Not that much. Probably around $30-40USD at an anime con for a manga, not including the secondary one I got that kinda doubled the price.
Otherwise, for books plural, not me, but I am sure the Christmas gift boxset of a manga series I got probably around $100+USD would be the most expensive books I’ve seen purchased. College textbooks excluded.
Did someone say creating fake news in masses to scare people away from genAI?
Count me in!
I give it a couple weeks after they start sure plying electricity for them to turn it off for critical infrastructure because someone over there hurt wittwe Ewons feewings by correctly calling him a fascist, using his platform.
The last drive of mine running windows is currently an offline setup right now because I ain’t updating it to windows 11 and ain’t connecting to the internet while not getting security updates.
I could do it on that windows 10 drive when I allowed the OS an internet connection, but now I’m dealing with the consequences of not suggesting that my dad switch from windows 10 to MX Linux on his laptop.
Though, I will agree windows would work just fine.
The last time I was seeding, on my desktop, my system was set up not to go into sleep mode and also didn’t have problems where my monitor wouldn’t just stop displaying the screen.
Now, under Linux Mint, under Wayland for my preferred client, I have to constantly be there to ensure the display doesn’t decide to stop displaying since Wayland is still experimental in Cinnamon under LM Zena.
Otherwise I would go back to doing it.
The troop I was in was like that as well, minus the uniforms. Almost always had to have on either a uniform or troop shirt at outings so we could be identified in case something went wrong. Closest we had to church related stuff was how our troop was grateful enough to be able to hold meetings in a nearby church, a quick mention of it in Eagle Scout court of honor ceremony, and the occasional camp out “there’s service happening for anybody who wants to attend” type of thing.
As for funding, we definitely had the usual fall popcorn sales and then we usually did a bake sale early Spring for funding. Hated the bake sale because it was always at a small rest stop shop that was almost always cold. No external support outside of whoever popcorn sales were done through.
I definitely learned some pretty good skills in it, so I would personally recommend, though biased.
Learned first aid, fire starting, safe wood chopping, some decent enough regional wilderness survival skills, and had a good amount of fun along the way. Also learned gun safety in a very important meeting we had that probably should have been either a once every year meeting.
Almost made Eagle Scout here. Would absolutely encourage people to join*. There is almost no other organization where you can learn cooking, first aid, environmental science, and many other cool and useful skills that I can think of. At least not for teens. There are definitely a good amount of things I learned that I have kept with me, even if I have never had to use them, especially a very important meeting we had on gun safety.
*obviously vet the troop. You absolutely don’t want to join a troop with homophobes if you or your child are not straight or are trans or whatever.
With enough money, I guarantee anybody could have their copyright stolen from right under their noses.
No no! You got it all wrong! It’s not peace, it’s piece! As in they each get a turn at having a piece of the action with little Timmy’s balls!
What would be the ideal answer is for the ICC to turn around and make every complicit company legally international criminals.
Since it’s genAI, it’s one of the very few things I will 100% agree on any Hollywood groups on when it comes to business.
I just hope the rest of the big players don’t go down the Dosney route and lose any humanity they have left by using genAI.
Linus would be too busy chewing Epstein out in a mailing list and then banning him from it permanently if they were friends.
As much as I dislike the lack of OOTB customization with cinnamon, I have not had any problems with Linux Mint. It is Ubuntu based but it’s one of those distros that slowly adopts new things ( Wayland still experimental ) to ensure they can make it functional, but things eventually flow to it.
I was gonna say something about MX, but I realized I only have experience with the version with Plasma. I’m sure the other editions are good too, but don’t take my word on it.
Irony must not be their strong suite.
Usually a 2 since I never really talk about it outside of here.
I think the only times I’ve talked about it with others is venting about my problems or what I’m trying to accomplish to my mom or when my dad switched to dual booting Mint on his laptop that thankfully doesn’t support win11.
I’m usually not big on being a consistent fandom interactor type of person in general, so yeah.
I wouldn’t fuck ai. You won’t know what STD you get because it’ll hallucinate every symptom you both have.
Oh boy! Can’t wait to play against that AI and win because it keeps trying to get their pawns to promote instead of using any other pieces!
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I mean, I feel like just shutting it down would solve at least some problems. Shuttering it all, video sharing platforms included.
Not a situation most anyone would agree on, but it’s an idea.
Hell, the music player app I use on my phone ( auxio ) just recently changed a UI component that I now hate to death. Scroll down a list and you’d see a scrollbar, which is usually faster for my over 500 songs. When you’d use the scrollbar, it used to display a square with whatever letter you are on in your list. They replaced it with a horrific spinny gear looking thing! Very first world problem, I know, but I absolutely hate it!