MurrayL, murrayl@lemmy.world

Sorry for your experience but I assure you we do have freezers. Freezers are in fact very common, just not in small apartments where space is at a premium.

Vast, American-style double-fronted fridge freezers are uncommon, but I’d venture a guess at most UK & Western European households having a freezer of some sort - either a tall fridge/freezer unit or two separate under-counter units.

It always makes me smile when this community lives up to its name

If you’re waiting for this but still looking for an offbeat chess game to play in the meantime, check out Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.

Sorry, didn’t mean to cause any stress - clearly I was wrong here. Reading through I saw a lot of sentence structures typical of LLM writing, but like you say this is partly because they were trained on writers’ work.

I’m a writer myself, so I’ve seen first hand how LLMs are rotting our profession from the inside. That’s not an excuse for making false accusations, but I hope you can understand my exasperated tone when I found what seemed like slop on my feed.

Edit: Apparently my AI-detector is malfunctioning today. Keeping the original comment below for context.

Tried reading the article but it’s clearly written with AI. There might’ve been some editing but the stink of slop is all over it. Disappointing.

Finally, a way to indulge in exhibitionism without having to leave the house!

I think people make fun of it because to a non-American it comes across as deeply insecure. The trope is that the USA has no history of its own and so its people latch onto the smallest scraps of foreign heritage as a way to give themselves some cultural context and cachet.

I don’t think it’s invalid - in many cases the ancestry is genuine, even if distant/fractional. If it helps them find meaning or feel connected to something then I’ve got no issue with it. Humans like to feel connected to other humans, and it’s fun to discover that you have things in common.

The issues only really arise IMO if someone starts weaponising that ancestry or insisting they now have the authority to speak for a people they have no tangible connection to.

You got a 2017 laptop with an A18 Pro chip? Wow that’s incredible!

That claim seems like it’d be trivial to fact check, and indeed does seem to be false.

Yeah, it seems like it. The most common fonts intended to actually help dyslexics seem to be Dyslexie and OpenDyslexic, although I’ve also seen people say Comic Sans is good.

Cheaters in multiplayer games make the whole experience miserable for everyone else. It’s sociopathic asshole behaviour at its purest.

Cheat in single player all you like, but people who cheat in multiplayer are bad people and should feel bad about their choices.

I think it makes it look like a cheap drop-shipped device from China, but if it improves readability for you then go for it!

Except for them to be directly comparable you’d also have to get a keyboard cover for the iPad, making it more expensive than the MacBook, and it’d still have one fewer USB port and no audio jack.

There are actually two different music videos for Kiss from a Rose; one when it first came out in 1994 and then this one when it got rereleased a year later as part of the Batman Forever soundtrack.

See also: haggard, laggard, braggart (this one changed to a ‘t’ for some reason), dastard, dullard, and a few others. It’s uncommon but it’s out there!

Yes, but this is mildlyinteresting, not actuallyconsequential.

Becoming? That channel’s whole vibe is ‘edgy teen plays shooters and makes Your Mom jokes’.

I was subbed for a while because I enjoy classic FPS content, but his bits got tired real fast.

RTFA

In the past several months, many specialized download managers were created that completely bypassed the site, donation messages, and download protections. Some of these download managers locked certain features behind a paywall that required users to pay in order to gain access. The use of Myrient for commercial, for-profit purposes has always been strictly forbidden. Such egregious and abusive usage of the site cannot be tolerated anymore.

Wait, how old is Calvin’s dad supposed to be?

The headline blaming it all on AI seems misleading given the owner explicitly blames leechers in the community. Selfish chuds were routinely bypassing download limits and then had the gall to add their own paywalls without contributing anything back.