*childfree!

Ooh, I really like “AutoVac!”

Exactly, agreed!

Even for a gamer like me, Bazzite ran so horribly on my PC that it wouldn’t even open a Steam window. I could right-click the tray icon and see the context menu, but actually picking any of the options yielded nothing; no window ever popped up. It was so frustrating that I left shortly.

Like, even just SelfVac or whatever would be good…

Ha, let’s hope that doesn’t happen here. This is genuinely exciting.

Oh yeah, that reminds me, whatever happened to the Silk Road guy after release?

Frankly, I didn’t even know about this in the first place.

Agreed, selfish liars are always on the worse side of the moral scale, no exceptions.

But the whole federated structure is the avoidance of tyranny by nature. If an instance starts acting crazy, the others can simply unlink from it. “Too many” will never happen anyway because the interface is more difficult to use. We should promote it as much as possible, I believe.

Right, hence us being on here!

It blows my mind when people don’t acknowledge the legitimately cool corners of Reddit, like /r/FreeGameFindings. The content itself is not all bad there if you know where to look.

I feel like apart from niche communities, Lemmy now has critical mass to survive on its own!

Correct, RR has unusual exception because it’s the only blind-friendly Reddit app (which is legitimately amazing at that). And then other apps like the forked Slide (which I use) piggyback off of it, pretending they’re RR so that they can still function, too.

Huh, I… didn’t even think of that. I suppose people could download all the old content before this kicks in, at least, but yeah, that’ll be the loss of new stuff moving forward, unless people can sway them over to nsfwlemmy.

Wow, I haven’t seen that email. What country are you in, if I may ask?

Wow, I only knew of the p. subdomain, haha. This is great, thanks! That’s hilarious that they copied the same subdomain, even… I wonder how to tell if an instance supports it apart from just blindly trying.

I love how the GitHub entry just calls it “a familiar desktop experience” and nothing more. Perfect. 👌🏻

I use it while logged on to keep trying to sway people over to Lemmy, haha. After all, that’s how I found this place…

But what have you specifically learned from it to now be able to do if you no longer had it? That’s the question…

it was closed because it’s the same question that was asked 20 other times, and all the solutions don’t actually work.

This has absolutely been my experience as well, yeah. I rarely go straight to LLMs first but sometimes I’m not comfortable with simply posting my problem on Reddit and waiting (or posting on Lemmy and waiting forever lol), since it isn’t always that simple or convenient to first anonymize data before getting public help, nor do people even always reply, leaving me back to square one with time wasted. I am by far the techiest person in my company (and I barely know anything relative to full-time programmers), so there sure isn’t anyone at work who I could ask for help, haha.

I don’t go to LLMs often, and they sure messed up a lot even just 2 years ago, but they’ve come an impressively long way from the unintelligible-text and six-fingers era (despite still occasionally messing up nowadays) and have legitimately optimized my formulae dramatically in both function and legibility, such as by showing me LET() that I didn’t even know existed. While I’ve been meaning to take an online course on spreadsheets and just haven’t gotten around to it yet, I try to learn from how the model did XYZ right away but it’s nice to have a personal, on-demand tutor, as long as you’re always aware of the fact that what it says could be garbage, despite it speaking so confidently. I think for actual, entire vibe-coded products, it’s much harder to learn what the heck it’s doing versus just simple one-liners. Anyway, on-device and FOSS LLMs make for better compromises, I think, though their quality is noticeably poorer.

The reason I try to avoid “AI” use is not The Dumbening™ but because of the ecological impact, yet I contend that spending hours and hours trying to traditionally solve a problem in frustration is also harmful in its own ways… It’s a decent tool of last resort and the Stupids are merely the ones treating it as a line of first defense against everything.