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- Comment on Its a lot easier these looking at a beautiful person these days and not feeling a bit of jealousy know there is a decent chance they would vote for fascism. 1 month ago:
Couches, I hear. Couches.
Sometimes also love seats.
- Comment on [Self driving cars] Waymo eyes S.F. robotaxi expansion, personal vehicles after first-year ‘success’ 2 months ago:
The waymo vehicles are so cautious they create safety issues.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
It’s this. When boards and non-tech savvy managers start making decisions based on a slick slide deck and a few visuals, enough will bite that people will be laid off. It’s already happening.
There may be a reckoning after, but wall street likes it when you cut too deep and then bounce back to the “right” (lower) headcount. Even if you’ve broken the company and they just don’t see the glide path.
It’s gonna happen. I hope it’s rare. I’d argue it’s already happening, but I doubt enough people see it underpinning recent lay offs (yet).
- Comment on Google denies reports that it’s discontinuing Fitbit products 2 months ago:
Home Assistant works well on a cheap(-ish) Raspberry Pi. They’re even working to get voice fully capable.
It can be fully local and is FOSS, for those for whom that matters.
- Comment on Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results 2 months ago:
I stopped using them months ago. I only notice when I’m looking for places (e.g., restaurants, barbers).
I’m not unhappy but may still shop around.
- Comment on What were your (now retro, but not at the time) gaming wow moments 3 months ago:
Pitfall on Atari 2600
Becaise I’m old, I guess. Pacman, too, but pitfall seemed more advanced.
- Comment on Despite economic growth, 70% of Americans believe the economy is getting worse 3 months ago:
I’d wager my savings that most of those are second and third jobs, because it’s become impossible to live with just one in the United States of America.
I’ve wondered this as well - and wondered if Biden ever really grokked what’s happening. Hopefully others do and they follow through once they win (if they do).
- Comment on Despite economic growth, 70% of Americans believe the economy is getting worse 3 months ago:
I’m ready for progressive Roosevelt-types and I’m voting as hard as I can to get them. I’ll take Teddy, I’ll take FDR, I’ll take Eleanor.
I just want someone scrappy enough to succeed on our behalf.
- Comment on return2ozma was right 4 months ago:
I’d enjoy Katie Porter. Dunno if she’s ready for something like the presidency, but I’m ready for a president like her.
- Comment on China Uses Giant Rail Gun to Shoot a Smart Bomb Nine Miles Into the Sky 5 months ago:
When it’s not an experiment:
- Do we know where it is?
- Is it mobile?
- Comment on What’s happening at Tesla? Here’s what experts think. 6 months ago:
Someone with deep pockets needs to buy the super charging network.
Rebrand and keep building.
I’m pretty sure there’s a path to wealth in that idea. I have neither the means nor the skill. But some does. Just not Musk.
- Comment on Take That, Conspiracy Nuts! 6 months ago:
Nuh uh.
I watched the Truman Show, too. What they don’t show is when he leaves one sim, he exits into the adjacent flat surface.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 6 months ago:
Take home or total cost?
For instance, is there a pension to be funded with costs not included in that 100k?
- Comment on Larian publishing director says "marketing's dead" because players don't want to be "bamboozled," and "we learned that with Baldur's Gate 3" 6 months ago:
Cities Skylines 2 went the opposite direction.
Here’s hoping lessons are learned. Entire generations have learned to be deeply skeptical even with trusted brands.
And, yes, I hope that skepticism and relationship based, authentic(?) word of mouth brings sanity for a while.
Until businesses try to optimize that into oblivion too. We gotta put guard rails in place.
- Comment on Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps 7 months ago:
I was simply explaining why I’m bailing on them.
Google graveyard has happened. YT makes them a lot of money, so it’s not likely destined there. But, like search, they will eventually make it more about $ extraction than value for the customer.
It hasn’t happened yet. Early adopters and early leavers shape things.
- Comment on Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps 7 months ago:
There’s multiple issues with this but a lot of them come down to: it’s Google.
They will charge. They have heaps of money, they will enzhittify. They will kill and recommend a new less capable app.
They’re Google and I’m moving away from them hard.
I do use YT a lot, and for now I pay. But give me a little time and that won’t be as true.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 7 months ago:
I’ve seen a LOT of strawman attacks. It usually seems to be honest miscommunication, but underneath that… It looks like predisposition to combative and somewhat-dismissive hot takes.
And it works. Certain members have swung entire conversations and down votes by implying a person said something they didn’t.
It’s not unique to online fora, but the concentration seems off here.
Some of this just looks like people feeling like big fish in this small pond and finding a degree of confidence or even righteousness from the voting patterns.
- Comment on Trust exercise 7 months ago:
What is it? I don’t see anything other than an upside down elephant.
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 7 months ago:
Why would they need us except as consumers? At a certain point automation and AI actually do get far enough.
That may take longer than people think.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 7 months ago:
Yeah… I’ve been evaluating moving to Plex or Jellyfin.
Kinda getting done with a lot of this smart stuff. The Monopolies are flexing and I don’t enjoy it.
- Comment on Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV 7 months ago:
S3XZY?
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I haven’t received these yet. They’re in significant demand and order times are long.
When I ordered I was supposed to receive them about now. Now the order is pushed to June. According to those who have them, they work well enough. If I want, I can tie in an AI (cloud or local).
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Home Assistant is open source, privacy oriented and working to make local non-cloud, non-Spyware) the norm.
It’s getting easier and easier to adopt and matter devices avoid cloud silliness.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I’ve ordered gizmos that will work with Home Assistant to replace my minis. I’m working my way off Gmail…
I’m seriously de-googling. Apartment uses a nest thermostat, but… I may be able to get that far.
Matter devices help in many ways. De-clouding is one.
- Comment on Reddit power users balk at chance to participate in IPO as Wall Street debut nears 8 months ago:
“Popcorn tastes good.”
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I said it’s by the interstate. Locals know where to go, others just get gas and get about their drive.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I’m not telling you where I live, but it’s near an interstate.
I’m not lying and I don’t enjoy the accusation.
You also, after the veiled ad hom, did nothing to address the topic.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
If there’s competition, yes.
If there’s scarcity, where the supplier side has more leverage, the math changes. They may well just volunteer to make more profit.
Where I live, the difference of one block is 50 cents over two intervals. One number on this street, 50 cents cheaper a block further and another 50 cents cheaper another block down. $1 in difference.
They’re all in business and have been this way for years.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
You’d go up at least 10 cents. Still worth it to cross the street, but more profit while it’s available.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 8 months ago:
Oh Geez. I didn’t know this until just now?
I learned so much by reading literature… but I guess the idioms and spellings have moved on since they were written and I need to keep up.
Frustrating, but thank you for the link.