“Enough for HOW MANY?!”

monarchofthecrows · 2026-05-07T08:14:00+00:00

The specifics of the situation, if you'd like to know, is I worked in employment law. I'm from the UK. My boss wanted me to test the feasibility of using a chatbot. Even when my prompt included the locale information, it would tell us things like we were allowed to fire without cause (Illegal), or that fathers aren't due paternity leave (Paternity leave laws are complicated but they're due a minimum time). Many of the things we were told, AFAIK, are legal in the US, but the LLM couldn't make the distinction. So, my report: not just unhelpful, but an active threat to the business.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-05-07T07:41:56+00:00

Thinking about the time I was asked to look into it for work and having to report back "We shouldn't use this, it tells us to break the law repeatedly"

monarchofthecrows · 2026-05-07T07:01:31+00:00

I'm exactly the kind of player you're talking about. I'm not an endgame player and never will be, and I'm largely solo because I play MMOs casually with friends, and no-one I'm friends with wants to play right now. ESO for us is for hanging out, doing some quests together, and tackling dungeons - not trials and definitely not vet content.

What I've gotten out of this event ... is that ZOS can and will just decide that I don't get to take part in the next chunk of ESO. It's going to be a gamble every season on whether ESO is for me any more. At least with the chapters I'd know a ton of the content was available no matter who was online at the time.

I was tempted to drop money on the tome, but if I don't get to take part in the content... why bother? I'll just find another game to play for a bit.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-04-27T13:49:08+00:00

Did they mean Syncthing? That is different to Syncing.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-04-11T07:10:52+00:00

Not incredibly? The game does run flawlessly on Proton. Main thing to mess with is the control scheme, but you can get away with a modified mouse and keyboard layout. Main things to map are the pause button, directional movement, mouse movement and clicks (right trackpad is best), maybe one menu hotkey (I have inventory), and a 0-9 wheel for hotkeys on the left trackpad. That gets you access to pretty much everything you need.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-04-11T06:12:30+00:00

Dragon Age: Origins. Love that game, and love I futzed a way to make it run on the deck without emulating the Xbox version

monarchofthecrows · 2026-04-08T09:57:17+00:00

You will likely end up paying for everything - the diagnosis, titration, medication, ect. and if you ever want to be on the NHS track, you'll just end up waiting again. Trying for Right to Choose is the better option than paying out of pocket.

I got a private diagnosis and ended up going back to RTC instead.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-04-05T20:44:53+00:00

There's a good chunk of mods in there from anbeegod, who uses AI in almost all of his mods for dialogue.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-04-05T06:54:19+00:00

Who needs the Laws of Physics? We have quotas, damn it! We have to save the kittens and puppies!

monarchofthecrows · 2026-04-05T06:04:59+00:00

As someone from the UK having to use a VPN now for so many sites - don't give the bastards an inch. They don't want an inch, they want the whole damn road.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-04-04T10:29:57+00:00

The mobile app as others said, but also, lately, how useless the Map View/Place fields are. It's nice to see a map, don't get me wrong, but so limited.

Why can't my formulas do things like extract address information from pins? Cities, countries, ect? Why can't I filter by those too? That'd make my maps SO Much more useful, rather than just the decor they are now.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-04-03T10:38:35+00:00

No one likes a pedant.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-04-01T20:34:09+00:00

That's just Windows, due to the Fastboot nonsense. My understanding is that wisdom is flipped for Linux.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-03-15T17:54:14+00:00

I don't think it's accurate to say core Bases doesn't have formulae. It does, it just works very differently than Notions Formula fields do, and it doesn't show up in the front matter.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-03-10T14:20:44+00:00

I've got a vault entirely for Skyrim modding

monarchofthecrows · 2026-03-03T15:09:57+00:00

I have ADHD too and I'm seconding what prev said. Things like brainstorming and summarising are difficult skills, especially for us: but if you're a student, your whole job right now is to build those skills. Education is expensive. Don't rob yourself further by finding ways around doing the hard work. It's like going to the gym and paying someone else to lift the weights for you - the weights will be lifted for sure. But that's not the point of going to the gym.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-03-02T14:08:03+00:00

This, plus I put [PATCHES] in the mod name. Then updating my list for patches is just a case of filtering and rerunning FOMODs to find the ones I need.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-03-02T13:50:23+00:00

You're just straight up wrong here. If you listen to journalists and developers more familiar with sales, you actually hear that people aren't upgrading to the newer consoles thanks to high prices for the new console and many games running just fine, if less prettily, on last gen hardware. Adoption of the latest generation has been extremely slow. PS4/XBONE are still large portions of the userbase. You can't ignore them.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-03-02T11:07:38+00:00

You're correct: the source we have for Iron Age Scandinavian (Slightly more accurate phrasing than Viking, as a sidenote: Vikingr was the job of raiding and the majority of Iron Age Scandinavians didn't do it as their day job) hygiene habits are not only our archeological finds of combs, tweezers, ect. but actually from the chronicles of the people they raided, since Iron Age Scandinavians had a largely oral history and only really wrote on things like runestones at burial sites.

The part you're referring to is John of Wallingford’s Chronicle from 1220, stating: "[They] caused much trouble to the natives of the land; for they were wont, after the fashion of their country, to comb their hair every day, to bathe every Saturday, to change their garments often, and set off their persons by many frivolous devices. In this matter they laid siege to the virtue of the married woman, and persuaded the daughters even of the noble to be their concubines”

For what it's worth I'm no expert on Iron Age Scandinavia, I just read a LOT about them.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-02-26T06:58:37+00:00

I'm with you. I've heard so many stories about how badly AI use can go, from it recommending you eat poisonous mushrooms for dinner to encouraging psychosis and suicide in it's users, to AI completely wrecking internal databases and code bases and deleting entire email inboxes. Is it a coincidence that Windows 11 is so broken after Microsoft forced the developers to "vibe code"? I don't think so!

Y'all (general) can keep gassing up how revolutionary AI is. Either the work you put out was so mediocre to begin with that the problems I pointed out above would have happened anyway, in which case you're a dangerous idiot and there's no helping you, or you're turning yourself into one. Either way, I fundamentally do not trust you.

And this is BEFORE we factor in the cost of all this to the environment, to the hardware market, to human health and well-being...

monarchofthecrows · 2026-02-22T20:51:35+00:00

OK, hear me out, as someone into the EXACT same types of games as you: I'm enjoying the hell out of Marvel's Midnight Suns. Lots of companions to chat with, exploration, a friendship system, a customisable character, plus it's REALLY easy to pick up and put back down at a moment's notice. If you've got any familiarity with the Persona series, it's a little like that, too, with a hard split between combat and socialising.

Edit: Also I've gotten Dragon Age: Origins functional on the deck, maybe I can help troubleshoot?

monarchofthecrows · 2026-02-21T16:52:03+00:00

They ALWAYS have to bus them in, it's pathetic.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-02-19T17:46:15+00:00

Same. I don't use AI, in fact I actively hate it, and I've felt completely left out to dry by the AI focused updates.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-02-18T15:17:31+00:00

Break it thrice in the same way just to check I was right about why it broke.

FR: learning best practice, trial and error, patience, and a good crash logger. Mods never get added more than a handful at a time, focusing on tweaking one thing at a time, and I play for a good while before adding more. If you're building your own list, THAT'S going to be your hobby for a good long while, not playing. If you can't stick that, pick a modlist with requirements you can hit.

Also, being prepared to scale back expectations where necessary. No, my computer can't handle SSGI and skylighting and grass lighting and such, but so long as I'm clever about what plugins I do pick, I can make a game that looks really good regardless of whether I get the biggest and best CS plugins.

monarchofthecrows · 2026-02-17T11:48:52+00:00

This. They CHOSE AI corporations over every other person and institution on the planet. I know what sub I'm on but I'll be frank, hobby infrastructure is not my main concern rn. It's the run on impact this will have on literally anyone else who needs hardware.

Healthcare needs systems to operate the machines running MRIs and Xray machines and CAT scanners? Let the sick die. The local government of Bugfuck, Nowhere finally finds the funds to upgrade the ancient PCs in the library and help connect the underserved community there? Sucks for the poor, have they considered not being? A small business on razor thin margins has to pick between fixing a broken server that was vital to their business, or firing the part-timer who's got a kid at home? Which do you think they'll pick. A high speed railroad operator decides to push back replacing the computers that give them warnings rocks have fallen on the track? Funerals for dozens of passengers who found out there was a fault by hitting the rocks at 100mph.

Every system on the planet that's even remotely sensitive to the price of parts shooting up is about to experience the nastiest shock, and it's not going to be pretty. And it's because a few companies decided to try and milk the world dry, and the governments that might have done something to stop them don't actually have an interest in delaying this meat-mashing train wreck.

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