wizardbeard

Caring for a family member would have no relevance to just as many, if not more, positions than it holds relevance to.

Like any tech related position beyond (at quite a stretch) helpdesk, not relevant.

There's something to be said for character reference in your resume, but most places are more concerned about more tangible skills.

Like another commenter suggested, maybe under an "other experience" section, but not in the same area as relevant work experience unless you're trying to pad things.

Usually these are controlled via Group Policy and are standard enable/disable switches. Usually the Group Policy makes changes in the Registry, which can be applied manually to Home versions (but the registry switches don't always do anything on the Home version).

I say usually because while I'm on the sysadmin team, I'm not on the desktop config team at work, and I've been busy with other projects so I haven't dove into our latest standard Windows Server image and config (if this is even on the server version). I know we have to disable all of these AI features for regulatory and audit reasons, so it's definitely possible (and "easily" so, otherwise I'd have heard the cursing).

There's way too much of a legal minefield for Microsoft to not have these controls available to business customers, and we're probably only one big data breach away from it to be default off in enterprise environments if that isn't the default already. I haven't upgraded my personal Win 10 Pro install yet to see what the defaults are on a fresh Win 11 Pro/Enterprise install, but from what I read at least some of these features are only even possible to enable on devices with dedicated NPU hardware- "AI cores".

I hate this with a passion, it's important to stay aware of it, and everyone should take steps to disable it on their own Windows systems, but I'm not convinced it's the end of the world people are making it out to be. Just another item to add to the checklist of "shit I have to config to make Windows work for me if I'm going to keep using it".

As far as Microsoft's business sense goes, they're still "too big to fail" to care. Their business and government customers will disable it, the tech savvy individuals will disable it, the normal users probably won't even notice it. Linux unfortunately still isn't truly undermining them in user numbers, and while adoption numbers are up especially due to handhelds like the SteamDeck, they can safely ignore those as not being a true challenger their "desktop PC use" crown. I want Linux to win, and it's doing better than ever, but I've been waiting on the year of the Linux desktop for well over a decade now.

Yeah, they tend to also use it as an early fodder enemy in a lot of them.

Ya like jazz?

The goblins being peaceful might be due to your combat level. Once you outlevel an enemy by a certain amount, they stop auto-attacking you and you have to initiate combat with them if you want to.

What do you mean? They are literally using the Microsoft provided solution.

I like replacing AGI with "OpenAI making $100B in profits", based off those leaked Microsoft and OpenAI documents from last year where the companies were agreeing on a definition of AGI.

"What the race for OpenAI making $100B in profits can teach us about the human condition"

"OpenAI making $100B in profits is coming. What does this mean for the future of mankind?"

Stop trying to find people to approch solely for the goal of romance. Or for any goal besides getting to know them.

You aren't getting told "good advice on how to approach someone for romantic purposes" because generally you need to treat them the same way you'd want to be approached by a (potentially unattractive) stranger without sexual or romantic intentions. Stop this thought process of thinking about people and social interactions as some sort off transactional "insert set of actions and tactics, recieve sex/kisses/romance/physical touch/friend". Or thinking about social interactions in terms of seeking a goal.

You meet the person first. Establish some level of baseline non-romantic non-sex no external motivations relationship first. Then you try to expand to more. This doesn't have to be some extended drawn out process, it can even all happen same day, but they are discrete steps.

I met my wife at an acquaintence's graduation party, where all of my otherwise mutual friends with the graduate were out of town. Saw someone else who looked like they weren't sure what to do with themselves and struck up a conversation as something to pass the time. Did I find her physically attractive? Sure. But I wasn't going in to try and make anything of it but small talk.

We hit it off with conversation about our backgrounds, found that we had similar interests, and ended up spending multiple hours together. Just talking, for the most part like I would talk to any of my long term male friends. I still wasn't trying for anything except "This person is really interesting and I want to spend more time together." So when things were wrapping up I said as much. Something simple like "Hey, I'd love to hang out with you again sometime! Can we exchange numbers?"

The "oh, I want to try dating her" didn't occur to me until that night when I couldn't stop thinking about her. I didn't actually ask her out on a date until around a month later, and it was to something that I was going to go do by myself regardless. If we went out together and it was just friendly, I would have been sad, but it wouldn't have ruined the evening's plans or anything.

You don't need to hang around in "the friend zone" just being "a nice guy", but going into casual interactions with explicit goals of sex or romance will really fuck with the entire way you interact with people. It's not how you would want to be approached by a (in this case imagine unattractive and 3000% not your type) stranger, so don't subject others to it.

Edit: Secondly, shy and introverted is a big hurdle. I live that too.

But you'll only get better at socializing through trying it (and probably sucking at it, I did). It sucks, but building socializing and related soft skills opens all sorts of doors in life, whether it comes naturally to you or as something hard won.

Again, focus on general socialization skills. It's not something reasonably min-maxed, and people will see through goal oriented socializing, especially if you aren't super skilled at it.

Still real time, but closer to turn based and you can feel the tabletop game elements (stat rolls etc) that are happening behind the scenes a lot more. I believe it's based off the old Icewind Dale 2 engine. The "pause time and issue commands" functionality feels more like the intended play style and the action rpg is more the afterthought, rather than the other way around like Inquisition.

The "Of Mana" Series has the Rabite

This isn't unique to Brave.

The first game is a very different style gameplay wise. Probably worth pirating and giving it a shot.

Morrigan is in Inquisition, but as more of a side character. She's a party member in the first game.