Reddit molted in 2023 and some of us came here. This has been a place for a bit longer than that.

So you signed up because you thought this was all a forum around an LLM provider?

Obligatory please never disassemble a microwave no matter how cool a “magnetron” sounds

Oh this is resonating. that’s not good.

Chat is it chudcoded to feel an emotion about a cultural touchstone from antiquity

Always fascinating to me that Minecraft is essentially a whole other game to so many people. I mostly play(/ed) industrial automation modded versions in single player. Most people played it as some kind of creative build sandbox with friends. Maybe one day I’ll care enough to set up a vanilla plus server and sell a few old friends on MultiMC.

Like the screenshot is something completely different than what I played the game for, and it looks like good fun to build stuff like that or at least explore with friends

One of the most memorable documentaries I’ve ever seen was basically a guy’s zero-budget edited together home video footage of his centenarian grandmother spanning thirty years. I saw it in a pretentious artsy cinema in Beirut about a decade ago.

They exist! Limited appeal means anything with a production team will only get funded if the subject is known by audiences though.

Looks neat, wishlisted. Good luck

Truly the first human to ever look like an AI food poster parody of himself

I suspect people with worse English in general and bots like everyone else but I just think it’s the turbo eternal September of Reddit.

The actual writing of Reddit posts and comments was, I think, better than any other platform even remotely similar in size. As the userbase broke past just techies and computer touchers and Reddit went from niche to a parallel mainstream to a piece of the mainstream, the type of thing that would get discussed became more averaged out and closer to the general internet, and so did the actual quality of writing. That’s part of why I think the tipping point was the LLM arms race, Reddit as a resource (as a corpus) is simply peerless.

I think it was just the fact that everyone would write relatively well and get clowned on if they didn’t, alongside a relatively opaque UX that kept lid on user growth helping keep the site’s culture move more slowly.

I haven’t been a regular user since the API got killed.

Did you save or take a screenshot of that comment by any chance? It was so good and I was just going to share this

I wouldn’t put it past them to rename this at the last minute for a new stupid headline

I’m not big on self congratulating lib stunts when the opposition is well into the supercharging the meat grinder stage but publicly uploading the model is nice

Since others are posting about the how and not the why:

I don’t like most beers, but the ones I like are refreshing (mainly Almaza the local standard here in Lebanon, a Pilsner if that means anything to anyone). It’s slightly bitter like tea, less so than coffee, and fizzy but not as much as a sugary drink. It complements a lot of foods, doesn’t really get you drunk quickly (I don’t drink to that point), is pretty widely available, and is nice to drink during a chat because it takes a bit of time, kind of like coffee or tea.

Supposedly Almaza is similar to Asahi or Kingfisher from India.

I’ve also enjoyed “interesting” beers but that’s how beer works for me. I’ve had Guinness, it’s interesting, more of a curiosity for me, very bready, I can see myself having it often if it was widely available.

If you’re talking more about the American movie style “buy a 96-pack of canned yellow water and consume half of it while watching American football alone” beer I have no idea what that’s about.

Just think of it as stanky sourdough social beverage. If that doesn’t appeal to you, there you go.

I’m sure that’s the case but in retrospect when I look back on Reddit and how it turned into a genuinely trusted but super astroturfable place I can only remember the original sub as nothing but “hey guys check out this product I purchased for myself and then wife and child and friends”

Using a soldering iron, a replacement 3D printed shell from Aliexpress, and onboard storage for the configuration, I’m dragging my mouse kicking and screaming into years it was never designed to reach.

Granted, it should have been designed to.

I don’t know about the Lemmy com as much, but the vibe I used to get from the Reddit BIFL community sometimes horsehoed back around to being something materialistic. I feel like avoiding planned obsolescence is important but so is maintaining stuff. I think maintaining stuff is flat out more important than finding the perfect stuff especially in the age of fast mass market everything.

KYC laws should be mandatory for any service that allows you to type the terrorist codeword characters “Palestine” into a text box especially where someone under the age of 500,000$ stock portfolio can see it

I’m pretty sure brass was used because it was durable and stayed smooth to the touch in the elements unlike wrought iron, I don’t think they were trying to prevent the spread of disease

I wish the history of regular household stuff was better recorded

If it’s the same person I’m talking about, the amazing Atrocity Guide made a YouTube video about this

On device translation is amazing and exactly what this software should be approved for, I think it’s good that they let you pick this separately. I don’t care for surrendering my cognitive functions to an advertising panopticon machine, but translating pages without letting Google know what sites I’m looking at? Yes please

I scrolled around to find it. It’s an awful thing for someone to use as a catty quip but you really picked one of the worst things to post as a first experience given the culture here, not your fault. You actually made your case just fine, you could have said “it’s a voice controlled PDA that lets me use my phone less, I don’t ask it questions” and 99% of users would have been like neat.

Part of me wants to say don’t use the internet at all if you can’t ignore such an insignificant and offhandedly rude comment, if 100 people see your post you must assume at least one will be a combative cunt. Copypasta replies won’t endear you to most users either.

If you can handle unapologetic leftist politics you might come to find that Lemmy on average has slightly higher quality and less mean spirited comments, it’s funny that this was your first experience. Enjoy your time on the community space not designed to sell you crap you don’t need.

First time I ever see someone legitimately use that thing on the left. Here’s hoping you’re not using it in a way that liquefies your brain.

You have a new account so I’ll assume you’re new to Lemmy and I’ll give you a heads up that most of the people here are horrified by the effects of slop generation on the state of communication, information retrieval, work culture, and art/graphic design. And they’re on a fringe network in part to get away from it among other things on the big platforms. I’m sure most people here who read what’s on your screen thought “huh an actually useful way to do this good for them”.