Yes he’s heterosexual.

What does this has to do with a potato-only diet 🤣

Thanks for the reframe! From what I’ve seen in Village Pump comments at the time, editors (including me) were upset bc putting LLMs into Wikipedia articles seems like an idea so obviously clashing with Wikipedia’s values and strengths, that it was a shock to see it taken as far as it got before the wider backlash. (Also put into wider context, the whole world seemed to be jumping onto the LLM bandwagon at the time, so it was dismaying to see Wikipedia do the same.)

It has to be said, they originally changed their stance due to the considerable editor pushback when they tried to introduce LLM summaries on the top of articles. So kudos to the editor community’s resistance! ✊

Thanks!

Hmm thanks for the tip!

Still, it refuses to make those buttons optional.

Not only that, back before I left Ecosia a few months ago, it kept forgetting that I turned off AI summaries. Every week or so it would turn back on… I’ll try DuckDuckGo’s noai prefix this time, that hopefully won’t have this issue. (I really like Ecosia’s mission, but come on…)

I may switch to them as my primary provider. They seem to source results from Bing, and with the noai prefix hopefully won’t keep turning on AI summary like Ecosia does 😑

Sadly Ecosia is not good for more niche topics or foreign languages. After a few months of use, I went back to Google with &udm=14 😕

Edit: Though with Google now falsifying site titles I’ll have to look for an alternative… I wonder if they do the same towards the providers that rely on them, like DuckDuckGo?

I have the same experience and it drives me nuts - if I wanted English results, I’d search in English!

What has worked nice for me is to listen to the AccuRadio channel of the genre I’m in the mood for, and rate the songs. Then later when I have the time, I look at my ratings history page and download the ones I rated high from youtube in mp3, so I can have my own local “radio stations” of the songs I enjoy. Then months later, when/if I got bored of them, I can go back to AccuRadio and see what new songs they added in the meantime.

Whatever you use to listen to music

Winamp gang! (sadly not supported)

But I don’t want my listening history publicly accessible (I was an avid Last.fm user in the '10s, but always kept my profile private), so I would skip this one anyway. Love MusicBrainz though.

If you are starting to bald, and don’t want to, the easiest option is to get on meds to keep what you already have. If you get side effects then you are SOL i suppose.

Yeah, at the first sign of hair loss I started on Minoxidil, and stayed on it for like a decade until my hair loss got very noticeable even with that 😅 (Also didn’t help that I was balding from the front, and from what I’ve read, Minoxidil is not really effective against that.) I had varying lengths of hair over the years, but grew it out to ponytail length during Covid, as a last hurrah before I knew I would have to say goodbye to it.

Transplant costs like 10k CAD in Turkey. Not an insurmountable amount of money IMO.

For me that would be multiple times my current savings 😅 But anyway, surgery just feels so invasive for essentially a cosmetic issue. I know many people don’t feel this way, and more power to yous! But I’d rather just make my peace with it, it feels better for my mental health on the long run than anxiously trying and trying to ward it off.

I knew it was coming, looking at my older male relatives on both branches, and in my case it was ultimately something I chose, as I’m transgender, so I knew what I was signing up to when I started testosterone. That sense of it being my decision probably helped me to be able to accept it.

Now I’ve been fully shaven for about 6 months, and I like the sensation when it’s all freshly shaved and smooth :) Took me a few months to not do a double take when I saw recent photos of myself, as I still had my old look ingrained in my memory. By now I’m shaven even in my dreams :D

I always wondered what a shower feels like with a bald head though!

Idk, it just feels like any other skin :) When I went from ~15cm to buzzcut (a year before shaving it altogether), for the first few days I constantly had the sensation as if my hair was wet, bc my head skin felt colder than my body, and in my mind that had a strong association with post-shower wet hair :)

Now I want to do some gatekeeping. If you want to play in a metal band on stage, you need long hair, or you have no business being there. Haha.

Haha agreed, headbanging needs long hair!

This! I’d much prefer to have a full head of hair, but since that’s not an option, I prefer to be bald rather than visibly balding 🤷

(And getting surgery for this would feel excessive. Not to mention the transplanted hair would just start balding too because of the same hormones that caused balding in the first place, so it’s just putting off the inevitable.)

Looks interesting! I can’t see it in their docs, can it display the font type and size of a selected text? I’ve been using PDF-XChange Viewer mostly for that feature. (Lol I just noticed it has been discontinued since 2018 😬)

Tbh I wouldn’t mind this, I hate boss fights in games, I would definitely let the AI do those, and switch back to me for the stuff I enjoy :D

Edit: Though as another commenter said below, a skip button would achieve the same, no need for an LLM if that’s what they mean by “AI”.

thanks, that’s reassuring to know :D maple syrup is good, but imho nutella is better :9

Unrelated, but as a Hungarian, this association of waffles with syrup is so odd to see. Syrup is basically just sugar and water, isn’t it? Sounds pretty boring. As a kid we always put nutella on waffles 🤷

I haven’t experienced this with years of Enterprise use, but back when I was on Win 7 LTSC until its very end, I did get yelled at that my Windows was too old, even if it was still under official support. But then again I suppose devs don’t expect people to try to run games on heart monitors or industrial equipment xd (or whatever else LTSC was intended for)

This right here is what’s keeping me from switching to Linux for now. My work PC is also my gaming PC. I need to run Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop flawlessly for work, and online games for leisure.

I checked out alternatives, and while Photoshop has a few that are decent, InDesign and Illustrator alternatives are really not there yet for professional use. (Also Adobe programs are reportedly broken af when ran on Wine/etc., and I don’t have 2 GPUs to run them on virtual machine.)

As for gaming, one of my daily driver games is Genshin, and I don’t want to risk getting banned bc I run it via some obscure launcher from GitHub that also makes the game crash on some new releases. Outside of Genshin, according to ProtonDB only 51% my Steam library is Platinum or Gold compatibility, 10% are various levels of broken, and 39% has no Linux support information.

These barriers tend to get dismissed by Linux users, but they do exist, and are probably barriers to others too. With a Windows 10 Enterprise install from massgrave then clamped down with O&O Shutup, I get rid of Microsoft’s bullshit and get an OS that I know can run all of my programs without problems. (At least for the next few years lol, until Win10 ends all support.)

For now, this setup works better for my needs, but I’m eagerly awaiting the time I can finally make the jump to Linux, and I find news like Photoshop installer being able to run on Linux and leaks that Genshin will get released on Steam (hopefully even on Deck) quite promising.

I’m not sure what copy-paste block that is, but I’m absolutely in favour of people including alt text in their posts. It helps disabled people, and both the searchability and filterability of the post. It just requires giving a shit, and that’s generally more effort than people put into posting 😐