wizardbeard

Stop relying on your mind and rely on things like the email itself and/or a calendar app.

Plenty of people need to take notes and use calendars and alarms to keep track of their scheduled events. You just have the amazing adhd privilege of needing to get used to that practice before you're swamped with more work meetings than is sensible.

Cool, I was wondering what all the stuff about food forests lately were talking about

When the protests against scientology happened. Long before it was sold. Long before MAGA or the politics board were even a concept. It didn't die immediately from them, but it was the start of a measurable drop in discussion quality that never stopped.

The "protests" devolved into some of the cringiest irl meetups of online communities I have ever come across (yes, worse than dashcon), and it caused so much media attention that it accelerated the "eternal september" problem the site always had exponentially.

Motherfuckers forgot the golden rule about "hiding your power level", which at the time at least meant doing your best to appear relatively normal in public and went full "I'm a horribly socially maladjusted mess with bad hygiene who can only communicate via tired memes, look at me! Look at me! I know memes! Haha longcat is long am I right?".

A lot of people remember the cringe of reddit's "When does the narwhal bacon?" forced meme attempt at the world's most embarassing "secret pass phrase" bullshit. The scientology "protests" were significant orders of magnitude more cringe.

4chan was never a secret club, but the sheer agressiveness of non-tolerance towards obviously new posters helped to maintain a very low bar of "quality". I'd argue that's needed to maintain any semblance of a community on an entirely anonymous image board that has minimal moderation. Shitty threads would get saged relentlessly, eating up the maximum comments a thread could have and drowning out any discussion in the shitty thread, all without bumping it back up to the top. Hit the reply limit and the thread slides off the bottom, gone forever.

"Lurk moar, faggot" was the phrase of the time. Stop posting until you figure out how things work around here.

But as more and more people unfamiliar with what shitty community existed came in, there hit a point where they outnumbered the old guard, and the already low quality of discussion tanked.

/b/ used to have discussion threads about all sorts of shit. Actual thought provoking stuff now and then. Funny stories. Occasionally legitimately good OC. It was the breeding ground for most of the memes and meme formats that spread to the internet at large. Mudkipz, rickrolling, EFG (the progenitor of trollface and rage comics), lolcats, advice animals. All /b/.

Now it is almost entirely people sharing photos of women they know that they've downloaded off the ladies' social media accounts to jerk off to. Previously they would have been chased off to the dedicated porn (or softcore) boards using fire, pitchforks, and spam of the most digusting images the internet had until the posters got the message. Or at the very least they would have been bullied into a single thread at a time instead of taking over almost every thread on the board.

Instead it has all devolved to the absolute lowest common denominator.

/b/ (and by extension 4chan as a whole) has always been a cesspit. I'm not trying to deny that. There's screenshots out there of it back when the post count hadn't breached 1000 that show that it was shit even in the very very beginning. Back when it was almost exclusively m00t, W.T. Snacks, and their friends from Something Awful. That said, it used to be engaging to scroll through because you could stumble upon some legitimately good discussion. It hasn't been worth even trying to look for good discussion on /b/ for well over a decade.

The retro videogames board was a brief shining return to quality for a few years after it was created, even managed to find, back up, and translate some things that had been lost media. The DooM threads used to be the place to be for new DooM wads. Even that board's pretty shit now too.

Out of curiosity I've tried the AI feature in Paint (on my work computer) to erase something and use AI to fill in the background

I was removing a line between two items on a flowchart, background had diagonal colored lines in a regular repeating pattern (think college ruled paper at an angle).

Instead of connecting the lines in the background it seemed to just take an average of the pixel colors of the edge of what I erased and fill it in with that average color. Such intelligence!

For AI? Corporations. No question.

Microsoft has to bundle its consumer AI products in with other licenses in order to achieve their frankly abysmal adoption rates. They also have recently significantly reduceded plans for further spending on datacenters, indicating that they might already see the writing on the wall.

OpenAI, the most successful AI "corp", hemorages money to a mind boggling degree and actually loses money per query.

It's not profitable or sustainable. The market forces, if left alone, would not provide enough demand to cover the astronimical costs. Companies with more money than god like Microsoft and now Softbank (although they are having to take out massive loans now) are burning astronomical piles of cash to prop it up.

There is no world in which the barely marginal convenience outweighs the additional cost (and near certain privacy invasion of a microphone equipped dryer).

Then get a laptop and a phone. No one needs a tablet.

Or speed. Some of the homebrew mods are ridiculous.

Sounds like Rober gets to repeat this with a cinderblock wall and use the car as a tax write off then.

https://youtu.be/9ywnLQywz74

So when someone uses random sludge instead of ink and breaks the printer they can point at that as the cause.

It's basic CYA. They'll let you do whatever you want, but if something goes wrong and it breaks then you're on your own.

Gender being a construct doesn’t mean you can’t willingly put yourself into that pre constructed idea, you can be whatever you like. It’s prescribing it to others that’s fucked up.

Thank you. That was the point I was trying to make. Anyone can be whatever they want. Categorizing others is the problem, and one that feels especially wrong for me to keep seeing come from the LGBTQIA+ and ally/adjacent communities (please don't nitpick me on terminology here, my point is that it seems to be coming from the people who I would expect to be better about this than other groups).