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I’m from Mastodon

But I got to Mastodon from Reddit, so idk if that counts. :P

The entire system is alien to me, with the districts and the electoral college and (…)

It’s so – Simple – Here.

WELL

At least presidential choice is simple here, the legislative houses are their own beast.

But yeah here it’s just: Each (properly registered, though registration can be done through the internet) adult person gets one vote, if a candidate gets 50%+1 they are in, if none manage to get that there is a run-off round with the top 2 or 3 candidates.

Over there it’s like people from certain states have their votes be worth more than people from other states, and then there’s the whole “winning the district” thing and the whole idea of red/blue/swing states. So much complexity.

I make a point to just not open any thread that mentions US Politics.

Clairvoyance and kids shouldn’t mix

There’s that whole “children of Dune” book that tells us why.

If you specifically mean LLM/GenAI:

• Some of my friends enjoy fucking around with those character AIs. I never got the appeal, even as an RP nerd, RPing is a social activity to me, and computers aren’t people
• I have seen funny memes be made with Image Generators – And tbqh as long as you’re not pretending that being an AI prompter makes you an “artist”, by all means go crazy with generating AI images for your furry porn/DnD campaign/whatever
• https://goblin.tools/ is a cool little thing for people as intensely autistic as I am, and it runs off AI stuff.
• Voice Recognition/Dictation technology powered by AI is a lot better than its pre-AI sibling. I’ve been giving it a shot lately. It helps my arthritis-ridden hands.

If you mean anything that utilizes machine learning (“AI” is a buzzword), then “AI” technology has been used to help scientists and doctors do their jobs better since the mid 90s

I wish it was socially acceptable to call people lazy for certain computer-related woes.

I often have to “rescue” my mother because her computer ‘broke’. – What is actually happening is that windows is doing the usual Windows thing of nagging you about updates/microsoft edge/whatever. It’s a matter of reading what it’s saying, but she just… Doesn’t read the message or look for the button. This woman has a PhD. Like. She isn’t stupid. She’s incredibly smart, actually. But she just doesn’t want to learn.

Like, the computer itself can tell you a lot of stuff. You just need to read and click around. But when it’s a computer screen it’s like some people develop selective blindness. I legitimately wonder if people who are 60+ have some eyesight thing going on where content displayed on a screen and specifically on a screen is unreadable to them. Because if anything is in a different place or it does something unexpected, they just lock up like a deer in the headlights instead of like. Reading what is on screen.

Something something “the power of god and anime on my side”

CS Lewis did it for them with Jesus’ lionsona

“Jaywalking” being a crime is such a fundamentally brainrot thing

The law here in Brazil, not that anyone follows it, but it basically follows the logic of “the smaller you are, the more of a right of way you have”. I.e. theoretically, a car should ALWAYS stop or slow itself to save a pedestrian or cyclist or even a motorcyclist

… Again, not that anyone follows it, but it IS on the paper.

I feel like Microsoft fully intends to remove the TPM 2.0 requirement in the nearish future

Otherwise it wouldn’t be so easy to disable when writing an iso to a USB drive.

Looking at it from a capitalistic point of view, they gain nothing by keeping people from installing their OS on the long term, the lock out was just for the short-term gains they got out of OEMs selling new computers for Windows 11 and such.

Puts a smile in my face how my old tech appreciation thread sorta became a technology connections fandom thread by consequence.

It good

I will beat you to death with a wet piece of tissue.

Damn.

Not much to say other than – “Damn.”

You’re right, though.

Counterpoint: A modern SBC Console from China (Retroid, Anbernic, whatever) will play a library in the thousands of titles, WHILE fitting in your pocket AND having a modern screen.

YEYEYEYEYEYEYE

One of my dream projects would be to get a dead iMac G3 and make a modern-day sleeper build inside it. It was honestly the COOLEST a computer has EVER looked.

Trains aren’t old tech though. Just tech that got pushed out by auto-maker lobbying. In places (like Japan, or China, or parts of Europe) where they kept evolving they only got better.

This sounds like a gadget specifically designed to make people fall off their bikes and break their bones.

… Cool.

Also:

FUCKING LASERS DUDE! Lasers will never NOT be cool.

I was under the impression that all wind-up turntables (I.e.: from the shellac records and steel needles and mechanical reproducers era) were using mechanical governors

Maybe I’m wrong though.