This game isn’t exactly niche, but Red Dead Redemption II is a really good one. You play as an outlaw on the run from bounty hunters while your gang is falling, their ideals are crumbling, and society no longer wants them. Arthur Morgan is part of a dying way of life.

The game also has an honor system where your status is determined by how evil or good you are. Help strangers = high honor. Rob and murder indiscriminately = walking nightmare

It’s probably not you who is controverial. In my experience, a lot of Lemmy subs/pages seem to be echo chambers and circlejerks. Don’t worry too much about karma. Lemmy is a whole different ecosystem. Sounds like you’re trying to bring status into a place that doesn’t value it. You’re either preaching to the choir, or speaking your mind and getting flamed.

Same. I don’t consider the sequels canon. There are too many plot holes that contradict the original trilogy. Sometimes the sequels even contradict themselves.

Same. I watched that Skeleton Crew show on Disney+. I enjoyed it, but I noticed a few plot holes. It also ended kind of abruptly.

There was once I time where I would have argued against your take on Star Wars. But now, I don’t disagree with you. The newer Disney Star Wars films have killed the franchise.

Probably because it challenges the narrative of people who automatically hate all AI no matter what. I have even had colleagues argue with me that certain types of AI “aren’t actually AI” because they have too much pride and ego to admit they use the very thing they claim to hate.

I personally use AI to help me with my work. I used to work in an IT repair facility where I would use an LLM to help me troubleshoot problems. For example if a computer won’t turn on and the motherboard is flashing and beeping, asking an LLM is 10x faster than having to use the internet to hunt for a user manual of one specific model of computer from 40 years ago, made by a brand which no longer exists.

Now I work in Computer Games Development after getting my degree. AI is extremely useful for helping me come up with ideas, making prototypes, and even generating small amounts of code in C++ and C#, which is what I mainly use. Games Dev isn’t difficult. I can do it myself. But it can be very tedious. That’s why AI is so helpful.

As for what your little brother does, i’ve experienced that. People generating code and having no idea what it does. It might help you pass your subjects in school, but it’s only gonna screw you over in the long run.

I don’t mind people using AI to help them with their work as long as they don’t depend on it.

I’ve been a long time user and subscriber of ChatGPT plus. It has helped me tremendously and I probably wouldn’t be where I am without it.

I canceled mt subscription recently. I won’t continue to give money to ClosedAI. There are alternatives.

Sam Altman can burn in hell.

Depends on what they need it for.

Gaming, rendering, anything that needs lots of power and driver support - Windows

Music production, video editing, graphic design - MacOS

Programming, or people who want full control over their system - Linux

Don’t listen to Apple fanboys. You absolutely do not need to spend $1000 to take notes and browse the internet.

Look at some of the more political threads and you’ll see what I mean. They have a serious problem with ideological absolutism. You’re either with them 100%, or you’re the enemy. No room for nuance.

I’ve had the same experience. Everywhere else is a bit of a ghost town.

Honestly not great. I was permanently banned from Reddit and the admins wouldn’t tell me what I did. I came to Lemmy thinking it was a better alternative to Reddit, only to find out how toxic Lemmy is. It’s even worse than Reddit in terms of toxicity.

No.

So you’re not religious. You just want the community? How about joining a club. Something that interests you. It’s an opportunity to meet like-minded people with whom you should get along.

Yeah. Before OneUI 8, you could set up a custom ROM on a Samsung phone too. Short of that you can disable google services. Use non google apps from F-Droid or Aurora Store. You can also use ADB to uninstall system-level APKs. Though the only way that I know of to fully de-google is to install a different OS.

Not all android spies on you. Have you ever tried GrapheneOS? It’s very secure and pro-privacy. Technically it’s not android (if you really want to nitpick), but you need a Google Pixel to run it.

You make a very good point. I myself have noticed sites like Lemmy.world are a bit of a ghost town compared to other forums. I think the main reason is that sites like Reddit are still more popular. And that’s either because people started using Reddit when it was actually good and are clinging to nostalgia, or because people don’t know that Lemmy exists. Or both. I recently saw a post on Reddit where someone claimed that Reddit is the only usable forum on the internet.

To answer your question: Convince people that Lemmy is what Reddit was trying to be back in 2006.

I used to have a job in IT, building PCs. It sounds fun, but building computers all day gets old fast. After about a year of working there I decided i’d like to try working in a different department, so I asked my boss about being moved. He told me that the specific department I had requested didn’t need any help and the department I was currently in was his priority. That seemed fair.

A few months later, somebody in that department left for another job, so I saw an opportunity and I swooped in. I told my boss that if he was looking for someone to replace the guy who left, i’d really appreciate it if he kept me in mind. My boss told me that he appreciated and acknowledged that I had been working there for a long time and he would keep me in mind. About a week later he calls me into his office and tells me he’s going to move me to the department I had requested.

9 months go by and I haven’t heard another word about being moved. 9 whole months.

At this point I was already thinking about quitting. Then I had a performance review which I was told would be one-to-one. But it wasn’t. My boss and two of my department supervisors were there. My boss brings up an issue of which I was at fault, and shows me a spread sheet as evidence. I checked the date on the spreadsheet and it was from 3 months prior. If it was that much of an issue, why did he wait 3 months to tell me? Why not bring it up at the time? That’s not helping anybody.

That was the final straw. I started looking for jobs when I got home that day. I got one and gave my boss 2 weeks notice.