[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 weeks ago

If you're specifically getting specifically "vegan" products like fake meat or the like it can get expensive, but staples like rice and beans are cheap, vegan, and nutritious.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 month ago

Art vs artist doesn't apply when the artist is making bank off their art.

A better example would be something like Notch and Minecraft. Notch made Minecraft, Notch sucks, but he sold it and makes no money off it anymore so who cares if he's the worst. JKR is a different story, and every new Harry Potter thing supports JKR.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I kinda of lean towards the idea of "private accounts" being a bad idea as a result, just because it creates a false sense of security. But I'm not in the target demographic so idk

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I can kind of see where he's coming from, but only if you're weighing it against an assumed future where we're going to die out tomorrow. That's a low bar for hopeful, and certainly not "100% positive".

I have a hard time seeing I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream or even worse, All Tomorrows, as "hopeful". I'd honestly rather just die.

Plus, not all sci-fi involves humans, and not all sci-fi is in the future. There's scifi with no humans in it, there's scifi set in the past or in an alternate present, and none of those qualify as "hopeful by default" in the way he defines it any more than any other fiction does.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago

That's not what's going on here. It's just doing what it's been told, which is repeating the system prompt. It has nothing to do with Gab, this trick or variations of it work on pretty much any GPT deployment.

We need to be careful about anthropomorphizing AI.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago

I'm confused how you got to this conclusion because in my opinion, Discovery is pretty much a masterclass in treating their queer characters as normal. Stamets and Culber's relationship is core to a lot of episodes, but the fact that they are gay is not—I can only think of a single time the word "gay" is even said. They're full characters in their own right that just happen to be in a relationship. Queerbaiting would be if they hinted at a queer relationship but didn't show it, but they show it plenty. They aren't perfect either, they literally almost break up. They're whole people.

And Adira and Grey... Adira has to come out, yes. I don't know what's wrong with that. You seem to think it should just be a "normal thing" that isn't discussed, but coming out is an inevitable part of the non-binary experience. People in Star Trek aren't mind readers, and seem to still assume binary pronouns by default. So it's only natural that if someone wants other people to use they/them pronouns for them, they have to come out, even in the future. I think the fact that Adira was able to come out in a single brief scene and then it's never mentioned again is great and not unnatural at all.

And Grey's transition is alluded to as something that happened in the past, but is literally never directly mentioned in the plot. I don't think the word "transgender" is ever uttered. He seems like the perfect trans character for you, his transness has nothing to do with who he is and is never directly mentioned but he's just accepted for who he is. What's wrong with his portrayal?

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago

Apple products are an ecosystem. It's not just the physical devices they're selling. It makes sense from a business perspective to keep iMessage on iOS only, because it keeps people in the ecosystem.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can buy alcohol cheap from a store in real life, along with all the ingredients to make drinks, yet people still go to bars where cocktails cost more than a meal. They're not going just because of superior bartending skills, they're going as part of the experience of drinking with other people. Because on DS9, your other option is basically to drink in your quarters, which is no fun.

There are more options for food on DS9, but people still go to Quark's for the atmosphere. It's lively and fun, which is probably hard to come by otherwise on a remote space station. I doubt people are coming to Quark's in droves for the food though, it's more just something you get if you're already there.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 years ago

Coerces a guy into sex and then expects him to want to call her back smh...

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It might seem a bit complicated if you're only used to 5e, because core mechanics like conditions work rather differently in Pathfinder, but it's honestly much more flexible than 5e's system. Rather than having an abstract number of passes and fails, you have a single number that fluctuates up and down. Less things to keep track of.

You do have the wounded condition on top of that, but it helps counter the thing you see in 5e where people pop up and down repeatedly with no consequences for repeatedly being beaten unconscious.

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 years ago

When you'd rather be playing Pathfinder

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've done this before, it's definitely a bit of a hack but it went without a hitch for me. Depending on your bootloader you'll probably have to edit/regenerate your bootloader config as well.

Good call on rsync, just make sure to use the right flags. I'm on Arch so I used the command from the Arch page on full system backup using rsync, but it should work for any distro.

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