completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those. keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ
@mcourcel It is solid! The only two issues are that they assume you'll be leaving it plugged in when it's not in use, as the battery discharges over the course of a few days even when it's fully off. The other issue is that if you get the extra AMD GPU, the fans are loud if you're gaming or doing something else that would use a high percentage of the GPU constantly. Like, loud enough that you'd have to use headphones to hear your screen reader, and you wouldn't want to hold a conversation with someone with it on your lap. But I've even had it apart to upgrade the ram and hard drive! There are excellent instructions for doing that here: community.frame.work/t/framework-16-visually-impaired-owners-case-mid-plate-and-mainboard-orientation-guide/51168
@mcourcel Yup, it is. However, if you're Windows is so broken that it can't boot, and you use the system recovery option, and it can't access the internet, it won't be able to get your bitlocker key that's associated with your Microsoft account. So it will give you a url to visit on your phone, where you sign in with your Microsoft account, and then it will give you a long string of numbers. You type those numbers into the broken computer, and then it can decrypt your bitlocker encrypted drive.
So this evening, #Windows update installed the wrong #AMD video driver update for my Framework 16. Using #narrator, I was able to boot into recovery mode, enter my bitlocker key to decrypt the effected drive, find my system restore point, and restore it to just before the bad update. The entire process was fully #accessible: all of my sound devices worked, my external keyboard worked, the screen reader read every screen, etc. The only thing that wouldn't work was my Braille display.
AI, explicit material@alexhall Yeah, it's weird that Princess Doughnut is the main character of those books, but she's not even mentioned in the title and doesn't have a harem yet.
@serrebi There are a bunch. I'm using Conduwuit, and it fully supports sliding sync. Conduwuit isn't associated with the VC funded Matrix organization and there commercial/paid offerings.
AI, explicit material@alexhall I think He Who Fights with Monsters does get into multiple love interests later in the series? I didn't stick with it long enough to find out. Yeah, Chatfield is the ten realms guy.
Dungeon Crawler Carl...those are the books about Princess Donut and her ever growing harem, right? I think I read those once. LOL
AI, explicit materialAnd Chat GPT got back to me! It opened with a long AI ramble about how the thing I want doesn't really exist. Incorrect; I've read multiple things that check all these boxes.
Then it gave me: * Delvers LLC (Series) by Blaise Corvin: Yup. Fits. * The Good Guys (Series) by Eric Ugland: Eh, I'll give it this one. * Emerilia (Series) by Michael Chatfield: reading one Chatfield book was enough. Never again. Instead of giving me a book poorly translated from Japanese or Korean, it gave me a book written by an author who writes in English natively, and yet manages to be worse than any translator. Score? * He Who Fights With Monsters (Series) by Shirtaloon: Yeah, I guess. I read the first few and it never clicked with me, though.
Now over the coming days, I'll read the books I haven't read yet and am interested in, and update the thread. Am I correct that ChatGPT's recommendations are better, but R1's are closer to what I asked for? Stay tuned! Or don't! Or wish this nonsense wasn't appearing in your feed at all! That last is probably most likely.
AI, explicit materialWhile we wait for ChatGPT, For comparison, here's a list that Deepseek R1 with Kagi gave me. It didn't ask me for any clarification. * The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan: Uh, what? I...sort of...I guess I can see how it got there if I squint. But no! * The Celestine Chronicles by Cebelius: fits my requirements. I read it, and I strongly disliked it. * Monster Masseur by Virgil Knightley: I haven't read this one, but Virgil Knightley is an author I've read in the past, and he doesn't fade to black. Ever. At all. * The Heartstone Saga by Archibald Bradford: never read it, might fit what I asked for. * Aether’s Revival by Daniel Schinhofen: Yup, right down the line. I've read some of this author's other books, but not this one. Looks like exactly what I wanted, though.
So R1 sticks closer to requirements, accept when it goes wildly wrong. And yet I'd only read two of the books on this list. Is this a case of be careful what you ask for? R1's first try should be a winner, but ChatGPT's books were more of the sort of cozy hole some thing I actually wanted but didn't specify that I wanted that.
AI, explicit materialAnd after eight minutes, the first list is done. And we do, in fact, have the problem with ChatGPT wanting to avoid anything at all NSFW that I thought we might: * The Heir (Special Edition) – Kayla Eshbaugh * Of Myths and Portals (Arlan’s Pledge, Book 1) – Jenn Lees * The Rose Gate: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast – Hanna Sandvig * Seeds of Discovery (Dusk Gate Chronicles, Book 1) – Breeana Puttroff * The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent (Light Novel series) – Yuka Tachibana (translated by Seven Seas)
I haven't read it, but The Saint’s Magic Power is probably closest to what I wanted. All of the books are isekai slow-burn romances, but only two have harems (reverse-harems to get technical). Never-the-less, I'd probably read at least four of these. So kind of a failure at sticking to requirements, but a success at finding stuff I might read? Let's see if I can clarify, and if a nudge will overcome chatgpt's reluctance to engage with certain subject matters.
You said: Most of these don't have a harem element, or they're reverse-harems.
AI, explicit materialLet's have another #AI thread! I have access to #chatgpt Deep Research now. My afternoon plan: see if it can recommend books that meet the wildly specific set of preferences I'm in the mood for, plus one requirement I added just to see if I'd have a problem with refusals. Here's how we started. It's building the list, and I'll put my thoughts on what it comes up with in this thread. You said: Please create a list of slow burn, fade to black, Isekai, western harem books in English. ChatGPT said: Just to clarify, are you looking for books that contain all of these elements (slow burn romance, fade-to-black scenes, isekai setting, and a western-style harem), or are you open to books that feature some but not all of these traits? Also, do you prefer traditionally published books or self-published/indie novels as well? You said: I prefer ebooks, self-published or otherwise. slow burn romance, fade-to-black scenes, and an isekai setting are all a must. By western I just mean written in English and not translated, unless the translation is so high quality it feels like it was written in English natively. ChatGPT said: Got it! I'll look for self-published or otherwise available ebooks that feature slow-burn romance, fade-to-black scenes, and an isekai setting, all originally written in English (or translated so well it feels native). I'll focus on books that fit these criteria and have good reader reviews. I'll let you know when I have the list ready!
I! Hate! #Matrix! So! Much! The two minute setup process took me a little over four hours. And that's just for a homeserver. No voice, no bridges. SSL setup, reverse proxy setup, srv records, and on and on it goes. And I'm still not sure if it actually works.
Still feeling sick with a cold/flu/strep thing that won't die. What better time to make my second attempt at setting up a #matrix#homeserver? My first attempt nothing worked and it all died. Surely nothing will go wrong now that I'm sick and over-medicated, right? #ResponsibleSysadmin
A #music question some of my #musician followers might be able to answer: what’s the difference between stems and tracks? Recently AI has been talking a lot about stems for music. And apparently people who make #dolby or Spatial Audio remasters want them. But my tiny non #musical brain can’t understand how stems and tracks are different. I know that tracks are, like, in a multitrack editor like audacity you could have one track for vocals, and maybe one track for each instrument. And AI websites that offer stems seem to do the same thing?Did the AI people just reinvent multitrack recording and call tracks stems?
Is anyone using #funkwhale to store Old Time Radio (#otr)? It feels like an ideal use: different servers can store only the series they care about, everything can be browsed from a single site, it doesn't depend on either archive.org or the commercial providers, it improves discovery, etc. #radio#audiodrama
