There’s a lot more to this than lock in and open mindedness. Are you going to cause friction to multiple other people in a collaborative situation? Are you going to do it for something as small as opinions about data collection companies?

Like, go ahead and question it. Go ahead and see if you can get by without it. But if it’s making things significantly more difficult, are you personally capable of compromise? No one is making you sign your whole life and soul over to Google. You can make, use for this one class, and delete the account when you’re done.

While funny, your teacher and school aren’t going to give you kudos for being a smartass.

Just make a Gmail account and set it up to forward to your real one. Only things that live in it will be the stuff for this class, and only temporarily.

What do you actually lose privacy wise from that? They get to know you’re in the class you’re in and see a very small subset of your communications related to it.

Ultimately, you’re the only one who can decide how much extra friction you’re willing to put up with for your principles, but in my experience it’s better to just make whatever bare minimum skeleton account you can to meet the needs and get on with life. Would you rather spend time fighting to make your special case setup work while giving the teacher reasons to evaluate your work more harshly, or learning the material?

Plus, there are benefits to blending in.

That’s something I see in my workplace even without AI, just with coding/scripting/automation.

It helps you do things faster. It doesn’t ensure you’re doing the right thing (unless you have someone skilled build in all the guardrails).

So many of my coworkers are at the “This chainsaw is amazing! I bet it would be great at driving nails!” level of scripting, and AI is only making them more reckless.

People still made places for themselves, but it took some effort, and every personal site ended up being a reflection of the person who made it and their skills.

Generally, you aren’t going to get the proper day to day feeling of any of them after taking them for one or two days. I would also strongly suggest against just “switching it up” on your own. You can and should totally talk to your Dr about your concerns and questions, and they can help you with planning out a safe way to properly test the different meds and how they effect you.

Firefox on desktop as I haven’t taken the time to migrate to a fork like Librewolf. Ironfox on mobile.

uBlock Origin on both, Rethink DNS on mobile as a local VPN style ad blocker across all apps.

In general, people don’t tend to give themselves actual down time anymore (not looking at a screen. taking a walk, reading a book, or sitting around type shit) so when we have that level of relaxation all the built up anxiety and exhaustion comes crashing down all at once. So sleep.

I can’t comment on the documentary itself because it’s not out yet, but I definitely think them inviting him into their home was part of a wider attempt at image management. Doesn’t mean it worked.

Bluetooth shower speaker. Most even have control buttons too, so you can adjust the volume, pause/play, skip/rewind, etc.

Yeah, I’m annoyed that the article treated Fielder’s confusion seriously. Why was he there? Oh so mysterious and confusing!

To help her try to portray the character she wanted to portray when facing a prison term. Come on now.

Last I checked you can import it when you first run it, or from an option menu somewhere, and it adds it to the options you have when starting a new save. I just followed instructions from the GitHub.

Apparently if you have a supported ROM (check here) you just drop it in the same folder as the exe to import it.

Each game is meant to playable as a standalone thing, any direct storyline continuation from previous titles is covered in the game itself. Technically Ocarina of Time and Majora’s mask are a pair with MM as the sequel, but either can be played alone with no real loss of context. MM does build on gameplay of OoT though.

It’s not a spoiler to say that across the game series it’s generally a plot about some reincarnation of the three central figures of Link, Zelda, and Ganon. There’s often implied reincarnations of other characters too across multiple games, but that’s mostly just callback fluff for fans. There’s one game set first in the in universe timeline that sets up the impetus for the reincarnation cycle, and one game that splits the timeline into a few branches based off three different interpretations of the ending of that specific game.

The two main newest ones, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, are a two-fer as well, and are a new timeline or convergence of the split timelines depending on who you ask.

For a first time player, don’t worry about it. Whichever game you play will give you what you need to know. Any understanding of the “grand series plot” just adds some extra oomph to scenes in later released games than OoT and MM.

For anyone lamenting they don’t have a Switch 2, or looking for OoT with QoL improvements for cheaper than whatever Nintendo’s asking price is, there is a free PC port of OoT that will run as fast as your hardware can handle it without messing up gameplay speed etc, has a ton of switchable QoL features, and has mod support for using 3DS (and better) graphics/models. You can even use Master Quest’s edited dungeons with all the benefits of the 3DS version.

It’s called Ship of Harkinian. All you have to do is provide a copy of the game ROM.

At this point we already have the ridiculously extensible PC ports. There’s no shot that there won’t be mods to bring over whatever QoL this remake adds (assuming it’s anything not already in the port) within weeks of release. I’ll give it maybe a year or two for homebrew graphics mods to catch up or for someone to extract the new assets into a mod.

And there’s no debate regarding the 3DS remaster anymore. You can just shove its graphics into the port if you prefer them and flip a few settings to toggle the changed behavior.

Plus everyone knows the best way to play is with the Beatles in OOT mods (seriously go search up the stupid fucking fever dream that is the remixed OST).

Since when has banning cheating ever stopped students inclined to cheat?

I think it’s pretty obvious that you haven’t used any AI tools in a while. They have gotten considerably better at not spewing complete nonsense, and at being very convincing to people who don’t know better. We’re well past the obvious days of glue pizza and telling people to eat rocks, and entirely fabricated garbage.

My job is doing a full court push of AI to make sure we “don’t get left behind” by nebulous competitors’ hypothetical productivity gains. So I’ve started picking it up. It’s useful for searching for information using normal language terminology, and on rare occasions can call out edge cases and additional considerations early, rather than when I come to those conclusions after reading 10 different documentation sites and mentally mapping everything out.

I still think the bleeding edge early adopters were/are insane, AGI/ASI isn’t going to coalesce out of the current approaches if ever, and it’s a net negative for humanity. That all said, I see the benefits and use cases more clearly now too.

Unfortunately, not checking anything and pushing to prod now can result in things that work well enough to become relied on before it hits the wall. You end up with a project five layers past the initial slop code (that the initial slopper claims is rock solid and good to go) when the problems start showing up, then you realize that you’ve been building off slop foundation and have to tear everything back down to the frame.

Makes the whole thing worse tbh.

https://lemmy.world/comment/25704910

I think you’ve skipped a bunch of troubleshooting steps into the realm of paranoia.

You need to take a step back, take some deep breaths. As another commenter said, ensure that you are taking care of your own health, because you’re not wrong, this sounds batshit.

After that, you can start troubleshooting one thing at a time, starting with the most basic, ignoring any assumptions and focusing on only what you know as fact. Your description is so flooded with extraneous detail that it’s hard to follow, but what I got out of it is this:

• You’re incredibly concerned about privacy, but not particularly knowledgeable (using TOR for all web browsing, using random VPN without actually looking into it, instead of taking some time to study before you jump in feet first).
• This means you are likely to be using some combinations of software and settings that are non-standard, that you may not fully understand. I don’t mean this as an insult, we’ve all been there, but we need to stop focusing on what you assume. The type of people asking for help on asklemmy of all places are not the same people being targeted by state actors or “super hackers”, unless there’s a lot of shit you left out.
• This is on top of your admittance of doing vibe-coding with all the supply chain risks that you are thankfully somewhat aware of.
• You recently changed VPN providers. This is not placed at any point in the overall timeline, so we cannot begin to guess at any relation to further events, such as shady VPN software installs before or after certain listed issues.
• You recently torrented some FLAC files and used VLC to play them, which is the last thing you recall doing before you started having your most recent issues, which appear to be your router requiring a firmware reflash, and the keyboard input issues.
• “Around that time” of the FLAC album download, but not specifically before or after, your router stopped working and required a full firmware reflash. You do not say where you obtained this firmware, if it is the official manufacturer firmware or something custom/third party like OpenWRT. This was a few days ago.
• After fixing the router and cleaning, you begin having keyboard input issues. No word on of the cleaning involved any spraying or wiping of the keyboard before you noticed issues, so no idea on hardware damage or accidentally triggered keyboard shortcuts.
• Keyboard issues noted: One row non functional, some keys entering multiple times on single press, issues with capslock/shift
• You moved the HDD to another machine, played the FLAC(s) again, and the keyboard issue started again.

I’ll be real, your immediate jump to thinking this is some sort of targeted active attack is silly. You need to isolate if the problem is with the keyboard, settings on the installed OS (specific to the drive), or after you play the FLAC file. Test one thing at a time, offline. Don’t introduce additional variables. You’ll also want to ensure VLC is fully updated, as a number of updates to it are security related. Embedding malware in media files isn’t common, but it’s much more likely than being the target of an intentional attack, or of picking up malware capable of jumping across multiple firmwares.

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