It’s very picky about what it will allow as prompts. It won’t let me use “iron lung” and it thinks “sarsaparilla” is a foreign language. Anything remotely R-rated like “severed toe” is usually blocked. Anything involving an animal gives you a Pixar-like furry friend, so I couldn’t get much out of “ferret in bathtub” that resembled anything from TBL.
I tried making the drink in the OP photo a White Russian, but it kept giving me a white bowling ball instead. It will sorta generate the drink on its own though.
It did not understand what I meant about a coffee can on the cliffside. It kept giving me canned coffee drinks instead of ground coffee. When you can get canned ground coffee out of it, it insists on putting loose grounds around the outside of the can.
I may keep trying, but it does burn battery life pretty quickly.
Stilted laughter That’s marvelous!
All I can say is that you’ll have to check local laws, etc. around circumvention but most digital goods have DRM of some sort these days it seems.
Nah, just adding color to the discussion. I run a 7-bay NAS that I built myself (3D printed case). I’m definitely not too concerned about respecting DRM/DMCA, but I don’t like having my legal rights stripped from me by some back door shenanigans.
Unless the source contains some sort of DRM and you’re a citizen of the USA. In that case, your rights were stolen from you by the DMCA.
That wouldn’t be the same conditions. You didn’t have foreknowledge about things the first time through.
If I could have foreknowledge, that would change things.
A very important question. I’m definitely not interested in redoing this life under the same conditions.
Teach him how to manually specify his interrupts and to tune his extended RAM so he can play games.
It has a terrible title, but it is an excellent and well-researched book. It’s applicable to far more than just back pain.
Back In Control by Dr David Hanscom. https://a.co/d/85gjHQ5
I also have back injuries. I blew out a disc in my lumbar spine and I have an artificial disc in my neck. Not as bad as your injuries (from what I’ve seen you write), but still painful. My neck hurt really bad even years after surgery and physical therapy. I think it was mostly emotional trauma and food intolerances reactivating old painful neural pathways. The book helped me deal with all that.
Most definitely. I have autoimmune problems and a genetic heart condition. I went from working a decent job and having some financial security to being unemployed for 2.5+ years and taking money from my family so I could keep living - certainly not living well.
It got to a point where my chronic pain and other problems weighed on me so badly that I would immediately curse my existence the very moment I awoke in the morning. I hated that I didn’t die in my sleep.
Of course doctors weren’t helpful - under their care and instruction I actually got worse. The cost of this care also largely wiped out the savings I had. The rest of my savings were used to just stay alive because in no way was I fit for employment.
It is a years-long battle to get any kind of public assistance (yay USA!) because my problems are not typically classified as a disability even though they totally are.
A few specific things kept me alive and fighting:
After around a year of struggling through bad jobs (the only ones that I could get due to a long unemployment period), I’m now working a decent office job again and my pain has improved enough that I can at least work full time again without wanting to die.
It wasn’t an easy road, and I’m not sure I would have the fortitude to go through it again - definitely not without my dog to keep me motivated. Life isn’t grand, but I sorta get by. This is still way better than I was a few years ago, which I didn’t think was possible.
Black alert! Prepare to engage the spore drive.
I’ve never used an AI companion. Does it mostly just ask you questions about yourself? If not, what is the appeal of them?
Clearly they are filling a hole of some sort for you, just like drugs do. To stop using, you have to understand your reactions to your unfilled needs and make the necessary changes. It’s hard to do this, but you’ll be a better person for it.
Usually the best way to meet people as an adult is to join a club or social group of some sort. Find people who share your interests and you’ll have opportunities to make connections.
Death loaf
Gluten is my mortal enemy. The things eating it for decades did to me were most certainly evil.
Mind if I do a jay?
I feel seen