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What is your favourite medical word
  • Any of the big compound medical words are fun to say and construct IMO. Adrenocorticotropic, deoxyribonucleic, those kinda words. They seem big and scary but they’re quite descriptive and once you know the “formula” behind them it’s not too bad. Maybe not the most fun words but I feel good every time I can use one and deploy it like it’s no big deal (ie my mouth doesn’t fuck it up). It’s like executing a big combo with your mouth.

  • What is a game or games that you think are an absolute must-buy?
  • I love the Metro series; I played 2033 near its release, beaten Exodus three times (once at release and 2x after release of the Enhanced edition) and just recently beat Last Light Redux. I should probably play 2033 Redux now.

    Closely related, I’m very excited for STALKER 2; Shadow of Chernobyl was my first love back in 2008 and I’ve played all three of those a bunch of times.

  • What is a game or games that you think are an absolute must-buy?
  • Good rant, thanks for sharing. I felt it was massively over hyped to me also considering the games you mentioned came out well before and had better storytelling, gameplay, and graphics. It was solidly mediocre to me. I did play it through to completion though, maybe a bit of rage-completion there.

  • Element in water heater died; less than two months old.
  • You can’t filter out ions of calcium like that. A huge reverse osmosis system for the entire home would be prohibitively expensive. I used to live in an area with very hard water and everyone had water softeners. You only need to buy the salt every few months and it’s not too bad. RO filters were only connected to a tap on the side of the sink in the kitchen - those membranes aren’t cheap.

  • What is a game or games that you think are an absolute must-buy?
  • I don’t feel Spec Ops: The Line aged well at all. I had it on my to-play list for years and finally got around to playing it. I was rather disappointed in what I experienced. The gunplay and cover system is middling at best, and the story wasn’t anything like the hype led me to believe. Graphics are also way behind its contemporaries. It may have been groundbreaking when it came out in a very pro-war, pro-military time, but it wasn’t anything special by the time I played it 2023. I finished the game wondering what people felt was so special about it. The lack of decision making removed impact from what my character was doing, namely the infamous white phosphorus part. You can’t advance the game without performing the worst possible action, which is the only thing to do at that point in the level. Lame.

    Music was good but overall I felt it was a 6/10 game. I think watching YouTube commentaries on the game is much more enjoyable than actually playing it.

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  • Staying dehydrated is a conspiracy started by Big Kidney Stone™ to create more kidney stones. If your urine is any darker than straw color you need to drink water.

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  • Moving from the US to the EU soon... Any advice?
  • American here, got stationed in Italy for a few years. Learning Celsius was easy with this in mind:

    0 freezing
    10 cool
    20 nice
    30 hot
    40 sweltering

    If you need to do the actual calculation, double the celsius value, subtract the tens digit (i.e. -10%), add 32. For example:

    Double it: 20 * 2 = 40
    Subtract the tens digit: 40 - 4 = 36
    Add 32: 36+32 = 68

  • Reddit reached the point where AI generated comments are Top Comments
  • I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily overuse of commas, it’s how it consistently uses them the same way in nearly every response. It’s something about the overall structure of what it spits out. I wish a linguist would pop in and break it down for me. It’s a combination of tone, tense, arrangement of the sentences, how the paragraphs are put together - all of it feels very samey to me, unless it’s prompted otherwise.

    There’s only a few “styles” of sentences it spits out and to me, it seems quite obvious. Humans don’t write that consistently all the time, they’re messier.

  • Reddit reached the point where AI generated comments are Top Comments
  • I can’t exactly put my finger on it, but every god damn thing ChatGPT spits out has the same cadence or structure. Something about how it lays out points and wraps it up, and its usage of commas, is so noticeable to me.

  • The official support of Windows 7 has finally ended today!
  • I appreciate the insight. Just curious, do you have a link to things I should be disabling in group policy?

    Typically I’m not a fan of modifying that much especially registry wise, as I feel this is a cause for many people’s problems, but I’m not uncomfortable making GP changes if they make sense.

    I’m currently using W11 Pro activated with massgravel scripts and I’ve got DNS level blocking set up on my network, although I’m not sure how well that does at blocking telemetry. It’s my second line ad block primarily.

  • Uncle Rico

    1975 Dodge Tradesman 300

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    Cruisin' for Burgers

    1977 Ford Cruising Van

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    datahoarder @lemmy.ml deranger @sh.itjust.works
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    Read the Q2 2024 Drive Stats Report, with the latest on annualized failure rates and a look into measuring drive consistency over time.

    Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2024
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    Morning Fungi

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    a 4-dimensional creature appears

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    Microsoft is not buying Valve and Counter-Strike for £12 billion

    metro.co.uk Microsoft is not buying Valve & Counter-Strike for £12 billion - unsurprisingly

    A rumour that Microsoft wants to take over the PC market with a £12 billion acquisition of Valve is being ridiculed on social media.

    Microsoft is not buying Valve & Counter-Strike for £12 billion - unsurprisingly
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    Sunset

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    Microsoft Flight Simulator @lemmy.world deranger @sh.itjust.works

    FL430 over Utah in the Longitude

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    Transfer favorite communities between accounts?

    Is it possible to transfer favorite communities from an account on one server to another? Say for example I'd like to have an alt with the same favorites on another server for a backup. Is this possible with wefwef or other means?

    Looking to get my main off lemmy.world to help load balance, but I don't want to refavorite everything; if I could somehow keep them in sync that would be ideal.

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