This is why they’re also trying to persuade people they don’t need a local computer. Just stream cloud computing! We definitely won’t shut it off for no reason in 6 months
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RE: AI Megathread
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RE: Real life happy
Car troubles. Was quoted no less than $2500+ for repairs in 5 different places.
Last place I called lowered his voice and mentioned I should take it to this other place he knows.
They fixed it for $518, and it works perfectly. I could kiss both the mechanic and the guy who sent me his way.
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RE: AI Megathread
As much as I truly want that to be the case, as it depresses me beyond words to think that I’m RPing with a shitty robot’s attempt to flatten and average out all the pirated literature it was trained on, local models are a Pandora’s Box that can’t be closed. Even if every AI company shuttered today, a dedicated slopsmith can just run AI on locally installed instances.
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RE: Arx
This game made me realize what a cure for writer’s block it can be to just zone out and write a few paragraphs of clothing or weapon description prose.
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RE: AI Megathread
Saw this article and thought of this thread.
Which made me think: If rising token costs eventually push the average person off of using AI, how much would we actually have to worry about AI being involved in this hobby?
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RE: Age Verification & Games
Steam recently began complying with Australian legislop and requiring age verification to view adult materials. Their ID of choice? A credit card. Not a debit card, not an ID card, but a credit card. The Reserve Bank of Australia reports that only 18% of adults under 30 in Australia own a credit card (Livermore et al., 2023, p. 21).
and they’re so easy to circumvent that they do virtually nothing to keep kids out of spaces they shouldn’t be in.
Especially with Firefox and other browsers just straight-up having a VPN button to push, for free (with limits, but c’mon), right there. Even the least technologically interested child will learn that pushing that button gives you access to The Good Stuff.
Livermore, T., Mulqueeney, J., Nguyen, T., & Watson, B. (2023). The evolution of consumer payments in Australia: Results from the 2022 Consumer Payments Survey (Research Discussion Paper No. 2023-08). Reserve Bank of Australia. https://doi.org/10.47688/rdp2023-08
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RE: RL Peeves
@Aria Can’t slap them, I’ve got this tricky shoulder y’see…
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RE: RL Peeves
I don’t know if this is entirely an RL peeve, since it has crossover, but I just saw a question on r/AskHistorians that frames MUing as something that happened in the Distant Past. Things I have personally done shouldn’t exist in the same conversational context as Alexander the fucking Generally Alright.
“In the late 1900s…”
I’m not going to slap you, but I am going to think about it with great relish.
