How Ticketmaster Ruined the Music Industry

Just helped someone yesterday, though they had Windows 11 already. They ended up with Pop!_OS, probably inspired by me having Pop!_OS (I did not make decisions here, only helped). Now we need to work out why Pop!_OS acting like the laptop can’t do Wi-Fi

I’ve seen some like this in Kebab spots. 10/10 love me some Kebab

Interlingua

For updating your waste status? Well, if you’re Scout Condor, maybe… The average person, though? I don’t think so. You can, however, get tons of coupons from cool restaurants, through targeted ads

What is wrong with re-watching one’s dream? I mean, sure. I’ve written some dreams down, and looking back some of it’s kinda cringe (also crappy, cause dreams are random and I can’t remember well)

Also, if dreams are “random data streams based on what is being stored into long-term memory as you sleep”, why random-ass dreams? Not always I wake up feeling like “damn, what a topical dream!” It’s, like, “Oh, Robotnik took Sonic’s wife and I gotta help him”, like. What in that is being stored in my mind?

being able to view other people’s dreams

I did mention it’s a private thing. Not like Smart Pipes sharing your last poo to your online followers

Am baffled by the inclusion of ai in this comment, though. Feels… out-of-place?

Why is AI out of place? I mean, if it (or machine learning, at least) can “see” or “learn”, or “spot” patterns, and then replicate them, it could be used to try and see a pattern between one’s brain activity, and what imagery could be associated with it. If it can find these associations, it could then work backwards from the brain activity to the image. Like, it receives brain activity when I see or think of an apple, and it knows the context of the apple. Then, without the context, and with enough training, it could figure out when you’re thinking apple. In theory, at least. Not sure how brain activity works, and if there’s anything differing in different contexts that could be picked up like that (i.e. that you could somehow differentiate between thinking apple or any other thing going on in your brain)

Bet my money on a stupid horse, I lost that

One cool use I’d like to see for AI one day would be recording dreams. A machine that reads your brainwaves, sends data to AI. The AI could be trained by showing someone an image, and then feeding the AI the description of the image, and brainwave readings, such that it can find patterns. Later, well-trained, it could translate brainwaves into concepts. Feed that into an LLM to connect these concepts, generate a title, sinopsis, and some prompts. Use prompts to make a video out of it, a trailer, and a poster. Add to a personal library. By having a local AI of your own, with your data, controlled by you, AI could have references of you, like name, general information, how you look, etc. Wake up in the morning, make yourself a cup of milk, sit in front of your computer, open your dream library. Browse around your own Dream Stream (though local, so no streaming. Unless server). A title/poster catch your eye? Read sinopsys, watch trailer. Interested? Give it a watch!

Bro, I just had the craziest dream. Come watch!!!

Lying in bed? Shit, I bet there’s gonna be a sleep paralysis demon jumpscare any moment now

Wait, you just gonna leave us on a cliffhanger like that?

Oh, I hate stuff like that. When I’m thinking, and I get distracted for a moment with… honestly, what even. And I get stuck on my thought like a scratched vinyl, just looping on the last part. Not moving past that, and suddenly struggling to remember where I was going with it, and where I came from with it. “…and then… uhm… uuuhhhhh… uh, where was I going with this?”

I, too, took to writing dreams. Had one where Robotnik takes Sonic’s wife and I have to help him or something. Hopefully no one finds these notes lol. Some things are better left in the past

Doesn’t the US have more than two options?

Chat, is this real?

Eh. Been using MPV as an alternative, and so many thanks to whoever mentioned that on Lemmy. Works way better than FreeTube currently. However, it also fails at times. At least in my experience. Which is rather annoying. Better than nothing, though

What can they collect, seeing as HTTPS is common nowadays? I mean, they could have DNS wueries, I guess. But then how does custom DNS vs VPN compare?

Okay, what exactly are the benefits of a VPN for the average user (non-corporate), besides pretending to be somewhere else?

You or the geese?

Why couldn’t they just use usual Linux for that? Why a modified kernel? Is Linux as is not suitable for a phone?

Can’t they just, idk, make a distro? Maybe from scratch? Pop!_OS is working on COSMIC. Can’t they have their Linux-based OS, perhaps with its own things as needed, such as a phone-optimised DE? Or whatever the phone equivalent of a DESKTOP environment would be. A Mobile Environment, perhaps

If my laptop had touch screen with no other method of input built in, and were way smaller, could it not run Linux? Or is that different altogether?

Putting it back in place is kinda difficult, iirc. It’s a scary “oh, shit. Put it back, put it back” moment. It’s a lesson in not playing around wuth the door (ah, yeah, mine was a big balcony door window (small balcony, big door))

CHAT, IS THIS REAL???

Yes, it is Beta. Not a horrible experience overall, despite being Beta. The Bluetooth thing can be a tad annoying, when my headphones randomly scream “connected” in my ears. Windows closing can also be a tad annoying, and the death of my active session moreso (akin to all windows closing together. Combo!)