DougPiranha42

@DougPiranha42@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So is the problem that they are greedy evil capitalist, or that they are stupid people who don’t even know how to run a business to make profit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The NYT is a business. Why would you expect them to give you anything for free?

  I fixed that for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨could I get an AI to just rewrite any software I want thereby not having to purchase the desired app?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, and this was also true before LLMs. Don’t want to buy MS Word? Just write a word processor.
  The only catch is that it’s likely several orders of magnitude more expensive and difficult to write software for personal use (with or without AI) than to purchase it or to use a free alternative.

  Using AI to write scripts and macros to automate tasks that didn’t worth automated previously, is definitely a thing though. Someone link the xckd which explains the function between time spent on automation and time gained on not having to do the task.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Apple Lie at the grocery store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like products like huel and soylent are just for you! Would be healthier probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Apple Lie at the grocery store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good find, it’s shady as fuck they healthy-wash the processed food. But your post is also interesting for a second reason- you care about eating healthy and do some specific diet, and yet you plan to live on frozen apple pie, whose nutritional value, traditional or not, is practically just sugar with fat? Unexpected choice for a conscious diet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boston is the most pro-Brexit town in the UK. What has leaving the EU changed? 'They got nothing'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like it was a vote in anger from government disinvestment in rural areas. Not what the article said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intellectual Freedom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a tenure committee and nobody cares what I research as long as I publish and get grants. Ymmv.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dragon age: Origins, 2 and Inquisition? I think it fits all, although it is squad based and can be played in turns, at lower difficulty it is entirely viable to play as a 1st person action game where AI squad members assist. The story is somewhat scripted but it does feel kind of open world if I remember correctly. Haven’t played for a long time, but I remember I liked it and it wasn’t too different from Elder Scrolls as the overall experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Green herons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent heron indeed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with Pop OS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it very easy to install and use. Drivers work fine out of the box. The window and desktop management is my favorite ever, so it stays on the home desktop. There are a few things like flatpaks from the cosmic store not always working properly, and you need to remove them and install stuff from deb packages instead. And I couldn’t get any clipboard manager app to work, I think that’s related to a more general wayland issue, but nevertheless frustrating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Famed 1967 Bigfoot Film Was an 'Incredible Hoax,' Says the Director of a Groundbreaking New Documentary⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s a video of a dude in a costume, did someone didn’t know that? In a way it’s amusing how a shitty prank like this can live in the collective consciousness for 5 decades.