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  • What part of a game you enjoy replaying do you dislike replaying?

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  • I'm such a carebear. I've never played a darkside character because I love the supporting characters too much 😅

  • What part of a game you enjoy replaying do you dislike replaying?

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  • KOTOR 1. Taris is cool but let's be honest. I play that game because I like playing a Jedi. I've also played it from start to finish at least 20 times.

  • I gave away my DnD books to strangers.

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  • Those kids are going to remember you for the rest of their lives. Try using ChatGPT for any questions you might have with your game. It has helped me in a pinch.

  • A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month

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  • True, although I should have specified that I was talking about the computer generated models.

  • what caused you to get into Linux?

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  • Same. I heard MS was checking out the possibility of adding advertising in the file explorer. I don't know the veracity of the reports or where I saw them, but it spooked me enough that I knew I needed to get started familiarizing myself with something else before I had no options.

    I'll never go back. Ever.

  • What makes you not want to use Linux anymore and maybe move back to Windows, MacOS, or TempleOS?

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  • I loved Windows 7. It hurts a little every time I come across someone still running it as a daily driver and I recoil in horror as I recommend basically anything else

  • At Meta, Millions of Underage Users Were an ‘Open Secret,’ States Say

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  • Click "OK" to certify you are over 13 and you have parental consent before we allow you to use our services

    How did they think this would turn out?

  • A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month

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  • Awesome informative reply. I've long wondered about how some creators get the same "face" in some insta accounts.

  • Kremlin says NATO's desire for a 'military Schengen' zone in Europe ratchets up tensions

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  • You're a notional enemy until you actually invade, and then you become an actual enemy. That's how these things work, Vladdy

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  • Jesus Christ. I've never been so thankful for being a Linux noob in my life. That sounds awful.

  • Here are the latest twists in the OpenAI shakeup and the ‘boardroom coup’ that ousted CEO Sam Altman

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  • Here you go

    Here are the latest twists in the OpenAI shakeup and the ‘boardroom coup’ that ousted CEO Sam Altman

    If you’re feeling dizzy trying to keep up with what’s going on at OpenAI, the San Francisco startup behind ChatGPT, don’t feel bad. This story is moving at breakneck speed, with more twists and plot changes than a season of HBO’s Succession, with a cast of characters to match.

    After being summarily fired from the company he cofounded on Friday, Sam Altman now could be on the brink of being re-instated amid a pressure campaign from angry OpenAI investors. It’s still unclear what caused the board to fire Altman in the first place. The only thing that’s certain is that whatever happened, and what happens next, will have huge consequences for the future of the AI industry.

    Here are the latest developments:

    Saturday night:

    OpenAI is “optimistic” that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will rejoin the company, according to a memo that Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon sent employees on Saturday night, per a report by The Information.

    Saturday afternoon:

    Earlier on Saturday, The Verge reported that OpenAI’s board had agreed “in principle” to resign and to restore Altman to the throne, but subsequently “waffled.” The board’s indecision apparently meant that it had missed a 5pm Pacific Time deadline to avert a mass resignation of OpenAI staffers, the Verge reported, but it’s unclear whether the resignations actually occurred.

    A group of OpenAI investors are plotting a pressure campaign to force the company to re-install Altman as CEO, according to report by Forbes. The plan involves investors teaming up with Microsoft to threaten lawsuits and withholding of computing resources, multiple anonymous sources told Forbes. It’s unclear if the pressure campaign reported by Forbes is connected to the board discussions with Altman reported by The Verge.

    Saturday morning:

    Altman and Brockman are pitching a new AI startup to investors, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing three anonymous sources. Altman and Brockman were busy sketching out the vision for the new company on Friday night, and discussing which of their former colleagues to include, according to the report.

    OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap told employees in a memo that Altman’s firing was not because of “malfeasance or anything related to our financial, business, safety, or security/privacy practices,” according to Axios. Lightcap’s memo did not provide any additional details on what actually led to Altman’s firing, but reiterated that it was due to a “breakdown in communication between Sam and the board.”

    “I’m sure you all are feeling confusion, sadness, and perhaps some fear,” Lightcap wrote in the memo, according to Axios. “We are fully focused on handling this, pushing toward resolution and clarity, and getting back to work.”

    Friday:

    On the Friday afternoon before Thanksgiving week, a bolt of lightning crashed into the tech world: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had been fired. The OpenAI board of directors said Altman was fired from the company he cofounded because “he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” and appointed CTO Mira Murati to step in as interim CEO.

    But it was very quickly clear that there was more to the story. Microsoft, which has invested $13 billion in OpenAI and infused its technology throughout its products, appeared caught off guard by the news. And OpenAI President Greg Brockman resigned a few hours after the Altman announcement, as did several other important employees.

  • Next smartphone I buy, which one do you recommend?

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  • Heads up, the bootloader cannot be unlocked if you buy a pixel through Verizon. You have to buy it straight from Google if you want to install anything custom.

    Source: I have a pixel 6 pro from Verizon that I got originally thinking to try out grapheneOS.

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    This post got removed from memes@lemmy.ml so, to my surprise, I believe it has reached shitpost level.

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  • Same. I think my neighbors would shit a brick if they ever found out that there are more guns in my house than people, that I'm a veteran, and that I vote Democrat.

  • Windows will let european users uninstall many system components such as Bing or Edge soon

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  • It just so happens I will be reinstalling my windows partition and "moving to Europe" in March of next year too!

  • What's an idea you have for a story that you think is really good, but don't have the skill or time to flesh out?

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  • I wrote a lot of star wars fanfic back 20 years ago because I was terrible at writing and couldn't afford college classes for a few semesters. I needed the practice, and the best way at the time for me to exercise that skill was forcing myself into creative writing. Those chapters and the idea of how the story would end were never finished.

    In 2020, I started a DnD campaign based off those chapters, and we are still playing the same campaign. When we began, I thought I had maybe two, or maximum three years of content. Now at three years later, we are optimistically at bout 1/3 of the way through the story playing at roughly every other week.

    If I had one wish, it would be to have three hours to sell the idea to Jon Favreau, because he would make it the next Star Wars saga. I've taken elements from KOTOR1, The Witcher, The Expanse, and most of the new star wars shows to create a story where my players are battling for what they believe is right, when there are no right answers.

    I've been lying to my players for about three years. They believe they are bringing peace and prosperity to a shattered Republic by fighting on the side of the rebels about 1000 BBY. What they do not know is that they've been manipulated and windwashed by a sith lord into decapitating the Jedi order and acting as the admirals and generals of the rebel fleet and army.

    I have been planning this for ages. All the names of recurring characters are anagrams for things like "Revan was right", "peace is a lie", and "sith lord doom", and in one part of the story, a player is actually playing his same character without knowing it, and his "new" character's name is an anagram of his original character's name.

    There will come a point where he will find out he was manipulated by the story, and the other players will find out I did not tell them the whole truth of their own situation. It is going to be glorious. The party will find out they are all essentially Sith apprentices with no easy way out. And then we will get to the actual subject of the story--what it means to be a Jedi. What do you do, when everything you believed in and believed was right turns out to be a lie?

    When faced with losing everything, like Obiwan Kenobi, how do you continue serving the light when it has robbed everything from you?

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  • I 100% would rather have shit break sometimes than find windows settings that are buried several layers deep in the UI simply because Microsoft wants me to use my computer in a certain way

  • Can an average person who works a full time job become capable enough to rival a secret agent like James Bond or John Wick on their own ?

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  • Not only that, but Bond has an entire agency and thousands of people supporting him and his activities. There really are things you can't do yourself while in a heated situation that have to be done.

  • Republican pushes to overturn Ohio election result

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  • They did that in South Dakota when they voted to legalize recreational Marijuana. The governor used a single-subject technicality and anti-mariuana geriatric judges agreed. Then two years and millions of dollars in smear campaigns later they had a rematch that soundly defeated recreational use when it was voted on again.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene and House Republicans Are Trying to Cut Pete Buttigieg's Salary to $1 a Year

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  • By tearing their opponents down, they are comparatively better off with no actual gain