Yeah, there is a mechanism that ensures it, and that’s the interaction between competition and artificial scarcity. Companies that try to do things in the best interests of their customers and society end up either getting bought out, or out competed and die. It’s a simple matter of survival given the rules of the game that we have set up. Greed is the mechanism that keeps these rules in place and even makes them worse, sure, but then, the rules are designed to encourage and reward greed as well; a positive feedback loop. To stop it, the rules need to be changed at a deeper level than most realize or are comfortable with, despite all the many benefits.

Picasochu?

If you are using DDG for searches and concerned about privacy related to using LLMs, have you tried duck.ai?

I did the same thing the other day when I saw “winedlloverrides” (for the program Wine if that helps).

Interesting. So the “post-truth era” isn’t just for the masses, but the rich as well, as they cannibalise each other.

I’m no expert, but this is my understanding as well.

So basically what it all comes down to is competition and not just greed like most people believe. If you don’t make more money than the competition, you will fail. That’s why companies keep getting bought out all the time, they lost this game. Most people have no idea just how many companies they know are owned by bigger ones they may not know. The whole thing is conglomerating like the T-1000 after it had been shattered and melted. So rabid profit chasing is a matter of survival.

Also, they’ve vehemently claimed for many years that it’s impractical to provide backward frame-by-frame stepping, but Celluloid does it just fine.

Ah, so that’s not just me, is it? That’s bugged me for a long time. I was so happy when I discovered SM Player could do it.

Not the power converters we were looking for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpUkokRx3-k

I’m reminded of this book I had as a kid. It explained so many things so easily. It explained how an ICE works by using analogous items you’d already know as a kid for every part of the engine. For example, for the fuel injector it showed a perfume spray bottle. It was brilliant, and why it was never required reading in school is a mystery and tragedy.

I prefer "sota !!"

According to the show Inside Job, he is! https://insidejob.fandom.com/wiki/Reptoids#Members

Exactly. Except it would be more like the one Tom and Harry designed. And not holographic.

And Caprica, and Limitless (the tv show, not the movie). Probably others. (Even a Babylon 5 episode was related, but more fantasy than sci-fi.)

Forums can and do go down or get deleted, there’s nothing inherent to it that makes it stay any longer then discord messages.

You’re comparing apples to vegetables here. Sure, forums can go down, but not all of them do. Take Reddit, it’s been around a long time and many people use it for troubleshooting. As for discoverability, a lot of the time when I do a web search for a problem, it points to one or more discussions on Reddit. And that’s just one example.

I just signed up yesterday, and yeah, it took almost a day to get my verification, but it worked. And the rest seems to work fine.

I just signed up yesterday, and yeah, it took almost a day to get my verification, but it worked. I haven’t seen any extremism yet, but I’m still new. I’ll look into the development thing.

It’s not easier, just faster, and that’s only if someone who can answer your question happens to be on at the same time you are. Asynchronous communication does not require that, and has the added bonus of keeping the solution easily available for others to find by themselves rather than taking up someone’s time. So it is far more efficient. If you can’t find the answer to your problem after trying and genuinely need a solution right away, that is what live support is for.

And I think that a big part of why so many have moved their support to discord is the long standing (and annoying) habit of people trying to use only one tool for everything. Sure, you can use a hammer on a screw, but it’s not a good idea.

I signed up yesterday and just got my verification a little while ago. I hear that they’re being swamped right now. I wonder why? 🤔

Stoat?