Computer works or computer does not. There’s no computer try.

Considering only the queries ommits all the energy used in training models, scraping and preparing data and all the indirect energy from putting a greater load in servers all around the world from scraping them all the time. oh, and all the energy in the manufacturing processes of the hardware, and from building the servers. We must consider the consumption of the industry as a whole, or we’re being biased as well.

Articles keep showing up explaining how queries aren’t so power-hungry, but the corporations keep draining more and more energy, building more and more power plants that never keep up with the demand, and so on.

I don’t get it either. I have a couple of friends who pay for music streaming just to listen for the SAME music over and over. They don’t even make use of those so called recommendation algorithms or so. I tried to guide them into putting the music they like into their phones for offline listening, but they ignored me. I guess some people just have some sort of love for corporations.

My bad experience was mostly from feeling that things were too repetitive, and that the story started to feel bad written in mid game and got messier and messier as the game advanced further.

In the combat aspects, I felt like character builds and overall strategy were worthless because I could just dodge everything and be invincible.

Also, I didn’t really like the characters. They felt too shallow somehow.

Thanks for your words. Anyway, the ost really was great, that part is incontestable

I mustbe weird, because I see people talking so good about expedition 33, but my experience with it was so terrible, that I had to force myself to finish it, but only because I feel uneasy if I don’t do things until the end.

About keeping the children safe

It’s always security when someone wants to take our freedom away. Always security…

That’s interesting to know. I’d be devastated if I spent more morey for one and felt like it wasn’t worth it. Those devices are too expensive around here.

By the way, don’t you find it useful for reading stuff on the internet, like web articles, news, etc? When I looked for one, I also imagined myself connecting a bluetooth keyboard and using it for writing.

Maybe my different experience comes from living in the global south. All of the are expensive in here, so kindle has no price advantage

I mentioned some in this other comment: https://lemmy.zip/post/49532624/21704502

I used a cybook odyssey for more than 10 years, so I guess bookeen devices can be a good choice. I’m currently using a refurbrished tolino vision 2 and the experience is also much better than the kindles I tried.

But if I had more money, I would probably have bought a device from boox. They make nice ereaders, some even with android,being much more flexible than a kindle. Devices from bigme and the meebooks also look nice, but I don’t know if they have good cases.

I’m sure there are other good options around. These are just the ones I know.

There are so many alternative ereaders that are better than the kindle, that I don’t get why people buy it.

I once borrowed one from a friend and it didn’t even let me organize media in directories from a pc. The directory structure got all messed up and it was a pain to follow my study sequence. Any cheap Chinese ereader would allow that.

Whoa, it’s beautiful. I’d be still using it with some usb adapter.

This is so cute *-*

I’ll check it later, thanks

Thank you very much

For every one, there’s the younger relatively who installed it for them, so things are in perfect balance in the end.

Then maybe you will love debian. Imagine an OS that receives mostly security updates and changes very slowly, that looks the same after a decade.

There will be a drastic change in the beginning, when moving from windows, but after a while, you will see how stable things will get

For me, linux only presented a few problems as the beginning, but became rock stable with time. I don’t even remember the last time I had to stop my work to deal with issues in my pc