I hate it when that happens… It’s so embarrassing! 😳 Also, if I dare to care about the thing I was about to say my brain seems to flush the cache even more aggressively.

I’m so glad I can still spot AI generated faces (No, not Riker lol). It’s getting harder though.

I still have a scar on my left hand from when I tried this when i was 10. The handbrake handle basically dug into my hand as I trebuchet’d myself across a carpark next to my house 🤣

Also, when a bunch of people left reddit 3 years ago, it seemed like they flooded it with bots to pad the numbers. In any case welcome! 😁 I’ve also been here (in some form or another) since the API drama.

I would recommend that you create a couple of accounts on different instances (Piefed/Fedia etc.) because, although it’s a lot better these days, sometimes they can suddenly go offline. Not all together usually, but it’s nice to still have some way in when that happens.

I was one of seemingly few uses who actually left permanently after they killed the API

You and me both! I left and never went back and it’s been one of the best decisions I ever made.

It’s Boaty McBoatface time! 😁

“Reddit”… Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time.

Absolutely! and the even worse part is that you can go for years not even thinking about the person that wronged you. Then one day something reminds you of them and the ADHD brain will speed load everything they did to you in a second. When that turns you into a rage filled, barely coherent, crashing out, panicking mad person everyone around you is like “woah there… what’s wrong with you?! You’re acting really crazy right now… Yikes”. That’s a really lonely feeling. The only person who doesn’t do that is my wife because she knows what’s happening and is really good at talking me down from the ledge.

You can fix this problem by always going to bed at 3:30am. That’s the point where the tiredness gets louder than the ghosts of the past.

I will admit, as a brit, that my automatic reaction to being startled is “Good Lord!”… 🧐

Thanks everyone, really interesting responses and you’ve all given me lots of food for thought 🙂

Yeah I’m the same. In fact without my fidget cube I can’t even focus on what people are saying to me. It’s like my brain is a bunch of twitchy squirrels constantly looking for something new. It often feels like the world isn’t running at the right speed for me. But I’ve got used to it now and actually in a crisis it comes in really handy I’ve found.

(Switches is it on) Boom, time machine!

A battery icon feels like an odd choice as a container of anxiety. A ball of squiggly lines or some lighting bolts that disappear gradually would make more sense to me but hey, it still conveys the message.

Yeah I agree. Looks like this will begin to finally solve the uncanny valley problem. The crying is so loud though. I almost feel sorry for them. This is unstoppable. I wish they could see that but they won’t. It’s crazy to me that these anti AI cultists think that they’re going to shame AI into going away. It’s just not going to happen and they’re going to just get more screechy and moral and blind. I hope they get the help they need.

There’s a simple way to stop that happening! You won’t believe me, but some of you will try it and those lucky few will indeed know the joy of efficient, non-wasteful wetwipe extraction.

Just take a hairband and wrap it tightly around one end of the packet. Pull the wipes out at an angle away from the end with the band. They will come out one at a time with no clogging.

Happiness.