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Thorny_Insight, to asklemmy in Out of all the cars you've owned, which one holds a special place in your heart as the absolute favourite.

Well I’ve only had two but my current one is basically my dream car so the answer is 2007 Nissan Navara King Cab, 2.5 litre turbo diesel 4x4, all black and murdered out.

Thorny_Insight, (edited ) to lemmybewholesome in Motivation to start

If you keep talking, I can’t stop listening, but I can always stop reading. That’s why I sit in silence at work, but online, I have an opinion for a ton of stuff. Including on what you just prompted me to say.

I write for the pleasure of me. If I manage to make even a bit of sense while doing so, even better.

Thorny_Insight, to lemmy_support in Banned for not breaking the rules, but disagreeing with a mod

That still doesn’t explain the disproportionate amount of replies from Hexbear and Lemmygrad users. You should see my inbox.

Thorny_Insight, to asklemmy in How long would you live if electricity for the whole world went out permanently?

I mostly stock up on items I’m using anyways such as rice, beans, noodles, sugar, coffee, crackers, honey, peanut butter etc. and I’m constantly using the oldest packages from my stock and replacing them with fresh ones.

Thorny_Insight, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

Watching youtube without ads is kind of like eating meat. I can’t morally justify my behavior, but I will keep doing it untill it becomes a real inconvenience. I can’t make a good faith argument about why youtube should serve me amazing video content for free.

Thorny_Insight, to piracy in PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers

When the sponsor is baked into the video itself, there’s no way for the advertiser to know how many of the people who watched the video, skipped past the sponsor. The only way they know wether their ads are working or not, is by seeing how many people used the discount code from said channel. If you’re the kind of person going thru the effort to install additional software on top of adblocker to get rid of this sponsored content aswell, I think it’s quite safe to assume you weren’t going to buy their product anyways.

Also if you’re still feeling bad about it, just donate few bucks directly to the content creator. That’s way more than they’re ever going to profit from you watching ads anyways.

Thorny_Insight, to asklemmy in What are the best steps to reduce the wealth of billionaires?

But then you’d be a billionaire aswell and would need to be excecuted for the horrible person you are.

Thorny_Insight, to asklemmy in How do Hue Bulbs do millions of different colors, what sorcery is this?

Another thing that’s curious about these lights which also applies to your computer/smartphone display aswell is the fact that it’s able to produce yellow color despite only having red, green and blue leds in it. If you open up a yellow picture on your monitor and look closely with a magnifying glass there’s no yellow there.

Thorny_Insight, to piracy in Looking for exploration game reccomendations that work on linux and work with controllers

I’m not exactly sure what you mean by exploration but DayZ works on Linux. It’s an open world zombie survival multiplayer game with a massive map. I have 650 hours on this game and there are still probably few towns I haven’t ever visited.

Thorny_Insight, to asklemmy in What salary do you think would make you happy?

My plumber salary has been more than enough for me. I hope I can maintain it as self-employed aswell.

Thorny_Insight, to asklemmy in What really popular movie or TV show have you never seen?

I haven’t seen Interstellar yet. It’s probably the biggest one though i don’t really watch movies or tv series much anyway so I haven’t seen almost anything recent. Also Godfather, Friends, Reservoir Dogs …

Thorny_Insight, to asklemmy in What setting do you use for Lemmy for active posts?

I go thru the top 12 hours posts from the communities I’m subscribed to and if there’s nothing new there I switch to active and all.

Huge caveat here is that I have hundreds of communities blocked so that my “all feed” is even somewhat tolerable.

Thorny_Insight, (edited ) to asklemmy in Anyone else feels like they want to destroy their old sim and never give their contact to anyone ever again?

I just don’t like that anyone with my number can simply just call me whenever they want and not answering is seen as something that needs an explanation. Don’t get me wrong, I think that being able to make phone calls is a great thing but not in it’s current form. Would be much better if people had to send a message first and I could then call back when it suits me or something. It’s crazy that you can just demand my full attention to yourself when ever you want. For the very least it should be something truly urgent.

Thorny_Insight, (edited ) to asklemmy in Excluding the obvious ones such as politics, what topics can't you stand listening to people talk about?

The AI that fascinates me is just an idea. No such thing, or really even anything close to it exists. Atleast not yet. It’s more of a thought experiment and a philosophical dilemma. That however doesn’t make me any less worried of it. This technology keeps making big leaps forward.

ChatGPT for example will contradict itself and hallucinate information

So do humans. I agree though. At best GPT4 only shows *signs of *intelligence. Still nothing close to AGI. Can’t deny it’s not impressive though.

Thorny_Insight, to asklemmy in Excluding the obvious ones such as politics, what topics can't you stand listening to people talk about?

As a person who loves talking about AI I’d like to note that by AI “we” usually mean AGI (artificial general intelligence) and not generative AI like chatGPT or midjourney.

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