Phanatik

I’m so sorry

He died in 1982 but his works are hugely influential:
Philip K Dick.

What’s the full title?

I felt this with one of the laptops I put KDE Neon on. It had all manner of issues that never got a resolution.

They may be dramatised but the Linux stuff he does by typing commands into the terminal is real.

Why, what? Why is the goal important to me? I just feel like there needs to be a goal beyond just collecting for the sake of collecting.

Pretty much, yeah. Shoes have some utility which varies between the type of shoe it is but that’s typically not a reason to collect shoes, it’s just how I see them. I don’t feel the need to have more than one type of shoe for the task I need them for.

Action figures I can see from the perspective of nostalgia, I guess. My friend collects Godzilla/Kaiju/80s Sci-Fi figures and I can get that they look nice on a shelf. But if we compare that to say Warhammer miniatures then it’s a different ballgame. Warhammer miniatures need to be assembled and then painted which is a time-consuming process especially for a beginner like me. Some people like assembling and painting miniatures others like the tabletop they’re used for so one group can cater to the other. Some people like doing both.

I mentioned my PS3 and abandonware titles but I’m not collecting them just because I want to own them. I back up the data from the discs onto my PC for preservation/emulation purposes.

So yeah, the goal is important to me.

I collect PS3/abandonware games and even I look at the shoe-collectors wondering what the goal is.

The most comprehensive Installation Guide is the one on ArchWiki bar none. I used the ArchWiki well before I started using Arch Linux, it’s just that good.

The Craft Legacy.

I’ve watched some movies that cranked the social justice meter all the way up and it would be fun to laugh at the cringe, for example, Mulan 2020.

And then there was The Craft Legacy; a sequel-remake to The Craft from like the 90s about a coven of witches brought to you by the bright minds at Blumhouse. What made this movie bad wasn’t just the social justice elements, this movie is actively hostile. I’ve never felt hated by a movie before but this was it.

I’ve watched Mulan 2020 three times to date and I’d watch it again because it’s hilarious. With the Craft Legacy, I can only sit through it once.

I assume they’re using waybar but essentially, it’s a transparent taskbar.

I work in marketing and it legitimately has no downside to a business other than having one team to make sure it works and the other to make it look good. It makes sense to not have to pay Google or Adobe or whatever other tech company that charges for web usage and ad tracking. At the same time, it allows companies a direct connection to you through push notifications.

This one is more niche but it’s among my favourite audiobooks for both great writing and a stellar vocal performance.

I highly recommend the Eisenhorn trilogy by Dan Abnett and performed by Toby Longsworth. Or if you want to dip your toes then try the first one Xenos.

It’s set in the Warhammer 40K universe but you don’t need to know much lore to get into it. The trilogy is a pretty good primer into 40K.

That looks amazing. Probably the nicest looking Calendar interface I’ve seen and this is the first time I’m seeing a notification panel on Sway! What are you using for these?

I don’t own a 3D printer so can someone spitball the cost of printing this?

Very true. Subscription services and live service models are among the most parasitic inventions that have become common.

Microsoft - erosion of any motivation to understand your PC so they can put whatever they want in their updates and you won’t know until you dig through the logs

Facebook - erosion of any critical thinking by rewarding echo chambers and groupthink. Just look at their Metaverse shite.

Amazon - erosion of labour standards and publishing anti-union propaganda to prevent workers from realising they’re being abused. Also, instituting anti-competitive measures and strongarming third party sellers.

OpenAI (insert any LLM/generative model company) - erosion of the creative process thus allowing people with zero artistic expression to plagiarise other artists’ work

EA (or any AAA studio but also Nintendo) - erosion of consumer rights to own the products they buy and preventing any effort to preserve their games AND THEN complaining about piracy.

Dear lord, it is so exhausting to list these out.

Have you tried SwayWM? If so, what differentiates Paper from Sway?

I’m asking mainly as a Sway user curious about other options (not because I dislike it, it works pretty well for me and I like the automation aspect).

How it goes about constructing sentences doesn’t mean the phrases it reproduces aren’t plagiarism. Plagiarism doesn’t care about probability of occurrence, it looks at how much one work closely resembles another and the more similar they are, the more likely it is to be plagiarised.

You can only escape plagiarism by proving that you didn’t copy intentionally or you cite your sources.

GPT has no defence because it has to learn from the sources in order to learn the probabilities of the phrases being constructed together. It also doesn’t cite its sources so in my eyes, if found to be plagiarising then it has no defence.

The reason GPT is different from those examples (not all of them but I’m not going into that), is that the malicious action is on the part of the user. With GPT, it gives you an output that it has plagiarised. The user can take that output and then submit it as their own which is further plagiarism but that doesn’t absolve GPT. The problem is that GPT doesn’t cite its own sources which would be very helpful in understanding the information it’s getting and with fact-checking it.