Anne N. Mouse: Blog

yWriter looks like it should be a powerful program. It even says it can import (if I can figure out how!) works in progress. Unfortunately yWriter is very sparse on documentation, so I have to figure out how things work with no examples... (not, mind that some of the examples that windazed gives for finding and transferring stuff are very good) I don't speak or write geek..... And most geeks don't realize that what they speak and write doesn't translate terribly well to English....
I can't imagine trying to translate geek to Spanish!

I've been working on a story where at some points I use among, and others I use amongst. Websters says that they are essentially used the same way, and considers amongst somewhat nonstandard.
I'm thinking that amongst fits in the story I'm working on as I'm trying to give a feeling of a very different sort of story in a very different sort of world....

I don't like to be a conspiracy theorist, but for over a week one of my favorite sites has been down, and just today another site of a similar type has suddenly disappeared. I shan't mention the names of the sites, but will note that so far as I know they were not nearly as questionable as asstr....

For some reason my mouse wheel is now running zoom rather than scrolling. As a person who uses his computer to either read or write, more of the former rather than the later! This is very aggravating. This is something that has previously happened to me and I managed to eliminate the problem for so long I've forgotten how to deal with it. I've been searching through my settings and can't find a switch that I accidentally moved, which is annoying. Not that finding the mouse is easy or even determining the settings...

You'd almost think that windazed wants to shut you out of controlling your machine, yet whatever happened, and I did to make this change went under my radar, which frankly it should not have done! So how did the effing machine allow this change, and then hide the means to change things back!?

Huh!! A reboot changed things back! How and why is still a mystery!

I've been poking around the various 'free' AI platforms and really feel like I need a lawyer who is fluent in basic English as well as legalese.

If I'm correctly interpreting 'free' services, I am the product. The 'free' stuff either exists to sell me stuff (even if it is just 'premium' services, or to harvest data about my computer usage. Most of the time it feels like both of these are true. But I get the feeling that 'buying' premium service doesn't actually stop either of these activities...

Now I'm pretty much a coward who has wasted my life, as I said beforehand I pretty much set out with malice against myself to destroy any possibilities I might have of earning a living. Being both disorganized and a piss poor sales person, I'm definitely not apt to get any freelancing jobs (besides all writing for 'pay' is being done by 'name authors' or AI....) or be productive enough (Lackadaisical is a mild description of me, Dead lazy is more accurate) to produce writing for sale, even if I wrote salable subjects, which I do not.

Any way, I'm frustrated because I want to interact with AI as anonymously as possible.... And I just don't see any way to do so...