It’s like that Futurama “Scary Door” bit where the scientist creates a robot to automate everything in his life and gets shocked when the robot gets all the credit: https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/The_Scary_Door#Episode_7,_featured_in_the_Futurama_episode_“Benderama”

Ew.

There is a mind-blowing amount of variety on both TikTok and YouTube. Just because these “someones” to which you refer are posting brainrot garbage doesn’t mean the entire platform is like that.

Yeah, it took Reddit many years to become the treasure trove of information it became. I think Lemmy could get there eventually as various instances build up a larger archive of posts.

Watching this company slowly circle the drain has been a pretty sad saga.

Idk it doesn’t seem like there are any legal consequences for tech companies anymore.

If avoiding downtime is your number one priority and you’re willing to take on a lot of complexity to achieve it, then Kubernetes is probably the way to go. There are various chat platforms that can be distributed, but keeping a game server state synced between nodes isn’t an easy task. There’s a reason most multiplayer games are instanced.

I do find it a little odd that you’re so concerned about uptime with a casual gaming server, but to each their own.

Right, that’s more accurate.

This is not slop, this is political misinformation disinformation. Call it what it is.

Slop is annoying, but it’s just AI generated spam. This is much more purposeful and insidious. The tools you used to make it are irrelevant.

You jest, but I’m currently running 13 containers on one of my Pi’s and using ~34% of the RAM.

IMO containers should be fairly small. If they’re too large, it’s probably time to look into breaking up that app into micro-services.

That movie was an unexpected trip!

I think his obsession could be symptomatic of a number of diagnoses. He seems unable to properly empathize with the people (specifically not considering their autonomy) over which he is obsessing, which would give a healthy mind pause during the progression of events.

The best way to try to check yourself to see if you are being socially creepy, is try to imagine how your actions may be perceived by the other person. Remember that they are unaware of any context either in your mind or when they are absent. The protagonist does not seem to do this at all.

There are always gaps in scientific knowledge, and religion is very eager to fill those gaps. I think religion is a human inevitability as it is a shortcut to feeling a sense of purpose and belonging, which humans will always seek.

You would probably be surprised at how quickly they would figure out how it worked, save maybe some things that have a ton of prerequisite knowledge. If they had the proper materials/tools, they might even be able to reproduce it.

The modern human brain evolved a long time ago, so on average they are just as intelligent as people today (more so in many respects due to necessity). The things that hold us back technologically are usually lack of resources and discovering/making new materials that unlock new categories of tools.

To answer the question: It really depends on how “ancient” we’re talking, but antibiotics have been invaluable to humanity. So literally just teaching early humans how to cultivate the molds that can kill bacteria would change the trajectory of human history.

Initial thoughts:

• Cosmic was released recently, so the Pop!OS bump makes sense. I suspect those Bazzite and Mint rises are Windows users switching over due to 11 being ass.
• I can’t imagine installing Steam on 4GB of RAM or less! Lol what are those people doing?
• Intel share rising is really weird as it doesn’t reflect recent news at all.
• I’m surprised to see 1080p going up. I wonder if this is due to people with older hardware being kicked out of Windows. I’ve noticed 1440p being the new baseline for gaming monitors.

I guess you took “friction” in the title literally.

It’s amazing how much a little home maintenance can improve daily life. Every time I fix something I wonder why I put it off so long.

That’s how VMs were born.

You’re clearly missing the point of OP’s post. This has nothing to do with novelty or creativity.

A steak isn’t original or avant-garde, but it’s certainly isn’t “fast food” even if you think the steak is cooked poorly.

I think you’re just conflating “shallow” with “bad”.

You’re allowed to not like the game, but “fast food?” It’s a massive RPG with AAA production and hundreds of hours of content.

“Fast food” would be short/shallow experiences that are just designed to be addictive like clicker games.

It seems like personal networks are still, by far, the most likely way to get a job. Having an internal reference helps you bypass so many filters.

It makes sense for employers, too, because a confirmed human that really wants the job is already better than the majority of the crap they have to sift through.