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Just to give some slight optimism in opposition to your friends, I am soon to turn 41. Its harder, but it's not impossible. Whatever you pursue, form is everything. Poor form cannot exist post 40. Technically, I am stronger than I have ever been, and yet I'm still falling apart. Don't consider the number, just do the work, and do it well. Good luck to you!

You say you'll disable the ad blocker for sites that don't push malicious ads? I've reported half a dozen deepfake "investment" ads on YouTube in the last couple of months, and they have done nothing about it. The ads YouTube pushes are horrible!

Thank you for putting this into words. I have come to realise the same thing over the years but have never been able to properly verbalise it!

I'm a heterosexual male. My sister is a lesbian, and through her, I was introduced to many lesbian (and gay) friends from a young age. And since then, I've often had lesbisn friends or acquaintances, and I've always found that I get on so much better with lesbians than straight women.

I feel with most lesbian women that I'm in the company of another man. It's so much easier to talk to them, without the background hum of sexuality that seems to come from interactions with straight women. I'm not blaming women for this, btw. I think it's just a male brain thing for me, but there is certainly some extra element when interacting with straight women that is absent around lesbians and that absence allows me to relax more and just be myself.

How very Christian of them... sickening 🤢

Oh, hush now, of course I care! I'm just agreeing with OP that there is probably a little too much of it or, more precisely, not enough "other" topics of conversation yet. It'll come.

Believe me, I get it. 20+ years of advocacy, though, have earned me exactly 1 convert, and that's my old man. Who is arguably already a bigger geek than I am, and spending his retirement teaching himself x86-64 assembly "for fun" whilst doing a much better job of de-googling himself than I ever have.

All I'm saying here is that I can see where the OP is coming from. There is an awful lot of Linux talk (and Star Trek talk!) here on Lemmy. I can see how it might feel a little alienating to those who are from outside of that world.

That said, I agree with a lot of other commentors here that have pointed out that any new platform typically attracts the geeks firstly (reddit was no different). In time, I hope to see a much greater variety of peoples on Lemmy!

I've exclusively used Linux on my computers since about 2001. At this point, I don't care to see this much talk about it either.

It's an operating system, it's free (in both senses), it's very powerful and ,frankly, it's all I know how to use these days. However, I just don't see the appeal of harping on about all the time. I use it exclusively, and I spend zero minutes per day actually thinking about it, the way a good operating system should be IMHO.

" I chose this scene because I wanted to create an image that blends elements of nature, the cosmos, and a personal touch with the ebike, which I gathered from your profile might be of interest to you. The goal was to create a serene setting that might resonate with someone who appreciates astronomy and the tranquility of nighttime landscapes.

See, this right here is incredible to me! That's a genuinely insane level of detail in the response. I don't understand what sort of access it has to your "profile" but that is exactly the sort of thing I want to recreate locally. I've been implementing things like vector stores for "long term" memory but I haven't managed to get anything like that level of understanding out of a LLM yet.

Really, that is pretty damn amazing!

What a simply wonderful idea! I love how people are finding inventive ways to get around copyright issues. Basically, describe it without naming it, clever!

I've never actually tried DALL-E, but that is some damn impressive work! I'm incredibly tempted to give it a bash! And your daughter must love this stuff, mines all grown up now, but she would have adored this stuff when she was younger, kinda makes me wish she was 10 again 😂

One of the things I love about running locally, though, is that I just don't have to even consider copyright and all that. I mean, it's not like I'm going to make any money off this!

And believe me, every single day, I consider chucking in the towel with running everything locally. Especially when I use gpt to test the code I've been fighting all day, and it just... works! 😣

Thank you for the suggestion, though. I might have a play with DALL-E. And keep up the good work!

Some things being conserved is absolutely good. However, the "Conservative" government isn't really all that conservative, is it? Unless you refer to conserving their own self interests, I'll grant you they're really good at that...

Oh and I am 40 years old and educated to masters level, not that that really should matter in the slightest. I do admit that I am pretty short sighted though, damn eyes just ain't what they used to be. Thankfully I can fix that with glasses through our wonderful national health service... at least for now until the "conservatives" get rid of that too...

Bloody helfire. If I had $1,000,000 I would never have to work or worry about money again. I can't even comprehend 20 million.

So I guess I'd take 1 million, and then stuff the rest in some charity trust thing that could help my local community.

All things AI. I've been hyper focused on LLMs, and stable diffusion, to the detriment of my work... I cannot focus on anything else right now, I go to sleep thinking about it, and I wake up thinking about it. Sometimes I wish I wasn't like this, but tbh, in the moment, I really don't care.