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- Comment on What’s happening at Tesla? Here’s what experts think. 1 week 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! 1 week 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’ 1 week 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" 1 week 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
S3XZY?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks 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] 5 weeks 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] 5 weeks 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 1 month ago:
“Popcorn tastes good.”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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] 1 month 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] 1 month 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] 1 month 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” 1 month 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.
- Comment on Even Korea is starting to prefer an iPhone over a Samsung 1 month ago:
Down votes don’t mean what people think. Down votes mean:
- bad source
- incorrect content (I disagree)
- doesn’t contribute meaningfully
- made me feel bad in some way
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 2 months ago:
They still have all the edit history. All editing does is show the last one. The servers would have every version.
- Comment on PEMDAS is technically correct, but morally wrong 2 months ago:
PE(MD)(AS)?
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 2 months ago:
Like helping our fight against anthropogenic climate change.
- Comment on There are two kinds of people on earth: peope who are stupid and people who know they are stupid. What kind are you? 2 months ago:
What I think I’m hearing is there are “2” kinds of people, those who know they’ve fucked up, see it, own it, and remain humble.
And those who aren’t as humble and are, instead, confident and possibly unaware.
There’s more here, though. Calling oneself stupid isn’t humble. It puts the focus on oneself. Keeps it there. The occasional flitter that swings and reminds us that we’re all just trying… Cool. Dwelling? Less cool.
I’m not talking about a continuum. I’m talking about leaving the “stupid” line and being less focused on that. And more focused on being decent, virtuous and not a chump, all at the same time.
Also, some “confident” people are very self aware and aware of their inadequacies as they see them. They just don’t let that stop them from engaging. In short, all may not be as it appears.
- Comment on Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs 2 months ago:
I don’t know the worth of this opinion, but it resonates for me. .
I have never worked for Google or an affiliate, so I have no inside take.
- Comment on Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs 2 months ago:
Is Google turning into IBM?
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 3 months ago:
Matter, if implemented correctly, would save them all money and allow the privacy conscious to drop the cloud.
They are losing money on their voice assistants, so they want out of the business of being the voice part of the central hub.
They’ll find ways to monetize the users who are less privacy concerned, but that’s not me and I think it’s not a lot of people who are here.
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 3 months ago:
Matter works with HA and HA works with matter, keeping it local and easier (is the hope).
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 3 months ago:
Matter. Get it adopted. Buy and implement only Matter devices in the future.
Needs a year or two, but if we can get that tech widespread, this cloud stuff will be less essential.