This is one thing that I’m pretty self conscious about. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve spent a lot of time on the internet and see lots of actual creeps on there but it’s often on my mind in public to try not to come off as a creep. The only exception is with my nieces or nephew, I’ll be dammed if someone’s going to accuse me of something because I’m playing with them or keeping an eye on them in public, but outside of that, I’m a single guy in his 30s and that don’t look good, so I keep to myself.

Actually, as I was typing this out I remembered the guy that I saw while I was with my nieces and their parents waiting for some food at a fast food place a few months back. The place was busy so we were all there for a while and this old guy comes up nearby, waits for a while, then complains out loud to us. Ok, that’s normal, but then he just hangs out for a while close to the kids. After we get the last of our food as the youngest is getting off of a stool, he reaches out to help her off, holding her under the arms. That type of situation is exactly what I try to avoid. Maybe he was harmless and thought she needed a hand, that for some reason the three adults she knew couldn’t provide, but keep your hands off the kid, we don’t know you. (She was not struggling to get off the stool)

Read through this https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/

Once you find a torrent, it will almost certainly include installation instructions, make sure you follow them.

Valve is probably responsible for me moving to Linux fully because of proton and how steam works on Linux. While I would be bitching nonstop about Microsoft, I don’t know if getting off windows would be worth it to me if it was a hassle to play games.

I’ve been seeing ads for it, there’s nothing inappropriate happening in the game and banning it for just being uncanny valley sounds crazy to me.

Sex robots/dolls aren’t realistic enough yet. I’ve seen several “attractive women” on Instagram that are entirely AI, but it’s not going to progress past that until a real physical body is good enough.

Beats me, I didn’t pull the data.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

(I struck out “active” from my original comment)

Percentages get crazy when you start talking about 8 billion people. 1% is 80 million. If 1% of that found lemmy the active user base would be almost half Trans. (I found around 1.2 million active lemmy users on some website, and 800,000 is 1% of 80,000,000)

It’s available everywhere at this point. My team has the license to have copilot in every main office app, the teams that don’t still have the generic web version. There are AI chat bots for various things with some stupid brain related name. There are a couple things we’ve done with an LLM that have actual business use cases that benefited an automated process (sorry, have to be vague). Another, not Microsoft, product we use is advertising their AI features all the time, which as a side note feels incredibly unprofessional for enterprise type software, if it was up to me I’d find an alternative over that alone. Another cloud database service also has a brain themed chat bot.

What my job doesn’t do is force anyone to use it ever (outside of the people that had to set it up). I use copilot in Microsoft teams, as it can pull from emails and chats to answer questions specific to my job: generic stuff like fluffing up a peer/self review, helping me find a conversation that I only vaguely remember, finding emails when outlooks search decides to be shit. Since it’s my work device with my work data I’m not concerned about my privacy so that’s actually useful to me. I’ve played around with the word and excel copilots but they’re terrible. Word can help you build a doc but if i open a doc copilot tells me it can’t actually edit anything in the doc. So what is it for, generic questions? Then excels can physically do things but it gets it very wrong for me. I was almost even excited for it because I thought, maybe I could say something like “Hey copilot, take this sheet, put it into a pivot table, use X for columns and Y for rows” and it would do it for me, rather than me taking those steps. But it doesn’t work so I stopped trying after a few attempts at getting it to be useful.

To be fair it’s the band-aid of AI. The people that do want to use AI are using chatgpt. It works about as well as an LLM will right now and it basically sucks you off while it does it, so people like using it.

Copilot is chatGPT thrown into Microsoft apps and Gemini sucks, forcefully replaced the assistant app, and automatically comes up on Google searches with nonsense seemingly half the time.

(When I do use an LLM i use deepseek, but I recognize that I’m probably the minority in that)

what the fuck is an EDC tactical wallet?

EDC being everyday carry, tactical at this point has lost any real meaning - pants with a few extra pockets, this wallet, any knife you might take outside of a kitchen, a water bottle holder that you can attach to something, anything that they put those little loops that are normally on military backpacks (actually there’s another example, all those “EDC” backpacks that are 150 bucks).

Not to brag but I used to work in an office that had TWO of these bad boys.

If you know what phone they have you can get one at or a little higher than it’s top charging speed. It might end up their fastest charger. (I mention a little higher if you feel like it, since if/when they upgrade maybe that speed will go up a bit and your purchase will be even better. I wouldn’t bother doing that with chinese phones that are at 100W anyway.)

They do make jackets like this.

Honestly arc is a great idea that never seems to work for me. I’ll always be RIGHT there, but my Blu-ray player turns on randomly when I’m doing something else, or something like that. So I end up turning it off.

I know I’m not the only one familiar with water jets in bathtubs and hot tubs.

Damn, that’s a shame. I had the same issue with lutris so i thought for sure it’d be the same solution. I’d probably give up for a bit too. There’s a handful of things I want to do but I started to get burned out on issues so I’ve been putting them off.

Probably not the worst, but legal eagle just did a video on the “kill them all” murders, but his segue into his own legal service still started with the “and this highlights why you need a good lawyer …”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wkaS3-9WvM8

I kept breaking my fedora install so I went to bazzite that month lol

Forget Lutris, just use heroic game launcher. Click Add game, select the battle net installer exe, run it and let it install, close it then switch the path to the installed battle net exe. Heroic will use proton ge (i believe by default) and it’s worked for me without issue. I tried lutris first because that’s what showed up online when I searched and I had nothing but issues. Then I did it in steam, with similar steps to what I described already and I could get it to work, but in heroic it was just a couple minutes and it’s good to go.

I like that if I type an application (the main reason I type in that window) that I don’t have yet, rather than some nonsense like this it gives me a shortcut to the application IN the package manager.