Seems like if it could do full XR maybe it could work via positioning without a camera, particularly at a distance where accuracy won’t matter so much (make it larger+closer). Mapping every billboard would be a community effort. Art selection, too… though I wouldn’t trust people to not put their own self-promotion up either.

It also wouldn’t help with branded trucks.

I mean it probably does cover that, one concept is bridging (connections between different groups, someone you met by chance not because they’re your neighbor) and political polarization has actually increased due to our voting system.

Similarly I’d bet a lot of people only called themselves christian because it really wasn’t a choice (upbringing, peer/family/institution pressure, cognitive dissonance), the sort of thing that makes a lot less sense in recent years where hypocrisy is on full display (be it politics, cover-ups, or megachurches).

For race, I think the most homogeneous communities that exist probably are still more alone today. A lot of the community options were built around places or conditions that disappeared and never recovered, or clubs that may still exist but don’t get new members.

I don’t actually care about it either (or any sport, really) but it was once a symbol for social connection, and y’know the book Bowling Alone.

I feel like I covered it in the other half of my comment. See also Bowling Alone for further context. Car-centric living (and sprawl) is a big part of it in the US.

Bowling together. (And a lot of other social things that are a result of a lack of trust, not lacking trust directly related to said activity… unless you’re counting high cost/private equity as part of broken trust)

On Lemmy, the save function (star icon) does give a number beside the comment count icon. Like 4 comments (2 new). Still a manual check, though.

Also Lemmy’s comment discovery (the chat sort method) is harder to follow with context, not as good as Kbin’s unread highlighting was.

There are a lot of newer node-based 2D editors (covering both vector and raster) like Graphite and PixiEditor. I haven’t tried these… still wondering if any could easily do stuff like SDF textures or simpler mesh creation (2D workflow, part/face vertex color, maybe 3D via extrude/revolve).

There’s also Wick Editor for a potential spiritual successor to Flash.

I think there’s probably still room creatively, especially as a hobby.

I sort of see it as the opposite with software though, that popular options are bloated data-wise (and cost) and simple usage-wise, other options are small-ish data-wise but less user-friendly. It seems like the middleground (low data+easy-to-use) is less likely to exist, particularly for techniques that aren’t as shiny/new. In some cases, it really does seem like certain workflows don’t exist. (or perhaps for some things that we’ve seen before, implementations were always in-house rather than something that existed in a usable editor)

Which isn’t to say stuff like that will be easy, maybe doable with limitation and if libraries can take you half-way there.

Yes and yes. I’d prefer to disappear completely… including leaving less junk/mess to sort, though neither of those are happening. The best I can do is not buy things.

I can see the don’t-leave-me vs don’t-perceive-me aspect of death, though I think a lot of people using the phrase ‘die alone’ aren’t being quite that literal. Though I don’t have a better outlook with non-literal either. Hopeless.

I don’t mean on a small scale or personal level, I’m saying it’s just a fact-of-life for many. It’s why escapism, gambling, hustle culture/gig workers, crowd-funding for survival, deaths-of-despair are things. Living within a system that doesn’t care about individuals.

That’s exactly the problem though, “you matter” is a common sentiment but that doesn’t actually match lived experience for a lot of people. Lack of community, lack of purpose, lack of improvement, lack of direction/hope etc.

Pattern recognition. Opposable thumbs. Kung-fu grip. Floor-sweeping. Can sometimes create something neat befitting the year 1997. Can chop and fry vegetables. Load/unloading dishwasher. Poorly-equipped operator of 2 wheels (250w assist), ~450 miles on the odometer and no current destinations (also too damn hot).

Those are the ingredients that make it hard for me to justify myself in context of escapist fantasies (as out there as brain-in-a-can, as realistic as intentional communities yet still intangible).

People like positive self-talk (everyone matters), though I feel it really clashes with the rent-seeking+papers-please reality that we find ourselves in. Disposable everything.

Yes. Although note my phrasing is meant to loosely mimic the aurora borealis meme.

Th-The help someone needs? In this in country, in this economy, right away, and on a regular ongoing basis‽ Even sillier after a life-in-prison crime.

Not that the phrase is great.

RAM is the new component to become overpriced.

It is <2016, 2019, 2026>*. I’m using a 1050Ti.

* new, re-used in otherwise new build, and not buying anything respectively.

Not quite, I would definitely still have a mortal brain (remember: no copies).

I’m sure if it could go this far, keeping my brain alive to 110yrs+ would probably be possible (and cyborg elder/geezer might even be a bit cool) though I also expect I wouldn’t get that far if there were any reason for me to be in dangerous situations.

Not that I would even want to be immortal, anyway.

Nothing. I’m not spiritual, though I do sort of believe some things like that in a non-literal fashion. I don’t believe I am part of some sort of unity, though I would say that yeah in an abstract sense I am just a complex multi-cellular organism and in most cases cooperation with other multi-cellular organisms is preferred. With the systems how they are now though, I am not participating (even if it is to my own detriment).

Design? It would require a bunch things that likely won’t happen in my lifetime. Basically a transhumanist re-do. Get my brain somewhere and somewhen better, get it going again ideally with a mix of symbiosis+tech that allows existing comfortably. This could take a lot of forms too (many that others would find too alien/isolated), though not too hopeful about the future and that I could actually have a place in it.

I wish their name, community they created, and other post with a link in it could give some insight to what their purpose for creating an account was.

Seems to be fine for the question itself. Doing it this way is common, though typically the opener talks about premise more with the example being a short second paragraph.

Though I could definitely see having it as a reply due to length, also at least to stop non-answer top-level replies and at most to get engagement with their self-answer.

I know it’s because I don’t have many, but my subscriptions are pretty much dead (somewhat niche stuff). More general stuff (like this comm that is not hard to find anyway due to activity) feels like filler and some other comms I might visit might have stuff I don’t want to commonly see (like new accounts made for blatant self-promotion).

Relates to @zxqwas@lemmy.world and @whaleross@lemmy.world (why someone would be browsing /all)