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SokathHisEyesOpen @ Anticorp @lemmy.ml
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  • If you message cross-platform from Android to iOS, and you can't get everyone to agree upon a 3rd party app, then you're kind of stuck with sms. This isn't a problem that is going away in the near future. Apple relies on their locked messaging platform to influence their users into thinking iOS is the best. The users then pressure all of their friends to get iPhones too. It's an effective strategy for them. Very few iPhone users seem to understand the games being played.

  • Yes, we went through all of the troubleshooting and possible fix steps, and then went through them again when we tried to file a warranty claim. Of course they claimed screen burn in isn't covered by the warranty. There were multiple times that we walked away from that game with the inventory open. Never for more than a few hours, but I guess that plus the one night was enough. Thanks for the idea though!

  • We fell asleep with the Diablo 3 inventory screen open on our OLED and now it's permanently burned in. Thankfully it is only noticable against yellow backgrounds. Other than that drawback, OLED screens are amazing. We have a 4k LCD screen in another room and it looks like trash compared to the OLED.

  • It is certainly more complex than a predictive text machine. It does seem to understand the concept of objective truth, and facts, vs interpretation and inaccurate information. It never intentionally provides false information, but sometimes it thinks it is giving factual information when really it is using an abundance of inaccurate information that it was trained with. I'm honestly surprised at how accurate it usually is, considering it was trained with public data from places like Reddit, where common inaccuracies have reached the level of folklore.

  • The section about the sky would mention it, so then you go to the index in the R book, find the entry for that phenomenon, and read about Raleigh Scattering. The internet is definitely easier for finding random information though, although it's harder now than it was like 10 years ago. ChatGPT is amazing for finding random information, but you have to verify what it tells you, since it will just randomly lie for no reason.

  • We were much better at retaining information too. It wasn't available at the tip of your fingers, so we put effort into remembering it. Nowadays I don't remember anything except for old movie quotes, and stuff pertinent to work. I think the constant influx of information we experience now is interpreted by the mind as noise, and it goes in one eyeball and out the other.

  • Yeah, they're great books with pretty writing, but it's a shame that the series will never be finished. A lot of his ideas for the second book came from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. I read all 14 books and enjoyed the journey, but it's not for everyone. Jordan spends a lot of time describing women's clothing, and books 10 and 11 are a slog. His health was failing and it shows in the writing. Thankfully he took meticulous notes and passed the project on to Brandon Sanderson who picked the pace back up and really did the story justice with the ending. There's a whole lot in modern fantasy that is derivative of Robert Jordan's work. If you can stomach a very long, and very intricate series, then I highly recommend that one too. Amazon recently released a TV show based on the books, but I think it's terrible. Some people like it, but I strongly disliked it, so much so that I couldn't even force myself to finish it. Anyways, WoT is a great series, as is almost anything by Sanderson.