Well, if you have a lot of hair to play around with, you can just try it without much risk.
I cut my own hair (male, short hair) but I find it really difficult to manipulate scissors or clippers while looking in the mirror. I also can't really do the back of my head so I have to get someone to help me.
Just be ready to clean up, because hair will fly all over the place if you aren't careful.
I started with Rufus as well, but then I just uninstalled things directly through Windows and went through the settings to disable everything I didn't want. Probably safer than using 3rd party applications to remove things.
I also use Openshell to replace the start menu.
If you change the time and currency settings during install, that apparently disabled some things as well. See here
And if you don't want to set up a Microsoft account, just stay disconnected from Internet during install, it will let you just set up a local account.
I feel like the deployment shouldn't be too difficult. I have the game Street Fighter 6 on steam, and there is an option in the steam menu for whether to download single player content or not. If you disable it, you can save about 20gb, and of course it is enabled by default. I feel like the exact same process could be used for the high end texture packs. Most users would just download everything by default, but if you are someone who cares about your disk space, you could just easily disable it. It would just be on the devs to implement it.
My understanding is that the vast majority of space is dedicated to high resolution textures. I don't have a 4k monitor and I don't need ultra high fidelity textures. Why can't they just be an additional download rather than a required part?
I think 50gb is a fairly reasonable max size for most games.
You never know what the future holds. Much better to work now while you are in a good position to do so, than to be forced to work later on, when you have been out of the workforce for years.
I don't remember if it was 2nd or 3rd grade, but I just memorized them. My grandmother bought flash cards and drilled them with me every day until I had memorized them all.
In the early days, game shows were sometimes rigged. Then laws were passed in the USA requiring fair play.
So, no I don't think it's rigged. I don't watch the show often, but I have definitely seen people lose.
I started eating a lot of chickpeas recently. Buy them dried, boil them for a couple minutes them let them soak in the water for a few hours. Then either roast them in the oven or if I'm lazy, toss them in the microwave for like 5 minutes, then add some seasoning. I snack on them between meals, or also toss them into things like soup or curry.
Also if you want a different take on ramen, boil them until they are al dente, drain the water and then stir fry with some cheap veggies or whatever.
I don't believe I have ever cheated on an exam or big test, but there were a few cases in college where teachers would leave answers for homework or projects unsecured, and I did make use of it whenever I came across it.
One such case was in an introductory computer science course. We had a weekly lab session where the teaching assistant was giving us an overview of using the Unix systems at the university. At one point early on, he was teaching about file and folder permissions, and gave us all access to his personal folder. And... Then he forgot to lock the permissions back up. His folder was fully accessible for the entire semester, and he posted full solutions to every programming project there.
I remember another course where the professor would send us a link to the solutions to the homework problems, after he finished grading the homework. But I learned that I could just change the URL to access all of the future homework answers.
Well since I just program for a hobby, I am able to complete things to the point that they meet my own requirements. If I need error handling for something, I can just ask the LLM to add error handling, it typically works out quite well.
I consider myself a bad hobbyist programmer. I know a decent bit about programming, and I mainly create relatively simple things.
Before LLMs, I would spend weeks or months working on a small program, but with LLMs I can often complete it significantly faster.
Now, I don't suppose I would consider myself to be a "vibe coder", because I don't expect the LLM to create the entire application for me, but I may let it generate a significant portion of code. I am generally coming up with the basic structure of the program and figuring out how it should work, then I might ask it to write individual functions, or pieces of functions. I review the code it gives me and see if it makes sense. It's kind of like having an assistant helping me.
Programming languages are how we communicate with computers to tell them what to do. We have to learn to speak the computer's language. But with an LLM, the computer has learned to speak our language. So now we can program in normal English, but it's like going through a translator. You still have to be very specific about what the program needs to do, or it will just have to guess at what you wanted. And even when you are specific, something might get lost in translation. So I think the best way to avoid these issues is like I said, not expecting it to be able to make an entire program for you, but using it as an assistant to create little parts at a time.
It's crazy how fast this thing crashed and burned. And it's just got me thinking, it's kind of nuts how nearly EVERYTHING around this time was failing. You had Sega of America pushing the 32X, there were these new consoles like the 3DO and the Atari Jaguar, and then even the Sega Saturn couldn't catch a break in America. Nintendo's virtual boy was a flop and the N64 kept getting delayed further and further. The fact that the Sony PlayStation seemed to catch on during this time actually seems like an anomaly when you look at everything else around it.
I like upscaling when it's done well (some older iterations of dlss and fsr were not great compared to the current versions). If I have to lower my resolution to get a good frame rate then the image will already look blurry. Using upscaling to hit my monitors native resolution will generally look better.
I could care less about raytracing because I don't have a GPU strong enough to handle it.
The Internet of the 90s was such a simpler place. Better in many ways, worse in some.
For instance, the Internet wasn't so commercialized back then. Instead of a bunch of services, it was a bunch of nerds sharing information and having conversations. If you liked a tv show, you would search for websites about that show. Anyone could make their own website, so you would find tons of fan sites dedicated to each thing.
Search engines didn't provide you with information or answer questions, they just helped you sort through all the different websites, then you could look on those sites to find whatever information you were looking for.
There was almost no video, it was all text and (small) images.
Well, if you have a lot of hair to play around with, you can just try it without much risk. I cut my own hair (male, short hair) but I find it really difficult to manipulate scissors or clippers while looking in the mirror. I also can't really do the back of my head so I have to get someone to help me.
Just be ready to clean up, because hair will fly all over the place if you aren't careful.