• mavedustaine@lemm.ee
    31·
    2 years ago

    I’m pretty excited for getting married in the next three hours!

    Edit: I DID IT, LEMMY!

    • LexaMaridia@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years ago

      I’m excited. I really missed Apollo. So this is filling the void bit by bit. :D I just signed up 10 minutes ago. It’s awesome so far!

      • NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca
        6·
        2 years ago

        Not really, if you browse the big communities it has enough users but for more niche communities its not neatly nearly enough to be a replacement for reddit

        • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 years ago

          I remade the niche communities I browse here.

          Yes, only one other person posts on it, and they don’t post exactly what I want, but that’s how it is

    • somnuz@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      I dunno… why can’t Lemmy just be its own thing tho? I might’ve been using Reddit wrong or something but Lemmy feels so much better from the start for me.

      —

      At least if there is an interesting topic or a question I don’t have to scroll thru the same jokes or worse — joke trains, yeah sure, the beans happened, maybe I am getting too old to fully connect with the joke, whatever, but at least it is kinda self-contained, my wild guess would be if beans happened on Reddit, all the comments would be BEANS! for a month everywhere…

      —

      From a time perspective — I am really appreciating some amazing posts on Reddit with great histories and comments that I was reading for hours, some great AMAs or even the funny content if it was fresh.

      With all this said, overall Reddit was mostly a really specific shit hole for me, yes, shit hole where occasional diamonds occurred but still. I can’t wrap my head around how imaginary internet points can distort even the most basic interactions.

  • multicolorKnight@lemmy.ml
    24·
    2 years ago

    Specifically, good things on the World Wide Web: research. The amount of good information available is incredible, compared with pre-Internet times. Weather forecasts, what the space telescope is looking at, what’s happening in other parts of the world places in their own voice.

    Sure, there is misinformation as well, and some people will cast doubt on anything they don’t like or try to drown it out, but get past that, and this is a golden age of knowledge.

  • FollyDolly@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 years ago

    This is probably going to sound mundane, but I finally got my career back on track after the plague and have enough money to take my cats to the vet for proper medical care. Feel like I’ve been living at vets lately, but everyone’s ears are clean, teeth have been checked, bloodwork done, and has the meds they need to thrive. I felt so bad that for two years the vet was life threating visits only.

    What I’m looking forward to is many more years with my wonderful pets!

  • TheEternalBambzip@lemmy.zip
    20·
    2 years ago

    My wedding in 11 days. Even though I’m somewhat stressed because I’ll have to travel for it and there are some moving parts, I’m excited. Wife is taking it pretty well and she is excited as well!

  • Snowman44@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 years ago

    The company I work for changed their policy on paid vacations. Starting in August I’m going to have a lot of vacation days and I’m going to use them.

  • Sir_Kevin@discuss.online
    17·
    2 years ago

    I joined the great resignation to pursue a freelance art career. I’m excited but also terrified I’ll just be another starving artist. At least I don’t have to wake up at 6am anymore.

  • NightOwl@lemmy.one
    15·
    2 years ago

    The fediverse is something I’m excited for and it’s still in it’s infancy so it’ll be intersting to see how it plays out as it starts getting more polished and user friendly.

    Despite the doom and gloom of AI I think it’s been really cool, and one area I’ve seen it help is for my relatives where instead of me having to solve basic tech issues AI has helped. When it develops into a full on companion that will do things it asks them to I’ll be bothered less and less.

    • Fester@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 years ago

      It’s frustrating to see peoples’ imaginations run wild with AI. They’re not building “sentient” machines. There will never be machines that are sentient in anything other than appearance, and we’re notoriously easy to fool in that way.

      My favorite way to describe AI that I’ve heard is “applied statistics.” It’s basically just processing huge amounts of data, very fast, simultaneously, and then presenting conclusions that are usually very likely.

      Yes, it will be used to make weapons that are horrifically efficient, but likewise it will be used to make defenses that are equally efficient.

      I think the good will ultimately outweigh the bad. Hopefully by a long shot.

      • crazystuff@discuss.online
        41·
        2 years ago

        LLMs are spontaneously developing theory of mind and nobody knows why or how, meaning that now ChatGPT and the like are able to consider what the user is thinking, opening some avenues for actual manipulation. GPT-4 can solve 95% of ToM tasks that a 7-year-old could.

        Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083

    • elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      0·
      2 years ago

      For me I have been having fun testing novel ai and trying tk play pseudo rpg adventures alone, I will probably never share anything but it has been really fun to try AI as a single player experience.

      • NightOwl@lemmy.one
        2·
        2 years ago

        I watched this AI npc in Skyrim and the level of interactivity it brought is amazing. So often in games characters quickly run out of lines, and feel like dead mannequins in open world games. Having a game world where there are lasting consequences because NPCs remember what you did is going to be cool. As opposed the same lines being recycled over and over.

    • Arkharl@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 years ago

      Hopefully with a retirement plan to go with it.

      Retirement without any plans often ends in (worse) depression and anxiety.

  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml
    9·
    2 years ago

    I’m planning to live life a little and buy a motorcycle soon. I’ve always wanted to drive a motorcycle so this keeps me motivated.

    • Resistentialism@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      I’m not sure on your mental health condition. But if there’s one thing I’ve learnt from getting my big bike licence. Its done wonders for me.

      And a little tip for you. Get really good gear. Even if you don’t think you’ll come off or if youre only going lut for half an hour. Anything can happen. And good gear, so jacket, trousers, gloves, helmet and boots can be the major difference between a few broken bones and agonising death/amputated limbs.

      Oh and filtering ear plugs. I got some the other week and they’ve been a live saver. I can still hear my music perfectly fine. But they protect your hearing from the constant sound of the engine and all the wind.

      Be safe out there, brother.

      • SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        I’ve already gotten a helmet so far and I’m looking at other gear. What brands and price ranges would you recommend for someone on a budget (I’m paying ~$2000 for my first motorcycle)?

        • Resistentialism@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          I’m not sure what brands you have in America. But, ome brand that I’ve heard recommended is Alpinestar. Expensive, but again, can’t say from experience. But they’re quite good from what I’ve heard.

          I wear near enough full RST, I got a trousers/jacket textile suit for about, I think, 320 usd. It has padded elbows, shoulders, and a back plate. And padding at the knee caps. I also have RST boots that extend higher up the legs. And some summer gloves with padded knuckles and leather around the palm and mesh on top. But, my other gloves were chasing really bad sweating.

          I don’t think the US and the UK use the same safety rating guide. But, as long as you’re getting from a reputable brand, and getting protection for the most important parts, you should be okay. So the most important being hands, back, elbows, shoulders, knees, and feet/ankles. Don’t use steel capped boots though. As one read those can cause more damage to the toes.

          For a very rough price, I think you should aim for about 500 usd for the rest of the gear. Might seem excessive, but like I said, can be the difference between life and death.

          Actually, some where i got confused was between textile and leather. But, whilst leather is a lot better as it won’t tear as easily. Good textile would be more than enough unless you’re going to really be breaking speed limits and going for track days.

          here’s 2 videos from a youtuber, he knows more than I do.

          and the second

          Don’t worry too much about jumping straight for summer clothing and and cold clothing. Cold clothing will more than likely have thermals you can remove. And, with the exception of being stuck in traffic/at traffic lights, once you’re actually moving you should get a nice breeze. And something I love about my rst jacket. Its got titty zips. If its a warm day, open them up, and it allows a lovely breeze to engulf your top half.

    • TheGregorianKnight@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 years ago

      It’s definitely worth it, but being brand new be really careful with the controls, a little on the throttle goes a long ways for (most) motorcycles.

      • SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        That’s why I’m thinking of starting with a used 250! Perfect for around the city and the occasional excursion into the twisties on the way to a day hike.

      • SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 years ago

        Nice! I don’t really want to start on a heavy bike though, as all I’ve experienced are pedal powered bikes before and I want to get used to the weight.

  • DSX@lemm.ee
    8·
    2 years ago

    I’ll be trying out Linux outside of a virtual machine for the first time. I’ve got a SATA SSD external enclosure that I’ll be using to boot without messing with my current pc

        • Ledz@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 years ago

          And just for the first couple of days. Once you set it up it works like any other OS. I don’t think most people change the way their pc works every other day. Once you get the hang of it it stays mostly the same. This year I changed full from w10 to mint and no issues since.

      • dtxer@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        I don’t agree. It depends really on what you’re using it for. I have one machine with Xubuntu installed and it’s been used just for browsing or putting movies to the tv and it’s been just plug and play so far.

        There was the one issue, of not being able to use some streaming services, because of drm protection meaning you can only stream via their windows desktop app not via browser. I took it as an invitation for streaming the stuff from somewhere else for free shrug

      • DSX@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 years ago

        Yeah there’s a ton of stuff to learn. I’ve got some experience from my college courses but I want to get ahead before I take the ones that really test my Linux knowledge.

    • randomTingler@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      Are you going to unplug the existing harddisk? If your Linux /efi partition is written in the windows boot partition, you are kind of messed up.

      Better unplug the existing harddisk and try Linux, once you are comfortable you can switch to dual boot then completely swith over to Linux.

      • Dandroid@dandroid.app
        1·
        2 years ago

        I have dual booted Linux and Windows many times and never had a problem. I just boot my old Windows install through grub. The Ubuntu installer asks you if you want to do this and sets it all up for you.

      • DSX@lemm.ee
        0·
        2 years ago

        I’ve seen tutorials where people installed Linux using a virtual machine that can only see the ISO usb and the drive you are installing Linux on to do that. It’ll be a pain removing the drives from my laptop. I probably won’t be dual booting because I use nvidia GPUs + can’t switch to Linux full time because nvidia and I use CUDA for projects.

          • DSX@lemm.ee
            1·
            2 years ago

            So I think I got it to work. Used a virtual machine to install it onto the drive, and now my laptop boots to Ubuntu when the drive is plugged in. Took a while for me to figure out which partition sizes I needed for stuff since I wanted to do manual partitioning.

      • DSX@lemm.ee
        3·
        2 years ago

        I’m probably going to stick with something simple like Ubuntu 22.04 since some software I use is only supported on that.