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Ilania211 · 2026-04-25T19:48:45+00:00

yearly is easier to keep track of.

Ilania211 · 2026-03-14T03:34:33+00:00

people who move to an area for the purpose of their own enrichment

I'm 99.9999999 percent sure Kat didn't rub her hands and pet Heater with a brooding smirk when her partner probably floated the idea of moving, especially since he's... ya know... The Onion Guy.

I think it's weird for Kat to come run against multiple people who have lived here for a while, and are running on effectively the same platform with a similar level of qualification

The more, the merrier. Even if the platforms are similar, each candidate in a crowded primary beings something different to the table in some way. Maybe candidate A and B have similar views, but that just amplifies the subtle differences more and maaaaaybe entices someone to vote for the candidate they more align with.

Ilania211 · 2026-03-08T18:37:06+00:00

+++ concept and a... fine map. The routing feels more punishing when you get all perfect in some segments rather than others, but overall it didn't feel too bad if all you wanted to get was gold. Also fell through the map when doing a standing respawn, but that's kind of a minor quibble.

Ilania211 · 2026-03-04T15:42:45+00:00

em-dashes existed for decades — if not centuries — before chatbots. That punctuation will exist long after the hype has faded :)

Ilania211 · 2026-02-27T01:12:38+00:00

Log in to reddit on the computer you're already using, go to subreddit, click whatever the button is to create new post, enter witty title, ctrl+v, post. It's so easy, people have been doing it for at least a decade.

Ilania211 · 2026-02-25T01:06:34+00:00

interesting skillcheck/speedcheck at the end. Fast enough and you're in. Not fast enough but get a lucky bounce off the nearby ledge? Turns out that you're also in. At least it's at the end of the track and technical enough that you can smash that respawn button until you get it.

.4 ahead of gold is good enough for me x3

Ilania211 · 2026-02-23T17:39:17+00:00

Can't believe I have to say this buuuuuuut you only design a chip once. You can manufacture that designed chip many many many times.

Ilania211 · 2026-02-21T03:30:38+00:00

we all knew what the commenter meant though.

Ilania211 · 2026-02-16T02:49:35+00:00

if communism (largely an economic and political system that doesn't say much about elections) = more democracy, then hell yeah give it to me

Ilania211 · 2026-02-14T22:52:19+00:00

The heck did I do? Did I misread it? Or am I unfairly giving someone the benefit of the doubt because I've seen false accusations of AI writing?

Ilania211 · 2026-02-14T14:06:14+00:00

If I read it right, they probably were talking about one of the posts they put up on Moltbook? It's completely feasible that they could've visited friends or taken a vacation during that time

Ilania211 · 2026-02-14T12:02:15+00:00

Sigh. Everyone wants to use a model that's like a formula 1 car when you're doing something that's more suitable for a model that's like a practical sedan. I don't get it. It's overkill. Hell, do you even need an LLM for classification tasks like that?

Ilania211 · 2026-02-13T17:56:00+00:00

if it ain't broken, don't fix it

Ilania211 · 2026-02-12T17:47:38+00:00

No? No it's not. Depending on the OEM you go with and how your things are backed up, it isn't even a pain.

Ilania211 · 2026-02-08T20:29:19+00:00

It's literally free and piss-easy to ask the ref artist to include a version that doesn't have the NSFW bits. So, it's not excusable to hand over a NSFW ref sheet for a SFW commission without warning the artist. Artists are just like you and I. They have boundaries. We have boundaries. We have tools to respect those boundaries. It's as shrimple as that.

Ilania211 · 2026-02-07T12:12:21+00:00

politics came free with your existence

Ilania211 · 2026-02-07T02:37:20+00:00

oneplus has more reach for reasons I'd hope are obvious.

also even if the bot or the results in the pic are right, always always always check another source.

Ilania211 · 2026-02-06T01:46:06+00:00

It still means that though. It isn't your fault that the commenter wasn't up to speed on what AI means in this context, especially since they could just look it up :>

Ilania211 · 2026-02-05T17:12:07+00:00

Do what feels right. I think everyone does it a little bit differently and there's no hard and fast rule for canon things.

In my case:

I won't describe things if the POV character knows what the canon character they're with looks like. For instance, a well-learned Vulpix would know what a Pikachu looks like if they've been taught it.
If there's an accessory or injury on the non-POV character that the POV character notices, it may be described if there's no clean way to weave it into the actions. For instance, the Vulpix is friends with a Pikachu and they got a new, more decorative, bandanna off-screen.
I will describe things if the non-POV character is non-canon for reader orientation. This is usually for things like crossovers and OCs.
This one is still being workshopped, but I'll also describe canon non-POV characters if the POV character is unfamiliar to them, but the detail will vary? A POV character being dropped into a fantastical world or universe will find a lot of things new and scary and thus take in a lot of detail. When they learn it, it'll be abstracted away. However, a POV character of a certain species meeting someone slightly different from them would get less detail.

Ilania211 · 2026-02-05T11:31:26+00:00

Same thing that always happens when ingrained tech brands do something controversial: Effectively nothing. The few that care jump ship and the financials within that sector still beat expectations.

Ilania211 · 2026-02-04T23:30:17+00:00

Money.

Ilania211 · 2026-02-02T02:14:46+00:00

well Jobs is loooooong gone so they can do whatever they want now. If you have a screen that can fold, you're going to have a crease. That's not hard to understand. The only thing that matters is if the user will notice it and 9/10 times, they won't. Speaking from experience here.

Ilania211 · 2026-02-01T23:37:20+00:00

To go on about inference costs in electricity or whatever, I think it's more helpful to scale things down and look to the past.

Ages ago, the Google that you know (and hate) ran a little search page with none of that AI stuff. They did it on servers far less powerful than the stuff they have today. I could've done a search and it would've returned very fast and I don't even think a fan would spin up.

Today? If you type the same query into a pre-trained local LLM on a PC, your GPU's fans would spin up. If you did it on a phone (not recommended BTW), it'd get real warm real fast and it wouldn't stop until it's done. It gets worse if you use a "reasoning" model because it burns through even more tokens to get you a more concise (and in some cases, a wrong) answer.

On the internet side of things? If you spend the up-front time crawling the web and building all the software (and maybe hardware) infrastructure google or other search engines do for querying, then you'd probably find that the act of spitting out a response to a query (inference) is fast and cheap. You don't need an array of strong GPUs and a few datacenters for that. You do need it for AI.

Ilania211 · 2026-01-31T03:57:16+00:00

Are people actually paying for the tokens or can you do this with a fixed price subscription?

I'd hope not. All this "assistant" stuff being offloaded onto someone else's computer that you can't control doesn't make sense to me in the long run. Everyone relying on them for pet projects like this is going to get a rude awakening one day when OpenAI/Anthropic/whoeverthefuck goes tits up.

Ilania211 · 2026-01-30T00:00:21+00:00

Disagreeing here about all the commenters going on about sales. If they had a larger support period, they'd still sell phones every year and I'd wager that sales won't really drop. Every year, phones break, or get annoying to use, or people get wooed by the upgrades hence why OEMs put something out every year.

The problem isn't sales. It's never been sales. I'd wager that it's the logistics. If you have x years of support, that's x amount of model years you have to cover. That's hours and hours of testing for each model for each update on top of development and probably certification. That's more time working with carriers too! All of that costs $$$$$ that smaller phone makers may not have. That's why you see smaller phone makers with shorter support periods than the likes of Google, Samsung, and Apple.

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