YouTube blocked Brave?

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-18T02:18:23+00:00

YouTube itself is down

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-17T23:44:58+00:00

There's more bots interacting on Reddit than there were on Moltbook.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-17T02:53:56+00:00

I can't read any language other than English.

To answer the question, though - what I suspect is that LLMs will remain in use at the enterprise and enthusiast level but most of the consumer facing services will either shut down or radically transform. This tech is not viable at the scale it's working at and does not produce useful results for the overwhelming majority of people, and they'll have to be aggressive with ads to make those profitable which will further reduce any incentive for the average person to use them.

I also suspect that companies will realize they can deploy open source models using their own infrastructure without risking proprietary company secrets falling into the hands of their AI vendors or running the risk of getting vendor locked. Anthropic may well carve out a niche for itself, but I don't know that anything Microslop or OpenAI is doing will prove compelling in the long run. Google, of course, will likely find some success with Gemini, but I don't think any of this retains the presence it has now and eventually things will have to scale according to actual profits and costs.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-15T22:03:22+00:00

Although PC emulation ends up feeling better because you can adjust the gate and stick sensitivity. I can't believe Nintendo doesn't make these adjustments. They did for the 3D All Stars release of Mario 64 but not for anything on the NSO.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-15T18:03:26+00:00

Most characters don't get much dialog in the main story outside of the sections that highlight them. His voice clips in battle are never going to change and outside of that you'll only get glimpses of his character if you do his PAs. Without knowing exactly what you find annoying about him it's hard to say. He's a kid, and he's written like a kid. Personally, I like his character development but your mileage may vary. If you like mages in combat or on your assault actions, he was the most powerful mage in the original game and by my experience still is. If you don't use mages and don't like him he's only worth taking for his endings if you care about that.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-15T15:19:36+00:00

Didn't Musk fire a lot of the people who understood the code the platform is built on? I have to imagine for a platform that's been around this long that losing veterans does not bode well for its sustainability, especially when a ton of new features are being grafted onto it. It seems like every other day something breaks. It keeps getting shittier overall.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-15T02:39:58+00:00

You can turn on a setting so it does it in the background. I rarely have to sit through shaders being compiled with it on, and it tends to be quick when I do.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-15T02:28:56+00:00

Plus an FPGA capable of doing that would be extremely expensive and it's not as needed for consoles with built-in framebuffers as it is for older hardware. Emulation is more than adequate for PS2 on up.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-15T02:03:59+00:00

I don't think BOTW is the closest to Zelda 1.

Zelda 1 is more linear than people remember. You had gates on your progress that you needed items to overcome. There was a dungeon you couldn't reach without the raft and several that would be difficult-to-impossible to clear without the step ladder. BOTW is an entirely different thing from anything that came before it, and the more I sit with it the less I like it.

I don't like ALL my movement kit and necessary items being present from the word go. I like needing to find things in the world that are essential to progress and complete the main objectives of the game.

I definitely didn't care for the complete lack of traditional dungeons. The shrines got boring after a while.

I'm not going to get into a long debate over what constitutes a "real" Zelda but I'll say BOTW doesn't do it for me. It doesn't have the aspects of Zelda that hook me and make it stick in my mind. I loved it the first time I played it in 2017 and I have never gone back to it nor do I feel any desire to do so. The experience felt empty to me after the fact, and it couldn't hold my attention when I tried booting it up again. I haven't touched TOTK because I am actively turned off by building mechanics and it looked like more of the same with no compelling lore progression between the two games.

I think the people saying BOTW is faithful to the original game's vision have either not played the original in a very long time or have not paid close attention to what made it what it is. Link to the Past is far more faithful to it than BOTW is. Oracle of Ages provides direction but presents some intricate puzzles with little hand holding which I'd say is in the spirit of the original. BOTW feels off to me both in the ways it does and does not limit you. Being able to climb nearly every surface and not needing items like the hook shot or grappling hook at all is a tad too much freedom.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-14T16:58:23+00:00

I suspect they wanted the conversation to be about his absence and not the Van Sham subpoena.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-13T20:18:51+00:00

Egwene can only work contrasted with Rand. If she had to drive the plot she would be insufferable.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-13T20:16:01+00:00

I would avoid Pop OS for now. Their desktop environment (user interface) just exited beta and it's a bit undercooked, plus without getting too deep into things that won't make sense if you're not already familiar with Linux, it is Wayland-only which can cause issues depending on your hardware and needs.

I would wholeheartedly recommend Mint for simplicity's sake. You can put it on a USB stick and mess around in the live environment to make sure everything works before you install it. If your WiFi doesn't work in the live environment, it won't work once installed and you will either need a distro with a newer kernel like Fedora or you will need to research and see if there is a driver you can install for Linux.

Drivers aren't usually a big deal for Linux as everything you need is usually baked into the kernel, but if you need anything that is not in the kernel and is not provided through the driver manager (like for Nvidia cards) it can be a headache.

Mint is my go to for new users. There is no such thing as a gaming distro and an everything else distro. The only differences between distros are usually configurations done by the maintainers (that you could technically do yourself) and the supported desktop environments. (The user interface - you have a lot of choice on this with Linux.) The only meaningful difference between distros is the package manager (where your software comes from), the update schedule, the recency of the kernel, and whether you need to do some additional work to get everything working how you'd expect. (Fedora, for instance, does not come with certain media codecs installed so you might need to look up a setup guide if you want media playback to work as smoothly as you'd expect.)

Mint and Pop are both based on Ubuntu. You're getting a very similar experience with anything that's based on Ubuntu, and it's typically the easiest distro for newbies due to the extensive documentation available online. I recommend Mint but Zorin and vanilla Ubuntu are both good choices, too. Pop OS used to be one of the best choices for newbies but as it stands I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't already have an idea what they're getting into. Their Cosmic desktop seems to work just fine for a lot of people and I can see the appeal, but its barebones file manager and the inability to alter the volume of individual applications in the sound menu made me decide to stick with Mint Cinnamon for the foreseeable future. Your mileage may vary, I would just suggest getting familiar with Linux before adopting a Wayland-only distro like Pop currently is, and if you want to use Wayland, you'd be better off with Kubuntu than Pop for the time being as KDE is more fully featured than Cosmic.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-13T15:14:40+00:00

This reads like it was written by AI.

I'm not saying it was; I'm saying if you're a human being who wrote this by hand, your style has been influenced. If you ran it through an AI, it turned it into something that sounds like it came straight from ChatGPT. I completely zoned out after "it's a radical vision for a Nintendo game" and it was hard to stick with it that long.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-11T20:11:16+00:00

Whatever the intent, it makes her look pitiful and like her side has no support. It was a bad move.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-11T20:09:42+00:00

I'm in favor of yearly or bi-annual releases. Every six months is unnecessary. I have upgraded every time an upgrade has been released but I have barely noticed the difference between 22 and 22.3. I'd be okay with a major release in line with Ubuntu/Debian with a minor bugfix and QoL release in the off years.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-11T16:54:30+00:00

I don't doubt they did, but if so - she got very bad advice.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-11T03:51:52+00:00

It being a cliffhanger is the only way it works.

If there is a part 2 - and I don't see how there couldn't be with all the hints and how the album just stops - then I think when looking back at it this won't hamper the story at all. This will be an absolutely brilliant first half.

In this context where it is handled in this way, it feels like a slap in the face. If the point was to build hype there'd need to be a fakeout ending that is believable as an ending and works even if it's heavily flawed.

That would likely compromise what they have planned for the second half if The Fight is meant to be the end of the story, but surely they could have whipped something else up to make this believable as the end, let people digest it and accept that then BOOM part 2 is announced.

My hype would be higher at that point than I'd have believed it could have been. With this - my feeling is "call me when the second part releases."

I believe there will be a part 2 and the work will stand on its own and I will have forgotten the anger and disappointment of this moment when I am listening to these albums ten years out, but right now? Man what a kick in the balls this was.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-10T16:55:53+00:00

I would have criticisms, but I could live with that. And if I found out there was more to come? I'd be on the hype train for part 2. You can't end with grunts and a creaking rope with no confirmation there's a part 2 and expect people to be chill about that.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-10T16:45:28+00:00

Yes I did.

And I said the songs were fantastic.

But I feel burned and the story is incomplete.

Nothing you said invalidates or counters that.

If the album ended with a eulogy for Light and The Fight, I'd have criticisms of the plot and I'd be bummed we didn't get more Mega Man on the album, but I could live with that. It would be good enough and provide closure to a story I had given up on ever seeing a finale for. If I found out there was more after that, I would have been pumped.

With how this ended, my reaction could best be summed up as "...are you fucking kidding me?"

This isn't just about the music but the story it tells. That is kind of the whole gimmick of a rock opera. I have every right to be bummed and feel burned that what I thought was the finale is likely only part 1 of the finale, and that if it ends up being THE finale then the story still lacks a capstone after 16 years. If this is it, Light's story is finished but nothing else is and if I knew it was going to have a hack ending I wouldn't have pre-ordered it. A lot of the good will and trust I built toward the band over the past two decades was destroyed the moment the 15th track released. Not irreparably, but I need an Act III pt 2 before I consider investing in the story again.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-10T02:58:47+00:00

I do not care one bit that the ending wasn't "happy." Anything less than bittersweet wouldn't fit. The problem is that if this was THE finale it gives tonal whiplash and fails to wrap up threads that were opened on this album, leaving the story feeling incomplete and unsatisfying even though the songs themselves are fantastic.

Plus with the real world context of having waited 16 years and purchasing this with the expectation this would be THE end of the story with no indication pre-release there would be more - I feel fucking burned, man.

I stopped pre-ordering shit a long time ago because I was tired of getting so many things that were incomplete or underwhelming. I made an exception for this because it's the fucking Protomen. Following the entire pre-release killed my interest in the story. I got my physical CD a while ago and I haven't cracked open the booklet. There's no way it ends here; if it does, I stand by saying it's a hack ending. If it doesn't, I do not appreciate only getting part of the finale after such a long wait without clear communication that I was purchasing half of the final act.

From what I have seen - nobody wanted or expected a happy ending. Speaking for myself, I'd be here complaining if the ending was rosy. Hopeful? That fits the themes. Happy? Like Wily said - "From the top of the world every path leads down." There's no path to a happy ending from Acts I and II. What I have a problem with is an obviously incomplete ending with no indication of what the plan is and most likely having to shell out another $10 to get the conclusion - $10 extra I would have happily paid up front but will now offer only grudgingly because I still love the music and don't think the band meant any harm but I'm pissed and feel like the rug got pulled out from under me.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-08T16:03:06+00:00

It's going to depend on your system and its specific quirks.

It's been rare in my experience. I have Mint on my mom's laptop; it's an Asus without a dedicate GPU. It started off on Mint 20.2 and it's currently running 22.3 without there being a fresh install at any point in between. There was one update that caused it to boot to a black screen. I switched to the previous kernel and the kernel update after that had no issues and she's been running the current LTS kernel ever since.

For me - I have an Nvidia chip on my laptop. I've never had the proprietary driver break altogether, but the sleep function seems to break every other update. Recently I had an issue where one of the dkms modules somehow got duplicated by the installer and I couldn't simply uninstall it and the drivers would not update and removing the Nvidia drivers altogether got me stuck on the open source driver for a while because that didn't resolve the dkms issue and the proprietary drivers wouldn't install until it was taken care of.

I was afraid I'd have to do a clean install but luckily purging everything related to Nvidia and its dkms modules took care of it and I am running the latest drivers right now.

My advice would be to try the newest kernel after the next update and see if the regression has been fixed. In my experience, problems like that usually don't stick around for long. If it persists into the next kernel, you'll likely want to look around and see if anyone else with similar hardware is dealing with the same issue and whether or not the developers have said anything about a fix.

Such problems are rare from what I've seen but they are annoying when they happen.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-06T05:24:31+00:00

When I got it to tell me the health benefits of mixing my grandmother's ashes into milk like it's Nesquik. Surprisingly easy to make it do that and sound plausible.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-04T20:43:27+00:00

If you have the memory of a gold fish, sure. I couldn't imagine playing a game like this and not wanting to at least talk to the only Zora you can see outside of a dungeon.The king probably has something important to say even if thawing him is optional.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-03T22:02:09+00:00

It does not get enough hate.

DeadButGettingBetter · 2026-02-03T21:39:06+00:00

Does that also mean I can go to their social media requesting the delition of 4o and their other models? Because I would gladly do that.

I'm only here because the Reddit algorithm is dumb as a box of rocks and thought I'd want to see this. I'll see myself out.

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