I wonder how much of that is from people playing games on their laptops though. Budget or mid-range laptops are much less likely to have a dedicated GPU (or in mid-range at least not a powerful one), or much RAM.

For people who buy laptop PCs and can only afford one computer purchase every X years, it won’t really matter if the Steam Box has better specs. If it’s not a laptop it’s not an option for them.

Thanks for commenting and not just downvoting.

Totally fair to say you don’t want Boston to just get crammed with corporate ads, but I don’t think you’re giving the post enough credit that it is talking a lot about public art. That doesn’t mean it can’t also acknowledge the reality that we don’t have a lot of truly public spaces in Boston, so the lower-hanging fruit for bringing more art into our city instead of just drab buildings and old revolutionary war statues is from private companies.

Art of things that are part of our culture, corporate-owned or not, outside their buildings is sometimes better than nothing. Would a lego sculpture outside their headquarters really be that bad? It’d certainly be better than the 60-foot LED Citgo sign sitting on top of our skyline.

You’re not going to find an app that doesn’t use analytics. It’s unreasonable to expect someone to build / run a service for users with no idea how it’s actually functioning for them. To any app using Google Analytics, you are only one of hundreds of thousands of anonymous data points; get over yourself or buy a burner phone if you’re that concerned about some upstream data broker knowing that ::gasp, shudder, horror:: you were on a dating app and ::shriek, cower, cry:: maybe targeting a romance-related ad to you.

If you can get past that, I’d suggest https://datefirefly.com/ - it’s independent and trying to rebuild the old OkCupid kind of experience before Match Group bought OkC and drove it into the ground.

Or if you’re in / near a city, try speed dating groups or see if there are matchmaking services with a good reputation.

Again, this whole idea that you need to make an argument about the tradeoffs of technology in general in order to make an argument against AI is weak and needless. Do you have a smart phone you use the calculator on sometimes, or do you write out all your long-form division? Is everyone who owns a microwave, uses tax preparation software, or switches to an electric toothbrush just a lazy dumb-dumb in your mind?

When the barriers to access are removed, that’s great

but it dilutes the end game product over all.

AI art is rubbish and it gives you exactly what you ask for.

Cool? Maybe,

This is just talking out of both sides of your mouth trying to sound fair and balanced instead of actually making a good argument. “AI art is rubbish” – yes!!! We don’t need vacuous, hypocritical hot takes on using technology to say that.

Pedantry. “Think less, shut up, accept what the algorithm feeds you from this sub without question” was still the basic gist.

🤷‍♂️ I’m drinking tea and having a nice day. Sorry you think I’m getting bent out of shape just because I’m critiquing your poorly thought-out comments. 🙂

you’re getting bent out of shape over such an insignificant piece of shit like me, it’s pathetic.

My guy it honestly sounds like you’re the one who needs to take a screen break more than I do. Be well.

We all use technology everyday to make our lives easier, but does it?

🙄 Yes. If you disagree with something this obvious, please write me a lengthy letter explaining why and send it by horse & buggy mail carrier. I promise, I’ll read and respond just as soon as I’m able.

Do you want people writing books and creating art that have no business writing books or creating art?

🤮🤮🤮 Maybe we should require an intelligence test before allowing people to post their opinions on the internet too? Or have children?

If you actually think that disallowing some people to create art because they aren’t “good enough,” then you aren’t really defending art or artists at all.

“You’re using your brain too much, just enjoy the ‘hUmOr’” as a defense of this is ironically the funniest thing in this thread.

This is such a weird take.

Oh poor baby, you need a wittle spell check to make sure you don’t mess up the words in your important email?

Oh little loser, you gotta have an automatic transmission to make the car go vroom vroom?

Oh Mr. has-a-life, you have to pull out Shazam instead of knowing 8 million songs by heart?

All of us use technology to make our lives easier, to supplement skills we don’t want to sink perfectionist-level time into, to enjoy “good enough” results in one area or another.

This kind of holier-than-thou hyperbolic snobbery does nothing to generate actual thoughtful reflection of where to draw the line with technology dependence and only distracts and detracts from actually good critiques of generative AI’s ethics and other negative effects. I wish this sub didn’t allow low-effort meme posts because it’s such a brain rot circle-jerk.

I would like to see Zach Braff as a lead or regular in something new.

Does Lemmy have anywhere I can see a log of which posts I’ve upvoted?

👍 Appreciated.

The catch: Municipal red tape might stop the statue even before it can be cast.

• The city has a moratorium in place for all new memorials in the Public Garden or on Boston Common, according to Lynn Page Flaherty from the Friends of the Public Garden, the nonprofit group that advocates for the city’s oldest green spaces.
• The bench is also already dedicated in memory to another person, which presents a problem for the effort to honor Williams.

via Axios’ brief article covering this.

My first thought after reading was also that the charges seemed excessive.

Thank you for your efforts! I’ve been up voting regularly and will try to start posting occasionally again as well.

The main things we need to do to grow the community are:

• continue to get the word out to people who haven’t yet joined. Post in c/NewCommunities, post on Reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives, do a regular search for Lemmy posts / comments in other communities and invite posters to join.

• we should encourage everyone to UPVOTE posts here whenever possible. Upvotes not only encourage existing posters and incentivize new ones, posts with good upvote momentum could help more Bostonians across Lemmy find the community through the popular Hot or Top Day sorts on Lemmy.

I understand the desire behind this suggestion, but I think it would actually result in fewer people contributing, because it adds another hurdle to posting content.

Looks cool. I’m most concerned about the tone of the show; the games are filled with absurd, exaggerated, and cartoonish elements that work well in that medium, but might come across as unbearably cheesy in live action.

No reason not to give it a shot though. 🤞