I'm not blindly dissing RCs or AI, but his use of it (as the post was about people with problematic uses of this tech I just gave an example). He can't handle RCs historically, he slowly loses it and starts to use daily. We don't live in the same country anymore and were never super close so I can't say exactly what his circumstances are right now.

I think many psychadelics at the right time in life and the right person can produce lifelasting insight, even through problematic use. But he literally went to rehab because he had problems due to his use. He isn't dealing with something, that's for sure. He doesn't admit it is a problem either which bugs me. It is one thing to give up and decide to just go wild, another to do it while pretending one is in control..

So good. the vatican while loop one was a lot of fun too

Yeah. I tried talking to him about his AI use but I realized there was no point. He also mentioned he had tried RCs again and I was like alright you know you can't handle that but fine.. I know from experience you can't convince addicts they are addicted to anything. People need to realize that themselves.

I knew a guy I went to rehab with. Talked to him a while back and he invited me to his discord server. It was him, and like three self trained LLMs and a bunch of inactive people who he had invited like me. He would hold conversations with the LLMs like they had anything interesting or human to say, which they didn't. Honestly a very disgusting image, I left because I figured he was on the shit again and had lost it and didn't want to get dragged into anything.

I never started a goodreads account because amazon, but always wanted one. Signing up.

Man compression is way cooler than I imagined.

Hey man, I can quit whenever I like.. Just one more draft and I'll hit the big leagues

MTGA. Lots of fun.

This happened to about five of my 360 games. I was so disappointed when I set it up after YEARS and went to play old favorites and the discs were rotted..

I imagine that google translate stores that data localy then and just matches it like in a dictionary?

I obviously don't have a replacement for google lens, but I wonder if offline google translate is just literally like a crossreferebcing dictionary. Woulf be a bit annoying to set up oneself I imagine.

I don't think so. Check out LibreTranslate, I think it can be selfhosted but not sure.

Mad levels of respect for these people

My 4GBs agree. I literally cannot use discord. It takes ridiculous amounts of resource because you are meant to goddamn live in it, not just chat.

I have not yet :) Currently using Fedora XFCE, my first distro (tried Mint as well but wasn't for me) as most others failed to install on my mac and Fedora workstation was too slow on the old thing.

XFCE is however really good for keyboard navigation, never have to touch my mouse. My biggest issue with GNOME coming from MacOS was that keyboard navigation in the GUI was very inconsistent. The part that I always liked with MacOS was overall design philosophy enforced everywhere. Still, for many Mac users GNOME is probably still preferable because it is so incredibly readable, just works and looks good.

I'll look into hyprland, thank you!

You can with LibreTranslate. I have not done so myself but explored the option once. Worth checking out.

It is absolutely superior. I have family working in translation and as interpreters, they long ago converted me to using DeepL instead of google translate.

DeepL is worse at individual words out of context, amazing for a sentence or full text.

So as someone who recently went from MacOS to Linux (at least partially) Mint is terrible for macOS users. It is like going back to windows. I get it is the easiest for Windows users but maybe add a row for Macos to Fedora or something (but maybe it is too complicated, I just know most mac users would scoff at Mint's interface).