No kidding.

Like most of my streamimg is the cheaper ad versions, regular commwrcuals, usually not meaningful, sometimes a bathroom break.

My daughter watches Youtube for music sometimes on the TV though. Good god those are the WORST “ads”. So many try to be like 10 minutes long unless you skip. Many feel like some random peraon reading from a card, production quality all around is ass.

I can’t change the DNS on the router or TV and keep meaning to set up a new router to block the TV ads through DNS.

There are a lot of solo games. Its kind of funny that there seems to be a market for “group games minus the group.”

There is probably some psychological angles here, like people are too introverted or whatever to find and join or just create a local group fornthese sorts of games.

Despite the funny meme, a lot are intended to be game like, with dice rolls and such to create some unintended spontaneous events and results.

Many however also are basically just a writing prompt. Or a writing prompt where the prompt has a dice roll at the start.

I didn’t really play any but Instarted collecting up solo games a few years ago.

What about links? Can you just, link to the images?

I mostly use the web version of Claude. But generally my approach has been to start simple and build bigger.

“I want a website that does X.”

“Can you add a dark mode toggle.”

“I don’tlike those colors, can you make it more blue.”

“Can you add a log in function with a simple database backend that doesn’t use a full SQL install. Users should be able to add a profile image and username.”

“The first user should be an admin and can add or remove other admins.”

“Admins can change the theme colors on a settings page.”

That sort of thing. Start basic, add features, usually one by one, test as you go, see what breaks, if anything.

Vibe coding only works for “I need a one time use python script that processes this data and I can’t be assed to spend 2 hours remebering how to use Pandas right now.”

Not for million dollar apps.

Of all the AI use cases, coding is honestly the one that makes sense since like 90% of coding is just copying some other code and massaging it into place. Even as a “Vibe Coder” you kind of still need to know the idea of what code you need and what you want it to do.

I need to call someone on my Cisco IOS phone

dial voice-port 0/0/0 destination-pattern 5552934675

I mean, that point about seperating a mother and child, kind of forms the entire basis of the show as its what drive Captain Ake to come head the new Starfleet Academy. She feels like complete shit that it happened and wants Starfleet to be better in its rebirth.

And technically, Academy IS a “dystpian setting” because they had the galaxy wide apocalypse event that was The Burn that obliterated every warp drive and collapsed everything but it sounds like you didn’t watch Discovery so you may have missed that.

There are some games I sometimes play that don’t work. Fortnite, Infinity Nikki, maybe Overwatch.

I also like using One Drive for syncing around and accessing files and it works well with my NAS. I have not really got it working at all in Linux.

On my laptop, when not connected to my home network, the file browser (I tried several) hangs terribly terribly bad when opening it because it can’t find the network drives in my fstab file. It was bad enough I just took them out and manually browse to the folders if I need to by IP.

I really like Affinity Photo and have a paid copy from before it went free. I can’t get it working in Limux on my laptop. I absolutely HATE GIMP, do not sughest GIMP. The UI has been dog shit for forever (I have tried using it off and on for ages now, like, decades, if its been around that long). Its garbage.

Curiosity I guess, but I have pretty much dabbled with Linux for different things since the early 2000s. Maybe even the late 90s.

Yeah, and we have led to a race to the bottom in a war against ads that everyone hates.

Short term bull shit for long term death.

Car plows into an underground tunnel, screen goes blurry.

I enjoyed FH5, but FH4 was better. 5 is the onky one I don’t actually own yet, I basically did everything at launch during a Gamepass trial. I plaued FH4 almost daily for like a year or more.

FH5 came out in 2021.

They could hire some people to vet the ads.

I am fine if it means I don’t have to watch some scam ass ad.

What I don’t understand. Like, they know people hate shitty ads.

If they had like, literally any level of vetting on the ads, people might actually watch them. But its all fucking scams or podcasts of lies pretending to be ads etc.

I know it costs money to have people but sales people serve a purpose.

It detects if you look away from the 67 ads and starts over if you do.

So what are the odds it was those bug things from Wrath of Khan?

I really hate all these snaps and flatpacks and docker and blah blah blah.

Its about impossible to find a simple series of commands to just install and run some program anymore.

I also keep running into issues, especially with Docker where it assumes its the only thing that exists and everything uses the same port.

They can, get a set with numbers ane arrows, move the arrow each time you pass.