Cyberpunk has a city that actually feels like a real city to me.

Funniest foreign language TV show of all time, lol. I fr had to have subtitles going the whole way but I cried laughing at times. I’m so in love with Saoirse.

I partially switched to Linux this week, I had an older Windows machine just laying around so I decided to install Linux (I went with Mint) sit it next to my regular Windows machine and set up a switch to easily switch between them. That way if I really need Windows, I still have it. I don’t think I will.

I’m still configuring the (now Linux) machine and getting everything like I like it, and all I keep wondering is why I didn’t try this sooner. There are so many cool things (like sftp right in the File Manager? right on). I have no complaints.

Steam has run every game I’ve tried with only minor tweaks (switching to recommended Proton versions for each game, basically). Gaming is not a problem on Linux anymore. I’ve run old games (Torchlight II, Portal 2, Skyrim) and new games (Oblivion Remastered, Baldur’s Gate) and the only problem has been my shit-ass video card just can’t run them basically (1050Ti, time to upgrade, lol).

A little while doing all this and I’ll convert the Windows machine to Linux and be rid of Windows altogether. Before the end of the year, hopefully. Everyone should give it a try.

In the age of LLMs, it’s pretty well guaranteed that it’s going to be far worse than described in a study from five years ago. Anecdotally, it feels to me like closer to half if not more of the responses I get are engagement bait. It’s not just corpo, a lot of it is government trolls trying to shape opinion, domestic government and foreign governments. I don’t post anymore at all - just read - and that only in my very niche communities that aren’t likely to be targeted for this kind of bullshit.

Lemme know how it goes! Be aware, not all Hatch chiles are spicy, you can get them in mild or hot to your liking, obviously, I prefer hot. But then again, I actually get them from Hatch, NM once every few years and freeze them.

Sure thing.

1 lb pork shoulder
32 oz water
4 tsp chicken bouillon granules
1 can (14oz) petite diced tomatoes
1 cup of roasted/peeled hatch peppers diced (or 1 cup prepackaged/canned diced)
2 Tbs fresh lime juice
1 tsp tomato paste
1/2 tsp ground pepper
1/4 tsp each paprika, garlic powder, onion powder and cumin
2 Tbs corn starch/2 Tbs water slurry

Directions: Cube pork into 1" cubes and add to deep soup pan over a burner on high. Allow pork to cook through on high heat, allowing it to carmelize and render out a good percentage of the fat (remove rendered fat or leave it in for as decadent as you like it). Deglaze with about 1/4 cup of the water and scrape well to get all the bits loose. Add the rest of the ingredients (except the corn starch/water slurry). Bring everything to a boil, then turn heat to medium/low. Simmer for one hour, until the pork chunks break down. Use a masher to stringify the pork and distribute it throughout. Add 2 tbs corn starch/2 tbs water slurry to boiling mixture at the end and stir to thicken. Allow to cook uncovered for 15 more minutes.

Edit: Finished product looks like this. Apologies in advance for the American measures, lol.

Hatch Green Chile Pepper Soup. It’s cheap, fabulous and spicy. The Hatch green chilis are the star of course, but it also has pork, bouillon, diced tomatoes/tomato paste, lime juice, and spices.

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There’s a reason England was by and large happy to see the ass-end of the morons they shipped over here to seed this colony. It’s always been like this, you just see it now because of the Internet. Well, also because their numbers have dwindled so much they’re forced to homogenize. Used to be they’d argue back and forth about the correct belief system endlessly (you’ll recall Protestants at one time loathed Catholics and Mormons were a heretical and dangerous cult to be avoided). Now their only message is how you have to get all your holes filled while dying your hair and fucking up your face with caked on makeup and plastic surgery - anything to pump up the numbers.

For those of us who have given serious thought to philosophy and life and death and science versus myth - we’ve managed to get a grip on mortality. These freaks have not and can not - they don’t have the tools for it. And thus, they all remain themselves tools.

Plenty of us over here have been frustrated about it our whole lives, even before the Internet. There’s nothing to do but wait it out. You can’t fix stupid.

Gary? hahaha Gary! Gaaaaary

Totally normal, just out of curiosity what was the song?

I had a guy whose name I did know help me out in a bad situation about 30 years ago. But about six months later, I moved across the country and never saw him again. I just recalled him to mind a few weeks ago and… I can’t remember his name.

It felt kind of like a betrayal, I should have remembered, he was a huge help to me when a lot of people hung me out to dry. But such is the imperfection of meat memory. :(

I have a copy of the first edition of “The Internet for Dummies.” It’s worthless, just like the Internet.

Such a great song, the lyrics go surprisingly hard.

I had downloaded the full (no pictures) Wikipedia earlier this year for exactly this reason. This thread told me about kiwix, which is awesome, so I downloaded the “Wikipedia .08” using kiwix, which is the best 45,000 articles from Wikipedia with pictures and it’s 7G, very manageable, has most topics anyone would care about.

Pretty sure Lemmy got on the influence bot radar some few months ago. Comments are now deeply negative and constantly drumming the 2FA and guillotine remedies to every complaint. Interactions outside of this kind of content I still find Lemmy users to be magnitudes higher quality than Reddit.

I have less than no use for his religion/politics, but his shows are a lot of fun and he (thankfully) keeps that shit completely out of them. For such an old dude, you’d think he wouldn’t be able to still be such an entertainer, but his shows are wild - giant monsters, huge sets, pyrotechnics - a lot of fun.

Also, damn - he really does look like an old haggard Steve Carrell.

OK, so I’m not the only one who’s like… hey he’s rocking the 'stache again!

I mean, this is really probably the best use I can think of for AI slop, let’s give credit where it is due.

Same here. I made sure I quit all the drama subs, all the big subs and I only keep my carefully curated niche content communities in my reddit feed. There’s really nothing on Lemmy about, say… Elite Dangerous, so I still browse it to keep up on what’s new.

What I don’t do is engage. Reddit is too full of bots and too full of itself to be of any usefulness in engagement. I can’t help them, they can’t help me, there’s no point in doing anything but reading on Reddit.

Lemmy, on the other hand, is almost all engagement, because without it there’s not much else, unless you like memes, which I do. Talking to people here is rewarding and interesting, the exact opposite of reddit, which delights in doing nothing but shitting on your head and being generally insufferable/boring.

I want to believe.