

Never thought I’d see the day that Australian English sticks closer to proper English than British English
Never thought I’d see the day that Australian English sticks closer to proper English than British English
Edit: it is AI generated, completely missed the genAI tag on the Adobe Stock website, and [4] is not a ton like I thought, it’s 307kg
It’s listed on Adobe Stock photos[1]
I did find other similar photos[2][3] so it looks like it’s an actual thing that exists. Actually found a listing for a 1 metric ton roll of it[4].
[3] https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/large-paper-rolls.html
I would say that !selfhosted@lemmy.world is leaking, but I think most of the communities here tend to leak into each other anyway
I grew up on Windows my entire life, but really only as a user until I got into teenagehood. I still remember when I was 12 and had to reinstall Windows 7, and I was given the option of either x64 or x86. I thought “Oh, my laptop is stupidly old, it’s gotta be the lower number” and it took an embarrassing amount of time to then actually try the x86 option which immediately worked.
That’s actually a valid point. I guess for me personally, I have a line somewhere between using a meme template (especially when it’s actually used in such a relevant manner) over typing “Hey ChatGPT, make a meme about how a TV presenter says autistic people will never pay taxes with an autistic child watching, and in the next pane have said autistic child dance around happily with money flying around in the background”
That being said, that line is only of my personal preference and isn’t really based on a hard logical rule.
The most egregious thing with pretty much all the AI memes I’ve seen so far has to be that it’s not even that hard to find (or heck, piece images together to make) a meme template that would have worked with 5 minutes of effort.
It’s nothing but fake eyecandy for a mediocre joke.
Open source Windows activation scripts
I’m sure you get asked this a lot, but why is your username backwards?
I got absolutely fooled by a tech YouTuber posting that Microsoft added OneDrive ads to the blue screen, so it felt good to get got for once.
However with real life news, I tend to agree with you. The distinction between satire and real life is getting ever more minuscule
This happens on the Google side of the fence as well - this article immediately came to mind.
I’m glad I started self hosting so I still have a “cloud” convenience while still owning all my data and being the sole person responsible for it.
Yeah, completely agree. Taking a photo of a TV screen showing the headline is just lazy.
Here I was thinking this was satire. Then I actually searched it up (source: CNN) and wtf?!
I really want to see what the bullshit looks like - shame the article doesn’t actually show a sample, guess I’d have to make my browser look like an AI crawler
Kind of. They’re actually trying to avoid this according to the article:
“The company says the content served to bots is deliberately irrelevant to the website being crawled, but it is carefully sourced or generated using real scientific facts—such as neutral information about biology, physics, or mathematics—to avoid spreading misinformation (whether this approach effectively prevents misinformation, however, remains unproven).”
Oh, would’ve been so frustrating! I remember having a Pentium 4 laptop with an NVIDIA GPU and that thing unsurprisingly cooked itself, so I then tried 1NSANE (Codemasters’ soft body physics car game) on my crappy little netbook instead and it just couldn’t handle it.
It would be some time before I was gifted an Acer Aspire with dedicated graphics and a busted screen that I could play 1NSANE again
Colobot - don’t think it was “shareware” but it absolutely came as a demo on ceebot.com (still hosted there today I believe). Literally THE game that got me into computer programming and whatnot.
Otherwise for actual shareware, I loved Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Crazy Gravity and The Worm (found it!)
I really wanted to play a couple shareware games called Jetpack Joyride, and Hot Chix n Gear Stix as a kid, but neither of them would play on my Windows XP netbook as they had a hard check for if you were on either Windows 95 or 98, even with compatibility mode.
I still have mine as a secondary work phone. Love the size and format of it in general, although I think I’d still prefer a phone slightly bigger (~10%) and with a higher resolution (1080p?) display, mainly for media consumption.
Outside of that, I second the slow and buggy comment (although in my experience this has been mostly with Microsoft Teams, which is a buggy mess regardless)
Been a moderate user of Excel but started a new budget in LibreOffice Calc recently and so far it seems 1:1, including using commands like VLOOKUP and SUMIF
It’s not unfortunately, there’s a date of 09/12/2024 under the original tweet
While that’s respectable, just link the original meme in the post body - if I want to see a meme on my phone, I want the whole meme and nothing but the meme.