking Keyboard 1.0 these days.

DAE remember Massdrop? lol. Also wonder what this means for their audiophile line?

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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

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Is it still true that proton has issues with multiplayer games? From what I read last time I looked anti-cheat doesn’t work with proton.

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I’m transgender and don’t really care, I have a lot more more important problems to be tired of. Most of my friends are on the LGBT spectrum and I don’t interact with greater society all that much.

What tends to bother me more is how our world is built for neurotypicals, as someone with autism and CPTSD. That actually has an effect on my life.

DRM removal tool was taken down from github. If you can, please download it from gitlab before its taken down too

The DRM removal tool to remove DRM from ebooks was taken down from github and will most likely be taken down from gitlab soon as well. The more archives we have the better so im sharing the gitlab in hopes some Datahoarder types will archive it and keep it shared via torrents etc gitlab.com/bipinkrish/DeGourou...

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Why do people join communities for things they hate just to shit on everyone? Are you addicted to being angry?

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Good luck with your moral crusade then Mr or Ms HughJanus

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That was fast. Maybe we will finally get another Guitar Hero game.

Where did all the Sriracha go? Sauce shortage hiking prices to $70 in online markets (www.cbsnews.com)

tl;dr: sriracha is selling for ~$40-$70 a bottle due to a shortage of red jalapeño crops, caused by climate change (specifically, extremely hot, dry weather as well as landslide effects from various climate events in the previous years). huy fong says sriracha is resuming limited production but did not specify when this...

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I’ll have to give that a shot, the huy fong stuff has been my favorite forever. How does it compare?

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My local Asian store had pallets of it at the normal price when everywhere else was out of stock or overpriced.

Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts (mashable.com)

Reddit recently removed years of chat and message archives from users’ accounts without warning as part of an infrastructure upgrade. Many Redditors were upset to discover that their chat histories from before January 2023 were no longer accessible. Reddit claims they only migrated data from 2023 forward during the transition...

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I was speculating that maybe they are going to drive the stock price into the ground and the magically “fix everything” to make it go back up, and make money on that…somehow. I’m not a stocks person so I don’t know.

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I ended up quitting the game because some early game enemies were too tough, on casual mode :(

When people say stuff like this it makes me feel like I’m missing something

Recommendations for open world games with focus on interaction instead of exploration or survival

I would like recommendations for open world games where the player has abundant ways to interact with the world, be it with the NPCs or buildings, and does not have to worry about survival aspects of the character or spending time exploring a static world. I would not mind if it comes at the cost of a smaller sized world, as...

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Fallout: New Vegas might be enjoyable for you. It is a smaller game than skyrim, and has everything you like about skyrim and more.

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You dont need to pay for XBL to do multiplayer anymore? Haven’t touched Xbox since the 360.

Mark F***king Zuckerberg Is Not Your Friend (catvalente.substack.com)

I recently listened to a “tech” podcast host drone on for 45 minutes about the “Elon vs Zuck” cage match and this piece perfectly captures the frothing, screaming stream-of-conciousness in my brain at the thought of seeing another discussion about Twitter vs Threads/Insta/Face/burning-sh*itpile. I felt some small amount...

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I’ve seen a lot of people suggest that Zuck is a more ethical person, which I think is an absolutely ridiculous claim.

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What are your thoughts on ink tank printers?

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I fear this will suffer the same problem as every other tiny ball bearing trackball with fine movements being an issue over time. I wish my CST L-Trac didn’t die.

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Yep, exactly! What a cool concept.

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Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes 2? I played the shit out of that

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I’ve been playing through It Takes Two with my SO, such a great game. I’ll have to check out Grounded, 40% off right now.

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Wow, freeware. Now that is a blast from the past. Definitely gonna have to try that out, thanks!

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That looks awesome! So glad I made this thread! 😀

Cancel Amazon Prime [2021] (archive.ph)

Amazon Prime is a remarkable success but also dystopian. It has made convenience and speed the norm, habituating consumers to buy more products. Prime’s flywheel effect - where more customers lead to more data and scale which attracts more customers - has fueled Amazon’s dominance. Prime subscribers spend twice as much and...

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You can order from somewhere else online. Most of Amazon is cheap crap from aliexpress now anyway. They don’t even have the best prices most of the time anymore.

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Why not just use one of the many other delivery services?

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My point was not to buy things that are just shitty crap from aliexpress. Or that cheap crap from aliexpress is unappealing junk that nobody would want to buy, the equivalent of email spam. In fact, the complaint I tend to hear people make the most often about Amazon is how hard it is to find anything on there that isn’t cheap chinese junk from AliExpress.

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For real, the amount of people acting like the choices here are Amazon Prime or driving over to the B&M is ridiculous. It is like people forgot how to shop online. There are many other choices for online shopping. It is so incredibly lazy to just throw your hands up and say “Whelp, the local store doesn’t have what I need, guess I need to use Amazon Prime.”

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There are other stores on the internet…

I can think of at least one other truck going to everyone’s house once a day too.

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It isn’t hard to be better than the worst. My SO worked in a non-amazon warehouse before moving in with me and it is no walk in the park but it is still far better than Amazon. They even started trying to recruit people from her warehouse and everyone who jumped ship to Amazon regretted it quickly.

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See my other reply to your same question above. It isn’t hard to be better than the worst.

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I’ve literally never had this happen to me. Plus, you are never on the hook for it anyway with a credit card. Also, privacy.com

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A girl can dream

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I would rather pay for the services I use if they don’t charge much more than they make off of us in ads, and remove ads entirely. Then advertisers could not control what content I can see. It also adds another barrier between people and the services, look at what happens when a game goes free to play. The quality of the playerbase drops. Trolls might think twice if being banned means they have to pay for a new account.

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What is the point of using an email client over just using the web client? I’ve never been able to figure out the use case. Genuine question, not just trying to shit on this.

Edit: Thanks for all the answers, I’m trying it out now

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I think the whole thing about megacorps being the problem here is a bit short sighted, I don’t think it will be too much longer before anyone can spin up their own LLM. It doesn’t exactly take Google levels of resources. I’m as happy to shit on megacorps as the next person here but IP law as it is is BS.

More likely than not any changes made will be to benefit large corporations at the expense of individuals and competition. I’m imagining a world where copyright law has made it so that only big corporations can afford to pay for LLM training data. As if individuals had to pay library book prices for a personal book to train their personal LLM. This desire to “cash in” may just play right into the megacorporation’s hand.

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