sugar_in_your_tea @ sugar_in_your_tea @sh.itjust.works

Mama told me not to come.

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My history with consoles is:

1. Whatever by brother bought
2. OG Xbox to play Halo
3. Xbox 360 for Kinect games
4. Switch - play w/ kids; Smash has been amazing for this
5. Steam Deck - not a console, but I use it as one; got it to play games in bed

I play most games on PC because I'm just not as interested in exclusives anymore, except maybe Zelda games, and with BOTW and TOTK, I'm less interested in those (they lost the formula I like).

I'll probably get the Switch 2 eventually, but I'll wait until there's a game I really want (say, ALttP remake or something), my kids break our OLED Switch, or there's an OLED Switch 2 with better battery life.

I sincerely hope people understand what LLMs are and what they're aren't. They're sophisticated search engines that aggregate results into natural language and refine results based on baked in prompts (in addition to what you provide), and if there are gaps, the LLM invents something to fill it.

If the model was trained on good data and the baked-in prompt is reasonable, you can get reasonable results. But even in the best case, there's still the chance that the LLM hallucinates something, that just how they work.

For most queries, I'm mostly looking for which search terms to use for checking original sources, or sometimes a reference to pull out something I already know, but am having trouble remembering (i.e. I will recognize the correct answer). For those use cases, it's pretty effective.

Don't use an LLM as a source of truth, use it as an aid for finding truth. Be careful out there!

Neither make sense plot-wise. The opening to TOTK doesn't even follow BOTW's ending IMO. I haven't finished it, so I don't know if they tie things together later, but the reuse of the world doesn't feel plot-relevant at all.

::: spoiler Musings It could make sense as a prequel though, but as a sequel, it feels like a stretch. We'll see how the game progresses. :::

I do recommend playing TOTK after BOTW, but not for plot, but because it's the same world and TOTK is simply more populated with things to do (more enemy types, more towns, etc). Both are fun games.

If you're looking for a Zelda game though, this just doesn't feel like one. Yeah, you play as Link and do Link things, but the classic formula (find dungeon, get new equipment, solve puzzles, beat boss, repeat) isn't there.

Eh, TOTK runs fine on my Switch OLED, though it's less fun in handheld mode (I almost exclusively play on TV).

I'm playing TOTK right now and while it's better than BOTW (which I enjoyed), I still much prefer other Zelda games. Skyward Sword is my favorite on Switch, followed by Link's Awakening and then Echoes of Wisdom. It's my first time playing those first two, and I absolutely loved them.

I'm a sucker for the classic Zelda formula: find dungeon, solve puzzles, get new ability, use ability to defeat dungeon, repeat.

BOTW and TOTK don't have that, the "dungeons" suck, the puzzles are even more gimmicky, and I absolutely hate crafting mechanics (cooking and elixers suck). But they're still fun, so I play them.

If you'll only play one, play TOTK. If you'll play both eventually, play BOTW. If you're looking for a classic Zelda experience, get something else.

Agreed. I waited 2-3 years between them, and TOTK still feels a bit samey, but I do appreciate waiting because I've forgotten enough that there's still a sense of discovery.

I'm not a fan of BOTW because it doesn't feel like a Zelda game, but a Zelda-themed open world adventure game. TOTK is a better sandbox game, and everything except the abilities and puzzles feel strictly better (though I've only done 15 or so), and the puzzles kinda sucked in BOTW anyway.

I don't recommend either to Zelda fans, but I would recommend TOTK over BOTW for someone considering getting one. If you'll eventually play both, play BOTW first.

TOTK has more creative combat, such as my kid fusing a bomb barrel to a shield, which blows up enemies when they attack. Other than that, the combat feels very similar to BOTW, and there's new enemy types (and I think more variety?).

It's certainly gimmicky, and I think the puzzles are easier, though neither has particularly great puzzles. I personally think TOTK is the better sandbox game, while BOTW is a little better Zelda game, but they're both kinda crappy Zelda games IMO.

I don't think that's true. Their techs may claim that, but you van buy compatible modems online and find a helpful phone support person to get the details you need. Read up a bit on it first because they're not going to walk you through it.

I have successfully avoided cable up to this point, but I did use my own modem back when I used DSL. It wasn't advertised anywhere, but I just took the details from their modem and called support for the last bit I needed and used my own. It worked well, and I had my router be separate so I was able to just toss the modem when I got better service.

I can make the case that trump voters doxxed every single muslim in the US of A by saying he’d ban them

That's not doxxing though. Doxxing means deanonymizing an individual by publicly revealing personally identifiable information about them. Saying, "you should hate this group because X, Y, and Z" isn't doxxing unless you also provide PII about the individuals in that group, it's "just" hate speech.

But I don’t think anyone should feel this way, its all driven by politics.

Agreed. Hating someone because of group affiliation is always bad, whether that's a racial or political group.

Do you really want to live in a society where it's acceptable to hate someone based purely on who they voted for? I sure don't. I've met good and bad people across the political spectrum, so judging people based on party affiliation is a terrible way to go about things.

I'm absolutely on board with protesting Trump and his policies, I'm not on board with jumping on people because they voted for the guy.

I'm not OP and am a dev, but also prefer flat files. Here's my reasoning:

• versioning - I use snapshots in my filesystem (BTRFS), which is more than enough, and have a git hosting solution for things I care about more
• sync is plenty fast on OCIS and Samba, it's just kinda slow on Nextcloud; I'm sure Seafile is better, but it's not something I do frequently anyway, especially since backups from devices is automatic and uses a different, fast system
• incremental - not my use case, most of my files either never change (movies) or are small (text flees)

My main concerns with Seafile specifically are:

• developed by a Chinese company and doesn't seem particularly open to contributions
• mostly written in C, so there's a good chance of security vulnerabilities
• documentation about the disk format isn't very open, so third party tools don't really exist
• main target is larger orgs, so I'm unlikely to get very good support

With flat files, I can easily switch to a different service if my needs change.

Here's what I've used and can recommend:

• samba - just a network share
• Nextcloud - full featured cloud suite (calendar, contacts, etc)
• owncloud infinite scale (OCIS) or the Euro fork Open Cloud - the POSIX driver has a flat file structure and still supports users and shared data; OCIS is designed for larger installations, but running on a smaller, single instance totally works too

Since you rejected NextCloud, check out the other two. I'm switching from NextCloud to OCIS right now, and I may end up using OpenCloud if development looks stable.

Yeah, that's a lot of ice.

How is OP "trying to hide" anything? Saying we shouldn't aggregate and publish PII about the parents of a terrorist who have sought legal protection from that person isn't "trying to hide" anything, it's pleading for others to prevent harassment. There's zero evidence that the parents have anything to do with this and some evidence of the opposite, yet the OP is trying to create a link because they share political opinions with the current administration.

I get it, I strongly dislike Trump and have since I saw him in the primaries back in the 2010s, and I would like nothing more than for every bad thing to be legitimately caused by him and his ideas. But that's not the case, and that doesn't mean every crazy person with a gun was somehow corrupted by parents who likely voted for Trump.

It's much more likely that the parents did their best to teach the kid respect for first responders (conservatives tend to have a hard-on for police and firefighters), guns, etc, and the kid stumbled onto a manipulative online community at just the wrong time in his life (say, a messy divorce) and that corrupted him. Or maybe it's a classic case of schizophrenia. Idk, but I'm pretty sure his parents' political beliefs are unrelated. This could've happened to a family with progressive views who also happen to like guns, I knew plenty of those growing up.

Yup, I'm pretty sure you can't put a physical object into a video game.

It is, but I still think it's plausible given the tech at the time. But yeah, definitely suspicious, I'd like more details/confirmation.

Congrats!

Exactly. And Venus is occasionally visible during the day, so that lends some credence to the story.

Maybe. But Venus is occasionally visible in the daytime, so it's plausible if that happened to be the case.