aesthelete
@aesthelete@lemmy.world
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 18 hours ago:
I tested mine using my keyfob (which is what I bought it for). Test, for sure, but there are ones that work. Aluminum foil also works.
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 20 hours ago:
You can buy faraday wallets for like $20.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants 1 day ago:
Then just choose another word and use that.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 3 days ago:
Could preface it with “are you still in the return period for this thing?”.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 3 days ago:
In 10 yrs when those fridges die and people who “learned their lesson” go to buy a new fridge
That’s more like two years for Samsung fridges, where the designers and builders spend all of their time on fancy horseshit and ignore basic requirements like “keep the food cold”.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 5 days ago:
It wasn’t “understood”. They all wanted to stand on the dais. They all unbanned him from the platforms. They all threw their weight behind him as a candidate.
They are supporters of his. The whole “boo hoo, I only run a trillion dollar company so I cannot stand up to Trump” is a horse shit ass, bitch ass excuse. These people have more access to wealth, legal help, and other resources than any other people in history. They chose this.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 6 days ago:
Framework for one, but just about any other computer maker is better by that metric.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 6 days ago:
Such idiot, very blocked, wow.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 6 days ago:
Keep apologizing for Tim Apple! 🍏🍎
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 6 days ago:
The turd was just the icing on top of the shit cake dude. They gave that jack off millions of dollars.
I’ve had a solid chuckle seeing that shit, and my opinion of Apple hadn’t moved.
Welp, then I guess you’re the type of customer they fully deserve.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 6 days ago:
I prefer my to buy computers from companies that aren’t actively combating repairability efforts for their products and purposefully making them prematurely obsolete.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 6 days ago:
Gotcha, well best of luck to you
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 6 days ago:
You could go used framework as well if any of those exist. You’d have to buy from the non marketplace in order to send your signal.
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 6 days ago:
Yeah they probably fed it a bunch of legitimate on/off content as well as stuff from people who used to do make nudes from celebrity photos with sheer / skimpy outfits as a creepy hobby.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 6 days ago:
Yeah, the whole situation sucks. I totally agree and wish that framework would reconsider their position on the matter.
The country is basically unrecognizable at this point IMO. The capitulation that has occurred so quickly in the second Trump term was stunning to behold. For a vast array of industries (computers being one of them), every reasonably ethical option feels like it flew out the window.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 week ago:
I get it, but also if I stopped buying everything from every racist / racist supporter, I would have no real options for laptops generally speaking.
Michael Dell is a complete and total Trump supporter. Should I buy an XPS?
Tim Cook designed and delivered a custom award to Trump. Knowing this, should I buy an Apple?
I understand wanting to vote with your dollars but in practice there are practically no ethical options at this point for many things that you can buy.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 week ago:
Eh, I get it, but you can’t win every battle.
I have a 16 and a 13. I bought them both before that thread.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 week ago:
Right but who has like three grand just sitting in a checking account, that shit in a savings account because I’m not Bill Gates and I need every penny I can get from the interest?
Dude use a credit card.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 week ago:
That sucks. I’ve also had mixed experiences with their support arm but the hardware and designs are pretty top notch. It really is nice to buy a laptop that isn’t inevitably headed for the landfill in five years.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 week ago:
Framework 13 all the way
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
Between this and what they’ve done to Windows they’re proving daily that you can shit exactly where you eat when you’re a tech monopoly.
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 1 week ago:
Eh, I prefer people to know where they’re going before clicking without having to hover first.
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 1 week ago:
The paper waffles around a bit as to whether or not the result will be overall “good”, and tries to be as adept at fence sitting as Dwight Shrute from the Office (getyarn.io/…/6b3c335d-fd65-4db0-aa70-01c70f312b5a) but the position was made very apparent even from a short skim of the article as well as the way you’re continually referencing it here.
Since you seem to have an affinity for Greek philosophers:
“It is the mark of an educated mind not to believe everything you read on the Internet.” - Aristotle
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 1 week ago:
You didn’t say his concerns were valid. You said you thought he was not “wholly wrong”. Regardless, Plato being a crank about writing proves only that cranks existed before writing. It does nothing to help you interrogate, nor help set you down the path to interrogate the questions asked.
Your referenced article is basically a long-form version of your post, which has a perceivable bias toward the viewpoint that every newly-introduced technology can or will inevitably result in “progress” for humanity as a whole regardless of the methods of implementation or the incentives in the technology itself.
Far from being an instance of skub (pbfcomics.com/comics/skub/) as this perspective indirectly implies that it is (i.e. an agnostic technology / inanimate object that “two sides” are getting emotionally charged about), LLMs (and their “agentic” offspring) are both deliberately and unwittingly programmed to be biased. There are real concerns to be discussed about this technology that posting a quote from an ancient tome do not cover.
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 1 week ago:
I see these thought-terminating cliches everywhere, and nowhere do its posters pause a moment to consider the specifics of the actual technology involved. The people forewarning about this stuff were correct about, for instance, social media, but who cares because Plato wasn’t a fan of writing, we rode on horses before cars, or the term Luddite exists…etc. etc.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
That’s part of what Sarah Kendzior has argued for a decade or more. US companies and klepocrats (though I repeat myself) know that the only thing that can match their weight is a powerful federal government. Turning the US into 50 warring little nations will make it easier to carve up. It is undoubtedly the same case for a strong European Union, which is why the right’s other “big project” is to destabilize the EU and attempt to get it to disband.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 week ago:
That’s what I do. If you get a soft close lid all it requires is a tiny tap on the lid.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 1 week ago:
People looking to make an airfoil out of their laptop or some shit?
It’s still the same fucking Tiktok guys.
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 1 week ago:
You can pretty much die from bad teeth, like rot and cavities. It is just a matter of when.
Yes, but you’re leaving out how bad a problem gum disease is.
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 2 weeks ago:
I am even to the point now where I no longer believe certain people need religion anymore. They need community and a sense of belonging and religious leaders like to highjack that basic need for their own selfish interests.
I think I agree with basically everything you’ve said here and especially this conclusion. The problem is that for many the only type of these things they can find is couched in religion. As a child-free atheist, I basically have no sense of belonging nor a community.
In addition, some people’s only exposure to even the very concept of morality or ethics comes through religion.