Keeping a live stream going on a burner phone is a good idea, removing biometrics and identifying information from main phone where possible, remote backup to a different location (preferably 1-way) keeping them both in the fully off locked state when not in use. Burner phone should only have your livestream/1-way backup passwords, nothing else. I hope you don’t have to experience this, but better safe than sorry

Bro me too I also tism

Aw it sucks it’s Linux only since dad won’t swap from windows to Linux

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a less relevant example:

many people in general lack the literacy. my entire school thinks I'm able to hack the pentagon because I accessed the boot menu and installed mint on a school computer for my sanity, because last time I used windows on a school computer, I was going through some tough stuff, so on top of it being clunky I have bad memories linked with it. I did not delete windows or touch system files, but I really, really want to. They all treat me like I could hack government systems, even though I've never hacked anything in my life. The average user should be able to access that.

A more relevant example:

fucking everyone at school, staff and otherwise can't do anything with tech. basic shortcuts? nope (except copy/paste)! indenting in word? nope! using anything other than google as a search engine is seen as suspicious, and no-one can really tech there. most of my school is average in every way, and this is no difference. my english teacher believes that wikipedia still hasn't added any security to who's able to edit articles, spoiler: they have (on most articles) such as peer-review and most of them requiring peer-review and account requirements of 500+ approved edits. the list goes on.

"why isn't the printer printing my 3 page essay done in 30 mins?" It's out of cyan. really. go change your cyan, mrs. b. "but the essay is b&w (black and white)" the printer won't work till the cyan is replaced, go tell mrs. b (principal) that the printer is out of cyan. printer says "fuck you, no cyan"

yeah and a lot of bots are filtered whereas on larger sites, such as reddit, most of site usage is bots. It's also very anti-troll and yeah I agree size matters a lot

I don't mean flood on user side, I meant spamming data scraped by corporate. If it's too expensive for corporate to clean up vs how much it's sold for, they won't bother at some point. It's already been stolen... That's only true for the data that already exists.

Kinda like if you had a bunch of bots tied to the same IP as you, and you tell them to generate random searches, click random sites, etc, but never post/comment/vote on anything. They're all tied to the same address, and at some point, it will be to costly to continue stealing data, cleaning it up, and selling it than it will be worth.

They'd either try and clean it up (costs too much, may potentially give up) or stop stealing your data (consumer wins)

I won't spam online, but I don't want corporate having scary accurate info/data about me. I'd only want spam going to corporate, not to people.

Do not worry about it, and simply try to not give them much from now on.

Fair, buuuuuuut...

If you hide as much info as you can, whatever info they can get (likely through illegal means) is going to be accurate. They may have less info, but it is all stuff you definitely did (unless you do both methods at once)

What I'm going for is more I prefer to occasionally waste some corporate time, but the user experience isn't worsened rather than I will do whatever it takes to ruin megacorps

Either way, have a great day

you can change fonts on ebooks?

A lot of beginners (like me) use mint because it is very simple out of the box and user friendly. It just works (unless, like me, you try using commands from arch on mint, and you break it)

Epic definitely licenses games, if you read tos/eula. He's just hoping users don't notice and let it slide unnoticed. It is really nice when AI is disclosed, too.

Have a great day and remember to be kind!

I think they should disclose genai but stuff like NPC pathfinding, terrain generation, etc have been around since before genai don't have to be disclosed, but can optionally be disclosed.

Hell, even the first video game, ping pong, had an NPC AI of sorts, a simple one, but it's still there.

Have a great day, be kind, and hope unreasonable bans don't happen to you again! :D

Imo, code is yet another form of art, and genai trains on it the same way as language arts and visual arts. Ai code also tends to be glitchy (see microsoft trying to make their code ai, then the code breaking lots) so I think it would be good to disclose that, so if any players have a glitchy game, they know what's at fault

I agree that "Made with AI" is necessary, and clarification would be very helpful.

Some ideas I have:

• In general made with AI (undisclosed)

• Textures (the colour/texture or if 2d, sprites)

• Character (3d models)

• Code (self-explanatory)

• SFX/Dialogue (audio)

• GUI (user interface)

• Other/Multiple (editable tag, specifies any other AI generated assets used)

I think multiple being applicable at once if there's multiple parts AI generated in a game would also be helpful. There would probably be more categories/tags for everything else that goes into a game.

Have a great day, and remember to be kind! :D