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I've found that AI has done literally nothing to improve my life in any way and has really just caused endless frustrations. From the enshitification of journalism to ruining pretty much all tech support and customer service, what is the point of this shit?

I work on the Salesforce platform and now I have their dumbass account managers harassing my team to buy into their stupid AI customer service agents. Really, the only AI highlight that I have seen is the guy that made the tool to spam job applications to combat worthless AI job recruiters and HR tools.

Looking for the perspective of anyone that has lived anywhere in the USA and moved to Puerto Rico. What's it like, what's different, what's nicer, what was unexpected, and would you recommend the move?

Hi, i try to create a community, i set everything correct but when i hit the create button nothing happens! anybody knows what would be the cause?! thank you

Up until now I simply used Element, it just works and it doesn't look too bad. Unfortunately, I now have two Matrix accounts, my personal account and the account my university automatically created on their own matrix instance.
I need to communicate using both my accounts now, but Element couldn't handle two accounts at the same time, so I went on to install a second client, Fractal, which also supports multiple accounts. However, I am somewhat unhappy with Fractal because I cannot select text in messages.

Please share your experiences and recommendations with or on matrix clients.

Sort of a spinoff thread from my Great Fairy Fountains post

EDIT: if possible, please link an embedded image so we can easiky see each place and we scroll so everything doesn't have to be manualky searchced one by one 😅

Let’s compose a list of the all shortcomings so that we can address them and eventually hit 100k mau.

With all the money going into the Ukraine war and other ventures since Putin came to power, I imagine there's a lot of stuff he could've done to make the world a better place and Russia a formidable world power.

How would the mainstream view it?

How would software support improve?

How would gaming look like?

Which country will become the first Linux majority? India? Seychelles?

How many local governments would start adopting it?

What year do you think it will happen in?

I am looking ahead to Christmas gifts for my wife. We have the week off and have talked before about having an at home spa day. I am going to get some exfoliating scrubs and some lotions. What are some things you like? Are there any whole kits for the home you are aware of?

I feel like I'd go to bath and bodyworks or bed bath and beyond, but there aren't any of either nearby any more.

No Intel ME or AMD PSP please

I tend to use an external monitor with my laptop on a stand, taking the laptop with me to classes and such. Because of this, it'd be really cool to have the touchpad and keyboard on the laptop only control that one screen and do it separately from my normal inputs with an external mouse and keyboard. Obviously, this would require some configuration and would need to be opt-in, but I think it'd be useful for use with your "discord monitor", or one filling a similar role. What do y'all think about this idea and how would you like it to be/think it would have to be implemented?

I’m trying to get an idea of how much throughput a single Lemmy node can handle along with a max # of users per instance. Does Lemmy.World provide specs on the hardware they use to host the instance or how many simultaneous current and active users a single node can handle?

If you haven't read about it before, the term comes from the band Van Halen, who demanded that there were no brown M&M's backstage. People thought it was just a crazy rock star thing, but David Lee Roth later explained that it had a purpose:

Van Halen was the first band to take huge productions into tertiary, third-level markets. We’d pull up with nine 18-wheeler trucks, full of gear, where the standard was three trucks, max. And there were many, many technical errors—whether it was the girders couldn’t support the weight, or the flooring would sink in, or the doors weren’t big enough to move the gear through.

… So just as a little test, in the technical aspect of the rider, it would say, “Article 148: There will be 15 amperage voltage sockets at 20-foot spaces, evenly, providing 19 amperes … ” This kind of thing. And article number 126, in the middle of nowhere, was, “There will be no brown M&M’s in the backstage area, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation.”

So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl … well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you’re going to arrive at a technical error. They didn’t read the contract. Guaranteed you’d run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening.

My Brown M&M atm is AI-generated comments like this (first comment is referencing something like df = ... that they removed from the code, but left the comment, second comment is super useless):

# Assuming df is your DataFrame

# Show the plot
plt.show()

That probably means whoever I got the code from just copy/pasted whatever the LLM spit out, and didn't actually think about the code at all.

What is a small detail that you pay attention to because it means there's bigger issues to watch out for?

there are certain things I want to be out of the loop of, anything to do with him seems good.

I'm looking for mobile solutions specifically.

thank you very much

My ears never pop or ever have in planes or going up or down hills in a car when other people's ears around me do.

I never feel ear pain or pressure during elevation or air/water pressure changes.

I've looked online for others like me but all I find are people who can't pop their ears and want to.

How is everyone else's ears popping and not mine? What does it feel like? Sometimes people say it feels good sometimes it hurts, I don't get it and when I tell my friends I don't experience ear popping I get looked at like somethings wrong with me.

Have my ears just evolved to release pressure without popping? (I know I'm stretching here but it would be fun)

Idk if this makes sense.

Obviously not via sexual reproduction but could a person's genetic parents be of the same sex and that person be genetically indistinguishable from the rest of the population?

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