My third time through factorio. This time with K2+SE mods. It’s taking a long time. Most of the time I’m waiting for my rockets and leave it afk for hours. Total play time 800+ hours, most of which I swear is afk! I’ve almost set up an outpost for every resource now, so that should make my life much much easier.

I like yours best

Stop playing repetitive, competitive, multiplayer games. Especially the battle royale style ones.

Oh you just played another 20 minute match where you died to someone out of nowhere at the end, possibly a cheater, shouted bullshit at the screen, didn’t win and didn’t achieve anything? Better re queue to do it again! Hey while you’re in the menus, do you want a new £15 skin? Do you want the battlepass QUICK BEFORE ITS GONE! THE SKINS WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY IF THE CONSTANT LOSSES DONT. I wonder why you’re bored and depressed with gaming.

The most popular steam games? Constant repetitive, competitive, multiplayer games. “I do the same thing with the same guns on the same map every day and I’m bored. Gaming is boring.”

I still haven’t completed Skyrim. or New Vegas. or FO4… I’ll be back once those are finished!

But instead of learning stable diffusion and training their own model for better results for free, they’re paying a service for 100 images that likely won’t be well trained.

It speeds things up for people who know what they’re talking about. The doctor asking for the plan could probably argue a few of the errors and GPT will say “oh you’re right, I’ll change that to something better” and then it’s good to go.

Yes you can’t just rely on it to be right all the time, but you can often use it to find the right answer with a small conversation, which would be quicker than just doing it alone.

I recently won a client with GPTs help in my industry.

I personally think I’m very knowledgeable in what I do, but to save time I asked what I should be looking out for, and it gave me a long list of areas to consider in a proposal. That list alone was a great starting block to get going. Some of the list wasn’t relevant to me or the client, so had to be ignored, but the majority of it was solid, and started me out an hour ahead, essentially tackling the planning stage for me.

To someone outside of my industry, if they used that list verbatim, they would have brought up a lot of irrelevant information and covered topics that would make no sense.

I feel it’s a tool or partner rather than a replacement for experts. It helps me get to where I need to go quicker, and it’s fantastic at brainstorming ideas or potential issues in plans. It takes some of the pressure off as I get things done.

That last sentence is the killer for me. I don’t want her watching absolute brain rotting unmoderated YouTube junk ever in her life.

I’d rather download a huge library of good shows and set them up so she can watch them locally.

I’m sure I can’t stop her watching absolute crap, especially when peer pressure kicks in one day, but I can hopefully help guide her little brain in the right direction to differentiate between what’s distracting and what’s genuinely interesting.

We’re not allowing our daughter to have screentime until she’s two. Other than one video call with her grandparents recently, or to show her images of real animals for education.

It’s been pretty easy really. I’m glad we chose to do it. She’s 17 months old now and doing great! Just watching her play and learn in the world around her is awesome, I can’t imagine her sitting and staring in one direction for 30m straight while some over-energised over-saturated kids show blares at her.

She’s too young to understand the narrative, she’s too young to understand the art, so what’s she getting out of it, other than a bright distraction?

Her mother and I are both super nerdy tech people who love film and gaming, so she’s going to have screens in her life at some point, no doubt, but why rush it? Every day she develops more, and understands more about the world around her, and I want to encourage that first.

Paid £500 for an S22U on FB marketplace and couldn’t be happier

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EVERYTHING GOES TO DESKTOP

Yeah I own an SEO business and that’s not how any of this works

I mean, take that up with Reddit. Hopefully, lemmy doesn’t somehow stop people from using apps.

Besides I’m happy to pay for the development costs of him porting the entire thing to use lemmy instead super fast, whilst being really responsive to any issues and questions. Of the 5 apps on my phone, sync feels the best to me so I’m cool supporting it.

Lifetime $20 for ad free

Don’t think you really need ultra, do you?

Oh no my $20 for a lifetime purchase of removing ads from an app I’ve enjoyed using for like a decade. 🥱

It’s on my wishlist and I don’t remember why. It sounds incredible haha.

Does it have an “end”?

The developer worked his ass off to repurpose his app to Lemmy for us.

I was more than happy to pay for his time. Hard work deserves reward. If people aren’t going to pay him and use the free version, which you’re welcome to, then he makes his money from ads (which pay fuck-all)

You’re just a bunch of cheapskates who want to be entertained for nothing.