Signed.

Except here in the UK where everything is old and the only option is to spend more money than the entire EU continent wide rail linkup project (Twice over I think now?) on 30 miles of track.

You completely forgot:
“Actually just monetizes somethign that already existed for free”
Though I guess Ads is already the free space.

I think people would find new ways to struggle that they actually enjoy and would likely end up contributing. Imagine a couple of thousand people with their new modest but stress free budgets decide to join a yearly potato cannon contest, Sure its not going to invent anything new directly but you now have a bunch of people learning about ballistics and stoichiometry and high pressure engineering all egging eachother on to shoot that potato further. The competition gets more and more fierce and with the much lower stakes people start trying some more out there ideas, before you know it you have a modest but highly effective solution to reliably obtaining the correct gas mixture for something like a combined light gas gun.

And that’s a deliberately silly example, you’d get a ton more art, people deciding to be athletes, coders, all sorts of hobies that can encourage healthy competition and often benefit society in surprising ways.

So is there a way to fill my social media with endless markov chains without:

• Spamming other users.
• Just sticking them all in some dedicated channel that would allow them to be easily filtered out.

AI might be overkill? I recall back in the day people working out which images where manipulated by the way the underlying flow of colour and pixel layout didn’t line up, each image ends up with a kind of grain of different size and direction. You could spot ads by detecting which image data doesn’t line up with the majority and cutting it out that way.

I’ve been wondering about that, also perhaps a browser where your mouse position has seperate client and software side states? I know a lot of data can be gleaned from mouse movements so if the browser only updated its internal cursor position when you actually clicked that would potentially cut out that source of information?

Chance as in gambling, so often you don’t even get what you pay for even with ‘reputable’ brands. This is particularly bad with appliances.

These days its increasingly ‘capitalism is when you pay money for the chance to have a thing’

Rain? I know its not going to fall over and shoot out sparks like a cartoon but rain does mess with visibility and grip, plus this is a robot with a lot of joints and moving parts that’s probably going to be maintained by someone who has to pee in a bottle so the cartoon falling over and shooting sparks isn’t actually out of the question.

Is it though? Its always far easier to be loud and obnoxious than do something constructive, even with the internet and LLMs, in fact those things are amplifiers which if anything make the attention imbalance even more drastic and unrepresentative of actual human behaviour. In the time it takes me to write this comment some troll can write a dozen hateful ones, or a bot can write a thousand. Doesn’t mean humans are shitty in a 1000/1 ratio, just means shitty people can now be a thousand times louder.

No need to bother, reddit is already full of entire threads of GPT posts, the megacorps are killing their own product for us.

Bit of warframe, a lot of deeprock and some stellaris when I have that much free time.

I love mint on my old laptop (which I’m using right now) I just wish it was more compatable with newer hardware as neither it nor ubuntu work properly on my new desktop build so I’m stuck on ghost spectre instead.

Plus government computers are always old as shit so Linux should install nice and easy, give em mint for that windows like UI.

iirc the issue with Hydrogen is that it has very high energy/mass but incredibly low density to the point that the fuel tank to contain a reasonable amount of hydrogen (say comparable to hydrocarbons) is even more prohibitive than battery weight.

TLDR: UE5 can be optimized but Unreal also turned it into a bit of a tech demo which can be counter productive at times.

I tried Linux on my current build with a 9070XT and ended up on windows instead (still got linux on my laptop) Based on what I’ve been told you’re generally going to have issues with very new hardware unless you either get very lucky or go through a ton of troubleshooting. So Linux might work in a couple of months but for now it could be a headache.

Except you don’t need personal information, look at supermarket data, even when ‘anonymized’ it can predict pregnancy and even a rough geographic location based on what items are available at various locations/times as well as corelating your purchases with the weather.

Alas its not quite there yet >< I have mint on my laptop but I spent a good 3 days trying to get Ubuntu running on my new desktop build and Linux just does not like new hardware. Ended up with Ghost Spectre instead.