The Bard in Green

  • Technology Consultant.
  • Software Developer.
  • Musician.
  • Burner.
  • Game Master.
  • Non-theistic Pagan.
  • Cishet White Male Feminist.
  • Father.
  • Fountain Maker.
  • Aquarium Builder.
  • Hamster Daddy.
  • Resident of Colorado.
  • Anti-Capitalist.
  • Hackerspace Regular.
  • Traveler of the American West.
  • 62 Posts
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Joined 3 years ago
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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • The Bard in GreenAtoFediverse@lemmy.worldwe need more users
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    1 month ago

    I have kind of the opposite experience. When I go on reddit, I feel depressed and angry, when I go on Lemmy I laugh and learn stuff. Probably the communities I subscribe to though. I get political and regional news from Reddit (and don’t have an actual reddit account anymore). I get funny science and Star Trek memes from Lemmy and cyber security and tech news.




  • The Bard in GreenAtoLinux@lemmy.worldHelp me ditch windows?
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    1 month ago

    I have neither used Bazzite nor CachyOS. You’re sure you don’t want to try Linux Mint? It’s extremely stable Linux for your grandma. Seriously, my dad’s laptops run Mint, and have for the last 5-6 years. When he gets a new laptop, I go over and install Mint for him (and he doesn’t know what Linux even means, he keeps calling LibreOffice “linux”). He asks me for help with his Windows desktop all the time (which he needs for certain software), but linux “just works” (his words). My son’s gaming computer and our house TV (which is an oldish Dell All-In-One that both my son and my wife need to be able to use) also run Mint.

    For me, work computers that need to be stable run Mint, work computers that need to be secure run Qubes and servers run Debian.


  • Valkyrien Skies. Then you can bring your base with you.

    Not in a million years on that server though.

    In all seriousness, second the guy who said Minecolonies. It turns Minecraft into SimCity. I really enjoy combining it with the Lost Cities. I like reclaiming ruined cities and repopulating them.

    Years ago, I played on a server that had a bunch of mods that added more hostile mobs to the point that you had until the first night to build some kind of a basic shelter and then you just couldn’t leave until you had full diamond armor and weapons (even then it was iffy). There were like goblins and ogres and tigers and bears and stuff wandering around outside. The chat was just “<so and so> was killed by <weird hostile mob>” for days. It wasn’t very fun though.



  • The Bard in GreenAtoAI@lemmy.mlI don't care how well your "AI" works - fiona fokus
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    1 month ago

    I disagree. This is like blaming atomic power for the cold war or the internal combustion engine for climate change or democracy for Trump (or the printing press for the moral decay of 15th century Europe, or the telescope for the Copernican heresy). Underneath virtually all modern problems are human beings making (often profit driven) human decisions. People have blamed the tools for centuries. But we need to look at the humans hiding behind the curtains and hold them accountable if we want to actually solve problems and change things.

    People love to hate on generative AI, and there’s no doubt that generative AI is causing a host of absolute garbage outcomes in our modern world, but the problem is not that people use it to write code faster or make some pictures they wouldn’t be able to make without it. The problem, as usual, is big corporations making big corporation decisions while the human beings that benefit from those decisions are mostly invisible and unnoticed and even when they’re not are totally unaccountable.