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  • As an add-on to this, some people are inherently better at meditation to start with. So hearing from other people how short their journey was from “meditation is just a waste of time” to “after some practice it started to be more effective” can be really discouraging for people where that journey can be years. But everyone can get good at meditating. And generally, the harder or more useless it seems to start out, the more you need what it offers.


  • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldtoWTF@lemmy.wtfWTF for both
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    The missing relevance in the food ones is that those are the amounts of “undiluted” and “chemically available” versions of those specific poisons it would take.

    For the water, there is currently no exact known amount of water that is considered a fatal overdose, but the amount she quoted is the smallest known/documented quantity to have “worked” at least once. It usually takes much more. She probably asked AI.

    I would imagine, despite the evocative way he edited this video, he probably didn’t just take her at her word and then see if she was right. It would be very easy to disprove her in words, but if capable, certainly hold more weight to disprove her in video format, knowing he was safe the whole time.



  • Well, partially a dig on the “weird” “creepy” people that inherited a castle and either rarely or never left it. But also a bunch of generic "other"ing was bundled into it too. Similar to witches, just the poorer, femaler version of “doesn’t want to participate in society”(I mean the broad strokes of an older woman living out in a hut in the woods with her cat, is actually a pretty normal and understandable thing)… people still make up all kinds of scary versions of who the neighbourhood shut-in must be, and why they don’t leave their house. What kinds of scary things those people must be up to.

    It’s all the same stuff, shut-ins are just on the internet now, so we talk to other people now. But our behaviours haven’t changed.





  • I don’t know about the current state of wired VR for Linux.

    You are mostly stuck with ALVR for wireless and a few other options like that. Though if you like Linux, ALVR is basically the Linux of wireless VR anyway. You can get it working well if you really like spending time in settings menus instead of playing games, or copying someone else’s pre-configured settings for similar hardware/networking gear/setup.

    But there is a chance SteamVR/Steam link will get a decent push for Linux around the time of the Steam Frame(deckard) launch.



  • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldtoFuck AI@lemmy.worldChatgpt just making stuff up
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    Your specific wording is telling it to make up an answer.

    What “would” this word mean? Implying it doesn’t mean anything currently, so guess a meaning for it.

    But yes, in general always assume they don’t know what they are saying, as they aren’t really capable of knowing. They do a really good job of mimicking knowledge, but they don’t actually know.






  • It’s not a particularly challenging game unless you choose to make it so. But by default it’s mostly just hanging out and exploring. You don’t need to min/max, you don’t even need advice. You will learn everything you need to know, and anything you learn late, won’t have been a big deal to not know for a while.

    Putting stuff in your tech slots gain small bonuses if things of the same type are touching. And purple slots gain bigger bonuses. There are best possible ways to arrange all that stuff, but you’ll be fine if you put stuff in the worst possible order too. It’s all gravy. Play around with it, see if you can make bigger numbers by placing things in different places, but no need to obsess with it. Unless you crank the game up to maximum difficulty, you will be strong enough with no bonuses.

    Making money and nanites ends up being incredibly easy, and really the only barriers are knowledge. You actually probably are better off not knowing the easiest ways, the game is more fun when you don’t have infinite money and resources yet. Slowly learn them over time on your own.

    If you think you might get to a point where the game will feel “too” easy, make sure to start the game with custom difficulty and with the ability to alter difficulty choices later. So at any moment you can decide to change something to be less boring. Or the other way, if something is too tedious or hard, you can always turn that specific aspect to a different setting too.

    Edit: If it’s an option for you, the game plays and runs great in VR now too. A few bugs here and there still, but very playable.


  • It sucks to learn a lesson this way when they could have learned it by reading any of the paperwork that came with each component, or watching a video about it, or not ignoring all the various people who have already likely tried to explain it in person.

    At worst, the slowest of those methods of learning the lesson would have been an hour or less of their time. This way is gonna cost hundreds or thousands of hours. And worse, could have cost forever, or someone else’s forever, or multiple.


  • Growing up Autistic, I managed to make a lot of otherwise nice people pretty frustrated. That didn’t make them mean, but I sure thought they were. It took me a long time to realise the difference between frustrated and mad or mean. I have since re-connected with some of the people I misunderstood and it turns out they really are nice people.

    No idea if anything similar is what happened for you. But just thought of a thing I could relate it to, and figured it might be worth sharing just in case.

    It might take years before anything changes if so. But it’s worth the wait, and the effort.