That it was anybody but Ryan Reynolds who stole my Vespa.

I went to high school with a guy we called Yukon Jan. (Jan is pronounced Yawn.) I wonder how he’s doing…

I am! I’m guy from all of Canada! I haven’t been to Yukon.

Platforms themselves are self-selecting. I’m speaking for myself here. I am on Lemmy because I dislike the power that big tech has gotten to control content, policy, news, and global perceptions. As such, I self host and use federated technologies where possible. The vast majority of AI tools are controlled by the same centrally controlled big tech companies that I’m here to avoid. There are self-hosted AI tools or there, but basically every AI tool was trained using scraped data, and, for instance, my Searx-ng instance was flooded by so many bots that I had to make it harder to use for myself just to keep the bots out. My blog? Constantly scraped, killing my bandwidth. A lot of foss projects used to have bug bounty programs and accepted code from any contributor to wander in, but are now closing off due to AI slop code contributions. So, the type of person you’ll find here probably hates AI if they’re like me. Also, I work in tech and have to bite my tongue every time a co-worker “helpfully” sends me a Copilot Slop answer to a question when I was asking for a judgment call or an opinion.

I was coming to say this. Say hi to Electra and Demeter for me!

As a Canadian on Lemmy, I keep running in to the same couple of people… Hi, lady from Calgary, and guy from Ottawa! Nice to see you again!

Video! The ONLY thing I miss about Reddit is the Awoo videos!

AI “art” isn’t art, it’s theft. Your model was trained on other people’s data writ large, and did massive environmental damage in the process. You then spam post, only this, over and over to a bunch of forums on a platform that is openly hostile to big data and the harms that it causes. You also don’t punctuate, which leads me to believe that you are either ignorant or a troll, hoping for hate clicks. I am blocking you. And no, I didn’t watch it.

I randomly got one a while ago on Amazon that effectively lets me bypass HDCP, so I can record stuff that I’m not supposed to… I use one on my desktop to send signal to the projector for movies.

Scooter jousting.

You just missed it. Now, it’s just then.

I’ve been running Mint Cinnamon on one for years, and it does just fine. I can’t imagine you’d have any trouble.

Yup. M1.

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00122747 This to a 2021 MacBook Air works fine. Also works on my ThinkPad from the dawn of time.

Be aware that a lot of MacBooks only allow one external display. Took me forever to figure out why I wasn’t getting two external displays.

Yup.

The opening theme from Revolutionary Girl Utena?

So, I’m running a rando Chinese eGPU on a ThinkPad t15 gen… (Whatever an 11th Gen Intel is.) I had to spend a bit too get a nice long thunderbolt 4 cable, and I had to fart around with getting it to sleep and wake up reliably in Fedora… And my cat crashed my system totally by unplugging it mid-game in an attempt to chew on the cable. Otherwise, once I got it working, very happy with it. Had to go over all the settings when I went from Fedora 43 to 44 though. Edit: spelling.

I had that after my Lasik for about three months. That said, it was twenty one years ago, and I needed lenses so thick they couldn’t do glass, and I now may need reading glasses because of age and a totally unrelated retina issue. Been 20/20 for twenty years.

We have our own troubles. Danielle Smith. Shudder

I bought a T-shirt for 25$. Plus 25$ shipping. I just got a bill from FedEx. 18$ in duties, tariffs, and handling fees. Yes, 68$ for a t-shirt.