skarn

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[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Personally, I find myself in a bizarre situation.

I have some open source ""Ai"" solutions that I find really really nice and helpful e.g. the image search in Immich, or LanguageTool which bills itself as an AI spellchecker.

At the same time I am horrified at the stupidity underlying 99% of big tech AI stuff that gets wall street hot.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

But... Isn't that kind of the point? Slashing computational cost so that we can deploy that stuff wherever it's needed without a tenfold increase in the world's energy bill?

Whether we should do that at all is a very different question.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Buying isn't owning

Often true

piracy isn't stealing

Definitely true

Do pirate as needed, but also do try to send a few dollars to the dev's pockets when you like the game.

They also have families to feed (or cats I guess) and if they can't do it by making games, they'll stop making games.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Great game... But I have to admit, I liked Hotline: Miami more.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

A couple of oldies, that deserve to still be played. Disclaimer: I played both games when they were already ~8 years old, and completely outdated in terms of technology.

Planescape: Torment

One of the best RPG ever created, and that is entirely for the world building and writing, and how much of the gameplay ends up being based on these rather than the combat mechanics (which are just ok)

Deus Ex

Again it was way ahead of its time in terms of world building and depth, and it was still an unashamed PC game, that dared to challenge its users a little and didn't need to have a GUI that could be used with a gamepad, unlike the sequels.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 10 months ago

There are two expansions for the first one, Opposing Force and Blue Shift. These explore the same events, from the points of view of different characters.

After the second one there are also the two shorter, stand alone, stories, Episode One and Episode two. These continue the story from the point of view of the protagonist.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

My current laptop is 7 years old, and I Love It!

I still even play games with it. Not the newest stuff, but I have such a huge backlog of indies and not-so-new games that I could play for 15 years...

If someone told me this will be garbage in 3 years... I would hit them with the laptop. It's a T470p, their skull is the part that would break.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I kinda disagree. If you need something to connect to the internet, it needs to be rather up to date.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. There's tons of antisemitism in ~~The American Fascist Party~~ the GOP, but they're 100% on the side of the Israeli government.

The conservative brain works in mysterious ways. Some support Israel because of some end-times prophecy nonsense, some think that every Jew that moves to Israel is one less Jew in their way. Others just decided they hate Muslims more than Jew.

In fact, equating Judaism and the Israeli government is arguably a kind of antisemitism itself

That's a different thing. You can oppose Israel without being an antisemite, but it's trickier to explain how you can be an antisemite without opposing Israel. Hating all Jews while somehow militarily supporting those Jews. While it can be explained (see above) you have to admit it is rather counterintuitive.

And anyway I would not expect GOP dynamics to easily translate to the AFD.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I am... Confused about your request. Why can't you also have the same on your phone? Are you still using popmail? Sounds like simply setting your accounts to IMAP should solve your problem.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

But that already happens all the time. Vedy often the rights end up in the hands of some corporation and the author gets to have ~zero say in how it's used.

Doesn't seem to have been a particularly big issue.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago

It literally says "Other authenticator apps that support OTP [...] can also be used".

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