melfie

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nostalgia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  From his facial expression and the way he’s staring at her leg, he seems to calculating how many seconds of “accidental” contact with the cigarette it would take for her to notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They never even notice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As I understand it, it’s cheese melted with an emulsifying salt to make it able to be served hot without turning into a pile of curd and grease. I’d prefer real cheese like cheddar, but will admit that American cheese was made for the job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They never even notice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Who doesn’t like steak tartare on a bun?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Armando needs to know which church to avoid⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy mistake to make in a dark confession booth, I’m guessing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Addict⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See the Toxicity section: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassafras

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Addict⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of ruins it for me that sassafras was banned in the 1960s for its carcinogenic properties and now all root beer is made from artificial sassafras. I stick with ginger beer myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raise your words⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What does “raising your words” look like in this scenario?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He escaped⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My cat doesn’t seem to be able to catch anything in her dreams either from the way she moves and the noises she makes. Happens to the best of us, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upgrading Jellyfin to Version 12.0: Migration Guide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it support PostgreSQL now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This n a related note, the “Cities” episode of Planet Earth is an interesting one. Human cities are the fastest growing ecosystem on Earth, so why wouldn’t our fellow planetary inhabitants want to take our shit when we’ve been taking theirs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming it’s even avocado oil and not soybean oil or something else cheap to make number go up. Just can’t trust anything made in the U.S.

  This one is interesting too: ucdavis.edu/…/avocado-oil-chip-youre-eating-may-n…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨onions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Children often just want sweets and unhealthy snacks, and it’s up to adults to make sure they get the nutrition their little bodies require. If a grown ass adult decides they don’t want to eat something, though, they likely have tried it and their reasons for avoiding it. It’s really nobody else’s damned business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an…⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of times, you just get a big bill without them doing anything useful for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Call Me. Ever.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You just need the right soundboard. This is a personal favorite: soundboard.com/sb/angryblackguy1.

  Don’t caaall my fuckin’ house

  🏆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, most games are available on PC, and the exclusives that aren’t will come to emulators eventually. It’s worth paying extra for a PC that can run anything you like, including games, especially when you can install Linux and cut a ton of bullshit out of your life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skill Issue 😓⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  😎

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop OSS - an open-source, self-hosted alternative to platforms like Steam and Epic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks great! I’m currently installing games manually on a few household gaming machines and this would help to simplify that. It looks like parental controls are a TODO, which would be an important feature in my case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, I’m done with consoles. The exclusives will come to emulators eventually, and there will be plenty of PC games in the meantime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, seems ads have quite a different effect on me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤔 Interesting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using copyleft licenses for closed models is clearly against the spirit of the licenses if the users don’t have access to the source code that includes the original copyleft works. Even open weight models aren’t really the source code, and are more akin to a compiled binary. The source code is all the training data and code used to train the model such that anyone can build on it and train new models.

  I’m not a lawyer and am not sure how well existing copyleft licenses like GPL or CC-SA would stand up in court to enforce this, but if they don’t, then stronger licenses that explicitly cover works being used as training data need to become more common.

  I’ve seen the argument that the models are just learning from the data in the same way a human would. That’s nonsense. It’s not like they’re creating a sentient being with its own agency that can tell them to fuck off if it wants. These companies are running a software pipeline against copyrighted IP to convert it into a derivative work that is now supposedly wholly owned by said company, but the reality is that it’s collectively owned by everyone who contributed to the copyleft training data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when the Steam Machine was first announced, I liked the idea, but wanted something cheaper (I assumed $650 - $800) so I got a $375 off-brand mini gaming PC for the living room with a Ryzen 8745HS (780M iGPU, roughly 2x SD compared to 3x for SM), 512GB SSD and 16GB of DDR.

  The model I bought is not available now, but similar specs are going for close to $600, so the price is still roughly proportional. The machine I got cut every corner possible, and for example, I never could get Bluetooth to work reliably with my controllers and ended up getting $20 8bitdo dongles for each controller.

  The SM, on the other hand, is a more refined hardware and OS combination where everything just works and that Valve stands behind, and where games will be tweaked and certified for that specific hardware. I am enjoying my mini PC, but I’ve put a lot of time into customizing and troubleshooting to end up with games that still stutter at 4K. For anyone who just wants to game instead of tinkering, SM is likely worth the current price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawyer here: I concur!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Welvin Da Great called and is asking whether his friends Candice and Dick can fit in the truck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stroke confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I ain’t givin’ you no tree-fitty, you goddamn Loch Ness Monster! Get your own goddamn money!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  MSI Thin 15 B13VE is the model. The only place I see it for $800 is Amazon at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got a Steam Deck LCD 64GB for $350 and then put a 1TB SSD in it, so like $430 total. I love the SD, but it’s just not worth double that. A gaming laptop with a 4050 goes for about $800 now, so the current pricing isn’t really that good of a deal even at today’s prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is why Copilot failed. It’s bad enough watching a human do dumb shit on a computer, but having to watch a dipshit AI control your computer just takes it to a whole new level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily the best example in this post, but in general, I find I get downvoted a lot when I make a good faith comment in .ml posts where I think I’m agreeing and am trying to understand the topic further. Getting 20 downvotes kind of kills my motivation to engage any further, though, so I usually just delete my comment , shrug, and move on. I’ve gotten to the point where I try to avoid wasting my time and energy commenting on .ml posts in the first place.

  Maybe it’s just a different perspective on what a downvote means? To me, I’m generous with upvotes and withholding an upvote means I don’t find it interesting or disagree. I use downvotes sparingly for spam, trolling, comments made in bad faith, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In many cases, legit games have more malware (spyware, DRM, rootkits, etc.) and the cracked versions remove it. It’s annoying to pay for a game and it won’t work offline because the company wants to collect your data, but the cracked version does work offline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gold⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone “being a billionaire” and having a huge pile of worthless metal won’t increase anyone’s standard of living to the same degree as nobody being a billionaire and nobody hoarding resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is finally entirely dead to me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe try old.reddit.com?