brainw0rms [they/them]

That’s actually pretty cool. I was born with one of my adult molars missing and always wished this was possible. Hope the results turn out positively.

ehh, without hesitation I would choose Denuvo over being forced to install and run yet another third-party always-online launcher (Uplay, EA client, etc.) just to start the game.

Personally I don’t like reading news very much, I just keep various live news feeds up in the background while I do other things. Typically Al Jazeera English, but they rerun segments pretty often throughout the day, at which point I’ll just turn it off, or switch over to CGTN. Occasionally I’ll watch MSNBC or CNN if they aren’t being ultra cringe (rare occurrence) for more US focused coverage, though I can hardly stand to watch either for very long.

If that were true, there would be no reason for advanced tools like ComfyUI to exist.

I use a Macbook Pro because they are much more performant and have way longer battery life compared to a similarly priced Windows laptop, no other reason. There is just nothing in the x86 realm that is even comparable to what Apple silicon offers, and Windows on ARM offerings just aren’t really there yet. I use a Windows desktop and an Android phone, though.

I paint digitally and with acrylic and oil, which isn’t that different from the methods Da Vinci would have utilized. If you wanted to paint the Mona Lisa in photoshop the expertise required is the same minus only color mixing and physical preparation and finishing.

So, you’re really saying the expertise required is not the same, then?

Regardless of method, saying “paint this picture for me” isn’t making art. The claim is on its face absurd.

Who is claiming that? Not me. Anyone who has used a generative AI tool for more than 10 seconds knows this isn’t true.

If I go to the hospital and say “heal this person” am I now a doctor?

This is a bad analogy. If in some far off future we had some magical “auto-doc” device that could heal injuries, etc., but still required someone with sufficient knowledge to operate the device, I would call them a doctor, or perhaps a medical engineer. Yes.

Weird how all it takes to turn an ostensible leftist into a sneering lib condescending to an entire classification of worker is to insult their little toy.

What did you mean by this? The only one sneering and condescending here is you lol.

Somehow I doubt da Vinci and a modern digital artist toiling away in Photoshop would be able to agree on the definition of, or criteria for, what it means to be an artist…

for Windows another good one is https://github.com/audiamus/BookLibConnect

IANAL (and am not a lawyer)

I’m curious what you think Navalny stood for, which you claim to totally support? You wouldn’t lie about that too, would you? Spoilers, he was an ultra far-right nationalist piece of human garbage.

I own a DS Lite (20 years), New 3DS (11 years), and Switch Lite (4 years). I know you didn’t mention it in the OP, but today I far prefer the 3DS over the other two, game catalogues aside.

The DS has aged very poorly, especially when it comes to things that may not be immediately obvious. For example WiFi connectivity (I believe it only supports WEP security? though the online services are all or mostly shut down anyway), the touch screens drift really bad over time (mine has drifted over 2 inches off target with no hope of successfully re-calibrating). Another downside is having to use proprietary, usually abandonware flash carts, at least with the original DS/Lite. With the DSi I think there is CFW you can install, but I don’t have a DSi so I can’t speak to its longevity/developer support. The one unique up side this one has is you can use physical GBA cartridges, which is nice.

3DS can be played without an account, sometimes even with multiplayer. It might be more difficult now to procure and install games than it once was (rip freeshop?), but not too bad really. Has a pretty active homebrew community, and it can run lots of games from previous generations as a bonus, too. I frequently go years without touching it, but I can always boot it up, update Luma if necessary and it’s good to go. No worries.

I haven’t bothered hacking my Switch yet, because its kind of a pain in the ass. Probably better off buying a separate one pre-hacked specifically for pirating, because you’ll likely end up console banned at some point if you screw up even once. It seems like with the hardware mod you could in theory have good longevity for the device, though I doubt as good as the 3DS.

huh? at least on windows, firefox just uses its background maintenance service to take care of updates. no admin needed. I don’t even notice when it happens, except for the occasional “what’s new” page that opens along with firefox.

Be installed on any PC I own

hard pass

I guess it depends on your threat model, but if you’re dealing with mission critical proprietary code then it should really never be leaving your own companies infrastructure, imo. If for some reason it is necessary to use enterprise cloud hosting, established actors like Github, Gitlab or even Bitbucket still seem like the obvious choice.

The issue is this “Gitea Ltd.” company (or is it “CommitGo Inc.” now? honestly pretty confusing…) which appears to have been created with the singular purpose of monetizing Gitea, appeared out of thin air with no input from the community that actually develops Gitea. They’re basically saying “you can’t trust those other smelly hosts that have existed for years and have contracts with tons of huge companies, but you should definitely trust us with your stuff bro!”. Seems off to me.

Well, that is at least a start. Now could we agree to switch “Israel as a nation” with “The right-extremist government of Israel, it´s military and the ultra-nationalist settler movement” please?

Israel “as a nation” has been doing this since its inception in 1948. It has never been anything besides an ultra-nationalist settler movement. I suspect you either greatly lack historical context or are arguing in bad faith tbh.

Landlord hands typed this.

or for people who don’t have a week to dedicate to learning utterly deranged nonsense, just use sublime merge and never look back.