atrielienz
@atrielienz@lemmy.world
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 1 day ago:
Who’s driving that ambulance?
- Comment on Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks 5 days ago:
I’m sure an OTA will fix it. /S
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 5 days ago:
There’s a little panel you can use the uncut key blade to pop out and a power and ground wire in them that’s accessible outside the vehicle. Of course that requires you to have a jump box or another car and some leads. I don’t know who needs to hear this but stay real close to civilization if you drive one of these. Don’t get stranded in no man’s land.
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 5 days ago:
On the mach E, my understanding is there’s a panel where you hook up a jump box that supplies power to those circuits to allow you to use your key fob to open the door. But there’s no bladed key to manually unlock the car. So technically there’s a failsafe but it’s not ideal. And I agree it ought not be allowed.
- Comment on I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity 1 week ago:
I’m inclined to believe, based on this thread, that you and the person you’re replying to didn’t read the article because the person who wrote it and most of the replies to it are not saying “LLM’s are garbage and have no benefits”.
The post is specifically calling out companies that have jumped on the “AI LLM” train who are trying to force feed it into every single project and service regardless of whether it will be useful or beneficial or not. And they will not listen to people working in the field who tell them no it will not be beneficial.
The hype is what people are upset about because companies are selling something that is useful in selective cases as something that will be useful to everyone universally for just about everything and they’re making products worse.
Just look at Google and their implementation of AI LLM’S in search results. That’s a product that isn’t useful unless it’s accurate. And it was not ready to be a public facing service. In their other products it’s promising more but actually breaking or removing features that users have been using for years. That’s why people are upset. This isn’t even taking into account the theft that went on of people’s work to get these LLM’S trained.
This is literally just about companies having more FOMO than sense. This is about them creating and providing to the public broken interactions of products filled with the newest “tech marvel” to increase sales or stock price while detrimentally affecting the common user.
For every case of an LLM being useful there are several where it’s not. That’s the point.
- Comment on Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy 5 weeks ago:
Gotta love unregulated capitalism.
- Comment on Slightly less than two drinks = positive effect on programming ability. Who's joining? 1 month ago:
This also works for pool. Don’t ask me how I know.
- Comment on DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb 1 month ago:
Angelo ran da into the ground long before this. Not gonna lie, I’m not surprised. Not even disappointed.
- Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban 1 month ago:
I have a question for you. What is the difference between Google being banned in China and Tik Tok being banned in the US?
- Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban 1 month ago:
I do not care.
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA Notice Wipes Out 8,535 Yuzu Repos, Mig Switch Also Targeted. 1 month ago:
And if Nintendo has its way (which they did this go round) they won’t have to. They got what they wanted and they’re not having to spend ridiculous amounts of money (that there’s basically no way to re-coup) on litigation. They used a guy who can never pay them back what the court says he owes them. I doubt they want to go through that again. Easier to just for arbitrate the proceedings.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Only just now? Really?
- Comment on What’s happening at Tesla? Here’s what experts think. 1 month ago:
GM made an electric car in 1996 (the EV1). It even has a random cult following to this day. Tesla’s original founders sort of re-jumpstarted the electric car with new branding but we’ve been making electric cars for a long time. Range, cost, and infrastructure is what held us back not competition. Now we have the infrastructure (which I will say is what Tesla has largely given us, and what should be the way forward for their business model). The Nissan Leaf was the best selling electric vehicle of all time when Tesla launched the roadster (that same year). The problem really is that most car companies are bad at marketing electric cars to this day. In 2012 Ford launched an all electric Ford Focus. Just about nobody knew about it.
He did not start the entire thing and I’m sick of hearing people say that. He took a company from other people and ran it into the ground both by hemorrhaging money and with poorer and poorer build quality and I am quite literally sick of his face.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 month ago:
Didn’t the model 3 have one that was a miniature car? You’d think they would allow that as an option for the cyber truck.
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA Notice Wipes Out 8,535 Yuzu Repos, Mig Switch Also Targeted. 1 month ago:
Here’s the thing. The creators of Yuzu folded which is a win as far as Nintendo is concerned and a loss for everyone else who uses the yuzu emulators. Your semantics about the situation aren’t helping. All I did was supply a link to a news story that was already available on Lemmy on literally the technology community. This has already been hashed out.
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA Notice Wipes Out 8,535 Yuzu Repos, Mig Switch Also Targeted. 1 month ago:
And Nintendo won.
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA Notice Wipes Out 8,535 Yuzu Repos, Mig Switch Also Targeted. 1 month ago:
theverge.com/…/nintendo-dmca-takedown-yuzu-emulat…
It’s true. They used Nintendo’s own cryptographic keys to make the yuzu switch emulation work.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 month ago:
Yeah but it seems like they were not expecting this change just based on their responses on social media, and it looks like Sony didn’t even “require it” until just recently. So I just wanted to know.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 month ago:
Is the game developer involved or is it just Sony doing Sony there are some things that there are some things that don’t things?
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico 1 month ago:
This assumes that they aren’t hiring the CEO to be the fall guy. Someone who’s job is largely (as things stand now) meant to take on the risk that if the company does not increase profits or make shareholders happy, they will blame and fire that person and hire someone else.
Snce a lot of CEOs kind of bet on this they take ridiculous chances (like getting paid in stock options that only mature at a certain point with the knowledge that they need to make stock options valuable so they can cash out.
Valuable doesn’t have to be long term. It just has to last long enough for the person in question to cash out.
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 1 month ago:
Mine’s turned off. But thanks for saving me the read.
- Comment on LinkedIn is the latest company to get in on gaming 1 month ago:
Can linkedin go under. Can musk buy LinkedIn?
- Comment on Come on, science! 1 month ago:
So it has support for hearing aids. But nothing for the automotive side of things in that regard for the hard of hearing. His phone was connected to the car via Bluetooth. But no sound was coming from the cars speakers, and that sound was not transmitted to his hearing aid.
The onscreen toggle setting for Google maps does not show up until you select to navigate to a destination (this was a problem, because at first we couldn’t even see if it was toggled on). Picking a destination and choosing to start navigation made that toggle show up, and it was toggled on but we still had no sound.
There’s a settings toggle at the bottom of his screen (mine is not the same, I checked that both apps are updated to the latest firmware), and that settings menu has toggles for things like assistant voice/smart features related to the app, but no sound features. To get to the advanced sound features for the app you have to select your profile from the menu, then select settings, then select Navigation settings, and only then can you select things like “mute state”, or “guidance volume”.
Specifically things like “play voice over Bluetooth” which was not selected by default after his last update. This is not a setting he even knew existed or knew how to find. So I honestly doubt he deselected it.
My pixel 8 has accessibility features that allow for quick toggles. To control things like screen brightness and volume. It also has more settings for the hard of hearing than his. His S23 has the support for hearing aids but not things like sound amplifier that I was looking for. And audio adjustment which would have been useful to allow him to rebalance the sound for the ear that doesn’t use a hearing aid. I actually wonder if that’s a developer settings thing and why it should be hidden that way.
I also couldn’t select what type of Bluetooth device he was using (but this may be because of the make and model of his car, not a shortcoming of Google or Android).
For him I’m sure this was very confusing because it seemed convoluted even to me. Anyway in the long run, we got voice prompts for navigation up and running, and he was happy with that. But the bar for entry for the hearing impaired seems a bit high.
- Comment on Come on, science! 1 month ago:
I was actually helping an aging coworker who wears a hearing aid set up some features on his phone and connecting his phone to Bluetooth. I was significantly disappointed with the lack of features geared toward those who are hard of hearing. Specifically in driving mode for Android auto. He’s got a newish phone (S23) so it’s not that. And the settings were far too convoluted to find for my tastes.
It really bothered me quite a bit that I couldn’t make the Bluetooth register that he was using a car and therefore speakers, not headphones. And further that the settings for voice prompts in the maps app requires he go into his personal Google settings to change toggles because the app user facing one is only available once you pick a destination and he couldn’t hear it.
Is it too much to ask for a long presa shortcut?
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 2 months ago:
You don’t even need to do that. You can go to the power down menu on Android 14 and select lockdown. Even from the lock screen without unlocking the phone.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 months ago:
I wish.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 2 months ago:
That explains that then. I made my comment before bed and didn’t see the replies til the next morning.
- Comment on Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees 2 months ago:
The CEO can’t apparently effectively communicate to his staff what the workflow priorities of the company should be and he’s blaming them for basically contributing to that workflow “inefficiently” because he’s a bad leader who obviously didn’t lay off the right people (middle managers).
Additionally he’s promising shareholders a pipedream he’s having trouble delivering on because they do not have control over the continued and rising cost of licensing and nobody seems to want to do anything at all about that. The whole industry is over a barrel and they just accept it. And so do we as consumers.
- Comment on Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes 2 months ago:
Not just silly. Extremely damaging. We don’t even treat most other crimes minors commit this way. Records can often be expanded for other crimes. At the age of 18 they are generally sealed. But not in this case.
This is the government doing a bad job of regulating technology they do not fully understand the scope of in an attempt to save the children by punishing them sometimes for life. Over what essentially amounts to heavy flirting between people of their own age group.
Child porn is not okay and it should be illegal. But the law cannot always be applied in a way that is equal because a kid sending another kid a nude of themselves is not the same as an adult using the nude of a child for sexual gratification or excitement. One of those things is a natural normal thing. The other is extremely reprehensible and damaging to the victims used to create those images.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 2 months ago:
Not as far as I can see.