Similar tactic for cellular service: tell them the company you work for is giving you a phone. That has worked for me in the past. It’s impossible for them to compete with free.

I keep one in my travel wire pouch thingy.

Hey, you’re just doing your due diligence by removing malware.

I deleted mine. Leaving old accounts around gives hackers another thing to potentially get into. You could always log in, ensure it’s locked down, and log out forever.

The people in this thread that ignore valid reasons for disdain towards AI are exhausting. “Just let me lol at thing and move on.” Me, I miss the days of even just drawing a meme up in MS Paint. I don’t want this Uncanny Valley dog shit. It’s not actual intelligence, it exists solely because of theft, and it’s ruining the environment.

I have avoided working for the FAANG companies my entire career and I’m happier for it.

Dude sounds like he’s just some confused fishing buddy that a friend hired.

I recommend skipping the article and instead skimming through the TED talk. It at least sounds like they’re using it as a tool to assist their artists, but the end result still has the same exact uncanny valley look we see on every AI video any ol’ person on the internet can make.

And there is where art truly goes to die. Suddenly every creative outlet is using the same tools and everything comes out with the same exact weird sheen. ILM is supposed to be a pioneer in this stuff and I respect that they’re not straight up replacing artists (yet) with this, but they’re ultimately sacrificing any aesthetics they’ve employed for years.

At the end of the day, all of this stuff boils down to speed, and that endless increase in speed is driven… by capitalism. We’re sacrificing aspects of our creative processes so that we can churn more out, instead of taking the time needed to make something truly unique.

Something tells me the amount of clicks that button gets is way, way lower than Google will ever admit.

Damn, you are living the life.

America has been dead to me for years. It’s a crumbling empire and I have no respect for any of its leadership. I will never give up on myself or the working class, but we have far too much rabid individualism and egos to work together.

The people will weather the storm and come out the other side, albeit differently, but any semblance of government here is trash. Both parties are nothing but greed-driven parasites and everyone knows it. The new generations aren’t fooled by the same bullshit propaganda and the ruling class knows it. That’s why they’re ruling with an iron fist and the cops have zero accountability.

Cop cities going up everywhere; a military base on every continent; Israeli money weaving into everything; the Democrats are useless fucks; the Republicans are unmasked fascists. This country is in the final stages of late capitalism. I don’t want to live here and haven’t for years, but I persevere for family and friends. I’ve already told my wife if a revolution ever happens, I’m probably going to be the 65-year-old man that dies in it.

This is something my fellow Americans need to come to terms with:

This kind of thing will 100% kill any chance of me buying another Switch.

Yep, same story for me. Was on them for probably a year and it changed my mood in ways I did not like. It became noticeable to my wife and she hated how short I would get. It also made me hyper-fixate way too hard on things.

Same story when I was a kid too. They misdiagnosed me as hyperactive but I am not. So the meds I got basically put me the fuck to sleep. I quit using them after like 1-2 uses because I was sleeping in class, which was completely out of character for me (I was never a great student but I never slept in class).

I was on meds and quit. Hated the mood changes.

This game is so much fun, even when I’m the loner getting my ass handed to me on my sloop (which is most of the time). Seeing a ship looming in the distance and wondering if it’s going to come after you is such a rush.

Quake 3 Instagib.

This. The company I work at has had a few devs that transitioned from full-time QA to frontend dev. If you can write Cypress tests, there are companies that need it, and you’ll get to learn a codebase while you’re at it.

Good, good. Now convince MAGA folks to drink the koolaid together…

You can look at China right now, especially in the context of the US basically shitting the bed completely, and see success. It also depends on what you’re using to determine what “success” is. If the marker for comparison is a capitalist country… lol we see how well that’s playing out.

No system or place is perfect, but the US has trillions of dollars at its disposal and does zero for its people. Meanwhile, even folks with a meager income can live a comfortable life in China. I’ve heard this verbatim from Americans that have lived there—some of which for 15+ years.

LOL this is pathetic. “We asked the cult members what they think of their cult leader.”