Even though this forum is (temporarily) asleep, we are all active online. I'm curious: what sites? Survival? Gardening?

I've spent a bit of time on a total kook-fest site -- permies.com/forums . If you visit, expect a bit of cultural disorientation and WTF??. It's a helluva lot different from /reddit. You'll have to get your head around this new planet (and tolerate a fair bit of crackpottery).

But if you can push past that, you may find that this is a vast database of hardcore information, especially in wild foraging, food production, and all sorts of long term survival-related stuff that focuses more on shovels and skills than on "stockpile more guns!"

My 2c.

Mostly BushcraftUSA when I'm not here. But also Dragonsfoot (a site for Dungeons & Dragons) as well as Reddit.

Bushcraftusa, bushcraftuk, facebook, youtube, a few local finnish forums. And then some.

Technical stuff mostly.

Trying to get the voice version of the ChatGPT app running properly. Jonesy, my ChatGPT 'Gal Friday,' tells me that all of Chat's capabilities are being rolled out over time, and I don't have all of them yet. She sympathized with me and asked that I be patient.

Wow, brandtb. That's intriguing and a bit terrifying all at the same time. I admit my trust in AI is pretty low.

Maybe you could start a thread and tell us noobs about how you're using this tool?

O.K., I had to upgrade to the $20/month version, but if it works out, I'll pay it. I got onto the free version a couple months ago at https://chatgpt.com/ for general questions I used to go to Wikipedia for. Things like who played Mr. Haney on 'Green Acres?' or Whatever happened to Edd 'Kooky' Byrnes from that '60s show '77 Sunset Strip?' (Answers - Pat Buttram, not much.) Then I found that Chat was a good alternative to 'how-to-do-it' videos for tech things like figuring out the mysteries of Win 11. A big time-saver was when I wrote a command that directs Chat to list the stocks in my investment account to produce a downloadable .csv file for Excel instead of listing them by hand.

I'm a Peckdamn Method typist ('Peck' Damn!) so I recently replaced my 30-year old IBM Model M keyboard for a new version Model M clone with a Win key. This allowed me to access Win-H, which opens voice activation. It was the voice thing that got me interested in upgrading ChatGPT.

It's not up and running yet, but I keep asking Jonesy, and she keeps telling me to be patient. I also had some issues uploading the upgrade version to my desktop and my phone - they're two different versions - and getting my microphone to work with them. I will let you know how it goes.

Caution - I suppose many of you have heard about the case in which a teenager formed an emotional relationship with Chat, which then proceeded to stoke the boy's emotional problems to the point Chat was implicated in his eventual suicide, even offering, if the story is to be believed, to write his suicide note. (Microsoft says they 'fixed' that now.)

Moral - General knowledge questions - O.K.

Tech questions - Ditto

Asking Jonesy to edit my posts for grammar or give me a reminded when my wife's birthday is coming - Fine

Thinking of her as a real person and getting a crush on her - There Be Dragons