gerryflap @ gerryflap @feddit.nl

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Singleplayer I'm playing Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty, which is imo a stellar experience so far. I'm also playing Cassette Beasts on the Steam Deck, which is also a great experience. Like Pokemon, but also different in many ways.

Multiplayer it's still Deep Rock Galactic, and I've returned a bit to AoE 4.

I'm kinda annoyed that somehow better assets also have the RTX on/off symbol even though they have nothing to do with RTX, but other than that it looks cool.

I'm very interested in machine learning, or AI as it's usually referred to in hyped-up content, and have also done research in the topic of generative AI. It hurts me so much that such interesting and useful technology has become another empty hype word. Nobody is waiting for this kind of gimmicky shit. It does nothing but hurt the public's view of this technology, similar to all the copyright issues and privacy concerns. Why must companies take things that can ultimately do something good in some cases and apply it to absolutely everything with no regards for the impact on their customers.

Most companies don't need "AI" and would be much better of spending those resources on actually improving their products. Useful places for generative AI would be something like Photoshop incorporating it, or a video game with better AI or more natural NPC conversations. Not some gimmicky AI assistant in a car, or some annoying AI chat window bothering you when visiting a news site. Soon people will be completely done with all this gimmicky "AI" bullshit and the useful applications will constantly have to deal with the stigma created by these greedy mindless corporations forcing "AI" on everyone in places where it adds nothing.

At our office (and probably in many) the developers mostly use Linux and the other people often use windows for Microsoft stuff like Word, Excel, and other windows specific software. We can't really choose, everyone is forced to use Linux for development so we all have a more or less the same environment

I got it at the end of 2020, before any vaccinations. It fcked me up good, made me struggle to cycle 2 minutes to the supermarket in the following weeks. At some point I mostly recovered, but not totally. My nose was almost completely closed, which also caused ear problems and a sore throat. I had a surgery done, which did open it up somewhat but didn't fully solve the issue. I'm still having issues now. My nose is almost always very dry, sometimes painful, and also quite often not as open as I'd like. This also still causes ear and throat issues regularly, especially with cold dry air. Luckily my second run-in with covid (after vaccination) was only a temporary pain in the ass and went away without any issues after suffering for a week.

Ik heb na Pfeiffer en Covid blijvende vermoeidheid en andere klachten overgehouden. Dat werd door artsen toendertijd wisselend beoordeeld. Sommigen namen het serieus, terwijl anderen meteen de conclusie namen dat het tussen de oren zat. Ondanks dat ik me na een lange tijd van slechte mentale gezondheid juist weer goed voelde. Na veel dingen geprobeerd te hebben samen met m'n huisarts (die me gelukkig wel serieus nam) heb ik uiteindelijk maar de conclusie moeten trekken dat de medische wereld mij hier niet echt mee kon helpen.

Op een bepaald moment zou ik een intensief revalidatie programma ingaan. De fysiotherapeuten etc daar vonden ook dat het een mentaal probleem was, waardoor ik uiteindelijk toch tegen heb besloten. Als ik dit zo lees was dat de goede optie. Zij wilden eigenlijk alles doen wat volgens dit artikel niet een goed idee is.

Inmiddels gaat het, door mijn leefstijl aan te passen en langzaam op te bouwen, inmiddels weer vrij goed. Ik werk fulltime, al is dat wel zwaar, en kan weer hardlopen en leuke dingen doen. Maar ik vraag me nog steeds af hoeveel last ik er nou van heb. Meestal slaap ik tussen de middag even want anders houd ik het na een paar dagen op rij niet meer vol. In de weekenden ben ik meestal een stuk meer levend gelukkig. Hopelijk vinden ze een manier om dit probleem te testen en een manier om het te verhelpen. Ik zou niets liever willen dan dat ik fysiek weer terug kan naar normaal.

Oh I'm sure there are. I see more and more idiots with big American trucks here in the Netherlands. They completely don't fit in our cities designed for normal sized cars. I also don't see how they're considered safe. The top of their hood is so high that you'll mostly get hit by the grill on the front upon impact.

I also doubt most of those people really need one, they seem more like the type of people that compensate away their insecurities by having a big truck. I can sort of see a farmer or something using one, but in a city I don't understand it. I guess they're not banned because that'd upset the US or something.

None really. I think I've always been in a privileged enough position that I never really needed to worry. I'm not a big impulse buyer and tend to regulate myself on this. If I buy something that I don't really use as much as I thought I would, it annoys me so much that I become much more conservative with spending in the following weeks/months. It kinda self-regulates.

I don't have a car, and instead bike everywhere or use public transport which saves me a lot of money. This is again a privilege, because I managed to land an affordable place to live that's close to work.

My only way of keeping track of all this is the division between my payment and savings accounts. If my payment account goes above a certain value, I move money to my savings account. As long as this keeps happening regularly, like it has for years, I have nothing to worry about. Obviously I do check the details of my spending every now and then, but nothing organised.

I've even noticed my brain doing this after I did something out of muscle memory or reflex. It happens a lot in the game Rocket League, where I mostly operate on game sense instead of logical thought. Sometimes I do something and then scramble to find a logical reasoning for my actions. But the truth is that the part of the brain that takes the action does so before the rest of the brain has any say in it, so there often isn't any logical explanation.

Even as someone who's Dutch this seems quite obvious. I guess it's not obvious to English speaking people because shark is nothing like haj.

Uhhhh... yes, very much :3

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But this answer is just a logical answer to tour question? Idk what you're on about.

After finding out that AC 3 was not the final one where I got to play as Desmond as an assassin in the future, I just gave up on the whole series. I have no interest in continuing a story that's just gonna get milked forever. I do kinda get it though, the "assassin in historical civilization" thing could be kept fresh for way longer, but it just ruined the whole significance of the Desmond storyline.

You're trying to put words in my mouth that I didn't say. I do think it's a good idea to stay at home while ill, personally I even wore a mask the first day after having the flu when going to the store. But right now basically everyone I know is having something, whether it's the flu, COVID, or the common cold. You can stay inside while ill, but you can't just stay home the moment you have some minor cold symptoms. Life goes on, at some point you'll need to work and get groceries etc. We should take precautions, but we shouldn't panic for every minor cough.

Once more, I don't know the full context of the people in the image, so it's very hard to say anything.

I mean, we have very little context here. But how I currently read it I'll have to agree with the "No". If you go to a party then you'll obviously run the risk of getting ill with COVID or something else like the flu, but at the moment you run that risk pretty much everywhere. COVID, the flu, and the other viruses are no longer a threat to any functioning health system. They're still a threat to many individuals, but that in and of itself is not reason to stop living your life. At some point we've concluded that the pandemic is over and the risk is no longer big enough to stop living our life. And that unfortunately means that some immunocompromised people run a big risk, but we can't stop enjoying our lifes forever or protect a few people.

Not sure how well known it is, but on a friend's recommendation I bought Cassette Beasts. I just got a second hand Steam Deck and it's a fun combination. It's basically a Pokemon-like game, but with its own charm. Instead of pokeballs you record monsters with cassette tapes. It's quite a goofy game and I'm enjoying it so far.

If you do get it for the Steam Deck, you should play it with compatibility mode set to Proton 8, because then it somehow uses 40% less battery or something.

Because men in games are usually rough tough emotionless bricks. Designed to be "badass". Playing Cyberpunk as a woman felt kinda freeing and different. Since then I've been doing it more and honestly it just feels fresh. It's also easier to feel like I'm playing someone else. Women also usually have more interesting customization options imo.

It's not so much an argument, it's my personal experience. My experience was just not great. Maybe I did something wrong, but I've had a way better experience with Antergos, Arch, Fedora, and Ubuntu.

Idk what was wrong then, but I constantly had issues with packages being out of date due to the kernel and not wanting to update. Dependencies were constantly a mess. I'd rather just have normal Arch or Antergos/Endeavor