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I found an article here for anyone else looking for a source that's not just a clickbait image.

This kind of thing has been a long time coming, it's why I started looking into decentralized social media in the first place. It actually feels less dangerous today than it did before the plague of GPT bots that make everyone wary of whether they're reading something written by a human or not.

I left facebook for diaspora in the early 2010s because I felt like an algorithm could influence my opinions too easily. If I see a bunch of my friends voicing one opinion, but all of my friends who voice the opposite opinion don't make it onto my feed, that will influence my own opinions regardless of how mindful I try to be about that. I was kind of addicted and it took strength to delete my account.

I started looking for reddit alternatives a couple years later for similar reasons. I'm really glad lemmy has finally taken off but things had to get a lot worse for that to happen.

Yeah I like a few of these.

edit: I think it's the ones that are just generally silly with no real attempt at a punchline that appeal to me.

My first reaction was that there's no way this tactic makes a significant improvement in sales, but then I remembered prime day is a thing.

Shit I actually thought about commenting that too before looking here and then I thought this is probably a detail everyone does when appropriate and I just never noticed before.

I feel like I do reasonably well with not giving a shit most of the time, it's a lot easier when you have a support system of people who are cool. With that said, I really do try to hide that I'm almost crying at the end of almost any movie, even objectively terrible ones. Shit still feels embarrassing.

I got the first one a year or two after it came out and I remember I really enjoyed it. I think once I got the jacks I barely needed any other weapon.

87.1tb of books is very little?? Have I just been downloading the smallest size pdf and djvu files by pure luck?

"I hope some future historian will confirm that I was the first person to use the word 'boogers' in a comic strip." - Bill Watterson

I misread that as Radeon 9700 for a second and thought I had jumped back in time twenty years.

I barely remember this anymore but the downgrade had certain things deactivated. Something like my card had four "pipelines" and the high-end one had eight, so a minor hardware modification could reactivate them. It was risky though, because often imperfections came out of the manufacturing process, and then they would just deactivate the problem areas and turn it into a lower-end version.

After a little while, someone put out drivers that could simulate the modification without physically touching the card. You'd read about softmod and hardmod for the lower-end radeon cards.

I used the softmod and 90% of the time it worked perfectly, but there was definitely an issue where some textures in certain games would have weird artifacting in a checkerboard pattern. If I disabled the softmod the artifacting wouldn't happen.