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Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.zip•Windows 11 Copilot now tells you what’s slowing down your PC, while using 1GB RAM itselfEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    Yep, plus, who is running Windows on a machine where 1GB of RAM is precious?

    My work laptop has 16GB. It runs the full suite of Microsoft bloat (CoPilot, Teams, Edge, OneDrive) plus various antivirus and work security/monitoring tools constantly. I usually also have Outlook open, ~5 active tabs in Edge (with up to 20 inactive), an RDP session going, Excel, VSCode (often with long running scripts going), OneNote, Notepad++, and either YouTube for music or a teams meeting with video.

    I’ve never had to close anything for the sake of performance except when I was installing a big program, doing a deep search through tens of thousands of files using very inefficient PowerShell code, while having all the rest open.

    I’m not saying CoPilot using a gig of RAM at rest is OK, I’m just saying it’s not the huge performance impact being implied.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtobadposting@hexbear.net•What's up chat? It's me, your boy Anubis. Today we're gonna be doing a rare twofer senatorial soul unboxingEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Love to see old gods adapting to the times. But bro, when was somebody going to tell me Aphrodite and Nefirtiti had OnlyFans? And they collabed!

    More seriously, I love this sort of shit in fiction.

    Lots of words about a few books that do this

    • Douglas Adams’s Long Dark Teatime of the Soul covers (among other things) just how hard it would be for immortal beings to try and survive in modern bureaucracy. Try getting a photo ID, social security card, passport, etc when you have no birth certificate. Then try getting a job, bank account, etc. He uses it as the most fun twist on homelessness I’ve seen, which is to say it’s still quite emotionally dark, but sometimes they turn into an eagle or destroy something with lightning.

    • If you can pirate it or buy it used, and can put aside the author’s transgressions, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods is an interesting one as well. Lots of different takes on how different gods have and haven’t adapted to modern life.

    • My favorite though is probably Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series. MC is intentionally kind of a chauvinist, out of trying to protect women due to past trauma of thinking he’s responsible for the death of his first love, so you do have to put up with that.

      • But back to the point it treats godhood as a sort of mantle that can be taken up by carefully embodiment of what the particular role stands for. And if you are made into a god through other means, the mantle will generally change you to be more like the role over time for better or worse, unless you have a strong enough will to change what people think the title represents by your own actions.
      • Plus, a lot of these “roles” are actually being covered by the same people. It’s not entirely clear if they’ve always been three different gods/mythological figures, if they took up the job over time as a power play, or took it to keep the balance of things.
      • The rulers of the Winter Court of the Fae are also the Greek fates, Odin runs a security company employing all of the creatures that he rules over. He also moonlights as Santa, and the leader of the Fae’s Wild Hunt. The first “classic” transforming and blood sucking vampire was originally an Aztec god.
  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtopics@lemmy.world•'MericaEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Unfortunately that seems to be the pattern with a lot of beliefs right now, especially ones that the rich have vested interest in ensuring spread.

    AI bros just updated their AI doomsday timeline again, from 2026 to 2030. At some point you’d think they’d see the parallels with the “world is ending on this specific day” cults and the constant timeline shifting.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoFunny@sh.itjust.works•Top Hats and… ?English
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    3 days ago

    You’ve got a job waiting for you with Nanotrasen’s finest doctors aboard the illustrious Space Station 13!

    It’s a bunch of slapped together simulation systems in a trench coat, slathered in a layer of spessman slime and clown wigs, and shoved in an ancient diy MMO engine from the mid 2000s solely kept alive by this game.

    More importantly, you can strap someone to an operating table in medbay, slice off their butt with a scalpel. You can then wear it as a hat.

    Alternatively give it to the chef so he can cook a butt burger, or give it to the roboticist who can slap it on a talking roomba that runs around repeating what people say but switching words with “BUTT” (help changeling in BUTT!). People without butts cannot fart emote, and certain illnesses that would cause them to fart instead deal internal damage until they explode in a shower of blood and viscera.