Finding love: You get a hobby that you participate in with other people. You have to be friends first before entering a relationship because why would you want to be with anyone who isn’t your friend or doesn’t share the same interests you do?

Everything else: Yeah we’re fucked

AI is only active when it’s answering a prompt then goes inactive again. It has no concept of time.

It’s training data is from 1 set time with the date in there, so that’s all it ever sees.

It can Google the current date and time, but it’s just guessing and only does that when requested, otherwise it assumes it’s the date of its training data.

I’m running 10 with no security features as my main gaming system. I turned off as much of Windows defender as I could because it was slowing down texture downloads in Second Life + was trying to say my fan control software was malware.

I hope I get a virus because it’ll be the final tug I need to fully cover to linux. I just converted a 10 year old laptop to linux mint to run as a server since everything is getting enshittified and requiring monthly fees, like Mint the budgeting app, so I’m dipping my toe into self-hosting.

I have nothing to lose.

I’m also still running Android 9 on my phone because I refuse to buy a new one due to planned obsolescence.

Nightshade is the name of software artists can inject into their images to “poison” AI if it tries to learn from it, but that was still a good tangent.

How long do they take to grow?

There are more Mary Sues than Gary Stus in fiction because women aren’t written as people I’m a lot of media, so they aren’t allowed to have the realistic flaws that keep them from being Mary Sues.

Light is a power fantasy, but I wouldn’t call him a Stu because he’s a megalomaniac and has an actual personality. He also fails at the end.

Stark has his own personality issues, but some of the TV shows fail to highlight those so he does come off as a Stu.

The biggest Mary Sue and Fary Stu genres are romance where you’re supposed to self insert, so the MC has to be very plain and boring and just like the reader or viewer. Romance novels for women and harem anime for men.

What do they do?

So is Alberta like y’all’s Texas?

This is really cool. I’m going to add it to my list for gifts.

If I’m going to live in an authoritarian shithole I might as well live in the authoritarian shithole that has a reasonable cost of living and public transport. Which is China.

I just want fruit with actual flavor that makes me want to eat it than the tasteless shit we get now in the US

Probably the one about Luigi as it’s been documented Reddit is banning people just for upvoting those.

I can somewhat read cursive. Takes me a long time, so I’m not going to bother with anything longer than a sentence. I can sign my name in cursive and can more or less write in lower case cursive but i doubt it’s easy to read and I take a lot of creative liberties.

Refusing to learn cursive and long form division in 3rd grade. Never needed either.

How are you liking it? I’ve never heard of e/os before, it looks neat. How does it compare to lineage/ graphene?

My camera is still great and still better than my partner’s newer iphone’s. No port wobble yet thankfully and I’ve never used an sd card anyway. This Note 8 is still great in every way so I have no reason to upgrade yet. I want to make it to 10 years at least.

With e/os will updates eventually stop due to your phones hardware? Or can you keep updating perpetually? What I hate is being forced to upgrade a perfectly working phone because someone decided not to allow updates on it anymore and the app rot that follows.

I haven’t used a rom this phone yet because I’m very attached to the stylus as I use this as my art tablet… so that’s the main holdout reason I have.

I’m still sitting on Android 9 on a seven year old phone. They can take my Note 8 from my dead body. Its battery life is still fine and it’s still snappy and fast.

My banking app stopped working so I just use the browser page. A few smart device apps won’t work either, but I have a tablet I keep at home to use for my home control.

Discord still works fine. I have Reddit side loaded, still using RiF after the API fiasco. Those are really the only two things I need an actual app for an even then I’d probably just use the browser if they failed. Most apps still work as of now. Amazon won’t let kindle work on it anymore but fuck Amazon, I just get non-drm stuff on a different reader now.

Most phone companies refused to enable voice over broadband option after the 3g network went down in 2022 but I stayed stubborn and kept calling until finding T-mobile would do it.

I guess I’ll find out what happens when this update is pushed through? It shouldn’t hit me I’d hope.

Look up Redlib

I was going to say the same thing… there’s no point to Google android anymore either. I guess we’re all going to LineageOS.

I look up VPNs on the privacy reddit or lemmy. Some vpns are good, usually the paid ones. The free ones are certainly selling your shit.

It’s just software you install and click the on toggle with.

$10 a month subscription last time I used one.

The crafting survival indie games have been good to me for that. Subnautica, zomboid, Ark, rimworld, my dino survival simulators. I have a hard time finding AAA games that do that outside of Red Dead Redemption.