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Brave browser has a filter to bypass paywalls. Works on desktop and mobile versions. Definitely works on NYT as I just read something there today. And of course has built in adblock. You can also add additional filters and adblock lists.
Bonus: print to PDF in Brave to share an article with someone else. It retains all the graphics relevant to the article and cuts all the junk and ads out too.
Brave browser has a filter to bypass paywalls. Works on desktop and mobile versions. Definitely works on NYT as I just read something there today. And of course has built in adblock. You can also add additional filters and adblock lists.
Bonus: print to PDF in Brave to share an article with someone else. It retains all the graphics relevant to the article and cuts all the junk and ads out too.
Came to say this. And they make mobile browsers. If I want to share a paywalled article with someone I just load it up in brave and print it to PDF then send them that. Works every time!
I'll take a wonderful experience over a repetitive "make rank number go up" game any day of the week.
Don't get me wrong, I played all the online multiplayer stuff, many MMOs, all the FPS games, RTS, you name it. But even in those universes I preferred something like Left 4 Dead over something like Counter Strike. At least with a co-op game like L4D the gameplay was more interesting and felt more immersive. CS, Overwatch, even good old Quake in multiplayer mode just felt so repetitive that I got tired of them after 15 minutes of "get flag, kill enemy, twitch around the map like a hyena on meth"
An old single player rpg with a great story was always going to capture my interest more than those online games. An MMORPG is more like an MMO and less like an RPG. And for games with less of a story to tell, a great platformer or adventure game where there was actual progression and new mechanics/challenges to discover level by level, was just more engaging than running Dust 2 a hundred times a night.
Now a days with games like Witcher 3, BG3, Cyberpunk, Hades, and the like, I just can't bring myself to plug into those perpetually repetitive online experiences. Especially when if I do want to do some multiplayer, a game like BG3 has a wonderful implementation of it. Something like that is the kind of multiplayer I can get down with.
And also, plenty of others have said it already but I'm old and I got shit to do man. I can't be gaming on someone else's clock. Steam Deck has really helped get me back into gaming through. That thing has been a godsend. Knock out a chapter in Justice before I go to bed, it's like reading a bit of a good book before bedtime. Love it.
Justice is great by the way if you like the Yakuza series but want something a little less goofy. Same studio.
Hell yeah. Another vote for Seal!
Tell that to 2FA apps for banks and enterprise security systems.
https://www.conservapedia.com/Marijuana
The entry on Marijuana is absolutely wild.
This is something that some people read and genuinely believe whole. This is 10,000% propaganda. Just unbelievable.
The general public still doesn't seem to grasp the current capabilities of AI. It's still just mimicry. AI is a parrot that "learns" something and repeats it to the best of it's ability, but it doesn't understand the thing it learned. You can teach a bird to say "Polly want a cracker" but it doesn't know what a cracker is, and while it does have wants like any other animal, it doesn't know what "want a cracker" actually means.
ML models get a billion images of mushrooms and then "learn" what "mushroom" looks like, but even if the images of mushrooms are properly labeled poisonous and not poisonous, it doesn't really know that in the same way humans do. And it gets even worse when the AI tries to make new things from those sets it's trained off, which all of those certainly do. Making new mushrooms that don't exist, how can it tell which one of these new fantasy mushrooms are poison and which ones aren't? It can't know, but it sure as hell can make it up.
Hell, most AI can't even get text right.
Don't trust AI for anything that isn't hard coded math, or systems that reference and directly quote known good sources without doing any kind of creative embellishments.