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At least it isnt the worst case scenario, where most are addicted / chained to llm usage, nothing can function without it and where corporations could influence what users think on a whim by instructing the llm to act in certain way. Imagine if everyone was as crazy as some of the ai psychosis persons are and those who are not were considered to be the deranged ones. I hope we managed to avert that nightmare.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Dont the companies make huge losses constantly with the llm crap, and the whole thing has been just speculative with hopes of everyone hopping in on the llm train and being dependent on the corporations that provide them?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago*

    just because communism isnt that good, doesnt mean other options arent. that is just saying you rather choose to stay with slavemaster than starve in the wilds, as if those two were only options. I dont blame you for thinking that though, just consider what thoughts are your own and what are from other people.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    You could watch some lets play about it and decide based on that if its something you like. That is the best way to know about games without buying them first imo.

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    At least it doesnt make sense that they want to get the bad smell off if they are kind of person who would have their chair smell like that. But I suppose they might also have friends that have complained about it.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    eat rice cereal /j

    It may help if you have something engaging to do, especially if its something that requires some effort to quit too once you get started so its more of a bother to go masturbate.

    Taking a break from masturbation mostly just builds the pressure / restores something so you get more out of it, there is no sense in trying to completely stop it or follow stupid trends that have no basis on anything useful.

    Another thing you could do is try to lower the amount of times per day slowly. Like, lower it by one and keep it up. Once the current amount feels like you can handle it easily then lower it by one again until you are at acceptable (to you) levels.

    Also try to do something physically draining. start going to gym, go to walks, do sports if you like them. Physical activity will help you feel better and maybe offset the dopamine addiction from masturbation. And it will keep you occupied.

    I'm kind in similar position myself, though for me its less of an addiction and more coping mechanism for depression.. i think. But i'm not sure how much similar position im as you considering how you describe the issue. I can empathize at least.

    Getting experience about sex has good chance of helping, though it wont remove the problem completely. But it will make things easier mentally to not feel like you are missing out / know how it is. Finding a girlfriend would also help, but i know that is almost like telling someone to go find holy grail to cure their ails. At least I know it would help me a lot.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    Once it could be anything, a test or some random asshole doing stuff. twice its starting to look like pattern. If it happens 3 times then its a pattern most definitely. Though the attacker could have targeted absolutely everything at the same time in the first place, so it could be more aggressive pointing out that critical things(parts of food suppily storage) are not secure at all. So it doesnt seem malicious.

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    If money comes into picture, things get bad always, no exceptions. More money involved, faster it becomes. Donations dont count because its not profit and its not something one can control.

    So another thing to prevent lemmy and fediverse from becoming shit is to prevent anyone from profiting off it ever. Enshittification is a symptom of greed that has grown so big it starts to corrode the thing around it, and also pride. Curious how so many things that make world worse tie into the deadly sins.

    So big portion of world runs on linux that i dont think it can be taken down. Though maybe some parties might try to control or restrict things for regular people, which is actually why its important linux desktop becomes more widely used for also those who dont know shit about computers. If they dont know anything about linux or if they dont have anything in it for themselves, they can be lied and manipulated easily.

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    Just got the game and its otherwise really nice, but I cant play it. I'm unable to connect to anyone, i cant play solo either since i wont get any xp, samples, money or anything after finishing the mission. Friend cant see me as online on the ingame friendlist either.

    Since this problem doesnt seem very common, did my friend just waste his money in gifting this to me?

     

    Since its looking more and more that popularity of linux is going to keep rising, I'm kind of worried about how corporations will respond. Way they do things has always been either just trampling weaker things or corrupting them if they cant. Has this topic been considered before in linux communities?

    I really like everything about how linux related things work; how application repositories are full of nice things that fellow users have made because they wanted to and not necessarily to make money out of them. And the general wibe of being made for community by the community. And I want it to stay that way.

    I think at some point, big corporations like microsoft or google will try adding their crap to the repositorys and try to make them used by majority. Maybe they will also try worming in into the development projects themselves and keep making things more compatible with their own systems or gain more influence over how things are done. Or maybe they are already doing this, i dont know.

    I'm quite certain things will escalate more as linux usage rises, as it will directly mean less profits for the corporations (or less perceived profits, you know how they are). And if these things are not considered beforehand, it means the corporations will be able to do more damage before its reacted on and it might be too late by that point. At least that is how i feel about it.

     

    I read there is something called firejail that does this, but according to the reviews on software manager, some have had it destroy their system or mess up their programs, so i dont want to risk that.

    There was also something called bubblewrap, but it has no reviews at all.

    How big risk does the firejail have and are there any other programs that are good or better for this? I already managed to mess up my system once (blackscreen after login. I think installing portmaster caused it or installing and uninstalling some software + its dependencies), but fortunately i had backup of the system so i could reverse the damage, so i'm a bit more cautious now.

    Also, are there any other concerns that one should know about regarding sandboxing?

    active matter (sopuli.xyz)
     

    This seems like quite interesting game, kind of like combination of stalker and extraction shooters.

    I tried the demo and it seems promising but it has several problems:

    -lethality is crazy I couldnt make it out even once. The pve threats alone are really deadly. Then on top of that you have to deal with other players, while damage recieved from bullets is like in tarkov, so you will die really fast if someone shoots at you. You find a lot of loot, but i have no idea how valuable it is as i cant get out with it.

    There are also A LOT of pve monsters, and ai controlled humans too on top of everything.

    -anticheat malfunctions It keeps kicking me for doing nothing wrong while apparently real cheaters seem to be able to play without problems, at least according to people on forums complaining about cheaters. Maybe it just discriminates against me for using linux. Though it did allow me to play multiple rounds before it started kicking me. Now it kicks me as soon as i join the round.

    Good things i noticed: -the game is quite unique

    Enemies are not your average zombies or whatever gribblies they always put in games. So far i have seem these twisted invisible things that warp around, some corrupted looking people that mope around until you aggro them and then they also teleport at you, but in different manner than the invisible one. I have also heard there is some statue like enemies that work like scp-173 / weeping angel, and according to the mission enemy list, there are bunch of other monsters too. There is also these flowermen, who are basically human shaped things that blend in with vegetation really well. They just run around you and hit you and are generally awful even if there is just one.

    The environment is quite nice. it looks good and has all kinds of anomalies visible in the distance. There are also these gravity zones which turns your center of gravity, so you can walk on walls or ceilings.

    -gameplay feels nice

    Actions feel smooth and i didnt notice any jankiness. Looting is nice and easy, no inventory tertris either, though i think i would prefer that over having to calculate volumes of items.

    Shooting would be nice, if the mobs werent such bullet sponges. But hopefully they will adjust the balance on that.

    There is also this nice system that is like scavenger system in tarkov, so you can use free random loadout to go in mission with. Not sure if you can keep it if you make it out. It does say "rent", so maybe not.

    There is a safe pocket item too, though you dont get it in with rented gear.

    Here is the mission select screen:

    I havent been able to exlore the map very much.

    It also doesnt let you exit until you have completed at least one mission, though just exploring enough also counts for that.

    There are a lot of systems that feel a bit confusing at the start, as game has extremely bareboned tutorial. Once you are in the main hub, there are bunch of things there that you just have to find out yourself how to use.

    there is also somekind of faction pvp thing going on. Missions for that look like your basic pvp maps with capture points and such.

    So there seems to be a lot going on for this game, i really hope they fix the damn anticheat. I would add some pictures of the actual game, if it allowed me to stay in the round for longer than few seconds.

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