This time DALL-E 3 was able to stay on topic.

It also gave me this other surprisingly coherent result.

Yep. It was not at all what I wanted or expected. And yet, I can’t deny that it looks good.

Of course as I said elsewhere, this is DALL-E 3 via Bing, which has a very mixed track record to begin with. I wasn’t that surprised I didn’t get what I wanted.

It’s DALL-E 3 on Bing so they filter out all the penises unfortunately.

I get the impression there’s a lot of filtering, too. I tried to do “J.C. Denton in the style of David Lynch” and every result was filtered. “J.C. Denton from Deus Ex in the style of David Lynch” on the other hand went through fine, despite “deu sex” being a common joke title for the series. Go figure.

Oh also if you’re curious I’ll attach what I got for that prompt.

LTSC also doesn’t get incremental updates other than absolutely critical vulnerability fixes. It’s specifically meant for machines that need everything to function exactly the same over a long period of time, e.g. point of sale machines, the accounting/inventory machine that hangs out in the back office, so on. You aren’t going to get any major update or overhaul pushed to an LTSC version of Windows.

LTSC can also be a pain in the tuchus to get your hands on as an individual. If you have an MSDN account however (like through work or school) they often come with a bunch of keys for Microsoft products, including LTSC products. You can check here, just try logging in with your work/school email - even if it’s non-Microsoft - and see what happens.

If you can’t get your hands on an LTSC copy, then at a minimum try getting a copy of Windows 10/11 “N”, which comes without Windows Media Player and Skype pre-installed. It’s nowhere near as clean as LTSC, but every little bit helps.

This is what Andrew Tate actually believes.

Rock-a-Bye Baby. I mean the song is already pretty dark without adding in the metaphor of The Long Sleep.

It got me too until I read your commit.

Put in a pull request for your leg.

there has to be a black and white alternating pattern between the inner corners of the three squares, that afaik is used to determine the size of pixels while scanning.

Huh. TIL.

I’ve used exactly one QR coded menu that didn’t suck. Every other one was some manner of infuriating, top method being “every item takes up 75%+ of your phone’s screen and is all arranged vertically so it’s impossible to compare two items without scrolling through 3-40 screens worth”.

At least as a backup. Sites break, internet goes down, occasionally people don’t have their phones, so on. Or maybe I’m just sick of looking at my damn phone.

Yeah, I get wanting to not reprint menus every time something changes, but there are ways to do that which are more convenient and accessible than “scan a QR code to go to a random website and pray you have working internet access and also the site is working and up to date.” Y’know, like a damn menu board on the wall. Whiteboard/chalkboard even!

No no, we mean it, at least at that price. I’d be willing to kick YouTube a few bucks a month. I’m not going to pay them more per month than most MMOs. They’re trying to charge streaming service prices for content they don’t produce.

As others have said, adblockers do still work on YouTube. Specifically, uBlock Origin works great on YouTube, as long as you don’t use it with any other adblockers.

Also if you’re using Chrome, stop using Chrome. uBlock Origin still works on Chrome most of the time but Google is doing their best to kill it off. Switch to Firefox.

I’ve had great luck with pine- and corn-based cat litters for low/no scent and low/no dust. Only problem is that they usually don’t clump, though they do make ones which do. Oh, and they’re all much lighter than the normal stuff. I’d say give one of those a try.

The former, though I do also need to watch through all of Twin Peaks. I suspect that may hold up better than Sailor Moon has, though Sailor Moon has still got a good bit going for it. It walked so others could fly, as they say.

This is one of my favs.

Ironically my spouse and I have just started watching the series just to see what its all about.

The hand isn’t too bad: four visible fingers that are mostly okay and the pinky could be hidden by perspective if she’s curling her hand (to hold the rose perhaps).

They’re more like AndroidTV boxes with a full menu and HDMI-CEC support, only they came out back in the day when Chromecasts were just for casting. They were also dirt cheap; unfortunately that’s because they were made with bargain-basement parts which often failed or started to overheat easily a few months in.

Funnily enough I think the percentage use of adblockers is going to go up a fair bit thanks to what Google is doing. My amazingly sweet “just go along with anything” MIL actually complained to me about YouTube ads the other day, then ads on websites in general. She jumped at my offer to install a different YouTube client and a good adblocker once I explained that it was a possibility for her tablet.

If they wanted to pull this off they needed to do it quietly, not draw attention to the fact that adblockers exist and are apparently so effective they need to do something very public about them.

You would think, but the number of people I’ve met who surf the web without any adblockers at all and just seem fine with it is alarming. I think Google is counting on a lot of people just not knowing any better.

Won’t stop me from informing them otherwise though.