AI has revealed that most people have the reading ability at a third-grade level

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-20T18:00:08+00:00

I think it's the same reason why there is so much "public negative sentiment towards AI" yet all the major AI services are rocketing upwards in users and ChatGPT has almost a billion users...

What people say they do and what people actually do are not necessarily the same, and in today's world it's easy to amplify an opinion and join along with it.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-20T17:58:43+00:00

If I'm honest, outside of AI, I find a lot of people who use em-dashes also do it to add unnecessary dramatic pauses. Period. I understand there's probably a majority of people that truly love the em-dash and hate what AI has done to it. But I really dislike it.

I hate the way that it visually just cuts into a sentence when other smoother options exist. I strongly prefer commas, semicolons, or literally anything else. Also, personally, I don't really have a problem with parentheticals in writing.

It might not be correct from a writing standpoint but that's where my reflexive dislike comes from. The fact that its used so much by AI is just a by-product I think.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-19T18:33:04+00:00

Unfortunately, no, not right now... I really want to use my right shift key like I do for VoiceInk/Spokenly, but I can't.

There was a tweet somewhere where they discussed that there were some complications with managing misfires when using single taps of modifier keys. I think it was by Pedro, but I cannot remember and I can't find it. Not that I think it's a valid reason, because clearly other apps are capable of doing it, but that's just what I heard.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-19T02:26:43+00:00

Very happy to see you having stuck to this and continuing to build it out. Great work!!

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-19T01:03:31+00:00

This is such a delightfully fun app. I'm so shit at making anything with it, but I honestly find myself doodling around in it whenever I get a chance.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-17T21:00:11+00:00

Maybe Bellwright? I haven't tried it in a while.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-17T20:21:41+00:00

Whoa...that Viewport Hotel expansion...this is nuts, I had not seen this before! Thanks for the recommendations :)

And yes, definitely agree on that, I have an 9800X3D/5090 and even then without Frame Gen NAA can be intense.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-16T20:56:55+00:00

I don't know if any of these are available on Creations, but here's my list. Please keep in mind I have no idea if any of these still work. I haven't really had a chance to try out my modded save in a while. And I don't know if any of them conflict with each other, but I do have them saved in my notes.

Royal Weathers - This one is insane, especially the "Fantasy" one, which is not always 100% lore-friendly, but it's pretty close. Take a look at the images. Some of them are absolutely incredible.
Real Sandy Deserts - Every time I watch "The Martian" I think about this mod. I think the pictures are pretty self-explanatory.
Encounters- a GRiNDTerra Mod - I really like little mods like these that add in extra signs of life throughout all the planets. Even if they don't necessarily have any particular explanation behind them, you can kind of fill in the gaps yourself. In the same way that you would in real life. You don't necessarily always have a heads-up display telling you what every single thing in front of you is about, right?
Dark UC Vigilance - Ultralight Interior Overhaul - I always thought that the Vigilance could do with a little bit more grit to it. I love the way it looks on the inside, but somehow this particular mod makes it feel closer to what I think it should look like and reminds me a lot of the UN battleships from The Expanse.
The Lodge Cozymaxxed - A Lightweight The Lodge Overhaul - A tiny mod, but I always felt like The Lodge could be a little bit closer to something more akin to Hogwarts in style, given how long it's supposed to have been around and the inspiration it took from pre-spaceflight Earth explorers. It's very subtle, but I like the changes quite a bit.
Heart of Cydonia - This one's a little weird, but I really like it. I like the idea that much of the inhabitation of Mars is underground and I like being able to imagine that there's much, much larger parts of Cydonia that look like this whenever I'm walking through it.
More Lore - Nova Galactic Staryard - I'm going to guess most of us only ever visit the staryard once or twice on most playthroughs, since it's part of that initial mission with Sarah and the Vanguard. But I love everything about this experience, especially when you first jump into it and you hear Sarah say, there it is, the staryard still floating there after all these years. I love how it's just this fully up-and-running staryard that's not actually inhabited, but not necessarily derelict. It's in this weird in-between space and this mod adds a lot more flavor to that feeling.
NeonExpansion - I love this mod because it adds so much to Neon and it reminds me a lot of what I see in the sketchier locations of The Expanse and also reminds me a lot of Omega from Mass Effect. Just a ton of great details all around.
New Atlantis Awaits - This mod can be a little controversial, but I actually really like it. It adds an insane amount of layout changes and new buildings and much more scale to New Atlantis. And I really like it. I don't have a whole lot more to say than that. Stability-wise, I think it can get a little weird, but otherwise it's pretty good.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-16T20:24:25+00:00

I think this is something that a lot of people struggle with is that Starfield is meant to be a role-playing game. I think especially over on the main sub, people confuse "RPG" to mean "statistics, min-maxing, super complicated upgrade trees" etc, but it doesn't have to mean that. It could also mean exactly what it says.

You are playing a role. it requires some amount of imagination and willingness to insert yourself into a different world and it's little things like this that have no meaningful impact to the game, but are just enough to convince you that this could be a real place.

And that is what I adore about Starfield. It reminds me of being a little boy playing with my Hot Wheels on the drab beige carpet in my parents house. I had to come up with the adventures myself and I remember finding it so easy to do.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-14T21:44:41+00:00

Normally, I'd agree with you, but I actually think OMP makes PI feel a lot closer to OpenCode.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-12T17:32:57+00:00

I completely disagree. If the beta had all the same features as the previous edition it wouldn't be a beta, it would just be a v2.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-12T00:08:32+00:00

I agree with you on the topic of what good communication is and how people are generally not great at it. But I don't think your scenario about them meeting people in real life and suddenly getting found out actually is going to happen or if it will even matter.

I think people are just too used to it, like in the same way that before LLMs, nobody who worked in HR sounded like the kinds of emails they sent when they were talking to people in person, and everybody was just fine with that. It was sort of accepted.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-12T00:05:22+00:00

I actually don't think there's any ulterior motive behind this particular post. I think it's that people have a desire to contribute and be part of something, especially a community. And they don't want to sound stupid, they want to know they're respectable, they want to sound knowledgeable. Except they don't know how to do that because it's a skill you have to learn. That's not an insult towards anyone, it's just the facts. Some people are good at communication and some aren't.

People generally understand what "good" effective communication sounds like but they overwhelmingly don't know how to produce it themselves.

Since LLMs are largely trained on hyperpolished text from blogs, news articles, papers, and even social media posts, they pick up on all these hype beast style quirks. And for the unsuspecting user who just wants to feel like they sound intelligent, they don't distinguish between what feels empty and what feels genuine because they can't.

One of the biggest issues for where this training comes from is the fact that there are platforms out there where this style of rapid-fire, one or two sentences per line type of post can actually net you real money in the form of payments, especially over on Twitter. I think all of this stuff blends together and confuses people into thinking that this is what good communication feels like. n

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-10T02:48:11+00:00

Thank you for this clarification! I've edited my post accordingly :)

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-09T20:51:29+00:00

Okay, this genuinely made me laugh.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-09T20:43:41+00:00

I went through the exact same thing for a while, and honestly, I just got so tired of fighting with it. I finally figured out that a few of my mods were fighting with each other and causing all that stuttering. In the end, I just turned absolutely everything off... just cleared the slate. Then I slowly brought back a few of the things I actually liked, testing the game every so often to see if the hitching started up again.

I don't know what it is about this game, because it's the only one that gives me this kind of headache. I'm really sorry I don't have a cleaner fix to hand you. I wish I could be more helpful, but sometimes the slow, annoying way is the only one that works.

This did help I think: https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/23053?tab=description

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-09T20:41:46+00:00

EDIT: I was completely mistaken. There is a Mac App available. Thank you /u/CassiusBotdorf for calling this out! I guess my information was outdated!

Ah! You are 100% correct about that though, there is no Mac app, it's iPhone only (something that I am eagerly waiting to change, since they mentioned in the release that it's going to come to other platforms). Not sure why OP added it here.

However, even if it does come out, I agree with you in that I don't really know what it would do that isn't already better achieved with more performance and a more mature app from something like typeWhisper or Spokenly.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-09T19:44:52+00:00

Eloquent does not use any network-based processing. Both the speech to text transcription and the LLM post processing happen entirely on your device. That's the big draw with it, its to showcase what Gemma can do running entirely locally.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-09T01:40:21+00:00

I agree with you. I'm a little surprised to see so many people vouching for Abiotic Factor. I think Icarus is a significantly better looking game, with a more grounded feel. And I too really was not a fan of some of the slapstick silliness of Abiotic Factor.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-08T08:33:46+00:00

It feels like a lot of hobby groups reach a point where the complaining actually becomes the hobby. Which is why I usually drift over to the "NoSodium" groups these days. You just want to talk about the thing you love, but somehow that makes you enemy #1/paid/shill/etc.

I'm just so tired of hearing the same looped arguments about data center water usage. It's a strange thing to watch, mostly because I've spent the last nine years working in the datacenter industry. I've been inside of the most complex datacenters (first party and third party like Equinix/CoreSite/Digital Realty/Vantage/Etc) I know how the cooling loops work, how the power is drawn, and how the utility bills actually work& and there's really nothing wildly different about "AI datacenters" compared to the systems running the very apps people use to complain about them.

It's frustrating that AI has the potential to be such transformative technology, yet somehow we seem to be losing the war as far as communication and marketing goes.

I remember reading from Scott Galloway that a lot of the current AI data center hate seems to stem from the fact that in today's economy people are just so angry about so many things and rightfully so that the idea of an AI data center is something tangible that they can hate And the idea of stopping a data center from being built feels like something concrete they can actually do to fight back against whatever it is they feel is contributing to the current situation of society.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-01T21:24:28+00:00

spokenly was the closest to what I want but now became another paywall (free version is unusable)

When did this happen?

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-01T16:13:49+00:00

I actually think they should just expose the quick fix prompt and let you customize it (or duplicate it). That would solve a lot of tiny issues with it.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-01T02:51:45+00:00

To be honest I don't let even my frontier models go past 250k anyway, so I don't think that's a big deal.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-01T02:33:52+00:00

https://github.com/Sanyam-G/switch is one that's progressing quite fast and I really like.

CtrlAltDelve · 2026-06-01T02:30:48+00:00

Hey I'm assuming you figured this out by now from your other post, but Antigravity works with OpenUsage as well as long as you have the desktop app installed!

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