I hope that this is a true story

Maple Walnut FTW

Anything that has an intransparent, engagement driving, ad laden algorithm that determines what you do and don’t see is thoroughly unappealing to me. At least now that I’m a little more tech savvy and anti-corporate.

Hear hear. Under the guise of Engagement, corporations have weaponized algorithms to maximize the time you spend on their platforms, and it’s absolutely been a race to the bottom, prioritizing Outrage above all else. Hard pass, thanks.

Corporate goals don’t align with that of users like they used to.

So many conflicting feelings.

• Book 1 was okay, not too bad, I was curious where it’d go
• Hated book 2, it was way too dark and I saw the ending coming from a third of the way in
• Book 3 was also WAY too dark, an absolute downer
• Book 4 had an amazing character arc over the first third, the rest was pretty okay
• Loved book 5. Absolutely a masterpiece
• Seriously enjoyed book 6
• Book 7 is very good so far!

They’re all SO long, too

Currently on Book 7 of the Malazan series by Steven Erikson, “Reaper’s Gale”. Started book 1 back in June, still working my way through them. The whole series improved tremendously after Book 3 finished, it’s been a heck of a ride so far.

Yup, I also got strong YA vibes from Babel. Got some other vibes too, but those are spoilers ;)

It’s The Onion all the way down

Genuine lmao

I’d watch 7 seasons of Voyager voyaging with Ferrets

It’s not AI, it’s an LLM. It doesn’t know what misinformation is because it doesn’t Know anything

These look basic

Oh, Black Walnut, that’s what those are

Most useful application

I read it and recall enjoying it, but it’s far from my favorite PKD, and I honestly don’t remember much about it.

I’m absolutely looking for a real answer, not here to downvote or troll.

When you say “the tech is useful” I don’t see it that way from my perspective because I can’t think of any specific scenarios for this tech to prove valuable to me, in terms of the way that I interface with an OS.

What I’m hoping for from you is a Use Case; what specific application of this tech would you, the End User, find to be a vast improvement in the way that you interface with Windows?

I’m not going to downvote you, because I’m genuinely curious: Why would this be a “very important can’t-live-without feature”, what’s the argument?

Because from where I’m sitting as a user of various Windows & Linux products for several decades, this has never been anything I’ve asked for or needed, let alone wanted to take up >20Gb of my hard drive space. What is the Use Case sales pitch that convinced you?

I’d watch 7 seasons of this

Amazing

I laughed way too hard at this, thanks, you. <3

This was what Generations should have been

Oh man, Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn is SO good. Been decades since I read those, I wonder how well they’ve held up