There are plenty of reasons to put SSDs in a home server.

He plunged his enlarged pleasure column into my glistening velvet chasm

And other such bizarre descriptors

I think the Map of the castle is absolutely exceptional and there’s a lot of attention to detail.

The main storyline is enjoyable enough, although I wish there was more of a push-back if you choose to use the unforgivable curses. They’re meant to be unforgivable and yet you pretty much get a “oh I wish you wouldn’t do that” when you straight up torture an enemy in front of an NPC.

The main letdown for me is that outside of the castle, a lot of the game feels somewhat empty. It’s not like Skyrim where you go out into the world and you’re always finding little things spread out everywhere that piques your interest. It feels like there’s not much reason to venture out from the castle or Hogsmeade unless a mission explicitly tells you to.

Overall though I do think it’s decent.

People say that because goblins in the HP universe are commonly depicted as working for a bank, and because they have large pointy noses similar to how Jewish people get caricatured, HP is anti-Semitic.

I see what they mean, but in fairness there’s a lot more nuance than angry commenters let on.

Goblins have been depicted as being short and pointy-nosed for centuries, or possibly even longer. It’s not really a Harry Potter thing. That’s just what goblins are usually depicted like.

Similarly, goblins have been depicted for a long time - similar to dwarves in folklore - as expert miners, fond of jewels and precious metals that they dig up, and also as expert craftsmen.

I’m not really sure where the “goblins are traders” thing came from, the earliest reference I can find to that is Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market poem from the 1860s, and writers seem to have run with it from there.

It does follow that creatures who mine for precious things and are expert craftsmen would be proficient in trade. So to me it makes complete sense why a writer would say “ok, I want to put goblins into my modern setting fantasy novel, where should they be? Oh! They can work in a magical bank, that makes sense! Oh, and let’s make it so that the Goblins were the ones who originally crafted the sword of Griffindor, that makes sense too!”

So I’m going to go against the grain a bit and say that I find it plausible goblins were written with no intent to compare them to Jews. I think JKR wrote goblins the way almost everyone else did.

She is undeniably hateful of trans people, though. Yes, Hogwarts Legacy does have trans characters, but that’s something JKR was unhappy about. She’s said she doesn’t care about the game at all and that she doesn’t think of it as hers. There’s been speculation that she got paid a lump sum up front rather than ongoing royalties, but I’m not sure it’s confirmed.

Needlessly divisive identity politics that gets spread around a lot in the form of tweets/articles/memes because it’s controversial.

Unless the dataset, weighting, and every aspect is open source, it’s not truly open source, as the OSI defines it.

OpenAI is pretty well established.

I know Lemmy users avoid it, but a lot of people use LLMs, and when most people think LLMs, they think ChatGPT. I doubt the average person could name many or even any others.

That means whenever these people want to use an LLM, they automatically go to OpenAI.

As for to the degree of $300bn, who knows. Big tech has had crazy valuations for a long time.

The idea is cool (not for me personally, but I see the merit).

But this project has flip-flopped its name, its flip-flopped its distro, its flip-flopped its Desktop Environment. Development has stopped and started multiple times.

I don’t think this distro or this project is something that can be relied upon.

Surely it’d make more sense to develop this as a theme that can be installed by Plasma users, rather than as an entire distro?

Oracle recently put out a ridiculously optimistic forecast that had them matching AWS within a handful of years. At first the market loved it.

Now I think people are beginning to realise that was a load of bollocks and that they were just overhyping the stock.

Brand recognition cannot be overstated.

If there was a better-than-YouTube alternative right now, YouTube would still dominate.

If there was a phone OS superior to Android and iOS, they would both still dominate.

If there was a search engine that worked far better than Google, Google would still dominate.

The average person won’t look into LLM reasoning benchmarks. They’ll just use the one they know, ChatGPT.

There are other even more dyslexic-legible fonts that IMO look better

Lmao

You’re a crazy conspiracy theorist.

Move to North Korea if it’s the paradise you think it is.

It really doesn’t, but it that’s how you want to run away from the truth little guy then go ahead.

What a dipshit take.

There is not a single patch of land where humans have lived where atrocities haven’t happened. Not one.

Some countries, though, are committing atrocities right now.

Equating them is absolutely moronic. What kind of Old Testament whacko are you? Put that “sins of the father will be paid by the son” bullshit in the bin where it belongs.

Western governments kill foreigners for criticising their heads of state?

I am brown, fuckwit.

No, it’s not subjective, so I can’t really agree to disagree. You are objectively incorrect. If you just said “it’s not for me personally” then I’d agree to disagree.

I use it just fine, so do many others. Including Linus Torvalds himself.

It’s great as a desktop interface, you’re just used to the Windows layout, and that’s fine.

The UK has among the lowest road deaths in the world.

I’m not quite sure why that is (although anecdotally as a pedestrian, you seem to be treated like royalty in the UK in comparison to other places I’ve been - so much as glance at a zebra crossing and cars come to an immediate stop).

Given how UK drivers often use summer tyres year-round, the weather is dark and cool, and the roads are usually damp, you’d logically expect poor results, but we see the opposite.

Perhaps it’s due to the rather strict yearly MOT safety check? Who knows.

I gave it a little test 2 days ago. It’s lacking polish and a few options you’d expect to see.

The auto tiling works very well.

The PopOS theming often doesn’t work on apps you download, often they don’t even respect your dark/light mode preference.

I had one crash, but it was fine upon reboot.

Padding and visual consistency is a bit hit and miss.

Personally I’d say it’s not quite ready for my tastes, but it’s certainly usable. I can definitely see the complaints I have being rectified in pretty short order.

Objectively incorrect.

My point - as you very well know - was that NK kills its citizens for practically anything. That includes criticism of the monarch, which is classified as treason there.

As you are also very well aware, nothing like that happens in the UK. People freely criticise/mock the figurehead monarch all the time.

Being a tanky is very cringey. Your post history is hilarious.

You’d be among the first to be put into a camp or killed in any of the countries you so regularly simp for. You’re very lucky to be crying about how bad your society is from a western country.