Rule #4: Don’t submit low-quality posts.

Also, this user is a bot. Look at the post history. No normal user posts 40 entries in a 24 hour period. And no, I don’t mean they post a bunch of posts in one period, and bunch the rest in another period. I mean they are consistently posting 2-3 entries an hour without sleep, without a break.

EDIT: Holy shit… 1.69K posts in two months.

Yep, there it is. There’s the hook. This bot moderates exactly one forum as the only moderator, to sell a bunch of PC parts. There’s the scam. This is just like those YouTuber bots that link to a personal profile for a porn website.

They should bring Hope to anybody.

Asshole is still president, still defrauding millions of people with rug pull scams, still making billions of dollars with insanely shady means.

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Meanwhile, pirates are still doing the public good, in the name of digital preservation, a lack of physical media be damned.

We’ve tried to educate, but the general public is just so fucking stupid and won’t learn any lessons at all. How many pre-orders does it take before they realize it’s a scam? Fuck, there are still idiots that buy the latest FIFA game at full price every single year.

It’s not even victim blaming when they repeatedly don’t learn they are being shafted over and over again.

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I taste no appreciable difference between the brands,

Either you don’t have any taste buds, or you don’t order pizza that often. A statement like this is like saying “I taste no appreciable difference between Coke and Pepsi”.

• Papa Johns’ has an almost-sugary pizza sauce that I don’t like that much. I also prefer pan pizza, but their default is that floppy NY pizza style. I consider them one of my least favorite option. Fucking Yum can’t manage any of their brands.
• Domino’s used to suck about 15-20 years ago, but they have improved in every way now. Typically my go-to delivery, for a major chain brand.
• Pizza Hut is still pretty good for pan pizza, but some think is greaser than others. They tend to use a lot of cheese, which is fine by me.
• Little Caesars, absolute fucking garbage. I’d rather heat up a cheap pizza at home.
• Cicis, barely above Little Caesars, about the same quality as Chuck E. Cheese or Mr. Gattis
• Jet’s Pizza, really really good pan pizza, a bit more expensive, but better than old standards like Domino’s or Pizza Hut.
• Mellow Mushroom, Old Chicago, Blaze Pizza, all S-tier pizza restaurants, though they don’t deliver. Making your own pizza with Blaze just makes it the top pick out of all of these.

Just need to accelerate improvements on quantization.

You post this on a piracy forum?

Sorry, I don’t get any ads on my downloads.

This is also rich coming from its parent company, which is involved in the Incogni scam.

Yo, stop fucking using Plex and switch to Jellyfin. I switched over months ago, and it just works.

Plex became the enemy when they forced their users into a subscription model. Support bullshit-free open-source software instead.

Your responses are the equivalent of “I don’t use the internet, because nothing beats the experience of walking to your library and looking through the research material yourself”.

Sure, I can do all of those things. But, sometimes I don’t want to spend hours going through the searches, bang my head against the wall with useless tech forums, and get frustrated with shifting through the results. The LLM can get it done in a minute or two, and I can still ask follow-up questions if I don’t trust anything, or want clarification.

And yes, like Wikipedia, I still review the sources and review the code.

If I build a wheelchair ramp out of the flesh and bones of orphans I’m still not a very good person.

Comparing copyright, a bullshit concept that was designed only to protect the rich, to building with “the flesh and bones of orphans” is so extreme that it’s not even worth arguing about.

Even if we called them LLMs, which we should, people will keep having these negative connotations to the technology because of overmarketing. This feature is still using LLMs, and that’s not supposed to be a bad thing.

Stop blaming the technology, and blame the corpos pushing it to the moon. This is “BitTorrent is only used for piracy” bullshit all over again.

I also just plain don’t know what I’d use any LLM for.

PewDiePie has been on a tear lately with recommending everybody switch to Linux and recently experimenting with LLMs. He put out a legit good local LLM project that showcases the different kinds of things you can do with a model.

My biggest LLM use cases have been:

• A replacement for search, since you typically need multiple searches and multiple sources to get the information you need
• Code generation, because it’s so good at producing entire fully-featured utilities or just let it spin away at implementing some new functionality
• Helping me out with some random Linux error or difficulty, because support forums are fucking garbage

Well, when the conversations comes up talking about the Windows 11 crashing or has some horrible bug again, then yes, they will definitely tell you. It’s kinda hard not to educate people that it’s fairly easy to just switch to an OS that actually works.

I generally favor local LLM usage, but I will sometimes use Kagi’s assistant tools. I trust them to throw out my data a fuckton more than I do Google.

Did you download the source code? It’s on GitHub. It’s literally on GitLab. It’s on Bitbucket with ads. It’s literally on SourceForge. You can probably find it on Savannah. Dude it’s on Azure DevOps. It’s a Codeberg project. It’s on Gitea. You can download it on Gitea. You can go to Gitea and download it. Log into Gitea right now. Go to Gitea. Dive into Gitea. You can Gitea it. It’s on Gitea. Gitea has it for you. Gitea has it for you.

And then what? Sell it for money? Booooring!

I’m sure they got a bunch of famous rich assholes. Why not fuck with them?