Just to give some slight optimism in opposition to your friends, I am soon to turn 41. Its harder, but it’s not impossible. Whatever you pursue, form is everything. Poor form cannot exist post 40. Technically, I am stronger than I have ever been, and yet I’m still falling apart. Don’t consider the number, just do the work, and do it well. Good luck to you!

You say you’ll disable the ad blocker for sites that don’t push malicious ads? I’ve reported half a dozen deepfake “investment” ads on YouTube in the last couple of months, and they have done nothing about it. The ads YouTube pushes are horrible!

Thank you for putting this into words. I have come to realise the same thing over the years but have never been able to properly verbalise it!

I’m a heterosexual male. My sister is a lesbian, and through her, I was introduced to many lesbian (and gay) friends from a young age. And since then, I’ve often had lesbisn friends or acquaintances, and I’ve always found that I get on so much better with lesbians than straight women.

I feel with most lesbian women that I’m in the company of another man. It’s so much easier to talk to them, without the background hum of sexuality that seems to come from interactions with straight women. I’m not blaming women for this, btw. I think it’s just a male brain thing for me, but there is certainly some extra element when interacting with straight women that is absent around lesbians and that absence allows me to relax more and just be myself.

As a born and bred Geordie, I apologise on behalf of the northerners. The early 2000s were a pretty shit time around those parts for intolerance. I used to dress “alternatively”, black fingernails, spikey died hair etc. And would get similar slurs thrown my way despite being heterosexual. I no longer live in Newcastle, but it seems a LOT better these days when I visit.

How very Christian of them… sickening 🤢

Not to alarm you, but you may have a period of 5-10 years where you really can’t shut up about it… it’ll pass, though, honest :)

Oh, hush now, of course I care! I’m just agreeing with OP that there is probably a little too much of it or, more precisely, not enough “other” topics of conversation yet. It’ll come.

Believe me, I get it. 20+ years of advocacy, though, have earned me exactly 1 convert, and that’s my old man. Who is arguably already a bigger geek than I am, and spending his retirement teaching himself x86-64 assembly “for fun” whilst doing a much better job of de-googling himself than I ever have.

All I’m saying here is that I can see where the OP is coming from. There is an awful lot of Linux talk (and Star Trek talk!) here on Lemmy. I can see how it might feel a little alienating to those who are from outside of that world.

That said, I agree with a lot of other commentors here that have pointed out that any new platform typically attracts the geeks firstly (reddit was no different). In time, I hope to see a much greater variety of peoples on Lemmy!

Hahaha, that’s very kind of you to say! I might have even pulled it off 20 years ago… Never say never, eh! ;)

Are you referring to those stripey sock wearers? Because I’m far too old to actually understand any of that. Plus, I wouldn’t even look very good in stripey socks anyway

Touche

I’ve exclusively used Linux on my computers since about 2001. At this point, I don’t care to see this much talk about it either.

It’s an operating system, it’s free (in both senses), it’s very powerful and ,frankly, it’s all I know how to use these days. However, I just don’t see the appeal of harping on about all the time. I use it exclusively, and I spend zero minutes per day actually thinking about it, the way a good operating system should be IMHO.

Some things being conserved is absolutely good. However, the “Conservative” government isn’t really all that conservative, is it? Unless you refer to conserving their own self interests, I’ll grant you they’re really good at that…

Oh and I am 40 years old and educated to masters level, not that that really should matter in the slightest. I do admit that I am pretty short sighted though, damn eyes just ain’t what they used to be. Thankfully I can fix that with glasses through our wonderful national health service… at least for now until the “conservatives” get rid of that too…

Bloody helfire. If I had $1,000,000 I would never have to work or worry about money again. I can’t even comprehend 20 million.

So I guess I’d take 1 million, and then stuff the rest in some charity trust thing that could help my local community.

All things AI. I’ve been hyper focused on LLMs, and stable diffusion, to the detriment of my work… I cannot focus on anything else right now, I go to sleep thinking about it, and I wake up thinking about it. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t like this, but tbh, in the moment, I really don’t care.

Absolutely love this! Amazing job!

You say “simply train,” but really, the training of these models is The most intensive part. Once they are trained, they require less power (relatively) to actually run for inference.

It’s an old post but I’m still here :) I’m completely uneducated when it comes to music, I’m just a listener, so I had no idea what tonal and modal were. I’m surprised to read that modal mudic is considered less “sophisticated” than tonal music. I find that a little insulting, though maybe I’m just a simple guy 😅

I can see where the idea that “Modal music doesn’t have as many criteria for what is right or wrong” comes into play with folk music, it really does seem to defy all the rules and just do what it wants!

Also, yeah I totally agree about the change of mood in the others, I honestly never tire of Lily & Dianna’s, such a dramatic change, I love it!

Your last paragraph is going to take some digesting when I’m actually sober (which isn’t right now). I get the feeling I may enjoy Jazz though from what you have said…

Thank you very much for your detailed and expert reply! I really do appreciate it!

As per my previous post comments, I tried extra hard to get semi realistic vaginal positioning (that may be a new sentence 🤔).

I’m new to all this, so please consider this a work in progress :)

That time I came inside her while drunk. 19 years later, I don’t regret the daughter I have, but the child support payments haven’t exactly been easy…