u/Juicymoosie99

I've been learning a lot of unreal lately and just learned that you could use Gaea, an external program, to simulate real life terrains like with erosion and stuff like that. Good for making mountains and distinct objects like atolls, peninsula's, or even using real world geography in your game. But haven't really found a good way to just add terrain that looks realistic or captivating. For example, I have an inn along a main dirt road, and need to make a reasonable and immersive area for it to sit in on the road. The trees are easy, you just use PCG or the foliage tool and use three or four trees that go well together and do some scattering. Like, no effort involved there.

But sculpting the terrain to be realistic and captivating, or dropping in multiple different generated terrains and connecting them to each other is something that I don't understand. Seems really difficult to do this and I want to save the maximum amount of time for stuff that I need to waste time on

Seems that Windows 11 update changed my PC settings irreversibly. Now, since I won't share my exact PC location constantly with Microsoft, they won't allow me to automatically sync the time, even though I have it set to UTC-5 EST USA, Canada. It's a simple non-trivial operation to be like "NYC Timezone". Why do they need my location to do that? Now, it tells me it's 9:15 AM May 21st, it's 5:15 AM EST. There's a 'sync now' button I have to press every day going forward, multiple times a day

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I'm making a 3D RPG game, and I'm a bit confused on the sizing of the terrain. I've been using this awesome tool gaea, which is a huge help for getting mountains and stamps into unreal. But the sizing and scale I'm confused on. How big I should make stuff.

I could make things to true scale, having rivers be monolithic and enormous, mountains be full sized, the land spanning far and wide. I could decrease it by like 40% of that and have similar proportions to Skyrim, so there's not huge free open space everywhere. I'm not really sure what to scale the game terrain as. I have the mannequin in the scenes.

Advice pls?? 😄

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Gone wild flair because I know that I'm throwing at a wild opinion here. Can you imagine for a moment what it would be like if we lived in a world where AI actually made the world a better place? No, like seriously. Just imagine it for a moment, alternate universe....

AI is a public utility, no private ownership allowed. Free and open source always, closed source Black box AI is prohibited.

Data centers that power AI pay for their own electricity and are fully solar powered, noise dampened, and abide by all local regulations that the citizens, not the local government, agree to

Layoffs are illegal, and AI is used as an assistive tool. Legal protections based on German workers council at the bare minimum. We would have at maximum a 20 hour work week.

AI usage would be prioritized and any non-critical use of AI would be throttled. For example, prioritizing it for health, critical applications like science and mathematics research take first priority, then non-essential uses follow a tiered system from most critical to least critical. Companies can still pay extra for higher priority and bid for AI usage slot, or host their own locally on premise

AI would be heavily used for the benefit of humanity, to make improvements, and make things better. There would be bounties for time saved, process is improved, things re-engineered, or made safer. For example, rewards for independent researchers to catch security vulnerabilities before hackers can exploit them, or using AI for public benefit, such as during times of disaster or crisis. Improvement of software, speeding up the internet, stuff like that.

AI usage at universities and in learning settings would be completely prohibited, or very limited and used as a supplement so people can actually still continue to learn, and not become mentally dependent on it

All AI would be trained on either publicly available materials, or contributed willingly by society. Completely illegal to train a model using any unauthorized or unapproved source, and if any source is used without authorization, it has to be completely scrubbed from the entire AI model.

Governance of AI would not be controlled by the government, but instead, by the public, to ensure that democracy takes the highest priority, and is ethically used with full transparency. No monarchic/authoritarian approach to how AI will be run.

I think these would be the bare minimum of my list to ensure that AI is used appropriately and ethically.

A while back I tried Linux Mint XFCE and chicago95. My goal was to make Linux look like Windows 95 and to reskin it to look like an older version of Windows. However, this was far before I was technically skilled like I am today, I work as a data scientist and have done tons of programming and game development. I feel like today I could probably handle something a bit more complex. But don't really know where to start because it's been years

What's a good way to get a Linux distro to look like Windows XP or '98? I don't care what the distro is honestly, I was thinking XFCE Ubuntu or mint. Something easy, lightweight, doesn't need to be crazy. Because I'm really just using it for a second PC that's just for general use.

I have Xfinity internet and mobile bundle and while it is cheap, it's pretty terrible and does not work well. I have AT&t fiber in my area which I had previously for $110 a month but now they are doing an introductory deal for $48 a month for the first 12 months. The internet was incredibly solid last time I had it. I never had a single outage in over a year. But Xfinity Mobile is just too awful to stay with.

I'm considering switching to AT&t mobile and bundling with the internet but I don't know how it works and they won't give me any quote online without putting my entire IMEI device code in which I'm not going to do. I'm curious what the bundled price is, if they have any veteran discounts, what the mobile service is like

I'm currently with Xfinity Mobile and internet unfortunately and it's one of the worst I've ever had. Both with the wireless internet and the mobile plan. So I'm considering switching to AT&t, which has affordable fiber internet in my area. It's like 50% off for the first 12 months and then it switches to $90 a month. But I'm not sure if they have good deals on bundling and what their mobile services like, if it's worth it or if it's good or whatever. Has anyone bundled with them and can speak for them? If it helps I'm in the Atlanta metro market

This is a really dumb question lol butttt.... can I use this and install linux OS on it, and then hook it up via usb? lol.

Kingston NV3 1TB M.2 2280 NVMe SSD | PCIe 4.0 Gen 4x4 | Up to 6000 MB/s | SNV3S/1000G ACASIS

Dock/adapter to sit on my desk:

NVME SSD Reader Adapter, Aluminium Alloy Housing Fast Heat Dissipation,

NVME to USB Docking Station, M.2 SSD to USB Adapter 10Gbps, Support M.2

(M Key) NVMe SSD and (B+M Key) SATA-Based SSD

sorry I'd include links but idk if I can.

I've used Firefox for like 2 months now going from Chrome, I had Claude AI help me turn off every telemetry and support item possible, remove every tracker. I use it with Ecosia browser, in private window. It seems completely secure, safe, and no issues whatsoever. People make "tier lists" and put it as a D though, which is so weird.... why?

I finally made the move to delete everything on my Google drive and start eliminating everything I have stored on there, for now I'm using an external SSD to store my files locally. I won't create or use anything in Google anymore. Unfortunately, I have an old Samsung phone, because it's all that I can afford. They recently moved over to Google messages for who knows what reason other than pure laziness and greed. So there's no Samsung native messages anymore. You have to use Google messages now which is absurdly annoying and it natively connects to Google Gemini even if you don't want it to. Goes through their servers of course.

So what's the alternative? Facebook messages owned by meta, and scraped for their own AI. Get an iPhone but then I have to use an Apple product. If you use WhatsApp that's owned by Facebook. It's unbelievable. I did switch my browser to Firefox maxed out on the privacy no telemetry always use incognito and now I'm using ecosia search engine. Feels a little nicer.

But there's always Google somewhere, somehow. I don't know how but I keep getting ads on Instagram and other places like Reddit, targeted ads, about things that I've spoken about in real life or looked at even on Firefox incognito tabs. Doesn't really make sense

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I saw 8 months ago on one of the proton subreddits that there were some synchronization issues where it is absurdly slow synchronizing across different PCs and the speed is just horrendously slow. I'm wondering if they ever fix this or if it's still just as slow? For some more information, I'm talking about if you have like a desktop computer and a laptop right, and you're using it just like Google drive and Gmail. Where you are syncing up your entire PC

I saw 8 months ago on one of the proton subreddits that there were some synchronization issues where it is absurdly slow synchronizing across different PCs and the speed is just horrendously slow. I'm wondering if they ever fix this or if it's still just as slow? For some more information, I'm talking about if you have like a desktop computer and a laptop right, and you're using it just like Google drive and Gmail. Where you are syncing up your entire PC

Curious if anyone has tried ditching OneDrive what some of the best alternatives are? I'm torn here, some reviews for proton drive say it's absurdly slow. https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonDrive/comments/1nqt024/comment/ngap4vt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Curious if anyone has tried ditching OneDrive what some of the best alternatives are? I'm torn here, some reviews for proton drive say it's absurdly slow.

Throwing out a question if anyone has used quadspinner Gaea before. I'm curious if anyone has used this with real geographical map data, like Copernicus or information that is publicly available, like real world GIS data for real world maps. I'm trying to learn this currently and really struggling because YouTube doesn't have any tutorials that I've found where people are using real world map data, and showing how they are importing it into gaea.

To be clear, I'm focusing more on the importing step and not on the unreal engine part because there's plenty of tutorials on that. I have not found any suitable or usable information lately, on how to use actual geographic data. All the imports and exports I've done of real geographic data have failed or don't work

I work for a big Fortune 500 company, and there are some genuinely useful applications of AI that I can understand why people would invest in them and understand why they would allocate budget for it.... Then there are applications of AI that are just plain moronic, and it just makes you wonder, why are we doing this? **Are we really, truly this stupid?**

For example, at our company we have a virtual avatar powered by AI, that does our company chant. Yes you read that right we have a company chant for big meetings and town halls. It used to be done by an actual person, but we since transitioned it to a virtual avatar that runs off of Gemini AI. This is hilariously embarrassing and honestly dizzying how absurd it looks. It looks just plain wrong. The mouse doesn't even match the words being sad and it's not a real person's voice and the thing just looks like you are in some delirious dream. That's something we are spending money on.

People generating notes and PowerPoints. Ridiculous, truly absurd. People cannot be bothered to simply pay attention in meetings and write down five or six bullet points. That's basic comprehension and writing! And we need to spend millions of dollars recording every single meeting for the rest of company history now, just for this. Because people cannot be bothered to pay attention during meetings and write things down.

People generating memes using AI. No, like seriously that's what we are paying for image creation capabilities on. For people to create memes and send them in their group chats.

There are some really valid uses of AI. But wow we are spending so much money and time and resources on such stupid stuff lately

I remember in the early 2000s, we seemed to have everything perfectly balanced. I mean there was the dot com bubble burst, but even aside from that, Most things just worked for consumers. If you wanted to chat with friends you could use Skype, MSN, AIM, Myspace. So many options. Nowadays there's like maybe two options to actually communicate with people that really work, and one of them is unacceptable. Discord is on the verge of collapse because of the whole privacy issue thing. I've seen entire communities for softwares just close up on discord with disclaimers that they are no longer engaging in the anti privacy stuff that Discord is engaging in and they are creating their own help community on their website, and you go to the website and the community forum is basically dead. So they have no community at all.

In terms of the web, it's become extremely difficult to browse Google and get relevant search results, You can use other web browsers or search engines but they're not as effective like Duckduckgo. It's probably more safe to use this but the results from search are just bad. They don't really work as well and it's really hard to find stuff. They're really trying hard to get you to use Gemini to search the web. Which I don't want to, because the results there are even pretty bad and irrelevant half the time. Gemini rambles so much it's horrible.

and internet speed hasn't improved at all, or availability. Certain websites across the world are still extremely slow, you think they would have speed them up. I thought we were going to keep exponentially increasing technology for society when it comes to computers and the world wide web but it seems like we are instead going backwards

Considering de googling. Because I'm honestly suspicious of Google and wondering if they actually like steal your content and train AI with it. For example if you have documents for like a game you're developing or a story that you're writing if they're just using that