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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better safe than sorry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
“Is the answer 3?”

Ai taking a drag from a cigarette: “Sure thing kid, why not?”

“Wow, so smart.”

I genuinely do hate AI, this is joke about it constantly validating everything asked of it instead of actually being useful.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨for future fireflies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Ok? Yea dude, bugs exist. You’re gunna be ok. We survived just fine without windows or doors for how long but a single house centipede or spider shows and we’re like “not in MY house” like, brother chill.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨for future fireflies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
It still helps. And they might not travel far but they do travel so it’s good to have a destination.

The best part is that even if it doesn’t work the entire point is that you aren’t doing extra work. Literally just do nothing and at worst nothing will happen but at best you’ll start seeing more and more improvement, if slowly at first.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANTI PEE PAINT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
In Montréal all our major parks have washroom facilities and if they for some reason don’t there’s still gunna be a port-o-potty nearby. There should definitely be two near the beach but the point still stands that you can definitely have nice things, or at least something stopping the majority of public urination. And hell, I’m sure that we have issues with them here, too, but it’s a small price to pay to have a civilized city so whatever.

Longer term the city just needs to adopt any of the myriad studied ways homeless and poverty has been reduced in other places which will also reduce the danger to these things getting broken.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I’ll take your word for it to not just be saying “no” but I still have to wonder why it needs “AI” and if people are going to build up a reliance on it to the point where they start to not be able to find that info on their own. I mean, hell, like you say they already can’t handle the databases so why are they even fucking around in there anyway/why aren’t they learning how to use them if they’re so important for their jobs?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I get that(enough, anyway, I just need to watch some videos on them to be honest) but it’s still super wild to say out loud.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Those studies aren’t about them feeling less proud, they’re about the degradation of critical thinking skills.

I have repeatedly said that isn’t worth anything largely because it doesn’t do anything I can’t do with relative ease. Why do you think it’s so great? What do you honestly use it for?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It’s always wild to me that 100% heating efficiency is actually kinda not great. Also the fact that we can use the heat from air that is colder than what we want in order to generate more heat I mean that’s just witchcraft.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Tesla, the company run by a nazi capitalist and which has a value so inflated it’s amazing it hasn’t imploded under its own weight, raises it’s prices and you’re blaming batteries? You do know that every saving a corporation makes goes towards profits and that they never lower their prices as long as people are buying(and even then, they refuse to most of the time)?

There’s correlation not equalling causation and then there’s whatever the hell this is. Like one of the final bosses of that logical fallacy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It being an ad doesn’t change anything in an of itself. They’re correct in saying that there is a mass-produced, consumer grade product available. Unless that is a lie, or said product is complete trash, this solves the “call me it’s mass-produced” problem the original commentor has.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another day of AWS outages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
“Guys look out, this might lead to job loss.”

“JOB LOSS? UHHHH…” Fires a bunch of people, for some reason

It’s got the same energy as being warned that your house could burn down if you let your kid play with matches so you pour some gasoline on your kitchen floor and make a bonfire.

Also I love how these people will do this shit without even checking if it would actually work but a 4-day work week, which we know will benefit everyone through many case studies, is apparently too much of a risk. Executives really are the dumbest, cruelest people humanity has to offer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Except that anyone who can use it properly can also just do the job without it, and the amount of damage it is doing because it’s freely available to everyone is insane.

You’re completely ignoring all my arguments. This sorta makes sense since your original reply was very “just ignore the bad stuff and it’s good!” but you’re going to have to address those things. I meanc, you did say “they’re bogus” and then not elaborate at all, but I’m assuming that if you have the energy to continuing writing comments then you would also have the energy to do the far more efficient thing and show me why those studies are bogus, right?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Ok but we know that it’s very often wrong and tries too hard to make you feel good instead of actually giving correct answers. It makes up reasons for made-up sayings, often struggles with math, and has a whole host of other issues while acting fully confident in its infallibility. We have several studies that seem to show that its use is having a negative affect on ohr critical thinking skills as well. After all that it doesn’t even provide a service that’s worth anything even if it didn’t come with all those downsides. Using a search engine just isn’t that difficult and AI “art” is a goddamn cancer.

It’s terrible for us and we don’t even need it! No, fuck “AI”. We have a big enough problem with people trying to find the easy way out to such a degree that they refuse to learn how anything works and slapping a big “do it for me” button on everything is just insane. I’m not saying that everything needs to difficult but we are so averse to even the slightest challenge that it leaves us with nothing but a complete lack of basic skills and an assload of insecurity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Renting is important to have available but it absolutely does not need to be at the level its at. The amount of people paying for someone else’s investment while wishing they could own something of their own is crazy and it’s insane that we’ve normalized that. And all the while they’re just hoping nothing goes wrong because it seems like even the “good” landlords are hit-or-miss when it comes to getting them to do literally anything. Mine’s usually pretty good but right now there’s a fucking hole in the foundation and getting them to properly address it is a hurdle I shouldn’t have to go through. In order for these buildings to be profitable the tenants need to not only pay for those issues you mentioned but now they’re also paying for someone else’s salary AND in the end that person gets to sell the building and keep all that money, too.

The reason the housing market is fucked in the US and Canada is becauss there are very few rent controls and a lot of the power sides with the landlords. In Montréal you have to be worried about going taking them to court because future landlords can just look up if you’ve ever done anything and deny you a place to live even if the problem was your current landlord is dogshit. Oh, and there’s a new law that’s around landlords being able to use necessary renovations as excuses to raise your rent! They have all the power and it doesn’t matter if they’re big or small, it’s a “business” that attracts the kind of people who don’t mind making easy money off of making you pay for their stuff.

Your landlord(probably) isn’t going to let you hit it because you’re glazing them on Lemmy. Stand up for yourself and others, even if you got lucky with a landlord who is considered good because they don’t throw a hissy fit when you ask them to do their fucking job.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
How useful is it really? I constantly hear about it being wrong and I’m not so stupid that I can’t handle a search through Wikipedia on my own.

Why should accept this thing that is of such little benefit to my life? Why should I accept this thing that is constantly wrong? Why should I accept this thing that just allows uncreative and insecure people to fill the internet full of garbage?

If you need AI as it is to help you do things then I pity you greatly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
So many people just immediately gave into ChatGPT, I doubt Microsoft’s actions will do that much damage. Besides, for anyone not using it it’s pretty easy to ignore. I don’t do a single thing on my PC that requires much beyond opening a game or Firefox so I don’t feel the pressure to leave at the moment.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grab your pitchforks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t love pineapple on pizza, personally, but you’re ao right that this is just a pineapple hater thibking that the people who do love it would actually give a fuck like they do.

“I hate you and so you must hate me! Let’s hate this new thing together!”

“Umm…no I just think you’re weird and ignore you.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
“We meed more time even though door handles are a solved problem.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Ok? And this is relevant how? I’m Canadian, so pretty tied to the US’s bullshit at the moment, but damn where’s this US bravery I keep hearing so much about?

Deflection isn’t going to solve your problems.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Oh no, we won’t be able to afford houses or rent or save for retirement or- hang on just a second…

Wait, we already can’t do those things, and the last thing I want to do is, once again, validate the existence of people I would prefer to see in little pieces scattered all over the street for all the pain and suffering they’ve caused just to get a little more money on top of their billions.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Future of democracy in the US relies on the people being vaguely intelligent as a group. Right now tens of millions of people there are straight-up worshipping an obvious fascist as god-king and a sizeable portion of the other chunk is still desperately clinging to the idea of being “moderate”.

A linux phone would be nice but it’s not going to save the world if the people are still dumb and cowardly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not about efficiency, it’s about it working. They don’t exactly need to do it at a price point because it’s a “price is what I say it is” kind of deal.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Israel, the country committing a genocide? The country actively and openly exterminating an entire ethnic group? And the product isn’t even good anyway?

Yea, it’s actually so easy to tell them to fuck off. If you can’t figure that out your moral compass is broken and you should send it in for a warantee repair.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Be serious.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
At least they’re doing something. Rampant consumerism aside they’re shipping physical goods in the most efficient way we have available to us. AI though? What the hell is it even doing? It ain’t being helpful that’s for sure, and that’s not even the goal of it, either, so instead of it being “teething problems” is just the usual bullshit of capitalists hurting everyone else over their latest obssession.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beans 🫘⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’d die for a bean yaknowwhatI’msaying

Pythagoras what a weird dude.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yea, just gunna carry my laptop around with me everywhere. You also haven’t answered about where the phone ads are coming from.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I would say you’re missing some nuance in these arguments, though.

With a phone people no longer need laptops or full-sized computers and they also get a phone and camera to go along with it. They get a lot of power even just using fairly mundane apps like email, file storage, and a calendar. And then you have access to the internet and all the power that comes with that.

AI, on the other hand, is hot fucking garbage at everything it does. Why anyone uses it I can’t say, it’s so bad and it’s known that it’s actively making people dumber. I don’t touch the stuff and my life has been going just fine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
A big problem is that people need smartphones for so much of modern life. You can stop watching Disney and your life won’t meaningfully change but it’s really hard to avoid evil smartphone companies. Part of me wants to switch from Apple but what would I go to? Samsung who’s just as bad about right to repair? Google who’s Google? I’m not saying it’s impossible but I’m not going to say that the choice is as easy as cancelling a streaming service.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There’s a lot in this article that goes through it. The split is way too close for a generation that you hope would be fairly solidly progressive. The women are doing well, the men are really struggling to hold up their end, especially the white men.