Whoop! Whoop!

Need to disappear? Just go to the Gathering and find your new family. Pay for protection with Faygo.

To err is human. Let's embrace our humanity in the face of this proliferation of insipid perfection.

I want the raw tokens straight out of your head. Even if they are lower quality, they contain something that LLMs can never generate: authenticity. When we surrender our thoughts to a machine to be sanitized before publication, we lose a little of what it means to be human, and so does everyone who reads what we write.

Part of the joy of reading is to wallow in a writer's idiosyncrasies. If everybody ends up writing the same way, AI companies will have succeeded in laundering all the joy from this world.

Why not change your wifi password? Or just set up a temporary guest one and delete it?

Why not just change your wifi password so that the TV can't connect again (after you've got your OTAs but I guess you could have loaded them on a USB stick to flash instead of wifi)

iOS now has a ton of dialogs and set up steps and the occasional dark pattern in selling you various cloud based subscriptions to Apples various services.

Having said all that, yes Android is pretty bad. I think it's the in the nature of platform owners to get their hooks into yoh as much as possible.

When I set up Linux Mint, there was none of this.

It took a good while for me to figure out that a family member had inadvertently signed up for an Apple Music account that they were not using.

Apple going from being "the new microsoft" to being "the new AOL"

Great art style, fun music.

I couldn't figure out the Boss fight with cards though. I run out of energy and so I assume my turn is over. But how do I end my turn?

A button guide in the main menu would be helpful.

I hear you, I have to add a tutorial.

- "z" plays a card - "x" ends your turn

If one never played deck builders, they probably have no idea what is going on. Thanks for trying it!

You can still make art for yourself.

Admittedly Pre-AI, someone might have spammed their font business and received a similar frustrated response.

Maybe it's more about the shilling?

There will always be a place for calligraphy, artisan, who place creativity, handcraft and art first.

You can see it like pizzas:

there will always be someone who actually makes these pizzas from scratch; grows his own tomatoes in his garden, does his own flour, does his own cheese, raises pigs, etc.

But these are exceptions, maybe 0.001% - it gets very very expensive, these people do it for passion and art, not for money or scale.

You need to pre-order your pizza weeks before, you will pay a lot and you are not sure what will be the final taste (hopefully tasty), and you buy a story and supports someone.

On the other end, you have companies like Gustavo Gusto who produce 100'000 pizzas a day.

Quality ingredients, great execution, convenient, immediate, available and cheaper than hiring someone.

The irony is that the expensive and slow small artisan may actually make a worse product, than something which has been battle-tested on millions of people and whose supply chain has been controlled end-to-end.

After all of that, the industrial fonts like Roboto are not that bad, and if the industrial people offer you to customize it in a couple of prompts, then this is the cherry on top.

It's not about the shilling. It's about death of quality. As society we are self-destructing our culture using trash AI copies. It doesn't matter if it's fonts, code, movies or illustrations. Look at that service - the fonts are shit to meh but they are free. Corpo managers will of course want to squeeze every drop so they will push for free - especially as the AI gets close. So instead of allowing someone obsessive to produce highest quality output they can… we stop this by using stolen copy. In this can only lead to wiping any concepts of quality in our society while also robbing the people producing the quality work.

I for one, love it. I want every single mega corporation using crappy AI to the point where we can identify and not buy their products. Leave the little guys alone, they don't print money yet; so have not much choice.

You can try it out in the playground but not the consumer ChatGPT website. You will be limited to 10K tokens per minute if you are not in any spending tier e.g $150 per month will give you bigger context window.

Second this on Goodthreads quality. There was a pricing error back in July of 2020. I got dress shirts and pants for $7 - $12. Incredible.

Its a mix is it not? Both local and global? Some of the prices and lead times look like inventory is coming from China via ePacket.

Of course, there's always going to be some items not available at the local warehouse, but that's the same thing with Amazon.