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- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 11 hours ago:
I used to use Spotify but got sick of their recommendations. Vastly different genre playlists would still get top100 songs recommended. Sabrina Carpenter in all my playlists.
I moved to Pandora, their recommendation engine is way less biased. Fewer features in the app, tho
- Comment on Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.* 1 day ago:
Ah. Well you see I was raised to think that the US was an egalitarian society, that hard work leads to success, that people should be measured by their actions.
And I believed it. My bad, that’s on me.
- Comment on Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.* 1 day ago:
I figured out a couple years ago that pointing out the hypocrisy doesn’t phase them. Some of them even enjoy having some leftie mad at them, it emboldens them.
- Comment on Worm doll I sleep with 3 days ago:
Earthworm Jim
- Comment on Clankers 🔪🔪🔪 6 days ago:
I love tech, just not the tech companies.
Your individual apathy to their surveillance may not mean much to anyone, but the collective apathy has allowed these companies to build business and make money off of surveiling the public, eroding our right to privacy, and paving a way for state surveillance
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
My new LG didn’t require it, but the settings menu and ‘home’ screen nag about lack of connectivity.
“Why did you buy a smart TV if you didn’t want the smart features” brother, it was the best tv in that price range and few true dumb ones exist in that range. IMO the smart features should be considered optional but I guess these companies don’t agree
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 2 weeks ago:
Windows is only “easy” because you’re used to it. Coming to it fresh, windows 11 is such a shit show sometimes.
Minecraft works on Linux,
FFXIV works on Linux (it works on the steam deck which runs Linux, so it will work natively just like in windows),
Steam itself works on Linux just the same.
- Comment on An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification 2 weeks ago:
They’ve sold their XPS line with Ubuntu as an option for like 10 years. Maybe they stopped for some time, but it’s not new
- Comment on US tells diplomats to lobby against foreign data sovereignty laws 2 weeks ago:
Is the rest of the world as lobby -able as the US? Guess we’ll find out
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 3 weeks ago:
you understand the context, and can implicitly understand the need to drive to the car wash’, but these glorified auto-complete machines will latch on to the “should I walk there” and the small distance quantity. It even seems to parrot words about not wanting to drive after having your car washed. There’s no ‘thinking’ about the whole thought, and apparently no logical linking of two separate ideas
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 3 weeks ago:
You’re assuming AI “think” “logically”.
Well, maybe you aren’t, but the AI companies sure hope we do
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 4 weeks ago:
"turn down the music, I can’t see we might be lost
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 5 weeks ago:
As a supplement to doctors that sounds like a fantastic use of AI. Then it’s an encyclopedia you engage in conversation
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 5 weeks ago:
Same, my 9 (us) does too. But I heard going forward they want to be eSIM only
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 5 weeks ago:
could be a great idea if people could be trusted to correctly interpret things that are not in their scope of expertise. The parallel I’m thinking of is IT, where people will happily and repeatedly call a monitor “the computer”. Imagine telling the AI your heart hurts when it’s actually muscle spasms or indigestion.
The value in medical professionals is not just the raw knowledge but the practice of objective assessment or deduction of symptoms, in a way that I didn’t foresee a public-facing system being able to replicate
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 5 weeks ago:
I really value the camera on my phone, since it is essentially my main camera and I enjoy taking pictures. I might rather lean into graphene-ing this pixel than a fair phone, unfortunately. But probably not purchase a future pixel, since they abandoned the physical SIM slot
- Comment on Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days 1 month ago:
I really like swappa for the ability to return the phone to the seller for refund.
In theory eBay also allows this, but since it’s a core feature of the swappa marketplace that it gives me comfort that the phone is listed in good faith and they haven’t misrepresented the phone.
I suggest it to anyone I know looking for a phone
- Comment on Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days 1 month ago:
I saw ‘FaaS’ and immediately thought Freedom as a Service, which is exactly the tagline such a service would have
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 2 months ago:
Does he have a podcost?
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 2 months ago:
I went to look up images of zordon and wow he did look like this
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 2 months ago:
The irony of tolerating intolerant people to exist openly is that it actually erodes tolerance overall
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 2 months ago:
I swear to God if this is AI upscaled
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 2 months ago:
My predicament, personally, is that my computer is starting to feel slow to me but I’m on AM4 and ddr4. The good jumps in performance are to be had in moving to the newer generations, which means that buying ram cannot be avoided. The suboptimal move is to stay on this legacy platform and be satisfied with marginal gains while investing further into hardware that will become obsolete sooner
- Comment on In the US one can graduate *cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude*. There should be another honor added if you survive a school shooting. 2 months ago:
Yes guns are loud, they already know
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 3 months ago:
That’s a lot of words, and they do pretty well at explaining the nuance, but you missed the opportunity to show off the simplest example of the concept:
Dating simulators
It’s a game format that literally talks directly to you
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 3 months ago:
Yes, this is what I intended to write but I submitted it hastily.
Its like a catch-22, they can’t write code so they vibecode, but to maintain vibed code you would necessarily need to write code to understand what’s actually happening
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 3 months ago:
Vibe coders can’t debug code because they didn’t write
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 3 months ago:
I know how futa makes money
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 4 months ago:
“4k” is supposed to be a term for cinema widescreen resolution, but got taken over because it’s short and marketable because “4k is 4x as many pixels as 1080p”
What makes it worse is that then 1440p becomes 2k because “it’s 2x as many pixels”
The flip flop irks me
- Comment on One photograph. Two daughters. Three Nobel Prizes. 4 months ago:
You miss 100% of the Nobels you don’t take