graymess

Stand-off guy

I second screen while working even though my job requires my full audio-visual attention.

The "progressive" independent country of California is still gonna use prison slave labor to put out the fires while our tech oligarchs' treat machines drain the state's water and power supply. Look, I live here and would love nothing more than to sever myself from Burgerland without the inconvenience of uprooting my whole life. But if that means pledging my allegiance to President Gavin Newsom, this place can get fucked.

Really nice of that guy to tattoo a perfect target.

Hell yeah.

Try it, I guess? Their servers aren't in the US. At worst they could take it off the app store, but fucking Fortnite taught kids how to sideload lmao.

Valve only strongly supports Linux because Gabe has like a personal vendetta against Microsoft. Not complaining. I think it's great that Steam has broken the Windows lockdown on gaming. It's just funny.

I recently had to digitize dozens of photos from family scrapbooks, many of which had annoying novelty pattern borders cut out of the edges. Sure, I could have just cropped the photos more to hide the stupid zigzagged missing portions. But I had the beta version of Photoshop installed with the generative fill function, so I tried it. Half the time it was garbage, but the other half it filled in a bit of grass or sky convincingly enough that you couldn't tell the photo was damaged. +1 acceptable use case for generative AI, I guess.

Fuck me, I didn't even think about that as a possibility.

These fires have left me kind of anxious, not over the possibility of losing my belongings or even the home that my partner and I have managed to buy together. I'm terrified of losing our future. It's so clear now how fragile it all is. One disaster could ruin any hope we have of keeping a home and saving money for retirement one day. And this is happening right now to thousands of people. Historically LA fires have mostly impacted wealthy neighborhoods, but this is something else. I know someone whose home burned down that they just bought a few months ago. They are completely fucked.

Edit: In case there's some confusion, I'm not talking about rich suburbs burning down. Yes, of course the mcmansions in the hills are going first. Those idiots insist on living in some of the most flammable regions on the planet and can afford to rebuild over and over. I'm not going to try to justify whether I deserve my home, but it's a single bedroom condo "worth" under half the median price in LA that I share with my partner. If it burns down, we'll be priced out of a home permanently while paying off a mortgage for a pile of ash for the next 20 years.

I don't know about 10x, but I've started deleting my comments before finishing them more often than I used to. This mostly comes from me questioning halfway through typing it out if my perspective contributes anything new or if it's worth the time I would need to fully cover what I want to say. If either answer is no, I'll delete.