• NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca
        6·
        1 year ago

        Not really, if you browse the big communities it has enough users but for more niche communities its not neatly nearly enough to be a replacement for reddit

        • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          I remade the niche communities I browse here.

          Yes, only one other person posts on it, and they don’t post exactly what I want, but that’s how it is

    • LexaMaridia@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 year ago

      I’m excited. I really missed Apollo. So this is filling the void bit by bit. :D I just signed up 10 minutes ago. It’s awesome so far!

    • somnuz@lemm.ee
      4·
      1 year ago

      I dunno… why can’t Lemmy just be its own thing tho? I might’ve been using Reddit wrong or something but Lemmy feels so much better from the start for me.

      —

      At least if there is an interesting topic or a question I don’t have to scroll thru the same jokes or worse — joke trains, yeah sure, the beans happened, maybe I am getting too old to fully connect with the joke, whatever, but at least it is kinda self-contained, my wild guess would be if beans happened on Reddit, all the comments would be BEANS! for a month everywhere…

      —

      From a time perspective — I am really appreciating some amazing posts on Reddit with great histories and comments that I was reading for hours, some great AMAs or even the funny content if it was fresh.

      With all this said, overall Reddit was mostly a really specific shit hole for me, yes, shit hole where occasional diamonds occurred but still. I can’t wrap my head around how imaginary internet points can distort even the most basic interactions.

  • TheEternalBambzip@lemmy.zip
    1452·
    1 year ago

    My wedding in 11 days. Even though I’m somewhat stressed because I’ll have to travel for it and there are some moving parts, I’m excited. Wife is taking it pretty well and she is excited as well!

  • mavedustaine@lemm.ee
    125·
    1 year ago

    I’m pretty excited for getting married in the next three hours!

    Edit: I DID IT, LEMMY!

  • NightOwl@lemmy.one
    1001·
    1 year ago

    The fediverse is something I’m excited for and it’s still in it’s infancy so it’ll be intersting to see how it plays out as it starts getting more polished and user friendly.

    Despite the doom and gloom of AI I think it’s been really cool, and one area I’ve seen it help is for my relatives where instead of me having to solve basic tech issues AI has helped. When it develops into a full on companion that will do things it asks them to I’ll be bothered less and less.

    • Fester@lemm.ee
      182·
      1 year ago

      It’s frustrating to see peoples’ imaginations run wild with AI. They’re not building “sentient” machines. There will never be machines that are sentient in anything other than appearance, and we’re notoriously easy to fool in that way.

      My favorite way to describe AI that I’ve heard is “applied statistics.” It’s basically just processing huge amounts of data, very fast, simultaneously, and then presenting conclusions that are usually very likely.

      Yes, it will be used to make weapons that are horrifically efficient, but likewise it will be used to make defenses that are equally efficient.

      I think the good will ultimately outweigh the bad. Hopefully by a long shot.

      • crazystuff@discuss.online
        62·
        1 year ago

        LLMs are spontaneously developing theory of mind and nobody knows why or how, meaning that now ChatGPT and the like are able to consider what the user is thinking, opening some avenues for actual manipulation. GPT-4 can solve 95% of ToM tasks that a 7-year-old could.

        Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083

    • tisjoefoo@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      100% with you, but it needs to find a way to make itself more accessible to the average person. It’s a bit of a learning curve and there are a lot of people who won’t jump ship from the simplicity of Reddit because of that.

    • elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      5·
      1 year ago

      For me I have been having fun testing novel ai and trying tk play pseudo rpg adventures alone, I will probably never share anything but it has been really fun to try AI as a single player experience.

    • VitaMan@lemmy.world
      241·
      1 year ago

      If you look at overall worldwide poverty and starvation numbers, coupled with medical advancements and indoor plumbing, now is a pretty good time to be a human. Yes, there are lots of problems, but the standard of living (for the average person) has gotten so much better in the last 200 years

      • sturlabragason@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 year ago

        Absolutely agree!

        I’m currently midway trough Peter Zeihans The End of the World Is Just the Beginning and just started Yuval Noah Hararis Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow, he even cites a statistics which is that more people die from obesity than starvation each year, so we have that going for us. So far these two books are a nice contrast. I’m painfully aware of our currently novel situation and hoping things are gonna keep heading in the right direction. Actually would really want them to, trying my best to make them: https://sturlabragason.github.io/blog/2023/07/04/Decentralized-Autonomous-Communities.html

        • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
          21·
          1 year ago

          Great links and recommendations.

          I have not read Peter Zeihans’ book, but going only by the blurb, I do take issues with the notion that global supply chains are only working because of the US Navy. That seems a wholeheartedly American view - as if China, or India, or the EU wouldn’t be able to trade unless the US Navy existed. If the point is one about piracy, then I certainly believe the fight against it, where it occurs, is deeply multinational and not dominated by the US Navy. Will have to read the book to understand his point, I think.

          • sturlabragason@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            We’ll so far it’s been quite US centric so far, but I feel he has some solid arguments for most of his points. What’s been intriguing to me is his economic history. It’s presented in an engaging way.

  • DSX@lemm.ee
    41·
    1 year ago

    I’ll be trying out Linux outside of a virtual machine for the first time. I’ve got a SATA SSD external enclosure that I’ll be using to boot without messing with my current pc

        • Ledz@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          And just for the first couple of days. Once you set it up it works like any other OS. I don’t think most people change the way their pc works every other day. Once you get the hang of it it stays mostly the same. This year I changed full from w10 to mint and no issues since.

      • dtxer@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I don’t agree. It depends really on what you’re using it for. I have one machine with Xubuntu installed and it’s been used just for browsing or putting movies to the tv and it’s been just plug and play so far.

        There was the one issue, of not being able to use some streaming services, because of drm protection meaning you can only stream via their windows desktop app not via browser. I took it as an invitation for streaming the stuff from somewhere else for free shrug

      • DSX@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah there’s a ton of stuff to learn. I’ve got some experience from my college courses but I want to get ahead before I take the ones that really test my Linux knowledge.

    • randomTingler@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      Are you going to unplug the existing harddisk? If your Linux /efi partition is written in the windows boot partition, you are kind of messed up.

      Better unplug the existing harddisk and try Linux, once you are comfortable you can switch to dual boot then completely swith over to Linux.