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  • I love that people are still on about this. I agreed with Janeway because it fits Spock's motto about the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few, but the fact that people are still arguing it 30 years later means there's no good answer. It's a trolley problem or Sophie's choice kind of thing.

    And the new Voyager game lets you go the other way... and I can't wait to hear how that outcome plays out over the course of the game.

  • Eh. I used to care about spelling and grammar. Since I learned that the purpose of language is to communicate and if you've communicated your intent, you've done your part. If I understood you, then I'm the asshole if I correct you. You've done nothing wrong.

    That being said, if what you wrote could have gone two different ways and your mistake made it go the other way, I and others absolutely will call you on it — you see this online all the time, and it's always in good fun. Or if it's obvious it was an iPhone autocorrection. But we're not saying you're an idiot, we're just saying it's funny because you didn't convey what you mean. We still got it, but it's funny and we're all gonna laugh together. Or at least that's my read on the situation.

    Being a "grammar cop" isn't the best, because then you're an expert and people wanna keep coming to you with how to spell this or that and it's like... bro it's not that big a deal. I had a guy come to me and ask me if he spelled a word correctly, and he spelled it the American way. I said technically that is valid English but it's American English. And this is how you spell it in proper (i.e. the King's) English... he didn't understand why it wasn't right or one way was more correct. Ultimately it doesn't matter. Now if it's something like maneouvre vs maneuver, the Yanks will give you some shit for that one. If you wrote colour, I mean everyone knows you drop the U in American English. But an -ise vs -ize (like utilise/utilize) — most people won't even see it. But I'm the weirdo for knowing English and American English. I prefer English. My phone prefers American English. I know how to change it. I can't be arsed. Because anyone who knows English understands both well enough, for the reasons above.

    Now when I start mixing in other languages... I admit, that's a bit extra...

    ...but getting back to the topic at hand, when you've acted in good faith and people call you out, remember that's their problem and not yours, and you can safely ignore them (and others should, too). You see someone getting picked on over something petty? Don't give it any air. Don't react. Ignore it, treat it like it didn't happen — because it never should have happened.

    Oh... and now guys like me get shit because AI uses em dashes — like that. Guys like me have been using them all along. It's possible AI trained itself on the people with the best grammar, so now we sound like AI. Fucking great, right? So now we're getting it from the other side. I guess what goes around, comes around...

  • None... or Apple Intelligence, if you count being in the Apple Ecosystem as paying for it. The only way I know of to pay directly is to use the new creative suite, which is like $13/month. I don't have that.

    I don't actively support (or use) any of them, and my computer/phone platform of choice since 2016 (so, before this mess) always used the derpy AI (Siri/Apple Intelligence).

  • For those who don't know, this is from The Pitt, an official DLC for Fallout 3.

    The context is, Pittsburgh is a bit more affected by radiation than Washington DC (where the bulk of the game takes place). You are invited to The Pitt by the leader (or a leader) of a union trying to protect workers. The area is led by a gang that works the populace literally to death. You are able to meet with the gang leader and it turns out he is not a bad dude. He is trying to cure people, but it's going to take him 20 years. His daughter (the baby, Marie) is immune, and he wants to safely extract the child's blood over time to cure people. The "union" guy wants to kill the baby and only cure himself and like 1-2 others, screw everybody else. There isn't a good option here.

    If you wanna play "eat the rich" and be more accurate in canon, you talk about Bumble, a 6 year old girl in the kids-only community of Little Lamplight. (Fun fact: Mayor MacCready is a little shit, but he's best boy in Fallout 4, when he's grown up and has learned a thing or two.) You have to go through Little Lamplight to finish the game. However, there's a faction you never really have to get near, but if you happen upon them, they ask you to enslave four people (one of them can be killed, most people kill this guy as part of a side quest anyway). Once you do that, the slaver leader tells you he has a discerning client who wants the youngest girl he can get for his own perverse uses, blah blah blah. You have to sex traffic a first-grader. Well, you don't have to. You could just walk away. But if you do, you can lure the girl outside, and then a slaver shows up to take her away to a life of hell. (What you can also do is then "reverse pickpocket" the child, give her armour and a flamethrower, and watch her kill the slaver, then the two of you basically agree to never talk about this again and you escort her back to the cave.)

    Fallout was fucking dark before Skyrim and Fallout 4, 76, Shelter, and the TV series.

  • Unless you're an iPhone user, you should also buy phones from the manufacturer so the carrier doesn't add an ad for their service to the boot sequence. Yes, they do this and specifically T-Mobile does it. My wife and I both brought Galaxy phones (and an iPhone, they had a 3 lines for the price of 2 deal) to T-Mobile and now, even though we're no longer subscribers, our phones play a T-Mobile ad every time they boot. Not the iPhone though, Apple doesn't play that shit. Her phone also got loaded with about a dozen shovelware games she can't uninstall.

  • I actually looked into public transportation because of this thread. My city operates a bus service, but doesn't come to my part of town. I don't live in a bad part of town. They just... don't come this way. I'd have to walk something like 3 miles to get to the nearest bus station.

    I feel like they did the bare minimum to say they did something, maybe for tax purposes?

    I'm not too mad. I have a car. But now I know not having one is less of an option (and the bus doesn't get within 30 miles of my job, so yeah, I need my car to get to work).

  • Bowser flag by night, Mushroom Kingdom by day, as Miyamoto intended.

  • I use DDG on everything, even the work PC. It works well enough for my purposes. I don’t even hate duck.ai and it can be useful, but I’ll double check anything I take from it.

  • Most movies are scientifically accurate. Your average romcom that doesn’t have simulated phone screens is scientifically accurate. Socially accurate? Not so much. Most movies are at least a little bit fantasy. If the science isn’t fantasy — like Star Trek — then something else almost surely is.

    But you mean among movies with some science or tech. Okay, steve jobs., the biopic about the Apple cofounder. Pretty sure the science was accurate. Bonus, Steve talks about a NASA mission. Pretty sure that was accurate, too. Historically accurate? The NASA part, yeah. The Jobs/Apple stuff, not so much. People who loved those events say the movie is way off — Jobs was way worse. But the science was 100% there. Oh, except where Jobs tells Lisa how many songs he’s going to put in her pocket. He’s a showman, a businessman, not an engineer. He knows they’re working on the iPod but he has no idea what the capacity will be yet. Otherwise the science was solid.

    But if you mean science fiction… well, by definition the science is fictional. That’s what we’re there for. We could look at something like Armageddon. Both that and Deep Impact are the result of a seminar that discussed the possibilities of what could be done if a meteor were to threaten to hit Earth. I personally prefer 君の名は。’s solution better: namely, that there isn’t one. The meteor hits. Destruction ensues. But 君の名は。 (your name., internationally) is not science fiction. It’s romantic fantasy (but not romantasy!). Anyway, Armageddon. The science isn’t proven, but it’s probably good enough. I can’t speak to the viability of landing a lunar lander on a meteor — I feel if it’s big enough, the solution wouldn’t work, and if it’s small enough, you couldn’t land on it — and drilling a nuke down to its core and playing it while Aerosmith play in Mission Control because you have the budget for that… I mean it sure sounds good. (Deep Impact fired the nuke from the surface, but part of the meteor still hit, I think that one’s a little more believable.)

  • My Mac and I would like to see it try. Malware? It's a Mac. (Mac malware exists, but this is probably/likely made for Windows.) Actual Windows? Not in this Christian server M2 Pro.

  • Not my first thought. I would think that would be solarpunk maybe? Or maybe no -punk would have such direct access to the sky.

    Airships yeah, but floating islands are too idyllic for steampunk IMO. But I’m not gonna be a gatekeeper over it. Nor am I any kind of authority on steampunk. If the rest of the world fits, they can have a place.

  • Ever wonder why they do this when everyone in the US is asleep? I mean, except those who work night shift.

    It’s not because “it’s daytime in Iran.” Missiles can see in the dark. It would be strategically viable to attack at night.

    So ask yourself who got kept in the dark?

    For contrast, I think George W Bush invaded Iraq during their night. I remember the scenes of bombs exploding in Baghdad being at night. Meaning it was daytime in the US, or at least not the middle of the night.

    I mean, if it were me, a dictator planning an invasion, I’d get a good night’s sleep, get done really good espresso, then make war wide awake while the country on the other side of the planet is asleep. That would make more strategic sense. I’m in my 40s — Trump is in his 80s. So what’s he doing up that late (assuming he even was)?

  • Cool. Pay it back with interest, out of pocket (not the taxpayers) or get fucked.

  • No, for the writer’s guild, it’s about the same. They care less about who owns WB and more about studios consolidating which gives them more control over deals. They can say they’re going to pay writers a lower rate and if you don’t accept it, that’s two studios you can’t write for. Less competition is worse for them regardless of which two merge.

    Unless you were going to say Netflix promised them fair rates, in which case I’d gesture wildly to all their price increases over the years.

    Ultimately they’re just going to have AI write a lot of stuff anyway.

  • I don’t know of any by name or have proof they exist, but I feel like there are recreational drugs that enhance sensations. I don’t think they’d beat anesthesia though.

    I do feel like there is some kind of drug like that that would be used in “interrogation” though. So the way Ibuprofen, that you named, works is, it reduces inflammation that can cause pain. Then you have acetaminophen (Tylenol) which reduces the signals pain receptors send to the brain. You still feel the pain, but your brain ignores some of it. It logically follows that the opposite effect is also possible, but I am not aware of a drug that actually does that that you can buy (I am also unaware of any you can’t buy, to be clear).

  • Wife and I use Paprika. It's a recipe manager on virtually every platform (Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS/iPadOS). I have it on my iPhone and both Macs. My wife has it on her iPad and Android phone. It's not free, and it's really not cheap, but there was a sale and I looked at the cost to get it on our hardware and I thought it made for a good value.

    It also has a shopping list that also syncs, but we use OurGroceries for that. Paprika's might be a little better, but we prefer OG. I've put all our recipes in it, and it can import recipes from various websites. Never tried Facebook though (as I do not use it).

  • They're both ripping you off.

    If you like T-Mobile's service, use one of their MVNOs, Mint or Metro. Metro is owned by T-Mobile IIRC, not sure about Mint but they use T-Mo towers.

    If you like Verizon, Verizon operates Visible. Visible is $30 a month. Metro and Mint are priced similarly.

    "But I got a free phone with T-Mo/VZW!" Okay, look that phone up on Amazon or whatever. (Better yet, the official site. Samsung or Apple or Google.) Take the price, divide it by 24. Add that to the $30 I pay Visible. Is it more, or less than what you pay your carrier a month? If it's more, you're getting ripped off. If it's less, you're one of the few who's beating the system — and everyone else is subsidising you. Congrats.

    "But deprioritisation!" Most MVNOs give you a generous helping of priority data. Past that, it's low priority, but that really only matters in major metropolitan areas. With Visible you get like 50GB of priority. Manage your data (I use 5GB/mo tops) and you'll never hit the threshold. If you think it's a problem, ask if it's really worth it to pay for a major carrier.

  • No, because the Republicans are all voting for Trump. And they're trying to split the Democrat vote so Trump wins. Nobody's splitting the Republican vote. But Republicans are spending a small fortune to astroturf on social media to try to split the Democrat vote. I'm not saying everyone saying as you are is Republican funded — a lot of people are buying into the idea and reposting it for free.

    The problem is twofold: One, they think they're smarter than you and they think you're their tool. Two, you totally are. (Unless you're one of the ones at the top pushing it, in which case it's a similar twofold problem: One, you think you're smarter than us and you think we're your tools. Two, a lot of people are falling for it.) I don't know which one you fit in and I'm not going to assume. I'm just leaving this to help others make up their minds whether or not they wanna get used by the Republicans.

  • The argument to this is going to be "but I own my own car," followed by either "I can come and go as I like" or "public transportation isn't very good in my area (or nonexistent).

    So then you would say that your car is yours until it breaks down, then you're at the mercy of a shop. Some people can do the work on their own, but gearheads are kind of a dying breed, and also newer cars are designed to fail sooner. The idea of a car that will go for a million miles is decades past, and even those were exceptions, not the rule. Cars cost more to own than ever. Car prices/payments are going up, quality is going down, repair prices are going up, and quantity/availability of parts are going down. The solution to all of this is socialised public transportation. Maybe you pay a little bit to ride, maybe you have to wait a couple minutes at a bus stop, but you aren't responsible when the thing breaks down, the city/community has a fleet and a deal to get parts and repair them and keep most of them operational. So it really reduces a lot of the friction in getting one back on the road. It also creates jobs — drivers, and fleet maintenance.

    Of course, Uber and Lyft exist, but they are prohibitively expensive for all but the Uber rich to use regularly. And they come with their own set of problems.

  • It's nice if it is for some things, but there's a generation, it may be 8th (what you have) where hardware transcoding got a lot better, and that generation or later is considered ideal (at least, among Intel processors) for Plex for hardware transcoding.

    My last server was on a 4th gen Xeon. It was good for 1080p, but tended to choke on 4K transcoding. I was always getting "server not powerful enough" errors. (Current server is a Mac mini, M2 Pro. I think it's roughly equivalent to a 12th or 13th gen i5? Apple M-series tend to beat Intel on power per watt (being ARM64 rather than x86-64) but I'm not sure how they play out in a benchmark. Both are more than enough for Plex though. And of course, don't bet against Apple for multimedia stuff (not gaming). Professionals in media/animation tend to prefer Apple machines for a reason. So it follows that they would at least be capable for Plex.

  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online

    タイムカプセル (Time Capsule) by THE SIXTH LIE ft. KIMIKA

    song.link /i/1807922400
  • Games @lemmy.world

    Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version?

  • Firefox @lemmy.ml

    Any way to make a static background stay while you scroll?

  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online

    milet - The Story of Us (En/Jp)

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    "We are the art" — Brandon Sanderson's take on AI

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    Would you want to live on the Enterprise-D (regarding its shipwide AI)?

  • Cooking @lemmy.world

    What is an omelet? And is that what I make? If not, what DO I make?

  • Ask Android @lemdro.id

    iPhone guy wondering how you guys manage your gallery!

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    Blue Prince is 'the result of 8 years of development, fueled by imagination and creativity' not AI says publisher

    www.pcgamer.com /games/puzzle/blue-prince-is-the-result-of-8-years-of-development-fuelled-my-imagination-and-creativity-not-ai-says-publisher/
  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

    Windows copying Mac feature, but only in certain apps

  • Pizza @lemmy.world

    Ever had artichoke & avocado? Was I pranked?

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    How do I know for sure if music is AI generated?

  • Apple @lemmy.zip

    Siri can't tell me how many days since X, but Bixby can?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    What is a good reusable bottle that isn't a mould farm?