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byjove

cats love to do this form of entrapment where they show you their belly

alixanderdisaster

tamaralusher

the eggs

Playing around with Linux Mint on my old laptop. Trying to see if it is a viable option for gaming and for professional use at the shop.

We’ve starting to get issues loading certain websites such as vendor website where the page lags for a few seconds. Win 10 and win 11, different browsers and different computers.

Tested the same website on Mint and every one loaded up, no freezing, snappy response time.

Microsoft is a scourge of tech.

#linux #linux mint #tech #microsoft #windows 10 #windows 11

homunculus-argument

Still trying to get the hang of this light-texture-thingy I've been trying to learn to do.

homunculus-argument

Another one: Secret horse.

smol-blue-bird

I went to a library book sale this weekend and I found a very old book called “Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers,” which was published in I think 1975? I’ve been reading it kind of like how I would read a historical document, and it’s lowkey fascinating

smol-blue-bird

There’s a whole paragraph that’s like “okay, find the keyboard. Don’t panic if it has more keys than a typewriter, that’s normal. Really, it’s fine. The extra keys don’t make things harder. It’s FINE”

smol-blue-bird

Thought this section was particularly interesting:

Can the computer create something? At first glance it seems obvious that it can. Animated computer graphics, with their fluid transitions and whiplash perspectives, look strikingly new. And if one watches the machine doing animation work, there seem to be lengthy periods when the computer is acting “on its own.”

But if one observes these processes in more detail, it becomes clear that creation is not occurring within the machine. First of all, computer graphics are not unique. Computers have yet to generate anything that cannot be done by hand—and usually already has been done. Second, the apparent ability of the computer to “act on its own” is the outcome of thousands of hours of patient human effort to refine its instructions. The computer can manipulate a shape for us if we have already informed it what a shape is, what the rules for shape manipulation are, what this specific shape is, and so forth.

You can start an automobile engine and it will run by itself, too, but that doesn’t mean it’s being creative. It’s just running.

theriu

Somebody in 1975 had a better understanding of why artificial intelligence is not in any way “intelligence” than the majority of today’s intellectual minds.

spottedhoneybee

Pt. 96

i wish i could just make gay doodles all day instead of going to work 😭

anyway thanks for reading <3

Apparently there was a live action Moana remake…

Apparently it flopped…

Did they even advertise it?

Idc, Disney needs more losses.

A hungry demon tried to eat my ear while I was sleeping this morning….

An hour before her breakfast and she’s munching on my ear!

#cats of tumblr #cats #salem

guerrillatech

Well I did a big fuck up at work.

While replacing an HDMI port for an Xbox series x I must have bumped the underside of the board with the hot air gun causing this tiny chip (hdmi booster ic) to shift.

I have not been successful in getting it back in place or replacing it with a new chip.

This is likely the smallest chip I’ve had to work with so far.

I may end up having to buy this guy a whole new Xbox if I am unable to repair this.

#I am stressed #it’s a stupid mistake to make

captain-price-returns

quasi-normalcy

I don't understand how this is even a defence in the age of drone warfare.

graham-folger

Or even like... Cannon warfare.

quasi-normalcy

Yeah, the Ottomans could have taken this in the fourteenth century.

alixanderdisaster

Unless those shipping containers are filled with rebar and concrete they ain’t stopping anything.

depsidase

Vet couldn’t get her in this week so she is scheduled for Monday next week.

She’s definitely getting more comfortable I think. Less scared more chatty less hissy.

Letting her run around the break room at the shop after hours.

#shop cat #cats of tumblr #calico

sapropel

Apolitically killing bandits and savages in my video game with no messages

diet-poison

asked the skyrim bandits why they were living in a cave and they explained the war effort has buried the economy so they can't find work and lost their homes. I use my shout to blast them across the cave and find a preeeetty nice sword among their belongings

orthusisintheforest

Hi this reminds me of the skyrim quest I always think about constantly.

It happens during the whole vampire questline. It's not related to vampires. I may misremember details so forgive me for that. But you have to go through old dwemer ruins and you meet the last living snow elf in Skyrim. You know, the snow elves. Who were enslaved by the dwemer and went blind and feral and still live in the ruins long after the dwemer are gone. The falmer is what they're called now. Here's the last one who's in their original form.

And oh hey, to get to where you need to go you have to take a path that's an old snow elf coming of age rite of passage. And he's going to take you through it and you're going to learn about this dead culture, this culture that was killed.

And now you've got what you came for and there's one way out. Now that you've learned what the falmer used to be, where they came from, what was lost because of the dwemer enslaving them, you have to go through a falmer village.

It's a narrow canyon lined with huts. There's no way to avoid it, in order to get through you have to kill them. They attack you because that's what they do to people invading their territory. You're invading their village. You have to kill them or they'll kill you. It's the only way out. You feel terrible.

If you stop to loot one of the huts on your way out you'll find a book full of unreadable text. Take it to the winterhold college and give it to the librarian and he'll tell you that it's a remarkable find because it's evidence that falmer have retained intelligence. They're not just mindless feral monsters. They have this book, they've kept this book even though they can't see. They have a culture. Maybe they still remember what happened to them. Maybe that's why they're so mad.

You just killed so many of them. You're going to have to kill many more.

Anyway.

Video game with no messages.