I know someone who has said that the office they use at a small firm probably was used by someone who would be not just looking at it, but potentially slinging rope as well.

Called it. Not in this fashion, but called it.

Don’t know about gb/gba titles, but for PS1 there’s Devil Dice. Probably might get a little repetitive after a while, though.

The only time I actually care is if it’s an indie game. If I like it enough I’ll buy it because I’m all for paying indie devs.

As much as I dislike twatter, for once I agree with them as I’m a firm believer people should be able to leak things as minor as concept art or unused game art.

I assume currently any AI they might be making would have some level of sanity to it and will give sane responses. So if enough people poison the data, the number of sane responses would probably go down if there’s more LinkedIn Lunatic type responses in the training data than normal responses.

Just copy every post you find on something like LinkedIn Lunatics. Spread them out over the course of a certain interval of time since you’d hope they have spam filters, making sure to repeat the same things and continue adding stuff to the list. Do this for as many accounts as you are able to make.

Enough people do it and hopefully their AI would be constantly saying batshit things, hopefully, assuming the accounts don’t get blocked.

If they ain’t first party, they’re certainly close enough that you couldn’t tell the difference.

I maintain a stance that the only reason they’re still around is because of brand recognition. Literally the only reason I could think of anyone liking their slop.

Good call. Let’s ban them both.

I’m personally on the fence about this type of stuff. On one hand, yes I 100% agree about actually keeping kids safer online (not like the politicians “Think of the kids!” type of “safety”). On the other I don’t want anyone to have to give up privacy by having to confirm their age by sending some form of verification, whether that picture/video of ID with birth date on it or having an AI that will inevitably get so many false positives judge you, just to access a service online.

Sadly the only people who would switch over to an actual Linux phone would be the people like the stereotypical Linux using Lemmy user. The average android user would just continue on like nothing happened because they’re not tech literate enough to know what’s going on or why they should care.

The funny thing about that is the game store I really like also sells fake cartridges/ROM hack cartridges that are clearly fake and not labeled as the real deal. Don’t know how they source them, but I could probably buy something like Shadow the Hedgehog on Genesis.

Also, I really don’t expect anything even slightly good to come of this GameStop retro games thing considering the fact it doesn’t matter whether the game is legit or rare, they’ll buy at as low of a price as possible then sell at least 2x the going rate online. That, and their workers probably aren’t gonna be given any training whatsoever to spot even the most obvious fakes and will probably get severely reprimanded over buying a fake.

MX Linux and the other side is a big deal for the next two years so we can get it in the future

It’s kinda boring because I always keep the thing that personalizes your autocorrect off.

Absolutely agree with point 2, not just for Mastodon, but others like here on Lemmy or Misskey or whatever it may be.

The process of finding an instance can sometimes be annoying because you might find an instance that sounds alright, like I did for Mastodon, and then find that there’s the problem of sign-ups not available. That, and signing up for the instance I got on then had a waiting period for account review and all that before I could do anything.

I assume, from what I’ve heard, all you gotta do for threads and bluesky is just sign up and start posting with less effort, which is what the majority of people want.

Fighting piracy is like a caveman with a pointy stick trying to fight a 3 headed hydra from Greek mythology. The only way for them to truly defeat the hydra is an idea they would never accept because they aren’t allowed to treat customers/consumers as people.

Definitely too late for them to be trying to get into the retro games market where I live. We’ve already got a pretty decent retro games store that sells more than just retro game stuff. It’s a GameStop on steroids since they also sell new games, plushies, used DVDs, physical board/card games, manga, etcetera. It even has 2 locations!

Don’t know if it’s still the case, but I did hear around maybe mid to late 2010s they had even replaced GameStop on a military base. As for the store chain, I don’t know whether it’s a west coast thing, but Game World.

Customer: brings in super rare limited edition signed copy Sintendo game

GameStop Retro: Best we can do is $0.50, but if you sell it and come back next week we’ll let you buy it back for $6mil! What a steal!

To be fair, it’s been over a decade since I’ve seen it, so I can only remember vague images of it.

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I couldn’t even remember the right brand. Chrysler Concord.

If I had the money and knew people who could do this type of stuff, you bet I’d wanna buy my favorite 90s vehicle and turn it into an EV

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Tried looking up the vehicle because I wanted to remember what it’s called, but I can’t for the life of me remember what it is, even after attempting to look it up. All I remember is that it was potentially a Chevrolet with 3 seats up front, 3 in the back, and a little divider thing in the middle of the back seats you could pull out.

I absolutely loved it and it was a sad day when we had to get rid of it. It may have been a safety hazard, with the back heating up and burning (thankfully it didn’t actually reach the seats, just heated them up, or there could have been 3 burned minors, myself included), but I still love it since it was the family car.

I’m definitely gonna have to continue searching for the name, using my limited car knowledge.

Edit Edit:

I’m not a car person, so shoot me for this if you want, but it was actually a Chrysler Concord. Again, I’m not a car person, so I don’t know much about vehicles other than basic things like how to change a tire or on changing the oil on a 2000s Toyota Town and Country.

My mechanically inclined father came to the rescue as to what it was.