natarey

I’ve been a Kagi user since launch, and it has completely replaced everything for me except image searches. It’s the best $10 I spend each month.

This doesn't seem to be true as of the time of this post.

I’m a Voice Control user, and have built a ton of stuff with Shortcuts and AppleScript to do complex tasks with single commands. Like:

1. I use a window manager app, and have commands to position windows how I like them using complex keyboard shortcuts.

2. I have a bunch of voice commands that I built to do stuff in the terminal.

3. I have a bunch of shortcuts that are templates for kinds of documents or notes

That sort of thing. It’s a full automation suite, so you can treat the shortcuts like macros and assign keyboard shortcuts or voice commands to them,

Genuinely, I don't think the answer is any of those. Human beings are notoriously bad at predicting the long-term future. I think where we're headed is going to be stranger than anyone imagines or can imagine.

Mastodon's "Explore" section does a good job of aggregating the "Trending" [whatever that means without a real algorithm] posts from all the servers that federate your instance, so the kind of front page experience you're describing is definitely within the realm of possibility. Someone would just have to build it.

I think it's important to keep in mind that this is all in "minimum viable product" territory, rather than being the final form Lemmy/Kbin/etc. It's really exciting to think about all the new and weird features that are possible, assuming people put in the time to develop them, and users provide support, either financial or other.

Here's an example I just did: https://chat.openai.com/share/44c98885-8551-4d65-a0a0-71d2e6565242

Sure! And keep in mind that the best results usually come from giving it a prompt, and then asking it to modify the results until you get what you want -- ask it to change words, "be funnier", stuff like that. GPT4's especially good at that.

I've used text generation stuff a few times when the party's done something I wasn't prepared for and I needed to improvise. In addition to the flavor text and naming stuff you've done, ChatGPT's pretty good at turning prose ideas into brief snippets of poem, or taking a clear idea ("fill the pot with water to open the door") and obscuring it with metaphor and whatnot that forces them to puzzle through things.

Edited to add: I don't use it for encounter tables and stat blocks, because the results are usually weird and unusable.

The AR stuff is what I've wanted since the first Oculus dropped -- being able to remove all the obvious parts of technology from my physical spaces (the multiple monitors, the computer tower, all the cables and whatnot) in favor of a thing I put on my head and do real work? Yes please. Fuck gaming -- I want my life back, and to have work shoved off into a weird phantom realm where I don't have to think about or look at it when I'm off the clock.

Well, the tomato sauce is a guarantee, since tomatoes are a New World plant.

Great list. I would also say most RPGs, if they're any good, will give you the choice -- Mass Effect, Skyrim, Pillars of Eternity, the Divinity games, etc.

Lots of adventure games as well -- The Longest Journey/Dreamfall games, Life is Strange, Whispers of a Machine, etc.

Honestly, the number of games where you're trapped playing a lantern-jawed, grunty doofus is way, way less overwhelming than it used to be, which I really appreciate.

That's a good point -- it hadn't occurred to me that "people who sell a lot of music/are getting a lot of play" might not be a category of fame in the near future. Being able to generate films/books/etc. end-to-end at will would do the same thing to a lot of other categories of media celebrity -- close that off as a path to fame.

Which... huh. What the heck are people going to be famous for?