@admin MOD ABUSE!!!!!

Because he got rich by abusing women and talking online about how great that is. Then proceeds to trick younger generations to have a toxic mindset about life, mental health and how to treat people around you and especially how to treat women.

If we don't share, discuss and argue against his crimes, abuse and manipulation on social media, minds will probably have a harder time to change.

Speak up, spread awareness and help people either stay in toxicity and not get anywhere in life or grow and have a better understanding of how things actually are.

This is news to me, just checked my account and the email is of a domain I no longer intend to renew so I guess I'm screwed then lol

Sadly it expired about a week ago already so it's a no go :c

In your modern-day America RPG setting, NPCs could potentially acquire materials for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) through the black market, online purchases, or even stealing from construction sites. Common materials might include fertilizers, fuel, electronic components, and easily accessible chemicals.

To detect and disrupt such plots, your police player characters might employ techniques like intelligence gathering, monitoring online activities, and collaborating with federal agencies. Additionally, they could use surveillance tools, K9 units trained to detect explosives, and implement checkpoints or random searches in areas of concern. Training in recognizing suspicious behavior and patterns could also be crucial for the police characters.

Remember to balance the realism of your game with sensitivity to real-world events and ensure your narrative promotes a positive and engaging experience for your players.

Welp.

It's the repeating steps of ADHD

1. Not have the capacity to manage.
2. Get depressed.
3. Have worse capacity to manage.
4. Go back to step one.

That's not misleading, that sites subtitle is just blatantly lying.

This is sadly the most realistic answer.

This comment section is crazy. I understand that they were most likely rich assholes and as time has told, most rich people haven't contributed too much to the world except class separation and hoarding comfort to the loss of common people.

But people died because one asshole decided this was a good idea, lives were literally lost and everyone here is mentioning how fun that is and how great it is that human beings have died in a horrific way. Imagine the anxiety and hopelessness they've must've felt during their last moments and people seem to cherish that fact more than anything else.

It's disturbing to see people talk about deaths this way, no matter who that death concerns.

Sweden's on their way to doing that. They're looking into making encrypted chats illegal...

I've got a Fairphone 4, and I'm absolutely loving it!

As a photographer I'm a bit torn on this one.

I believe AI art should definitely be labeled to minimize people being mislead about the source of the art. But at the same time the OP on the Adobe forums post did say they used it as any other tool for touching up and fixing inconsistencies.

If I were to for example arrange a photoshoot with a model and they happened to have a zit that day on their forehead of course I'm gonna edit that out. Or if I happened to have an assistant with me that got in the shot but I don't want to crop in making the background and feel of the photo tighter I would gladly remove that too. Sure Adobe already has the patch, clone and even magic eraser tool (Which also uses AI, that might or might not mark photos) to do these fix-ups but if I can use AI, that I hope is trained on data they're actually allowed to train on, I think I would prefer that because if I'm gonna spend 10 to 30 minutes fixing blemishes, zits and what not I'd much prefer to use the AI tools to get my job done quicker.

If the tools were however used to rigorously change, modify and edit the scene and subject then for sure, it might be best to add that.

Wouldn't it be better to not discourage the use of editing tools when those tools are used in a way that just makes one's job quicker? If I were to use Lightrooms subject quick selection, should it be slapped on then? Or if I were to use an editing preset created with AI that automatically adjusts the basic settings of an image and further my editing from that, should the label be created then? Or if I have a flat white background with some tapestry pattern and don't want to spend hours getting the alignment of the pattern just right as I try to fix a minor aspect ratio issue or want to get just a bit more breathing room on the subject and I use the mentioned AI tool in the OP.

Things OP mentioned in his post and the scenarios I mentioned are all things you can do without AI anyways it just takes a lot longer sometimes, there's no cheating in using the right tool for the right job IMO. I don't think it's too far off from someone who makes sculptures in clay uses an ice scream scoop with ridges to create texture or a Dremel to touch up and fix corners. Or a painter using different tools and brushes and scrapers to finish their painting.

Perhaps a better idea would be if we want to make the labels "fair" there should also be a label that the photo has been manipulated by a program in general or maybe add a percentage indicator to see how much of it has been edited specifically with AI. Slapping an "AI" label on someone because they decided to get equal results by using another tool to do normal touch-ups to a photo could potentially be damaging to ones career and credibility when it doesn't say how much of it was AI or in what reach, because now there's the chance someone might be looking for their next wedding photographer and be discouraged because of the bad rep regarding AI.

I wish I could upvote twice, you're gonna save me so much time.

The only long term one I've been able to cope with is biking. About a 40km to 65km bike ride over a day. I was able to keep my speed to either hyped up music or slowed down music to keep my speed and I felt like I was doing something, not just standing in a room and the constant looming feeling of not making progress.

The other one I've tried lately has been badminton. It can be nice and competitive as well as friendly too!

You sharing this actually made me more thoughtful of my wordings for once. I've often looked past such comments, never ignored them per se but never really delved deeper into why and brushed it off.

Thank you for sharing this and your experience regarding why. I'll bring this with me for the future!

I've tried it at two separate occasions and both times I had nothing but side effects sadly.

More unrattled anxiety, harder time to calm down, less ability to focus and depressiveness ontop.

I've heard it work for some but sadly not for me, I do wish it did tho which is why I've tried it at two separate occasions. Both were in the period of about 3 months. Went to concerta after that and after a long while of not having anything am now on Elvanse which is working great for me.

Perhaps Outer Wilds? You zoom around in a small space ship in a solar system and when you approach different phenomenas and see how big they get it gets pretty amazing.

Even finns photographers touch up their photos, either during development by adjusting how long they sit in one or the chemical processes or by using different methods of shaking/mixing processes and techniques.

If they enlarge their negatives on photo paper they often have tools to add lightness and darkness to different areas of the paper to help with exposure, contrast and subject highlighting. AKA. Dodging and burning which is also available in most photo editing software today.

There are loads of things to do to improve developed photos and been something that has always been something that photographers/developers do. People who still go with the "Don't edit photos" BS are usually not very well informed about photo history and techniques of their photography inspirations.

I'm wondering if it would be a jab at possibly trying to help burn-in issues? Having a bit of light around the pixels of static icons and text maybe would help minimize the noticeability?

I love this computer scheme!

I grew up with the cheapest and most worn down vacuum cleaners. It was awful, everything from having to pull it out of a cabinet to finding an outlet and, having bad suction, awful cleaning heads and annoying hoses.

So when I got my own apartment and worked for a bit I decided to go all in on a Dyson Absolute V12 Detect. It's actually very painless and super quick to vacuum now. Also a bit fun.

With a rechargeable battery it's wireless and the battery lasts me about 4 vacuuming sessions in my apartment, no keeping track of vacuum bags and filters. All in all it takes me from touching my vacuum to being done cleaning my, albeit 1 room apartment, about 10 minutes. It's great!

Actually tried it just now, went out and got a USB-C hub and plugged it into my TV, least to say I'm pleasantly surprised even tho there's a tad of workarounds to get going. Basically just installed Steam and Valve's drivers from the steam website and it's pretty nice. Haven't tested gaming performance but wouldn't surprise me if it's lacking.

Best answer. Really like your UI design! (I like uptime-kuma tho)

I've been eyeing frameworks for some time but I can't throw down that amount of money sadly. In the future when I get a job and such it'll definitely be something I'm getting however! For now, I do want to cut down my devices, maybe skip on having to chuck along two complete computers and feel safe that if I ever mess it up I can buy a part to replace it.

That's cool to hear! Have you tried on a 4K screen and video playback? Some youtube videos I've watched have mentioned that it can sometimes be choppy, I intend to install Windows to keep as a general purpose OS and keep SteamOS for gaming.

I have a NAS at home I can easily back things up to. For limitations on the OS I do intend to install Windows on it on a separate partition to keep things clean when it comes to SteamOS so I don't think the RO will be much of an issue.

I'm happy to hear about your feedback to it playing 4K video with no issues and that it works lagfree on 4K too. That's been my main concern if I end up getting a 4K or 2K screen to get my more standard resolutions available that the hardware would potentially have a hard time to catch up if I have a few processor things running at one go like a video stream in the background, editing a document and voice chatting at the same time and then on top running Lightroom to boot. But from what I can gather from user experiences it shouldn't be too much of an issue!

I intend to install Windows on a separate partition so there I will most likely keep my school work and then use SteamOS for the gaming side of things. I think a Windows partition will mitigate most of your mentioned OS troubles.

It wouldn't be for gaming. Mostly running VMs, managing school assignments and general browsing and voice chatting. If I do end up booting up a game I wouldn't mind utilizing FSR as much as possible.

Bazzite seems very interesting. Thanks for the link! HDR to me is a bit of a second priority, it sure is nice but it doesn't make and break anything. Currently trying out Windows on the Deck and seems like HDR seems to be broken for me there. Sadly the option on my TV to fix it seems to be greyed out in the settings.

My desktop experience so far has been great actually. While the CPU itself isn't as strong as my previous 5900HX the GPU performance is indeed noticeable when running about in some software. It's a great try-out at least!

Something along the lines of 2K or more with at least good colour accuracy would suffice for me! It's all I need for the photo editing part. Having plugged it into my 4K TV it went very well. All the UI elements and such displayed perfectly and smoothly for the most part. So 4K on the Steam Deck is most definitely doable! At least if you disregard gaming that is which isn't the main goal for this project.

Does your steam deck output to 8K when you plug it into the TV? How are UI elements and FPS on that resolution for you? Would be fun to see where the limit would be.

While I love Bazzite and have been using it as my primary OS on my only computer which is a Steam Deck, I'm not sure I can agree that a non-tinkerer should go with it. I'd probably follow along the Linux Mint train honestly. It's an honest project with their heart in the right place and makes usability a breeze and with a wider community than rpm-ostree based Fedora it's probably gonna be more minor issues and annoyances in the long run.

Heres an international resource that people actually can use: https://findahelpline.com/

They have an up to date list of prevention lines in a lot of different mental health fields. If anyone is struggling with mental health I recommend checking it out to see if there are any helplines you can use. They also have a nifty lite FAQ entry about how to start the conversation since it can be hard for many.

I started playing recorder in 2018 and have been practicing ever since, bought a couple different instruments after that and it's been great. I joined a recorder ensemble too and we do local plays every now and then!

Since I started learning I learnt the alt recorder and tenor recorder too. Then I had a ukulele laying about I started to learn as well. I also bought a trumpet but learning that has been slow, I also got a Venova, kalimba, accordion and melodica laying about that I play on occasionally.

I think it's a mix of finding the right instrument and inspiration to get a goal of. The only reason I started practicing recorder was because of this meme from VRChat

Indeed, if the AI was trained based on theft it's neither right on their part or ethical on mine.

I did some searching but sadly don't have time to look into it more but there were some concerning articles that would suggest they have either used shady practices to get their training data or users having to manually check an opt out box in the app settings.

I can't make an opinion on it right now before looking into it more but my core argument about using AI itself in this manner, even if that data was your own on your own trained AI using allowed resources, I still believe somewhat holds.

That's a pizza!

This has been my primary concern with getting this to work as well. If I do decide to go with the portable monitor which I'm leaning more towards now it'll for sure be a bit more clunky to get out the monitor, plug in the steam deck, pull out a mouse and keyboard and make sure their paired and then get going. Our trains here are very spacious most of the time unless it gets crowded so for the most part that itself wouldn't be too big of an issue but depends on how much effort I feel needs to go into getting everything setup for my usual 40 minute train ride to get a few write-ups on my assignment done. Realistically I would probably skip the monitor and get the keyboard out and use the touchscreen thinking about it.

That seems to be the gist for most of the portable displays and lapdocks available. I know there's a few portable displays that can charge the Steam Deck properly but they're usually far between. I'm slightly put off from getting 1080p since it's been a very long time since I settled with that resolution and to me just feels slightly too little. Especially when I'm gonna edit photos and browser the web. I'm gonna check around a bit for 4K portable monitors since there doesn't seem to be any brand ones that are 2K.

And as someone whose been distro-hopping for 10 years and tried loads of different setups it's been my personal conclusion :)

In the end the browser isn't everything, it's also UI of the desktop environment and the file explorer and how some things are handled. That I find more comfortable with Windows, but when I manage my servers I love using Linux and when I need to do web-dev stuff too.

I don't intend to do any gaming on an external monitor I think. Even if I do I think I'll be happy enough with FSR!

You don't seem to be alone in disliking the build quality of the NexDock. I wish more people had input to the UPerfect devices but their displays seem good. I've heard of more "proper" display brands doing some portable displays too that I can look into to get a bit more reliable warranty and such.

Have you found yourself preferring using an external keyboard and mouse with the NexDock? That would probably be the biggest downside to the solution of using the monitor only solution. Having to chuck with me a Bluetooth KB+M.

I'm glad for your input tho, helps a ton!

For the software side of things I'm most likely going to end up dualbooting with Windows, I have a lot of experience with Linux and tried for years to go over to Linux even for my photography but a partition with Windows and some editing software will have to do!

From what I've read the Windows experience have improved a bit so I'm thinking that'll be my "Work/School" OS and keep Steam OS for gaming, very ironic considering how it's always been reversed in the past.