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these pieces of hardware are generally analyzed and reimplemented rather than copied

This process is known as clean room design if anyone wants to do more reading about this

Yeah I’m seriously not seeing any issue here (at least for the image generation part), when you ask it for ‘pro-anorexia’ stuff, it’s gonna give you exactly what you asked for

It is one now

Probably Minecraft, Skyrim, or another game with good mod support from the community. I’d never get bored

Oh god I cannot imagine playing it in VR, it’s already scary enough on a normal screen

Hades, which is also made by Supergiant, is also fantastic. It’s a great intro to the roguelite genre. I’ve also heard that their first game, Bastion, is great too, but I haven’t played it

Half life is another one of those series like Portal that I feel like everyone is required to play at some point

Ooh, sweet, sounds like fun! I loved Supreme Commander, definitely trying this out

Win+V opens up your clipboard history so you don’t have to switch tabs in the emoji picker

Totally, fair enough. It’s specifically about the /hj tone indicator, how it is mostly useless because of its ambiguity and it not being known by people in general, and how that extends to most tone indicators. It’s basically what you said but goes way more in depth (almost crazily so but that’s sorta their thing)

Personally, I don’t use tone indicators for pretty much the same reasons as what you said above. I also think that anything that could be conveyed using them is probably just better off being spelled out

Here’s a jan Misali video that’s somewhat relevant to your second paragraph

There is but it isn’t on by default, it depends on what setting your instance’s admin sets

As much as it looks tacky, I kinda dig it

You don’t have to write a short essay, I didn’t write much more than “I heard about you on reddit and I wanna check it out” and I got accepted

That’s the magic of ActivityPub! It’s the protocol that most of the fediverse is built on, and it lets users from completely different fediverse platforms share posts with each other. It’s the special sauce that lets Mastodon, Lemmy, and kbin (and more!) work together