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@ Dreaming_Novaling @lemmy.zip

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Heyo! Just another random who's moving over from centralized social media to the Fediverse. Mastodon wasn't too bad but I love anything like Reddit!

Games, anime, Japanese, food, and music are my loves. Fanfic beats food tho, I can read for hours instead!

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  • Yeah, like originally I was like "hehe innuendo", and I know the Saja boys were evil demons, but after finishing the movie I was like damn, they didn't joke about "drinking every drop."

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  • Literally the plot of KPOP Demon Hunters but if they were goth instead. And that shit totally would've worked since "Your Idol" topped charts for a week or so.

  • Shrimp!

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  • Man, steamed shrimp dumplings taste fire, so I could see just steaming shrimp and throwing soy sauce or siracha on it or smth.

  • But I Didn't Expect

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  • It's funny to think that even Dory, a fish with amnesia, could recognize Trumpetfish is bad. Like was she writing down a note every 2 seconds to reminder herself of the dumb shit he said?

  • OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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  • Man, I have to stop reading so I don't continue a stream of tears in the middle of a lobby, but I felt every single word of that article in my bones.

    I couldn't ever imagine hanging myself or shooting myself, that shit sounds terrifying as hell. But for years now I've had those same exact "what if I just fell down the stairs and broke my neck" or "what if I got hit by a car and died on the site?" thoughts. And similarly, I think of how much of a hassle it'd be for my family, worrying about their wellbeing, my cats, the games and stories I'd never get to see, the places I want to go.

    It's hard. I went to therapy for a year and found it useful even if it didn't do much or "fix" me, but I never admitted to her about these thoughts. I think the closest I got to it was talking about being tired often, and crying, but never just outright "I don't want to wake up tomorrow."

  • Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app

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  • If you don't need traffic data, CoMaps (uses OpenStreet Map data).

    If you do need traffic data (understandable) Magic Earth is what I use. It's unfortunately not fully open source, only the map data is from OSM, but I find the navigation good 95% of the time, sometimes you have to make your own judgement for if a route might have bad traffic. At least it's not Google or Apple, and no ads.

    I don't do car play, so I have no idea about how that works.

    I wish we had better alternatives or that cars all exploded and we went to public transport and walkable cities

  • rolflobker/recall-for-linux: Bring Microsoft Recall to Linux!

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  • Personal faves are the previous assistants returning from the grave:

    "⚡ Cortana misses you. She's still here. Always watching. Always listening. 👂👁️"

    "🧙‍♂️ Clippy's Ghost: It looks like you're trying to have privacy. Can I help with that? 📎👻"

    And also the name:

    "Microshaft® Recall™ for Linux® (Powered by AI™) 🐧 "

  • Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

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  • Very valid and true point, but that requires companies to openly admit that they've made their devices to not work if it can't phone home, and no company is gonna do that. At best, they'll tell you it needs internet access, but even then they'll probably downplay it.

    Either that or some poor sacrifice will have to be the guinea pig and buy the thing to test it and tell others. Ah, I guess Consumer Reports could do that at least.

  • Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy

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  • Sorry Mico, you gotta go

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • Once I finish college I'm nuking my Windows partition. Won't even boot into it on any future laptop, will just nuke it fully. I'm just waiting now cause I don't wanna have to fight with teachers over online test software and shit, I like being able to do easy at home exams.

    But I will relish the day I walk across the stage. It'll be gone that night.

  • Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues

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  • So, in the US, a standalone, bare-minimum with ads included Disney+ subscription costs $9.99. Oops, actually we're raising it to $11.99 TOMORROW! So after a paying for a year of Dinsey's cheapest plan, you'd have paid $144.

    But maybe Disney isn't your thing? Well. Netflix costs $7.99 for the ad plan, and $17.99 for the no ads plan. But do note, even on the ad supported plan, you STILL can't watch everything.

    Ad-supported, all mobile games and most movies and TV shows are available. A lock icon will appear on unavailable titles.

    Ranges $96-216 per year for ads or no ads.

    Like anime? Crunchyroll offers a $7.99 plan, but it might not have all the content, so then there's the $11.99 plan. So $96-144 per year. But their catalog doesn't even have every fucking anime, and they've let dubbing go to the wayside after buying out their main competitor, Funimation (in which we lost several anime due to licensing).

    Listen to music on top of that? Spotify for non-students ($5.99) costs $11.99, so $144 in a year. YT music is $10.99 for non-students, so $132

    So say you listen to Spotify, like anime, and watch Netflix, you're paying at minimum $336 per year, on the cheapest plans available, which usually have ads or missing features.

    I've been looking at Optiplex and Lenovo ThinkCentres on ebay recently, and for my bare minimum standards of 1. Can support virtualization, 2. Can do Intel quick sync video and encode HEVC 10-bit (So about 10 year old devices) the prices range around $90-$150. Some 2TB HDDs would be about $100. You'd probably be pirating since most of the new shows on streaming services have no physical media to buy/no way of just owning a movie or TV box set. Even then, outright buying music and movies is cheaper in the long run. Anything you already own can be added to your library. You'll never be told that "oops we didn't pay to re-up our access to that movie, so it's gone!" You'll never have new ads, paywalled features, limited devices, or other bullshit. The server is up whenever you want it to be, provided you can handle being tech support.

    So in the end, a home server + drives costs less than paying for several services where you own shit, and they can cut features or raise the price any day. But yes, we're just being conceited assholes.

  • Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing

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  • GroupMe (Microsoft) and Discord isn't required for pure learning purposes, but 99% of clubs at my school use them, so I'd be unable to participate in a lot of shit if I dropped them.

    Instead we just get stalked by Canvas for any assignment/classwork related purposes. Oh, and lockdown browser for online tests...

    But I could totally believe teachers forcing students to use some shitty app to communicate with students and submit work.

    Edit: Not necessarily social media, but AWS exploded today and so Canvas (school learning platform) is down and my classes literally can't do online assignments until it's fixed lol. So yeah dependency on big tech can suck sometimes.

  • RFK Jr. Warns Teenagers Now Have Less Sperm Than 65-Year-Old Men

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  • Mother nature is an amazing comedian

  • Loops Joins the Fediverse

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  • I donated sometime during the big fundraiser in January or so. It took a while but they did release server code a few months ago, and it's nice to see that it'll federate with other services soon.

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  • Aww damn, didn't know about the origins... :(

    Welp, I'm gonna choose to remember the funny non-racist ones.

    The "Finally, Obama's last name" one got a chuckle out of me.

  • Pithon

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  • Huh. I don't think I often see it with a racist context? It's usually funny/random stuff. Like "Gender" fluid and shit (I love dumb puns).

    Idk why you're being downvoted tho :(

  • Topic or Community focused as a place where people can link to suspected AI video content and have folks more expert at spotting slip help?

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  • Slopornot sounds amazing, and I'd appreciate it. Hope someone starts that.

  • System76’s Oryx Pro Is the First Linux Laptop to Ship with the COSMIC Desktop

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  • 👽🕺🪩👽💃

    ✨🎶 Sends me into hyperspace, when I see her pretty face 🎶✨

  • cat

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  • Idk what the old pic was, but I love the new chonky boi you put up ♥️

  • Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

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  • Yeah no, sometimes you need screen sharing in the "chatting app"

    A lot of university clubs are on Discord, and my cyber club does tutorials and labs on the weekends where the leader screen-shares. It's nice because you can see the video in real time and ask questions whenever, rather than watching a pre-recorded video and having to hope you have no issues while following along.

    I mean, this is literally why Zoom blew up so much during COVID. Real-time learning works more than asynchronous learning for a lot of people.

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