Oh, thanks for reminding me, it’s about time for my yearly replay of it! Such a fantastic visual novel.

Thank you! Sadly I only got one chance to really use it so far, but I’m happy with it. I could have obviously gotten something bigger but… I can put this thing in my backpack and throw myself on my bicycle to go somewhere, which I couldn’t do with bigger kit.

Hehe, yeah, photography in itself wasn’t expensive enough so why not make it even worse?

My bank account: screaming

It’s taken using a Dwarflab 3, so obviously one can argue about how much I actually did myself :p

Yeah, it’s the Andromeda Galaxy. I planned on just trying it out, not expecting it to work so well in the area in front of my apartment (lots of light pollution) - but it worked well enough so I stood there two hours. I would have loved to expose even longer, but my feet were already quite dead at that point.

Whoo, some good news. Time to ask “Central IT” for it and get ready for another six month rodeo.

Yeah, I actually just read that one a few minutes ago. And man, I’m incredibly torn on this whole thing.

On one side - good it makes that person happy. On the other side - being entirely reliant on a commercialized, sycophant AI that could be used for manipulation, investing large amounts of money in it…

I’ve had LDRs before - one could argue it’s similar there, just “text on a screen”, or calls via digital audio. However I always knew there was a human behind those texts and the voice I heard was real, a person with a personality, experiences, strengths and flaws. The feelings they have are real, or at least one can hope they are assuming one isn’t with a manipulative POS (that’s not an issue exclusive to LDRs, though).

Here you chat with text generated by a company, accuracy having been wildly clowned upon already and I’m sure we’re all ware of this here. Of course the LLM is going to always agree, why would the product of the company actively try to drive away their customers?

Adding the fact that all the personal information will obviously be harvested, used for training the LLM and other stuff… Detailed information about the daily life is provided to the “AI boyfriend”, allowing detailed recreation of everyday life.

Bleh.