• mavedustaine@lemm.ee
    33·
    1 year ago

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

    Edit: I DID IT, LEMMY!

  • multicolorKnight@lemmy.ml
    29·
    1 year ago

    Specifically, good things on the World Wide Web: research. The amount of good information available is incredible, compared with pre-Internet times. Weather forecasts, what the space telescope is looking at, what’s happening in other parts of the world places in their own voice.

    Sure, there is misinformation as well, and some people will cast doubt on anything they don’t like or try to drown it out, but get past that, and this is a golden age of knowledge.

      • NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca
        3·
        1 year ago

        Not really, if you browse the big communities it has enough users but for more niche communities its not neatly 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
      6·
      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
      3·
      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
    24·
    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!

  • FollyDolly@lemmy.world
    23·
    1 year ago

    This is probably going to sound mundane, but I finally got my career back on track after the plague and have enough money to take my cats to the vet for proper medical care. Feel like I’ve been living at vets lately, but everyone’s ears are clean, teeth have been checked, bloodwork done, and has the meds they need to thrive. I felt so bad that for two years the vet was life threating visits only.

    What I’m looking forward to is many more years with my wonderful pets!

  • Sir_Kevin@discuss.online
    22·
    1 year ago

    I joined the great resignation to pursue a freelance art career. I’m excited but also terrified I’ll just be another starving artist. At least I don’t have to wake up at 6am anymore.

  • Snowman44@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 year ago

    The company I work for changed their policy on paid vacations. Starting in August I’m going to have a lot of vacation days and I’m going to use them.

  • NightOwl@lemmy.one
    12·
    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
      3·
      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
        41·
        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

    • elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      0·
      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.

      • NightOwl@lemmy.one
        2·
        1 year ago

        I watched this AI npc in Skyrim and the level of interactivity it brought is amazing. So often in games characters quickly run out of lines, and feel like dead mannequins in open world games. Having a game world where there are lasting consequences because NPCs remember what you did is going to be cool. As opposed the same lines being recycled over and over.

  • DSX@lemm.ee
    11·
    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

      • DSX@lemm.ee
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m probably going to stick with something simple like Ubuntu 22.04 since some software I use is only supported on that.

      • 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
      2·
      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.

      • Dandroid@dandroid.app
        1·
        1 year ago

        I have dual booted Linux and Windows many times and never had a problem. I just boot my old Windows install through grub. The Ubuntu installer asks you if you want to do this and sets it all up for you.

      • DSX@lemm.ee
        0·
        1 year ago

        I’ve seen tutorials where people installed Linux using a virtual machine that can only see the ISO usb and the drive you are installing Linux on to do that. It’ll be a pain removing the drives from my laptop. I probably won’t be dual booting because I use nvidia GPUs + can’t switch to Linux full time because nvidia and I use CUDA for projects.

    • Arkharl@lemm.ee
      41·
      1 year ago

      Hopefully with a retirement plan to go with it.

      Retirement without any plans often ends in (worse) depression and anxiety.

  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml
    9·
    1 year ago

    I’m planning to live life a little and buy a motorcycle soon. I’ve always wanted to drive a motorcycle so this keeps me motivated.

    • Resistentialism@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m not sure on your mental health condition. But if there’s one thing I’ve learnt from getting my big bike licence. Its done wonders for me.

      And a little tip for you. Get really good gear. Even if you don’t think you’ll come off or if youre only going lut for half an hour. Anything can happen. And good gear, so jacket, trousers, gloves, helmet and boots can be the major difference between a few broken bones and agonising death/amputated limbs.

      Oh and filtering ear plugs. I got some the other week and they’ve been a live saver. I can still hear my music perfectly fine. But they protect your hearing from the constant sound of the engine and all the wind.

      Be safe out there, brother.

    • TheGregorianKnight@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s definitely worth it, but being brand new be really careful with the controls, a little on the throttle goes a long ways for (most) motorcycles.