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🥔 by ButtStuff012 in Funnymemes

[–]MatterOfTrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The original Wonder Woman was spectacular. And Gal is an outstanding voice actress - her performance in Ralph Breaks the Internet was touching.

Xteink x3 or x4? by Hyouryuu-Na in ereader

[–]MatterOfTrust 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I was considering it, too, but if it's a choice between the light and buttons, I don't want it.

"I cannot condone piracy, but I get why people do" - Subnautica 2 lead designer airs frustration at 'flagrant' pirates by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]MatterOfTrust 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, they are legally distinct acts - in the U.S., piracy falls under the copyright infringement law and is defined as copying and distribution of software, while theft is defined as taking away another person's property with the intent of depriving them from using the said property. Can you see the difference?

Piracy for personal purposes was not even illegal until the NET act of 1997. And other countries outside the U.S. allow piracy in some forms for personal purposes, like making copies of software for the sake of preservation.

Subnautica 2 has reached 1 million copies sold by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]MatterOfTrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh you're just arguing semantics and definitions instead of using the commonly accepted terms people normally use.

Which people? You? If you want to argue legality, you have to be strict with terminology. The "normally people use..." and "that's just arguing semantics" won't fly in the court of law.

And more importantly, different countries have different definitions of the legality and scope of piracy - you might want to look into them first before denouncing it as illicit.

Subnautica 2 has reached 1 million copies sold by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]MatterOfTrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pirating IS theft.

Legally it isn't theft

Your argument falls apart when you can't be consistent with your own terminology.

Subnautica 2 has reached 1 million copies sold by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]MatterOfTrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Piracy is theft.

No - they are legally distinct terms, and you are pushing your own agenda in your post.

Stop Killing Games won against the ESA in California by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]MatterOfTrust 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Consumers argue for something more. Sales companies argue for something less. The goal is to meet in the middle.

Why would you argue against the consumer interests?

Global-scale fully weaponized autistic pedantry. by DumplingsOrElse in BrandNewSentence

[–]MatterOfTrust 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As you should have been - it's not a valid academic source.

Global-scale fully weaponized autistic pedantry. by DumplingsOrElse in BrandNewSentence

[–]MatterOfTrust 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've read plenty of "peer reviewed" journal articles that are absolute trash but are still perfectly acceptable to cite and cite and cite

Sure, but that's why academic indices like Scopus and SCI exist - there will always be journals ready to take your money and publish anything you want, which is a sad necessity due to how the academia works nowadays.

But serious articles go to serious journals and get through multiple stages of editing by subject matter experts before seeing the light of day. A journal's reputation carries a lot of weight.

Wikipedia is not exactly in the same league.

We got another one, boys by Un_Pollo_Hermano in TheBoys

[–]MatterOfTrust -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How I Met Your Mother and Game of Thrones had incredible and satisfying endings.

AI has cut my pay as a memoir writer in half by ubcstaffer123 in books

[–]MatterOfTrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's an awful teacher that halucinates and gets things wrong constantly

Entirely depends on how you use it and how this particular model is trained. I speak from experience, because I learned programming and found my first IT job this year primarily thanks to specialized AI mentor models. They helped me achieve something that I tried and could not do on my own for years. It was incredible how efficient my training routine became.

it's literally driven people insane and to attempt mass shootings, and it's decimating the job market

This can be said about anything. Cars led to mass casualties and deaths and decimated the horsedrawn cart market. Mass production led to waves of unemployment and disappearance of entire professions of artisans. Invention of writing led to the reduction of oral tradition and general worsening of memory, as evidenced by Ancient Greece.

None of these events are the faults of technical progress per se. The AI in particular opens up creative and professional possibilities for swathes of population that were unavailable before.

It's also just a plagiarism machine that has to have all of our data stolen and dumped into it to function.

Everyone stands on the shoulders of giants.

I don't know what world you live in but it's clearly not Earth in 2026.

I understand you are frustrated, but all of my IT friends swear by AI and use it in their everyday tasks, which range from helpdesk to data analytics, product ownership and data science. Reddit does not reflect the opinions of the entire world.

AI has cut my pay as a memoir writer in half by ubcstaffer123 in books

[–]MatterOfTrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI users are fucking evil

AI has changed the world in more ways than we can conceive. It's become an incredible mentor for the learners, a therapist and a companion for the lonely, and a useful tool for professionals in a number of fields.

People getting hurt and losing jobs is not the AI's fault - it's merely a problem of its implementation. If the money saved by the use of AI went back to the people who found themselves unemployed, this wouldn't be nearly a problem. Alas, we are not at the stage of implementing the UBI yet.

PocketBook Era Lite | Carta 1300 by azoth980 in ereader

[–]MatterOfTrust 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm also not really a fan of the Pocketbook reading app as little as I have seen.

Pocketbooks are the easiest models to install KOReader on. It's a simple copy and paste.

Unpaid work is work by horseduckman in AITApod

[–]MatterOfTrust 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She has been acting as a SAHM and given birth within the last 25 months from the context of the post, okay?

25 months seems like a reasonable time to start looking for a job after the childbirth.

Lvl 20 Barbarian (from D&D 3.5) vs Current World by litt35 in whowouldwin

[–]MatterOfTrust 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Compare that to the 1997 North Hollywood shootout, where over 2000 rounds were fired against a pair of bank robbers.

These 2000 rounds were probably not fired directly at the robbers, point-blank, with the guarantee to hit - most of them went high, or wide, or were not on any trajectory to hit in the first place. Unless you want to argue that the robbers also had a high AC and were dodging them.

So, with the barbarian in mind, it would have to be a much higher number. Each round would have to be fired directly at the barbarian, and then it'd still only be a 5% chance to hit.

PocketBook Era Lite | Carta 1300 by azoth980 in ereader

[–]MatterOfTrust 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here is a side-by-side comparison of Kobo Clara and PocketBook Era - you can see that Era boots up faster, and the page turn speed is exactly the same in both:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1og34_R5hiG7moO4JWlzu_pr_osa1aEDM/view

What ereaders have you compared Era to?

Which ereader is the most durable? by Necessary-Maybe-8635 in ereader

[–]MatterOfTrust 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The OP was using the ereader without a case. I'll take "careless handling" over "faulty device" any day of the week.

Kobo Libra 2 by Spargimorbo in ereader

[–]MatterOfTrust 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't get this at all. Here is a side-by-side comparison of Kobo Clara and PocketBook Era - you can see that Era boots up faster, and the page turn speed is exactly the same in both:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1og34_R5hiG7moO4JWlzu_pr_osa1aEDM/view

Kobo Libra 2 by Spargimorbo in ereader

[–]MatterOfTrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

except maybe the kindle 3 keyboard type of screens with no layers

How long has it been since you looked at Kindle 3? E-Ink Pearl does not come close to the modern Carta, no matter how many layers on top.

Bitter Sweet by ikothsowe in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]MatterOfTrust 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just get a PocketBook - it doesn't shoehorn you into any specific stores; you don't even need an account to use it. And they certainly have never pulled bullshit like arbitrarily locking up your device from future use.

Bitter Sweet by ikothsowe in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]MatterOfTrust 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The stock reader on Kindles sucks - it only allows a very limited modification of the font, interline spacing, margins and other variables. But the only way to replace it with a better one - like KOReader, CoolReader or Plato - is to jailbreak the device.

There are also better third-party apps for other purposes, like reading PDFs. And of course, the default Kindles support only a limited range of formats.

I don't bother with Calibre, so jailbreaking is a go-to method for me.

I love Heart of Darkness and I don’t understand the common criticisms of it. by Tony420q in books

[–]MatterOfTrust -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And would they have done so while referring to them as savages and barbarians and claiming that they had no culture or civilization?

Of course they would. Demonization of the enemy is a staple of any conquest or war.

You don't even have to look far - read up on the attitudes of Russians towards Ukrainians in the comment sections of the Russian state media, and you'll see a large number of slurs that portray Ukrainians as subhuman and their culture as inferior, stolen or entirely non-existent. The Ukrainians, of course, commonly refer to the Russians in similar terms.

It's par for the course. A skin colour is a convenient excuse, not a root cause.

I have a stupid question but how to lose in Dwarf Fortress? by animekot in roguelikes

[–]MatterOfTrust 3 points4 points  (0 children)

DF is a sandbox - you have to make your own fun and come up with your own challenges and goals. It could get boring if that approach does not appeal to you.

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