Despite not owning one, I really like the Steam Deck because I suspect it has made my transition to Linux far smoother (for a while, I dual booted because I was fearful that gaming on Linux would be difficult.)

That was wonderful, thank you for sharing. When it’s done well, I really enjoy this style of prose.

Many people are being forced to use it though — this is where much of the ire is coming from. These people are likely in the minority though. Something that’s much more concerning though is the use of AI that affects us, but we don’t get a say: doctors being made to use generative AI transcription tools (which perform worse than established audio transcription software that doesn’t use AI). The people pushing doctors to use AI are doing it to wring more productivity out of them — more patients in less time. This means that even if a patient doesn’t end up with AI hallucinations in their medical records, their experience seeing their doctor will likely be worse.

Cases like this are becoming less niche as time progresses, despite mounting research showing the harms of these technologies when they’re applied in this way. Increasingly we are being put into situations where AI tools aren’t something to be used by us (which is something you can often opt out of), but things to be used on us. We don’t find out until something goes wrong, and when it does, regular people can struggle to challenge the situation (the example coming to mind here is false positives in facial recognition systems being used by the police. It is leading to more innocent people being wrongfully arrested)

I have a favourite rock

Although I recall that some of them don’t include links to explanations or info about the falsehoods; I like that this aviation one did do that.

Thank you for the learning! Before this thread, I didn’t know enough about altitude to care about this question, but now I’m like “neat! Cool learning!”.

“Guard labour” is a fairly new-to-me phrase that makes a lot of weird things about modern society making more sense.

You’re right that I didn’t sufficiently consider the “was” in that sentence. Perhaps there’s something I’m missing though, because I haven’t seen anything that would suggest X is left. When I put my right hand in the position indicated in the OP, my index finger (Y) points upwards, with my thumb (X) pointing right, making an L shape. My middle finger (z) comes out towards me.

However, most of my experience with coordinate systems is with abstract, mathsy stuff, and I don’t have much experience with any of these softwares; there may be something obvious that I’m missing.

I don’t think that’s correct. Here’s a drawing I did when trying to get my head around this.

drawing

I find that trying to make sense of terms like “to the left” tricky when we can rotate the directional cube any way we want. For example, in my drawing for “Y-up, left handed”, the red X axis is pointed leftwards. However, we could rotate the unit vector cube so that the X axis is pointed right, and the Y axis is pointing up (i.e. the orientation we’re most familiar with for 2D graphs). The Z axis would then be pointing away from us, into the plane of the paper/screen.

In contrast, if we oriented the Y-up right-handed cube in the same way, then the Z axis would be oriented as if to come out of the plane of the screen/page, towards us.

These distinctions only matter when we add a third dimension, so the left or right handedness is basically a question of "when we add the third axis to a 2D square made by the other two axes, does the third axis come towards us or away from us? I apologise if this hasn’t made things any clearer — I am able to make things make sense by imagining the rotations in my head, but not everyone is able to visualise them like that.

I don’t think that’s right. The post that you linked to includes this link, which includes this snippet:

"First, instead of labeling coordinate axes with X, Y and Z, we’re introducing more descriptive axis names:

Left (was -Y)

Up (was Z)

Forward (was X) "

That sounds pretty cool. I don’t know much about Piefed — would we still be able to access posts from Lemmy instances?

I remember it felt super difficult

You say it’s a horrible way to learn that this is a thing, but I actually find it weirdly sweet how when someone dies, people who care about the deceased or their work jump to share stories of how they had been impacted. It reminds me of birthdays; I have friends who I don’t speak to much, but their birthday prompts me to reach out and say “hey! I’m glad you exist”

Here is a super useful information thread. https://voiceacting.boards.net/thread/5286/get-started-voice-acting

There’s also a discord server attached, which feels cool and diverse in terms of what kinds of people are there — both hobbyists and professionals

A few years ago, I read about how Mary Molony was an Irish Suffragette who disrupted a speech Winston Churchill was giving in Dundee by ringing a bell every time he tried to speak. She wanted him to apologise for remarks he had made about the women’s suffrage movement.

I remember when I read this, it reeked of something awesome that you find online that’s actually false (the story was shared on social media via a captioned photo with no sources), so I went digging for a proper source to check. I found some newspaper articles from 1908 and I learned that this event did happen, but also that people fucking hated Molony for this. There was a lot of “see, this is why everyone hates the Suffragettes”. (Sorry for saying this and then not sourcing)

It makes sense that people would be salty - Churchill was an asshole, but also a great orator, so I can see why one might be disappointed in missing the chance to see him speak, but I was shocked at the level of vitriol aimed at Molony and other Suffragettes from the time. Until this I hadn’t realised just how unpopular they were at the time. It’s drastically changed my perspective on protests and public perception.

I love the word “Epochalypse”, from the wiki page you linked

I think you’ve excellently captured the difference here. I didn’t get heavily into Elite Dangerous, but on one of my longest journeys, I scanned a few things that no-one had ever scanned before. I didn’t discover any awesome looking space phenomena that would be worth sharing (at least, none that hadn’t been discovered before), but the prospect that I could was exciting.

Even just the idea that my name would be on other people’s screens if they came and scanned the same things I did, because we were all sharing the same world.

Yay, learning!

How many leftover working parts were there, or was it a perfect fit with no surplus?

I didn’t end up with Lae’zel in the end, but I hedged my bets for long enough that I got the Long Rest scene where she wakes you up in the night. The encounter ended hilariously fast, but what followed melted my heart and made it very hard to not choose her.

I also love how quickly Lae’zel changes her entire world view, which happened around the same time for me. Mad respect for such principles and focus