Turns out the quality is great. Especially the okumidori was exactly what I was looking for.

Oh wow! That’s amazing.

Groundhog (Gr), a unit of uncertainty in weather predictions. The value of 1 Gr means the prediction is as good as pulling it out of a hat.

You gotta have some standards. If you use a different rodent every year, you can’t realistically compare the results with one another. Who knows how wildly the measurement error varies from species to species?

You could just buy one of those workstations that are actually almost servers. Some of them have 2 CPUs, 8 slots for RAM and a PCIe slot for your GPU. Those motherboards can handle ECC.

Can confirm. There are lots of “boring” videos on Loops. Like, check this out. Yes, it’s an entire channel dedicated to chickens. I mean, it’s nice and relaxing, but nowhere near as addicting and engaging as tiktok or instagram videos. I’ll still count that as a win.

Regardless, @billinkc still rocks.

Before the app was released, I noticed that suddenly there were many new users. Previously, making an account wasn’t open to everyone, but apparently that has changed too.

No shortage of trash, but that’s true for all platforms.

I just used the customize button on the top right corner and moved politics and a bunch of other junk to the “hide” column. This way, the home feed has a chance of containing things worth watching. Mostly though, I just use Odysee for watching the few channels I care about. Incidentally, I arranged the “followed” section to the top of the list.

As a result, I don’t see any conspiracy or MAGA nonsense at all.

Peertube for long tech videos. You’ll find lots of linux people here. Sure, there’s pretty much everything else too, but that’s what I use Peertube for.

Odysee for a wide range of videos in general. Many youtubers have backed up their videos here.

Loops for short videos… more like a tiktok clone really.

It’s the trivial proof.

Figuring these things out is hard. It can take years, even decades, to really know yourself.

She has made an important discovery worth celebrating. It’s just really unfortunate that it also resulted in a tragedy like this. It’s a mixed bag, so having mixed feelings is okay.

Try to process those emotions. Name them. Experience them. Let them do what emotions do. They will pass sooner or later, and it’s all very human. Once you know your emotions, they won’t control you.

Maybe you won’t be happy together, and coming to terms with that is hard. You may accept it on a cognitive level today, but accepting it on an emotional level can take time.

You both can still find happiness elsewhere. You both deserve to pursue and find happiness in your own way. I hope you both find it somewhere.

These kinds of lessons aren’t easy or fun, but they have a tendency to develop who we are. It’s an opportunity to learn and grow.

But it still sucks. 😢

All the best to you.

I’d rather put in the effort for an OS that knows what consent is and respects me as a user.

This is the primary reason why I prefer to use Linux. With most FOSS projects, it’s clear that the user is respected, and that’s the way it should be.

Oh, that’s a pretty cool system. Every vote really matters.

I’ve heard good things about ranked voting. I really think that feature alone would improve many elections.

You must be talking about the American FPTP voting system, right? Yeah, they have some serious problems with that, now don’t they.

Soo… vote for the green party to save the forests and snow leopards? I think I can get behind that.

Seams a marker for quality and tells you a lot about the way the item of clothing was made. They can be uncomfortable, and that’s why well made clothes reduce the number of seams needed and hides the ones that are unavoidable.

This also applies to shoes. Well made leather shoes have only very few seams and they are definitely not located in annoying places. However cheap shoe manufacturers cut corners here. They use whatever scraps they could find in the trash, and sew them together into an abomination roughly the shape of a shoe.

That’s how modern industrial markets work, and we get what we pay for. We’ve been doing this for such a long time that we don’t even know what good clothes and shoes look like. Hobbyists do, but the mass market just ignores quality and gravitates towards any piece of trash that barely gets the job done.

I would argue that generative AI models are going to do the same thing with text, audio and video. Currently, the quality is just atrocious, but it’s getting better all the time. Maybe one day, people don’t really mind the minor glitches and artefacts in video, because they’ve been looking at that slop for so many years. Just like the awkward and numerous seams in industrially manufactures clothes, but in digital form.

BTW 3D knitting definitely solves the problem. Too bad, not that many companies are doing it. On the other hand, it doesn’t scale as well as the older methods. Economies of scale result in low prices, which result in greater quarterly revenue.

Yeah, there’s plenty of low-effort trash floating around the web these days. Then again, the industrial revolution has resulted lots of physical low-effort trash too. Some of that is somewhat useful, like cheap t-shirts, electronics and power tools, but none of that is actually good. It’s not good for the environment or the people using those things.

They all serve some strange purpose I guess. At least people with very low standards still buy those. I certainly don’t need a cheap bluetooth speaker that breaks after a month. Many companies still produce e-wasete like that, because people keep buying it.

I can see a similar pattern happening with AI-slop. People click those videos, read those articles, and that produces ad revenue. It’s basically the same incentive, and that results in everyone racing towards the bottom. The basic mechanics of the situation haven’t changed, even though the technology has. What I see here, is just history repeating itself in the digital realm.

Making physical things by hand isn’t just a price issue. It’s also a quality issue. Just look at a hand made beanie and tell me where the seams are. Oh, there aren’t any, because the production method is radically different from machine made beanies.

With machine made beanies, they tend to have multiple seams. If the fabric comes in square format, you’ll end up with a seam in the back. If it comes in pipe format, you don’t need a back seam, but you still end up with several seams at the top of the beanie. We’ve been using inferior clothes for so many generations that most people don’t even know how good hand made clothes are. That’s also why people refuse to pay for quality like that.

It appears that mass production and low prices weigh more than the low quality.