Thanks for your thread, I also have to upgrade my Blade 15. It automatically installed Windows 11 which broke the built in monitor (lol). Let me know if you have any success with these comments’ suggestions!

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I know what you mean, especially news. I mostly do /all and it’s easily a problem there too. I think, possibly down the line, there might be a way to aggregate identical or similar posts, client side.

I think that logic actually doesn’t hold up, perhaps because when a new piece is added, the PCs identity slowly changes. New pieces since it becomes part of the definition of what that computer is.

Let’s take the idea of adding a new piece, say a secondary drive. Does that make the computer a new computer? Of course not, that drive belongs to the whole. Does it make it 6/5? Technically not, since you’re just counting the original pieces… even if said drive becomes integral to your PC by hosting you Linux distro you migrate to.

Years pass, parts fail, and that Linux instance persists. Now you’re down to 0/5 but somewhere along the way your PC of Thesius changed along with it’s parts. Using that old definition makes no sense anymore. In fact, it never did. Some say it changed the night you learned about Arch Linux on Lemmy. Others say it changed when you left your Windows loving wife over her poor taste in OS.

I… may have lost my train of thought. I guess all this is to say you can argue definitions all you want but there isn’t a mathematical solution when we’re taking about stuff like identity, definitions, etc… but to be fair, it’s a thought experiment, not meant to be solved so much as a way to provoke critical thinking.

I went full PC of Thesius within about 10 years, so kudos for sticking it out. And that includes the case and my vinyl stickers, but she still goes by GlaDOS and she’s still my computer.

And yes, I never understand people too scared to upgrade their rig. I’ll happily teach anyone willing to learn, since it’s so easy lately.

I think it’s blocked by a ton lol. There’s a list, and boy are some of those instances outrageous lol

I’m probably an agent of chaos because I’ve blocked nothing, no one, nada. Don’t get me wrong, I abhor some of the bad takes I’ve seen, and I certainly have had to hide furry porn from family before I think that got defed’d, but I kind of like the weird chaos of c/All.

But then again, the worst of it isn’t on LemmyWorld, I know what Hexbear and Lemmygrad look like and I’m not sure I could stay triple zero on bans.

I also can’t figure out spoiler tags, but yup, and during certain spoiler-tag worthy moments you also are missing someone or two, and Roxas eats alone. It’s kind of an interesting structure, especially for a game that was meant to be played with friends and especially for folks going through a confusing time in their life like a middle schooler.

But also you get to play as literally everyone, including their unique weapons. Ever see Donald glide? It’s truly a sight.

I saw the original comment and honestly, if your only exposure was the HD cutscenes, it’s like… 95% eating ice cream scenes. It paces a lot better when you’re actually, you know, fighting shit. Lol

I just beat Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and they said it was long and tedious but I really enjoyed it. It’s a lot darker than the other games and had the potential to be my second favorite after 2 had they remade it (and maybe favorite if they kept multiplayer and revamped it to allow it in story mode). Just watching the “HD” cutscenes reminded me just how much of a missed opportunity that was.

The better answers in these comments already explain the main reason the answer is no, but I want to add how impractical it is given the purple reality of most communities.

In my townhome community, there are about 33-33-33 split between Harris, Trump, and unvoting across 17 units (most unvoting being green cards like my wife). If Trump straight up announced a civil war, would my neighbor go to war with me? Extremely unlikely, especially since one of the Trumpsters adore my kids and would probably shut down anyone trying shit.

I think most modern day civil wars are military coops, and that just isn’t happening here. You might see some militia and unrest, maybe another Jan 6, but that’s not the same as a real civil war.

Oh yes, it’s uh… an interesting experience with your significant other. Especially if you’re married and have a young child.

My guess is it’s because it’s EA and required Origin for a while (might still, actually, even though I think it can be bought elsewhere now).

That’s not the full article, just the summary on the journal page. That said, we shouldn’t be purchasing overpriced articles, they’re priced so only well funded academic libraries can pay and access them (It’s a racket taking advantage of hidden costs in education, as opaque as our shitty healthcare insurance but less talked about).

Like I said, they’re at best matching on review scores and pretending that’s all that’s going on to influence earnings. Articles like this aren’t particularly useful, although they’re perhaps less damaging that those with junk science claiming video games are the reason for school shootings and such. I get students who still believe that junk.

Hmmm, I’m also curious about their methods as there really isn’t a clean way to do this. They seem unaffiliated with anyone and isn’t paid for my anyone (seems more like a person trying to get another notch on their CV) but unfortunately the research is behind a paywall.

I know a lot of statistical models, and the only decent one I can think of are propensity score models that, put simply, try to match a game with denuvo with it’s nearest neighbor in a database, paired based on a variety of attributes. For example, Game A has cracked denuvo, Game B wasn’t cracked, matched on review score, price, and any other forward facing and easily quantifiable metric.

Those models aren’t without their flaws, though, and the attributes you pair with could be any variety of things and make it really easy to say whatever the hell you want with the data. There’s always something you’re missing, which is especially true if you’re looking at denuvo vs none.

Also 99% chance this guy probably isn’t even that rigorous in their method. CV fluffing, you usually don’t have time for that.

Edit: also the journal is in isn’t well regarded, although there aren’t many top tier journals that are that specific.

A little harder to do than I’d like with my thumb only using the phone. If anyone wants to take that my vision to life, make a Cerberus duck throwing up!

Oh for sure, but let’s say I’m running the model locally using my GPU instead of, say, using it to play a game using that GPU. It’s all technically wasteful, but by that standard everything we use our computers for are wasteful. I’m not even sure if running it locally counts for usage statistics, either, although I suppose download counts could.

Granted, I don’t like the wasteful use of AI models (especially unsolicited bullshit from copilot) and I certainly don’t like the use of stolen material for corporate gain, but I’ve never been against individuals using pirated software, music, video, etc, for personal usage even before AI.

Don’t have an argument against it normalizing the behavior, though. I’d like to believe there’s an ethical way to adopt new technology without screwing some people over, but that’s probably not possible under capitalism.

Plus it’s not like it’s commercial usage, nor would you have hired artists to illustrate all your characters for a session like that. It’s one of the few ethical usages of AI, imo.

Reminds me that AI can be used for OG Baulders Gate / Icewind Dale style character portraits. Stable Diffusion literally has a Lora for it, iirc.

Mine actually started crashing when I opened it, so yeah. Luckily I live in a grid so it’s not really hard to figure it out myself.