EnsignWashout, ensignwashout@startrek.website

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The military industrial complex appears to be scared that this sort of event will become common.

I hope their fears are correct.

Want common people to not smash your shit?

Make shit that common people can feel okay about.


I mean, I played Pokemon with my kids. So maybe both?

Now we play Cassette Beasts - and soon Palworld - together.


My boycott pretty naturally applied to my kids.

We were day one buyers for multiple copies of the last Zelda game, and the last couple Pokemon before Nintendo legal went foul.

Now no one in my family has a Switch 2, and my kids are begging me to help them spend their allowance on Palworld.


I bought a shit ton of games from Nintendo until their legal department went rabid.

Untouchable companies do fall, when they manage to alienate diehard fans, such as myself.


Yes. I was a huge purchaser of both Steam games and Nintendo exclusives on Switch (as long as they got great reviews).

Then Nintendo’s legal team went crazy, attacking emulator developers and suing competing game studios over bullshit “patents” on game mechanics.

So it’s time to starve that beast. No more Nintendo games, for me.


Btw, Zelda on PC when?

Any time you want, if you float in the right seas…uh…circles. Or so I’ve heard.


Yes. Nintendo’s lawsuit was what made me decide to buy Palworld. Fuck Nintendo’s lawyers.


Misleading title (not yours, the article, itself).

Omitting the word “minors” from the title makes a world of difference.

Many of us can argue all day about where the line should be between freedom and safety for mature adults, while agreeing that minors (and other vulnerable people) deserve extra protection.

Edit: Also to echo the earlier comment *where dafuq are these parents?” Haha.


Ever since the piracy communty went crazy with account sign in restrictions, price increases, wild swings in available shows, it has been hard for it to compete with Netflix.

Wait… maybe I’ve got that backwards. Nah. That’s silly. I’m sure they’re just unrelated.


That security guard should be ashamed!

(edit: Yes, and arrested for assault!)


About fucking time.

Citizen’s United (and similar corruption) took away our ability to regulate tech billionaires, but we still out number them.

If they want to stop being scared, they can curb their parasitic behaviors and return the billions they have extracted.

Edit: Getting off of the list of the world’s billionaires is a path filled with fancy meals, accolades, ribbon cutting ceremonies, and thank-you letters from happier children.

Billionaires have a moral obligation to a cushy job (become non-billionares), and they aren’t doing it, today.



Anytime I want to listen to some ASMR, now, of course.


We are kind of on our way.

Half the time when I look up how to repair my dishwasher, the best video guide turns out to also be an intentional ASMR video to maximize attention.

(Okay, not really half, but that it happens at all is hilarious.)


Microsoft has yet to explain how or why the lapse occurred.

Highly skilled technical staff are expensive, and it turns out that some people still use Windows when Microsoft doesn’t hire the talent necessary to keep Windows working.

Edit: Also, bribes from three letter government agencies are probably pretty nice.


Wobbly windows are fun! I also turned them off for stability. I should try them again sometime.

Adding additional DEs on Debian variants (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint) has always just plugged them in to my login page as a drop-down to choose between.

So I consider it pretty low risk. The main cost is disk space.

If the DE freezes up, a hard power button reboot will stop at the login page and allow choosing a different one, as long as the “automatic login” setting is turned off (and as long as I know I password).


Buying up competing game studios was also unlawful.

Time to starve this beast. Money spent on XBox/Microsoft games is unethical, now.



The issue where the window needs reloaded after some time does sound like software - specifically like a slow memory leak.

Plenty of us are using Cinnamon without that issue, but of course it could be you have some strange unlucky combination of hardware, patch version, etc.

I’m not sure b if the video thing is related. Pop-out videos come in many flavors, and most range from mildly anti-user to outright evil. So the video misbehaving could be down to the specific combination of site, site video digital rights management, how much spying they try to do while the video plays, how much of that spying Librewolf is set to block, and what day of the week it is (how fast your Internet connection is, that day, really).

Do you have any window manager extensions installed? (I know gnome has a whole extension ecosystem, but I’m but sure Cinnamon even supports Desktop extensions. If you don’t remember adding anything, ignore this, it’s a really long shot.)

You could try adding a second desktop environment (MATE is a popular enough 2nd choice) and see if the issues happen there, as well. You can switch desktop environments in a drop-down on the login page.


Have you launched the Drivers tool to see if it recommends anything?

One time I was having issues and I typed “drivers” into the Start menu, and it brought up a panel that recommended a driver update, which fixed some issues for me.


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Thanks. I think every data point helps people.

I can’t say that particularly shocks me. I imagine that Chat GPT has probably swallowed dozens of Physics textbooks.

The bigger part of the problem is knowing where we are on the human knowledge novelty / training data available curve, or rather, when we need to get off of the ride.

Edit: Any chance your chosen AI has access to Wolfram Alpha as an MCP Tool? Because that would be very different, too.

If it’s successful at math, there’s likely much more than a learning model in play.

Which brings us back to the opacity problem. :(

If the answer machine has been cleverly rigged (and weighted) to pass off math questions to more capable software, things can be great.

But a person who just hears that AI can do math now can have a very bad time if they go blindly use a brute force pleasant answer machine on a math problem. :(


I had these runs early on, as well - where the rock I need to win simply is not present, or is so rare that I would have needed to be an expert to mine it.

They seem to have improved the randomizer, since then. I haven’t had that happen, lately - where the ore I need is too rare.

Also, mods that slash the ammo refill costs to 40 go a long way toward making DRG a much more relaxed gameplay.


Great recommendation!

And there is an accessible game play mode available that turns off the dome defense portion of the game, as well.


Stable Diffusion is open source and at least has options for all of that in the web UI (which you can host locally).

I wouldn’t bet on successful runs on a latop, though. I have a powerful desktop gaming rig, and I still get OOM (out of memory) errors trying to do things with it.

Of course, there’s definitely a crazy learning curve for optimizing this stuff. So by “can’t work on a laptop” what I really mean is that I couldn’t get it working on my laptop, when I tried.


For simple math that could work, and as long as the question is close enough to an exact match with plenty of published examples to copy.

A good rule of thumb is that the script it will come up with is about as likely to be correct as blindly taking the highest voted answer to the most similar question on Stack Overflow.

If the question is simple and common, the odds are quite good. If the question is nuanced or rare, the odds of a correct result drop off aggressively.


You’ve misspelled “Fuck JK Rowling” there, mate.


I’m beginning to suspect we’re allowed to swear here…


Good one. The only worthy reply I can think of:

Spoiler for Titanic

Fuck JK Rowling


Voxlibre has solid cozy / accessible settings, and great multiplayer support. (And is free!)


I would have loves Terraria with combat turned off. Thanks, I didn’t realize that’s an option, now.


+1 to Palworld. The difficulty/accessibility settings are very good for achieving co-op chill vibes.


I would have upvoted this, but my client shows perfectly negative vote count, and that’s too funn to break.

Made me laugh. Thanks.


Certain algorithms do require knowing which way to orient the cube first, so some knowledge of the state of the cube is required.


You’re in luck! We don’t keep any of our guns in California.






Yes. I heard an interesting leadership quote recently “optimizing can make us brittle”.


Really meta can’t figure out are we humans or not with this massive of data they collect?

That part really pisses me off. Asking for any kind of identity verification is just them gas lighting their users.