not to turn it entirely political, but

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This will always be a game of cat and mouse, but I know that for example 3rd gen tacomas have a module that does all the talking (has the SIM card). You can pull a fuse and it kills it, but you lose your Bluetooth microphone also if you connect your phone and want to make calls - however it’s just a power passthrough so it’s really easy to splice a bypass cable that gives power back to the microphone in the cab.

There’s other stuff you can do, like disconnecting the antennas but supposedly if there’s a good enough cell signal the traces on the PCB will still transmit, I dunno.

Either way, there’s ways to get around a lot of the invasive stuff in modern vehicles but it gets harder every year.

It’s super easy to configure over a LAN.

You set up a folder path to sync, authorize it between two machines, and set up your configuration (mirrored sync, one way, etc).

For photos taken by my phone for example, I have two syncs set up (maybe not the best way to do it it’s just how I did it in 5 min when I started and never changed it)

Phone has a 2 way sync set up with my photo folder with my desktop. Meaning, when I delete/modify a photo either at my phone or the desktop it deletes/modifies the photo on the other device.

Additionally, I have a 1-way sync of my photo folder between my desktop and my server archive, so the server only pulls in new files and never deletes or modifies existing files in the archive. So if something happens to my sync folder or if I delete something on accident then I have an archive copy, important for precious memories. Every now and then I just delete the contents of the archive folder and it immediately re-syncs the existing folder of all the stuff I actually wanted to keep. Could set up a cron job but I’m too lazy.

For Joplin I just have a folder on each device that’s JUST my Joplin notes that syncs between my devices that use Joplin. Easy as pie - as soon as I turn on my laptop or desktop it syncs up with whatever changes have happened on the other two.

For syncthing I like to make a top level sync folder on each device and then nest many folders under that top level, each to sync distinct things depending on what device it is. You can just sync a main folder if you want but I like the granular control, and as you figure out more stuff to sync it scales much better if you start that way, and name folders consistently.

Just be careful in the beginning and always back stuff up. It’s not TOO easy to mess up but if you did it would be unforgiving. Test it with some random stuff before you start sending anything important.

I don’t have a square to spare

As someone who used NC with Joplin for a long time, I wouldn’t recommend it. I prefer syncthing now, much simpler to manage and find your files vs it being nested in a big clunky NC instance.

Joplin works really well for me. Was syncing via nextcloud for a long time but syncthing is way easier to manage and more bulletproof as long as you configure it correctly

I thought 8 was good. It came out at a time in my life when grinding for spells to boost stats wasn’t offensive to me.

Never went back and replayed it. It’s in the uncanny valley of instead of using blobby, well designed yet simple graphics it was trying to look good realistically but not quite nailing it, and the controls are clunky.

Wouldn’t say I loved it but it came after 7 and I mean, huge shoes to fill. But I did NOT like 9 at all so I still remember it as good, all things considered.

I totally agree with you, but that problem is way harder to solve than LLMs and music generation.

We got LLMs and music/image generators first because there’s so much written information, music recordings, and images to train models on. There’s practically zero data about how your body moves when you’re washing dishes and what it looks like in the sink, what a dirty plate looks like or a clean one, so we can’t just train robots to do it yet except in extremely specified environments with as few variables as possible.

There’s a lot of advancement in this area, trying to solve these problems. Robotics is a very exciting field of advancement these days. Automated dish cleaning machines exist that don’t use AI, but they’re industrial and expensive. If you want something that uses dawn, a sponge, elbow grease, and your particular style and height and form factor of kitchen sink, we need a lot of data about people washing dishes to train models on.

At least, at this point we do. We will probably get to a point where an AI enabled robot can learn new manual tasks, but think about how long it took YOU, a human, to develop and learn motor function and coordination. All that motor telemetry data, input sounds, sights, and tactile sensations are handled by your brain silently, and we take it all for granted. But it’s all built off a lifetime of your brain taking input data and processing it so you can run the biomechanical series of squishy meat levers and pulleys to wash the dishes.

I had about 150 dives under my belt before I ever did my first night dive (I was not an advanced diver by any means but definitely quite comfortable in the water).

It was a shore dive where you kicked out about 30m and then just dropped down at a buoy line, couldn’t be easier. I’d done that dive plenty of times in the day, you just follow the rope down to a concrete filled bucket, easy peasy.

Holy shit. As I started to drop and the darkness pooled around me my breathing got REAL quick. Got down to the bottom and I recognized that I was freaking out some so I just chilled for a minute looking around and getting used to my light beam being my entire vision space.

After about two minutes I got thrilled/excited/amazed instead of panicky, and after that it’s never been an issue, but it took a deliberate, conscious effort to stow away my lizard brain and force myself to realize that I was not in existential danger.

I LOVE night diving, I’m a night owl anyways so it’s all the things I love about the peace and quiet of the night, AND the peace and quiet of diving. It’s bliss.

But yeah, that first drop into the blackness… Woo. I’ll always remember it just as vividly as my first open water boat dive.

Nope. These numbers are reported in USD after converting.

Yes, they are actually that huge.

Hey you’re fighting the good fight with your really great replies to the ignorant replies you’re getting, more power to you.

I’ve seen some dumb takes on Lemmy but “science of music theory is western eurocentric colonialism” is a new low bar.

Better experience than cows milk

Yeah I’d assume that getting milk straight from the cow doesn’t measure up

Poker is what I was referring to as requiring thought, yes. But more complicated games like craps can also be too much if you’re hammered, especially at a busy table.

Blackjack is pretty formulaic about the best move to make depending on what cards you get and what the dealer’s up card is. You can look it up, it’s a chart. Memorize it, walk in, and you’re in business. A lot of casinos will even give you a card to have at the table with all the moves on it if you ask. The only real variance is that casinos use multiple decks so it messes with the probabilities, so you’re always at a very slight disadvantage even if you play “perfectly.” Counting cards can swing that last couple% points of probability in your favor.

So there’s no thought or strategy to it. If X, do Y. It’s pretty easy to learn, so it’s very beginner friendly. Also great for when I’m hammered and can’t play anything that I need to have mental skills for.

Craps is gambling. There’s infinite numbers of “strategies” but they’re all just different ways to bet, just more complicated versions of “put 100 on black” at a roulette table, and none of them will beat the house over time.

Poker requires tons of thought to play well, and there’s no skill ceiling. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a strategy game but there are strategies. It’s an adversarial puzzle game of broken information, it’s not gambling.

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No judgement, I can see how it came off that way though.

I like crazy 8s and rummy and stuff like that, but they’re in a different category of fun.

Poker is a game of broken information, where you try to decode your opponent’s hand based off of their actions in relation to the board state and future possibilities, and what you know of their own personal style.

Wild cards introduce RNG that throws the entire core game loop of poker out the window. People are free to enjoy it but it’s extremely rare for people who play the game regularly to want wild cards in their games. I can’t think of anyone in all my years of playing to be honest but I’m sure they exist. I would never play a game with cash with wild cards, what’s the point? And I can’t imagine wanting to play a free game with wild cards with anyone but kids.

Wild cards+cash, I might as well play craps or any other gambling game in the casino, and then at least I get the fun of watching crazy superstitious people. Poker is NOT gambling, but there is an element of chance of course.

Hope that helps clear it up.

It’s dumb af if you like playing poker. If you like playing card games with a 52 card deck like crazy 8s or whatever, it can be fun.

Hey if it works for you, go for it. Blackjack used to be my fallback game in a casino when I was too drunk to think straight enough for real strategy.

Not all, no. DNS level blocking gets a lot, but not all. I use a pi hole at home and it didn’t manage to get a lot of in-app ads, but once I rooted then things got a lot better.

Could possibly be block lists, but I’m not sure.

Correct, blackjack is pretty much the only way you can make money reliably at US casinos, if you study and learn how to do it, which takes a lot of time and practice, and being in the right parts of the country.

But it’s so BORING. I don’t understand who can just grind grind grind blackjack for a living.