biggerbogboy
@biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 4 days ago:
Seeming that I’m getting increasingly pissed off by Spotify giving 5 or more ads without 30 minute adless times and for every 5th song rather than every 8th or 10th, I’m gonna have even more stress from the doubling of all google ads.
At least ublock origin lite does its job pretty well on YouTube, so I won’t need to worry until google eventually kills that too.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 1 week ago:
I am a living breathing example of a kid who got a phone at 17, I had a bit of a honeymoon period with it, had lots of fun and distraction, but eventually got used to it and actually use it for organising my schoolwork to do list, check the weather and my daily schedule.
I do tend to use social media on it, but only on the bus, since that’s usually when I don’t have anything else to do. I self limit my screen time pretty well, usually only 30 mins to an hour total per day, and I’ve always had all my devices without parental control systems, since my parents never knew how to set them up.
Also, you saying it’s never about algorithms designed to siphon your attention is inherently incorrect of a statement. They literally have hundreds of data metrics to effectively lock you into staring at the screen mindlessly, although parenting also has a part to play, since you also should teach your child on how to control their attention and harness it to actually do something fulfilling, though many parents don’t know how to.
- Comment on Type C 2 weeks ago:
O
- Comment on Type C 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 4 weeks ago:
Same but I thought Louis had a brother who became evil for some reason 😭
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 5 weeks ago:
My favourite way to liken LLMs to something else is to autocorrect, it just guesses, and it gets stuff wrong, and it is constantly being retrained to recognise your preferences, such as it starting to not correct fuck to duck for instance.
And it’s funny and sad how some people think these LLMs are their friends, like no, it’s a collosally sized autocorrect system that you cannot comprehend, it has no consciousness, it lacks any thought, it just predicts from a prompt.
- Comment on Speculative Evolution 5 weeks ago:
Image your turn
- Comment on The Humane Ai Pin Will Become E-Waste Next Week 1 month ago:
Yeah, their innovative AI operating system architecture isn’t very innovative now.
- Comment on The Humane Ai Pin Will Become E-Waste Next Week 1 month ago:
I would wager that turning it into a clock that uses text to speech to tell the time when you tap the touchpad and the laser projector to see it visually, would be the only solution where it doesn’t overheat instantly.
- Comment on Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content 1 month ago:
Australia already has this, but it is extremely easy to circumvent, just use a different VPN.
- Comment on Yes that is definitely what I was going for, thank you 1 month ago:
For me it corrects ‘that’ to ‘thst’ all the time, I wish the was some way to whitelist and blacklist words
- Comment on I mean I would totally give it a try 1 month ago:
“I helped my uncle, Jack, off a horse”
“I helped my uncle jack off a horse”
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 month ago:
I’ve got pretty small hands but I am really comfortable with my 6.4 inch Oppo Reno Z, it has all the reachability I need, it isn’t too heavy or too light and it’s got a large enough display for me.
I used to use a galaxy S4, which has a 5 inch display. I find the galaxy quite cramped and not very usable, but the AMOLED was just as good as the Reno Z, and even had better PPI.
Something that would be pretty frustrating would be if phones get any larger, because I find that the sizes currently are pretty much perfect for everyone, although there should be more options when it comes to smaller phones.
- Comment on This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone. 1 month ago:
If I had a nickel for every time I reported a pervy corporation to the ACCC, I’d have two nickels– which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
- Comment on punchable babies 4 months ago:
Meanwhile, my internal monologue is the most chaotic little shit possible, my rational brain thinks that I shouldn’t do as my monologue says because this lil bro is 100% gonna say ‘kick the baby’ or some shit
- Comment on Australia will impose a ‘digital duty of care’ on tech companies to reduce online harm. It’s a good idea – if it can be enforced 4 months ago:
The fact that whenever I open myGov on my iPad, and immediately see “connect your digital ID” makes me never want to do that. They also want me to use this ID, which is linked to my Medicare, citizenship, voting, etc., which instantly rings alarm bells in my mind, the government and corpos knowing that I am exactly who I am, and that I am likely not able to disconnect it from myGov nor the social media platforms it could regulate.
- Comment on Tag your lab-mates 4 months ago:
That’s literally so flatulent of you
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 5 months ago:
I’d just get two toothpicks and make a seesaw to press it, although I pretty much never turn off my computers so I still wouldn’t mind too much
- Comment on Sadam Hussein is everywhere 5 months ago:
Image FTFY
- Comment on 'Electric Plastic' Could Merge Technology With the Body in Future Wearables and Implants. 5 months ago:
Facts, gotta pump those numbers up chumps
- Comment on Google plans AI browser assistant "Jarvis" to automate web tasks. 5 months ago:
It’s always the cool fictional AI companions that become irl slop, Cortana for instance…
- Comment on Day 101 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
Exactly, some games are just too damn beautiful
- Comment on Day 101 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
Ngl these would go nicely as wallpapers
- Comment on Advertising 5 months ago:
Never thought I’d find this many fellow melbournians on Lemmy!
- Comment on sometimes it's just easier 5 months ago:
- Comment on It's a matter of perspective 5 months ago:
'bour tree fiddy
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 5 months ago:
I went to the widgets pane on my w11 laptop once, clicked an article and to my horror, all of my data had been synced from chrome to edge, including passwords, history, open tabs, extensions, pretty much everything.
I even went as far as to report it to the ACCC (the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) since I’ve never seen it from other browsers, and that I found it pervy the fact they did it without consent, although I doubt the ACCC would be enough to change this shitty practice, and others like it.
They’re not even trying to trick the user anymore, they’re forcing them.
