Personally I would much rather touch my phone with my dirty hands than a toilet handle

I have become the red shirt from my favorite SMBC comic

However, my feelings regarding smart devices remain intact

Day 3,801 of thanking God I was born a Luddite

Anyone who thought their toilet would be improved by having an internet connection deserves this

women online have made it clear

Have you ever asked a woman in real life?

Ce n’est pas un rocher

That’s true, but further proves my point that people should know more about the systems they interact with and how to manipulate them. If someone burns down their house while trying to replace an electrical outlet, that is not a sign that home handymen should not be replacing electrical outlets.

Y’all are the ones that know how to make the printer work, which is wizardry to millennials and boomers alike

You don’t need to know how to run a nuclear power plant, but you do need to know what wires are

This analogy actually works kind of well. Like, you don’t actually need to know anything about wiring to use a light switch, but if something goes wrong in your house and you need to fix it, having just a little bit of knowledge about how the device works can save you hundreds of dollars and days of downtime.

It can also help you avoid making the mistakes that cause those problems in the first place, whether the issue is that you don’t know what setting you accidentally changed, or you don’t know how many watts you can safely pull out of an outlet

Can, and opt not to. Big difference. I’m sure I could ask chat GPT to write a better comment than this, but I value the human interaction involved with it, and the ability to perform these tasks on my own

Same with many aspects of modern technology. Like, I’m sure it’s very convenient having your phone control your washing machine and your thermostat and your lightbulbs, but when somebody else’s computer turns off, I’d like to keep control over my things

The fact that Bismuth is a gem implies that there are other metals, and I wanna meet Tungsten

Also on the topic of gems, that’s a goldmine (so to speak) for this thread. Rutile, Amethyst, Zirconia, Phosphophyllite, Cinnabar, Padparadscha, Bort, etc

Isis was a pretty name

My next D&D campaign is going to have a character named Mendacious in charge of a prominent faction. Language nerds will know he’s a traitor right off the bat

It’s real, and still up

https://x.com/grok/status/1904798600409853957

Not even the kids he has custom designed like him lmfao

This is a salient point that’s well worth discussing. We should not be training large language models on any supposedly factual information that people put out. It’s super easy to call out a bad research study and have it retracted. But you can’t just explain to an AI that that study was wrong, you have to completely retrain it every time. Exacerbating this issue is the way that people tend to view large language models as somehow objective describers of reality, because they’re synthetic and emotionless. In truth, an AI holds exactly the same biases as the people who put together the data it was trained on.

I am so happy God made me a Luddite

Anyone saying anything but #7 is delulu. There’s a reason Bic won pens

duel boot

Lmao Linux and Windows sitting there like ⚔️ ⚔️ ⚔️

There are dozens of us. Surely someone can figure out how to port F360 to Linux, or make a functional clone

Some might switch due to windows OS locked apps

Fusion360 is literally the only reason I still have a windows install. I’ve had people try to recommend Linux alternatives before, and none of them can match my level of stupidity. If I can’t draw a circle in your CAD program without looking up a tutorial, then I really can’t design a webcam adapter for my telescope

And the damn neighbour has some weird mutant dog.

Scrappy is goddamn precious

You could always sell your soul to an archfey or something

Personally I would be the strongest cleric under Lliira