DashboTreeFrog
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- Comment on Unoriginal sins: why does Russell Crowe keep making exorcism movies? 1 week ago:
Maybe a hot take, but I liked The Pope’s Exorcist, hit all the right classic-supernatural-horror buttons for me. Didn’t know about this newer movie but now I wanna watch it
- Comment on Chevrotain 2 weeks ago:
You joke, but in Malaysia, they do have a car named after the local word for mouse deers, kancil (the “c” is pronounced as a “ch”). I learned to drive in one of those.looks like this
- Comment on Praise Ra 1 month ago:
In my part of the world all we’re getting are heat waves. Please stop, Ra 😢
- Comment on CD Projekt Red still 'don't see a place for microtransactions' in singleplayer games 2 months ago:
Hell yeah.
Plus, was just having this thought recently, who needs micro transactions in single player games when mods exist? And CDPR has been great with mods.
Even if it’s multiplayer, I can see non performance enhancing mods being OK, which then throws things like mtx skins out the window.
Only micro transactions I’ve done have been on f2p games where I enjoyed what I was playing and wanna give money to the developer.
- Comment on Schrödingers cat 3 months ago:
I love how it looks like the cat is looking at the empty box thinking "Yo wtf???”
- Comment on That introduction... 3 months ago:
I’ve had the reverse issue, where I wanted to input a large amount of text for ChatGPT to work with. Tried to do a workaround where part of my prompt was that I was going to give it more information in parts. No matter how I phrased things it would always try to start working with whatever I gave it with the first prompt so I just gave up and did it myself.
- Comment on That introduction... 3 months ago:
Took me a second.
But man, I don’t right academic papers anymore, but I have to write a lot of reports and such for my work and I’ve tried to use different LLM’s to help and almost always the biggest help is just in making me go “Man, this sucks, it should be more like this.” and then I proceed to just write the whole thing with the slight advantage of knowing what a badly written version looks like.
- Comment on How do I get over my ex? 5 months ago:
Finding closure of some kind I think. Keeping in mind why you broke up, why it didn’t work out, why there wasn’t a future in the relationship, etc.
The relationship before my current partner of over ten years was really intense, I thought she was really the one, she was what I had imagined my ideal type was for practically my whole adolescence. But a spot of long distance and her parents disapproval had us in a bit of on again off again, where during one drunk call to me, she admitted to kissing other guys (at the very least), and that was enough for me to just go, “oh, I think our expectations are too different”, and I was able to put a hard end to that. Yeah, I occasionally think of her, but more in the curious way you wonder about an old acquaintance.
I had a friend with a sort of similar situation to yours, he and his girlfriend mutually broke up when we were all graduating high school because her friends convinced her that long distance wouldn’t work out. It really messed both of them up, especially since they kind of stayed in contact. A lot of weird stories there, but not really mine to tell. But he talked a few times about all the “what-ifs” and it feels like that’s the hardest part in letting go of a relationship.
On the other hand, if you can convince yourself that the answer to “what if?” is basically “nothing good”, I think that can help. Though, easier said than done, it’s kinda like brainwashing yourself by focusing on all the negatives about them. Easy for me because of the cheating, but not so easy for my friend.
- Comment on No More Avatar Reckoning, it has been cancelled 5 months ago:
There’s a decent Legend of Korra game by Platinum. Simple, short beat-em-up in the style of something like Devil May Cry or Bayonetta
- Comment on Artists Draw Disney Characters as Dark Souls Bosses 6 months ago:
I discovered DeepBlueInk quite recently and was turned on to Drawfee from there. Feels like I took the wrong way down the road but I still love where it took me!
- Comment on I just want to set a timer for MY FOOD WINDOWS WHY? 7 months ago:
Legit, why do simple apps like timers need updates? Makes me wonder what kind of bloat features (or spyware??) they’re adding.
- Comment on How should I go about making an online identity that can't be tracked by advertisers? 7 months ago:
There are a lot of VPNs and a lot of opinions, so hard to recommend specific ones. There was a site I used a while back with a quiz that helped suggest VPNs, I think it was www.vpntierlist.com but I’m not sure. I seriously looked into ProtonVPN by whatever site it was’ recommendation, but I ended up just renewing NordVPN, which I was already using, because of a special offer I got for ending my subscription in the first place due to privacy concerns. In the end, despite NordVPN having some potentially fishy business connections, it still suits my general needs, and with their various discounts feels like good value to me at least.
- Comment on How should I go about making an online identity that can't be tracked by advertisers? 7 months ago:
Completely stopping tracking for shopping especially is gonna be impossible, but since you say “least trackable” I think there is some obfuscation you can do. Keep in mind, I’m by no means a security expert or anything, but general paranoia at the state of the internet has made me interested in trying to obfuscate my online identity for a while now (I say as I post on Social media…), so I’ve got some things I’ve found helpful
A simple easy thing is to start using browser containers for your different identities, which is built into Firefox. This way, details of one identity are less likely to leak into another, as in, what you search for in one identity isn’t gonna end up in the shopping results of another. Related to this, I’d look at script blockers and other extensions that can stop trackers. My go to is NoScript but I get some people don’t like it cause it’s fiddly and can break sites. I’ve heard good things about Ghostify but haven’t tried it myself. Getting started with NoScript way back, it was crazy to see how many different useless trackers and scripts were loading in the background that you don’t even see and are apparently completely unnecessary to the functioning of a site.
Then I’d also recommend using a VPN. I love it when I see ads being served to me from completely random countries because of how often I change my location, confirms that whatever advertising service that for whatever reason slipped by my blockers still don’t even know my general location.
And that’s about it off the top of my head. If I can think of more I’ll come back and edit my post.