Take the following with a boulder of salt as I haven’t even finished a single campaign yet, but:

I’ve found it a lot slower than even most of the 4X games I’ve played. It seems much more story- and exploration-focused than Master of Orion or anything like Starcraft; there are a great many cool things to find on the map. Diplomacy is your main path to victory, military conquest seems almost discouraged. To actually conquer worlds you invade, you have to assert a claim beforehand. Simply flooding the system with troops and ships and killing everything that isn’t your empire doesn’t work for some reason.

It was fine, but I don’t think I really understand it. If you’re after recommendations, though, do you like The Expanse? You might like Starsector, if yes and you haven’t played it.

I stand corrected, this speaks to my robot soul

“Polished” is a generous word for it. I think you might be mistaking generic plastic gloss for polish, though. AI writing is so formulaic, it’s like looking at a repeating texture in a video game. It writes lyrics like a five year old, too - very simple, entirely conventional, no creativity. Nothing new.

Imagine being Bobby Kotick and genuinely believing your reputation can be harmed by anyone saying negative things. Actions speak louder than words, Bobby buddy, and we all think you’re an arsehole because of what you’ve done, not because someone told us to.

Hey bud, just wanted to mention it’s *drivel, in case you (or other readers) weren’t aware 🙌

Bruce Lee, Archmage!

Here’s how you know it’s not ready: AI hasn’t replaced a single CEO.

I understand, I was in exactly the same position. Then my battery swelled and wouldn’t hold a charge at all, so I couldn’t restore anything anyway, and my last backup was inaccessible (I know I know, test your backups, but like I started this post with I’m in the same boat of all work and no time for me).

Losing everything was remarkably freeing. Just switch all your 2FA to Aegis as has been suggested, and save anything you want to back up over the wire, then take the plunge. You won’t lose everything like I had to, and you won’t regret the switch 😊

Why do you say you don’t care about climate change, and what would make you care? Climate change is one of those things that’s going to suck for all of us, so even if you have no empathy for anyone else, it’s kinda surprising that you don’t at least care about how it will affect you.

antithetical to the spirit of silicon valley

Tell me you haven’t been paying attention without telling me you haven’t been paying attention.

No worries! I have reasons for not installing Telegram myself, but I’m curious what your reasons are? What arguments have you made to him so far and what were his responses?

Dissuade = discourage. Is that what you mean?

I laughed out loud when I read the title of this post. When I’m helping my customers with their domain DNS records, I always analogise DNS to “a phone book for the internet”. I love that we’ve come full circle and phone books are “DNS for the phone system” 😂 (also goddamn does this make me feel old 😭)

Damn dude that is an impressive first shot! I’ll be interested to see a side-by-side when you do give it another go, as well 😊

I mean, it’s a little more than that, but only a little. There’s a literal meter in your screenshot of how left or right the source is. “Credibility rating” requires us to trust MediaBiasFactCheck’s credibility rating system, which I don’t know enough about at the moment and so default to not trusting it.

That’s why I say calling out the problematic structures would be more helpful - people could see it for themselves, right there in the article text, and then maybe also identify then without help later. This would foster healthier discussion than an echo chamber where people ignore a source based on its biases.

Of course some sources would be more note than content, but then some sources have argued in court they’re not really news.

Along with others in this thread, I don’t think this feature would foster a healthy community - it would foster an echo chamber. I would rather see an analysis of the language of the article pointing out any logical fallacies used, weasel words, etc. than a “left-o-meter”. I have my own one of those based on my actual beliefs, not what someone decides my beliefs have to be to fit into the blue box.

Yeah, clearly no component has ever died or could ever die earlier than its longest possible life span for any reason, overheating due to bad/old paste is the only possible reason a CPU in particular might die, you know everything about every system ever built including mine. I see my mistake and bow to your omniscience 🙄

Seriously, I’m embarrassed for you. Good luck in your studies.

Ahh, right, thanks for clarifying 😅 I was very confused, reading that. it’s been a long, sleepless week.

I’m not the one who asked but thank you for summarising! It’s late here and I’m too tired for a whole video, so this helped me. Those results are interesting. I’ve been planning on switching from Windows to Linux as my main OS; last time I tried was before the latest AM5/RDNA4 drivers were integrated, so I had terrible instability like Plasma crashing all the time and occasional lockups. I installed Windows 11 so I could at least get my work done, but if my environment can stay stable then it might be time to finish the move.

Rule 1, about this being an English-language community?

I’m guessing you meant about arguing in good faith, maybe. I am, though. Personally, if Russian media or the Kremlin make a statement, I assume it is a lie. This is a good assumption to make, not because they always lie, but because they’ve given me every reason to distrust them. I’m basically reminding everyone that state and it’s official media are the child that cried wolf.

If that guy gets on American or European media and states he had weed gummies because he made a bad decision it forgot he had them or whatever, then I will believe it. Until then, I know Russia has/can/will simply abduct foreign nationals in order to attempt to strongarm the governments of those detained, and that is my default belief in each case until proven otherwise.