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- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 4 hours ago:
I see. Perhaps I misunderstood the format.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 4 hours ago:
I’m not sure I’d use Bill Nye as the example of the asshole atheist, unless that’s the joke. Maybe Christopher Hitchens.
- Comment on Embrace this Truth and enjoy life 1 day ago:
Incorrect, only because you’re still tacitly assuming that science (or anything else) must have some kind of external cosmic significance outside of human thought.
Science is important to us – or at least it ought to be – because it’s the method by which we understand how the universe works. Being important to us is all that matters, because we can’t think with the minds of anything else.
- Comment on Embrace this Truth and enjoy life 1 day ago:
The flaw in all of this sophomoric philosophic whinging is that it mostly tends to start off with the presupposition that all of these concepts aren’t just human constructs. The only reason anything has meaning to us is because we decided it does.
The purpose of life is life itself.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 2 days ago:
I already do. Flip a coin: Heads, the car is operating itself and is therefore being operated by a moron. Tails, the owner is driving it manually and therefore it is being operated by a moron.
Just be sure to carefully watch your six when you’re sitting at a stoplight. I’ve gotten out of the habit of sitting right in the center of the lane, because the odds are getting ever higher that I’ll have to scoot out of the way of some imbecile who’s coming in hot. That’s hard to do when your front tire is 24" away from the license plate of the car in front of you.
- Comment on Wanted to share a simple phone stand I designed in these trying times 2 days ago:
Um, well the other elephant in the room is that if you cap off the port and never use it, it’s also irrelevant what its service lifetime is since you’re never going to use it.
- Comment on There are probably fediverse instances being run by governments for surveillance purposes 3 days ago:
Easy: “Everyone I don’t like is either a shill or a bot!”
- Comment on Shower drains and storm drains are the same thing in theory but not practice 5 days ago:
It’s all pipes, Jerry!
- Comment on LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System 6 days ago:
I have absolutely no idea what I’d do with this but I want one.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 6 days ago:
I’m positive competent nerds make up none of their earnings, because we’ve all been pirating Microsoft software ever since we were tall enough to reach the keyboard.
- Comment on ChatGPT's viral Studio Ghibli-style images highlight AI copyright concerns 6 days ago:
He did what?
Nature really is out of balance lately.
- Comment on ChatGPT's viral Studio Ghibli-style images highlight AI copyright concerns 1 week ago:
I’m not sure pissing off Miyazaki is a great move. He’s an old Japanese man who is famously so bitter that when he chain smokes, he gives the cigarettes cancer, communicates largely in contemplative one-liners, and is known to own precisely one sword. We’ve all seen this movie; we know how that kind of thing ends.
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 week ago:
A parallel comment to my rant yesterday, I see the pushback has already begun in Garmin’s reviews against this nonsense. All of the recent reviews of their Android app are now overwhelmingly complaints about the subscription addition, and I suspect iOS is the same. If you haven’t done so already, please be sure to blow Garmin up over this on any platform you can get your grubby hands on.
I know posting this here is probably more like spitting on a forest fire; I’m sure the seven or eight nerds here on Lemmy dedicated enough to care have already put Garmin on blast for this (myself included), but it never hurts to make sure.
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 week ago:
Pebble, but neither of their upcoming revived models have the same spread of sensors shoved into them as Garmin does if that sort of thing matters to you.
I would happily buy something just like my Fenix without the stupid pulse ox/heart rate monitor, but I understand I am in the minority there. I’d keep the GPS, compass, temperature, altimeter, and barometer functions. But then, I’m probably the sole person on Earth who would be the first to buy a phone without a goddamned selfie camera on it, either.
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 week ago:
Not moving any of the previously free features yet. Don’t worry, it’ll happen.
The compute power behind their dumbass “AI” push that nobody wants will not be cheap, and when it inevitably fails to turn a profit (because we all know damn well it never will), they’ll be looking for new ways to squeeze users for revenue.
- Comment on The world is only about me 1 week ago:
Just pick that fucker up and stick it on the other side of the Toblerone block.
And then revel in the inevitable fistfight with its owner that ensues. (Pro tip: Be sure to win.)
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 week ago:
The problem with that is this is software. We’ve seen this before. If the EU complains they’ll stop doing it… only in the EU. They’ll continue the fuckery in the US because it’s legal here.
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 week ago:
See also: repebble.com
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 week ago:
However, one of the founders of the OG Pebble just announced a revival.
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 week ago:
Yes indeed, I absolutely did. Still no joy, alas.
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 week ago:
Any advice for getting it to actually work with a Garmin watch? I just tried it with my Fenix 6 (solar) and it doesn’t detect the watch at all. In fact, even selecting “show unsupported devices” reveals that my watch’s bluetooth MAC address isn’t even seen by my phone. (Yes, I unpaired it and removed Connect from my phone. I also resorted to factory resetting my watch. No dice.)
At the moment I’m using it unconnected because it still shows the time and so forth with the watch face I want. But without any kind of connectivity there’s really no point to not just putting this thing back in its box for good and grabbing one of my numerous dumb watches.
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 week ago:
Capitulation leads to these corporations refusing to change and believing they can weather out the complaints and still come out the other side profitably without changing their behavior.
I can live with a dumb watch until they announce they’re walking this back.
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 week ago:
I just tried it with my Fenix 6 and it does not appear to work at all despite being listed as partially supported. My watch can’t even be discovered by the app, even after factory resetting it and removing all of the Garmin apps from my phone.
That’s a shame. I’ll go back to wearing my mechanical watch for a while, I think.
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 week ago:
TL;DR: They lied to us, plain and simple. The temptation of Make Line Go Up was enough to make Garmin abandon their promise of no subscriptions and no paywalls.
Nobody outside of the idiots in the boardroom wants this, especially the AI garbage. It’s disgusting that $1100 for a Fenix 8 isn’t already enough for these greedy assholes.
I am on my second Garmin watch, a Fenix 6. Previously I had a 5x. My wife has a Lily. These will be our last ever Garmin devices, and I’ll be sure to let them know it. It’s getting to the point where no smartwatch maker can be trusted, unsurprisingly, and honestly the alleged benefits they provide are probably no longer worth it in the long run. Before smartwatches were a thing I amassed quite a selection of normal watches, which I will probably just go back to using when my current watch inevitably cacks it, or the software becomes so borked that it’s useless.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 1 week ago:
Is it our complete lack of originality and obsessive wholesale rehashing and incessant rebooting and remaking of already existing movies that’s to blame?
No, it’s the children who are out of touch.
- Comment on Real 1 week ago:
🐧🗡️!
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
I’m positive that’s deliberate, though, because they’re desperate to drive traffic to Bing by any means necessary.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
Except when the setting they need isn’t in Settings. Then it’s a wild goose chase.
In fact, it’s often a wild goose chase even if it is in Settings, because the question then is where did Microsoft decide to hide it in this most recent update?
The thing everyone misses which was Control Panel’s greatest strength, however, was that vendors could add their own .cpl extensions to it. So settings for your specific hardware could go there. (Yes, this was abused by-and-large by some vendors just like the system tray, but that’s not the point.) Literally all of your settings and configuration stuff could go in one place. Even if a user did not know exactly where, at least they had a consistent place to start looking.
That all ended with Windows 2000/XP and got worse with 8/10/11.
Now we have this:
“I want to change the behavior of Windows feature X.”
Spin the wheel and guess!
- Is it located in Settings?
- Is it located in Control Panel?
- Is there a category in Settings where it totally should be, and any reasonable person would expect it to be, but it’s not there? Surprise! It’s in Control Panel anyway because Microsoft was too lazy to migrate it to Settings.
- Is it in both Settings and Control panel?
- Is it lurking in the Notification Area?
- Or is it hidden in Group Policy Management instead? Oops, too bad you bought the home edition of Windows.
Etc.
Control panel may have been clunky, especially for frequently accessed settings, but at least it was unified.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 week ago:
Key word being deliberately. I predict the majorty of people who wind up with either of those ghastly things did so because they were all that was available, easily filched from the supply closet, or it’s all their parents would give them because they are above all else cheap.
I have probably handled and used hundreds of the damn things in my life but I have never once spent a single penny on any of them; they were without exception foisted off on me by circumstance, not intentionally sought out.
I was a Staedtler nerd in school anyway, any time I was not allowed to use a fountain pen.
- Comment on ^_^ I just think skibidibi sounds neat :3 1 week ago:
You rang?