“You’re a loony.”

The “fun” part is that it has already discovered the poop knife. We just need to figure out how to coax it out.

It’s amazing the amount of freedom I enjoy simply by not being a conservative. When I get home from work I just have a good time playing videogames or whatever else makes me happy. I’m allowed to like whatever I like.

They really should try it. It’s liberating 😌

Satanic panic is their whole life. I really pity them. They live in constant fear of not only their god who supposedly “loves” them, but another deity who also doesn’t exist.

I’ll definitely give the web UI a shot since I’m already quite familiar with A1111 and it seems they’re trying to recreate the same look and feel. Thank you for the info!

I’ve been wanting to run that one on my hardware but GPT4All just refuses to start its GUI. The only thing is a “chat.exe” that sits idle in the task manager. And this is an issue I’ve seen reported in their Github from several users, on both Win 10 and 11.

Have you find success with that frontend, or are you using one that actually works? I haven’t researched any others since this issue has me a little burnt out.

Dunno why PowerToys isn’t bundled by default tbh.

PowerToys give the user more power, which goes directly against Microsoft’s own goal.

Also, less seriously, “toys” implies the user might enjoy the experience, and you know they can’t let that happen.

🎵 CLEVELAND ROCKS 🎵

Braum’s gang sound off!

With my luck they’re also a shitty company and I had no idea…

If you want to have a little fun, start speaking nonsense. Since they’re only half-listening, they deserve no more than your half-talking.

No, they just don’t like the stare.

If they took action against the OOT PC port I would lie down, try not to cry, then cry a lot.

OOT at 4k60 is such a beautiful, fun experience—especially with a good randomizer. Yes I’m old.

I’ve recently been using the home page on YT (in addition to my bookmark, which takes me straight to /feed/subscriptions) and I’ve been pleasantly surprised. It seems like the algorithm is generally pretty good at finding similar videos to the ones I enjoy. That is unless I scroll waaaaay down, where it just runs out of ideas. I would recommend trying out your home page, with some light pruning as needed (“Not interested”, “Don’t recommend channel”).

Same here, generally, but I think there are a tiny few people who have a legitimate reason for using TTS. For instance, those whose English skills are lacking, or who have an accent which some might find distracting. Or a person who is self-conscious about their voice but still has something to offer, or maybe those who legitimately can’t speak at all. Hell, I support anyone who could narrate but doesn’t want to put their voice out there for privacy reasons, or to keep it out of the public space where it will inevitably be used as training data.

I’d still rather listen to the human, because I can’t stand any of the “AI” voices, especially those that are used on every fucking tiktok (I stay away from TT, but unfortunately the voices are pretty ubiquitous). It might sound silly but I’d prefer good old Microsoft Sam to the any of these new voices.

One channel I found recently for coding-related topics uses TTS but before I got annoyed enough to close it, I realized that the script was probably hand-written, just narrated by a machine. The video was highly informative, and I walked away having learned some new information. For the curious

Something that sucks about this new wave of TTS is that we get some odd errors in pronunciation that probably wouldn’t be there if it was spoken by a human. A missing comma or other punctuation errors will pass a spell check but end up sounding really strange due to the broken inflection. Uncanny Valley stuff I suppose.

AI thumbnails are utter garbage though. All polish, no substance, no love for the craft.

Fucking thank you. Calling it anything but “fake” or “fraudulent” serves only to normalize the lie that an “alternate list” is a codified idea. Imagine the place we’d be in if we had normalized the phrase “alternative facts” or whatever phrase gurgled out of that one shithead when talking about the “Bowling Green massacre” that she made up.

Make them hear it, read it, and squirm.

Looks like you have more faith than me that any one republican has the capacity for discomfort. Your patience is really admirable. I hope you continue to keep your cynicism in check, unlike me.

The RNC is so pathetic they need to make an effort to stop slobbering his cock while he steps on theirs. How embarrassing…

Oh definitely, I wasn’t trying to imply that. Just wanted to put in my two cents. As a Texan I want nothing more than to watch Abbott and Costello Cruz (and Paxton, among countless others) get their comeuppance, but that will inevitably hurt innocent people, whether through side effects or spiteful retaliation.

I’d probably be cheering on whatever pain the GOP feels, before realizing I should be biting my nails and planning my exit strategy lol.

It would be great if there was some federal assistance, as Dkarma mentioned. Helping good people while accelerating the brain drain 😄

Innocent person here. Not only would it be guaranteed to harm us, but IMO completely "other"ing even one entire state would be disastrous.

I’m no geopolitical expert, but I’ve heard the argument (and I tend to agree) that isolating an entire group of people and treating them all equally badly is a very effective way to allow terrorism to spread. Think about the decades-long “war on terror” and what little it actually accomplished.

Consider how many gun-toting military fetishists there are in, say, Texas. Then remember that “Y’all Qaeda” isn’t just a meme. These people are already mouth-foaming rabid when their conversation space is diluted with rational thought from more sensible people. Imagine sealing their echo chamber for them.

Obviously I don’t know what the best solution is, because compassion doesn’t work (except maybe on a one-to-one level, but who wants to talk to millions of nutjobs?), and antagonism will only bring us further down as a nation.

Yeah, I truly envy the aliens who get to watch from afar.

don’t feel they are getting a voice

Oh how I wish there was a violin small enough for these fucking scumbags. The Planck Length is still too big.