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Pirtatogna

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  • Have you ever camped out or queued up for the launch of a game, console, or other media?

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  • Never. Nor will I ever do anything like that.

  • What food can I grow at home to save grocery money?

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  • Maybe sprouts?

  • Are there any phones or tablets out there that can run on the charger cable only, completely missing the battery?

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  • I'm pretty sure I've tried several that work fine with the battery on, but it doesn't hurt to do some more testing. I'd like it to be my kitchen timer/calculator/recipe book that I could maybe frame nicely and put on my kitchen wall.

  • Are there any phones or tablets out there that can run on the charger cable only, completely missing the battery?

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  • My Fairphone 2 refused to work without a battery.

  • Meet ‘Gabi,’ the Robot That Just Became a Monk at a Buddhist Temple in South Korea. It’s the Latest Robot to Take Up Religious Practice

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  • I genuinely feel that this deserves a proper answer. I will try to keep this short, but I'm afraid it will result in a wall of text anyway. Sorry about that.

    First I feel I must position myself and explain where I come from here. I am a buddhist monk for over ten years now. I'm not a monastic monk, I do not live in a monastery at this time, that may or may not change with time. I'm also not a monk of the buddhist school that the article is talking about, my background is different.

    Generally speaking however, I would like to raise some points with regards to this.

    Firstly buddhism is not centered around supernatural beliefs. Buddhas in most sects are not considered supernatural or god-like beings. They are revered and honored as philosophists and teachers posessing deep understanding and compassion, no more.

    Secondly, like I said belief is not what buddhism is about, it is categorically not a belief-system. It's more a study of the nature of reality, but granted that sounds a bit more "festive" than I'd like to. So no, people don't actually "believe" this stuff, belief is quite simply not what it's about.

    Thirdly you point out that people seem to be doing this to be part of the group. That is the way that buddhism actually is religion. The word religion stems from the latin word "religere", to bring together, to connect, to gather with intention, to consider attentively. It has a sense of reconnecting, reflecting, or re-examining something in a thoughtful or reverent way. This (narrow, if you like) meaning does not imply that there is anything to believe in. It's simply a group of people joining to ponder around similar themes and questions. My own teacher has a habit of saying that you can meditate alone, but buddhism happens in a group. So you're absolutely right that people are doing this to be a part of a group. That is very much what buddhist practice is about. This however in no way diminishes the value of it. Being part of a group that uses vast amounts of time (thousands and thousands of thinkers for almost 3000 years) to ponder philosophical and existential questions is, to me, immensely valuable.

    Fourthly I think some people are taking religions far far too seriously. In general buddhists are not in the habit of being butt hurt or insulted in well-meaning humorous approaches to what we do. We encourage it. I can very well see that this would not happen in most of the worlds religions, but there are no unresolvable conflicts between buddhism and robots/AI as such. As for whether they are or have the capability to be conscious or sentient needs another wall of text, so I will not get into that right now.

  • Meet ‘Gabi,’ the Robot That Just Became a Monk at a Buddhist Temple in South Korea. It’s the Latest Robot to Take Up Religious Practice

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  • Most of human suffering isn't physical either.

  • Meet ‘Gabi,’ the Robot That Just Became a Monk at a Buddhist Temple in South Korea. It’s the Latest Robot to Take Up Religious Practice

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  • Buddhism is not a religion in that sense. It's different. It's a philosophy and a method to relieve sentient beings from suffering.

  • Meet ‘Gabi,’ the Robot That Just Became a Monk at a Buddhist Temple in South Korea. It’s the Latest Robot to Take Up Religious Practice

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  • I don't know really. They are not intelligent, that is sure, but whether they are conscious is another thing entirely. What is consciousness? Best bow to your robot vacuum when it finishes. Just to be on a safe side. The fact that we are not aware of its suffering doesn't mean that suffering isn't there ;)

  • Meet ‘Gabi,’ the Robot That Just Became a Monk at a Buddhist Temple in South Korea. It’s the Latest Robot to Take Up Religious Practice

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  • I'd rather be reciting with them.

    kanzeeeeon, naa muu butsu, yoo butsu uuu in, yoo butsu uuu en, buppoo soo en, joo raku gaa joo, choonen kanzeeon, boonen kanzeeon, nen nen juu shin kii, nen nen fuu rii shin

    Enmei jukku kannon gyo would probably sound cool with robotic voice. Different school, I know, but still.

  • I made mini raspberry-lemon tarts!

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  • That, of course, is absolutely valid too. Loads of people do.

  • I made mini raspberry-lemon tarts!

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  • Not big into lemon in baked goods, but upvoted because those look beautifully made. Nice work!

  • Sweet potato soup

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  • Sure thing, it's real simple:

    250g flour (I used oat-fullcorn wheat mix, but any will probably do as long as you have some gluten in it)

    200g water (40-42 degrees celcius is good for the yeast)

    6g dry yeast

    1 table spoon syrup or sugar (I used maple syrup, but any will work, it's mainly just food for the yeast)

    a pinch of salt, maybe two pinches if you like

    Mix the drys then add liquids. Mix until it's all mixed but no more. Avoid kneading. It will be super soft, that's ok.

    Cover and allow the dough to raise for around four hours (yes, this is slow bread) in a warm spot.

    Get a clay pot with a lid (cast iron will probably work just as well). Oil the inside. Put it in the oven and heat up to around 225 degrees celsius along with the oven.

    Once the oven and the pot are heated, move the dough into the pot. Try to disturb it as little as possible. Just move it, throw some flour over it and shape it in the pot. Make a few cuts on top, close the lid and put it in the oven. Bake for half an hour then remove the lid and bake 15 minutes more. You'll get a nice crust.

    Take the bread out of the pot and place it on a grate or something like that. Let it cool for around 20 minutes before cutting. This will be about what you're looking at:

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    Sorry for the messy/oily stovetop in the picture.

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    Sweet potato soup

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    Seaweed pasta

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  • Legislation does not require blind obedience. Requests can and sometimes should be contested. Proton doesn't seem to be taking a very active approach when it comes to contesting requests.

    For example German based tuta seems to be much more active with contests, with reported 75% of user data requests contested/denied, which goes to show that resisting requests can and should be done.

    While there are differences between the two companies (tuta being a much smaller player and certainly with its own problems) the difference in compliance percentages is simply staggering.

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  • Proton is not stellar privacy wise either. They claim to be privacy oriented but according to their own transparency report their compliance rate is near 90% and they rarely actively contest the requests. In 2025 data was conceded in over 8000 cases.

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    In other words they seem to be voluntarily handing out user data to pretty much anyone who happens to ask.

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  • They don't bother me. The blades are not exposed. I also own a ceiling fan and it doesn't bother me either, even though it has exposed blades.

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  • Helicopter rotor blades. I'm afraid they will hit my eyes. Even seeing them on a video is very uncomfortable and I have to look away or close my eyes until they're gone.

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  • Your PC is able to run comparatively small language models with limited number of parameters (a few billions). You can even do that on a modern mobile phone. Some of the more advanced models use hundreds of billions or even trillions of parameters. It's not just the training. It's more to do with model complexity.

    You can also do weather forecasting on a PC, but the result will not be comparable to a forecast made with a supercomputer.

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    Typo fixes, because while even the most whimsy LLMs can write, apparently I cannot.

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  • Ok, so all we need is your PC. Maybe you should contact Nvidia and tell that to them.

  • Question to the people of lemmy that got a pp. After peeing do you wipe your pp with toilett paper or do you do the shake and dance?

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  • Same, or in fact any sufficiently private space. The wetness (from water) isn't a problem, piss (or other bodily fluids, depending on what I was up to and with whom in the bathroom) is the problem. I have unreasonably sensitive skin and get eczemas easily, so I need to keep my basement squeeky clean.