They write with such a heavy anti AI bias, that i can’t trust anything they puplish about the subject any longer. I am critical of AI myself, but i don’t want journalism to uncritically engage with any subject.

Neither. My guess is AI slop.

No problem, Brudi, كن نفسك فقط

I had to look up the Arabic for “just be yourself” and was a bit taken aback.

The first example use of the phrase “just be yourself” reads:

Just be yourself and leave a pool of blood on stage.

“slop” isn’t a word that was invented for AI, it’s always been used to describe something disorganized and messy.

Always?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slop_(clothing)

In 16th- to 19th-century Europe and North America, the slop trade was the manufacture and sale of slop, cheap ready-made clothing

By semantic change, “slop”, which had once related to the procurement of naval clothing, was applied generally to ready-made garments. By a further semantic change during the 19th century, “slop” became a term applied to all clothing that was not skillfully tailor-made for the customer: so might refer to machine-cut and machine-stitched garments, those made by apprentices or those less skilled, and those sold second-hand. The connotation of low quality carried over to boots, and furniture.

Words do change over time.

As evidenced by at least one person implying my original message was slop because they disliked it. I said AI without adding the appropriate curse words with it, so it’s my own fault i guess.

I can still see a positive transformation of the word slop over time. Many slurs have been adopted in the past and turned on their head. I belive it is called reappropriation.

TIL, thanks. I’ll edit accordingly.

No idea how “they” use this. But i mean it much in the way Scipitie here has correctly understood it. AI is here. We don’t have to like it, personally i use zero AI in my live. But the technology has it’s foothold widh the masses by now. I don’t see how it would ever go away again. It will transform, post crash and all, but it won’t go away.

I recommend New Delhin for your next holiday then, you’ll feel right a home.

There is a very obvious monkey paw way this one could go.

Hey Sal, any news for us? Is mander dead?

There are AO videos thad translate him and his speach patern into english.

Like this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7oW1BpCrDbHjdWLaulKghOj3bBn8EdZG

Full disclosure: i havn’t checket this and can’t confirm it’s accurately translated.

When i switched to Mint i had a bit of a learning curve, not all things worked completly out of the box. I’d like to encourage you to not give up on it, problems are solveable. The Linux Mint Forum was a great help for me (still is)

As a gamer: For only online communitys i’d say MMO Guilds are still a thing and can be a gateway into existing friendsgroups. VR Chat was doing ok in that regard too a few years back, no idea where they stand now. A guy i know spends most of his evenings there and has had several real live meetups with a group thad bonded there. A bit niche maybe. I have had regular contacts that build trough gaming and people inviting me into their discord servers (yes, yes, i know…), which lead to me joining some online Pen and Paper groups that often lead to releative good ways of finding cool people, because you tend to learn a lot about them when doing pen and paper.

If you’re not into online gaming but are ok with board games, there are several open meetups, at least in my area.

And finaly, local communitys are a thing. We have groups here that meet regulary and go pick up trash in the forest, for example. Or abowling, art or what ever club.

Well yes, but i always tweeked my windows to the point of breaking. Now i use mint and have reached the point where i love how it looks, everything works and i will likley sit with its current form for some years, maybe untill my kids are older and i have more time to waste again.

Same :(