TimeSquirrel

@TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At the very least, they are only one-way. They won't be getting any private info or tracking data out of you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am willing to bet there is still a radio in your vehicle, and very likely a local news station with traffic and weather announcements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAGA has been swooning over an Army soldier and her pro-Trump message. She is AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? GeForce RTX 50 series? I JUST upgraded to a Voodoo 3. How about some Quake 3 Arena, fellow old?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAGA has been swooning over an Army soldier and her pro-Trump message. She is AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The people it affected are very much still alive and most of them will be for a long while longer. 30 years isn't THAT long ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you're doing it for yourself, fine. If you're writing for me, don't waste my time by making me have to decipher your custom scribble that's never consistent with anyone else's, unlike normal print.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck serif fonts. The point of writing is to communicate clearly. Not look pretty and fancy-pants IMO.

  I hate cursive for the same reason. It's elitist trash script.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who is?

  My ex wife for one, who would like to play Steam games but is not experienced enough to build and fiddle with a gaming PC, much less Linux, and just wants a box she can just plug in without calling all the IT folks in her family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see it as anybody too young to remember a world that wasn't connected 24/7, somebody who in their child/teen years still made heavy use of the phone attached to the kitchen wall to contact friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This will be the (fifth?) time Microsoft has tried to implement virtual assistants. And they are still exceedingly inefficient at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was an idea I read about (might have been Popular Science or something like 25 years ago) where they came up with an idea for a jet that didn't use traditional control surfaces like ailerons, but rather line the wings and fuselage in thousands of tiny flaps that would all be precisely computer controlled. It would be able to basically mold and shape the airstream around itself to make precise movements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the most boomer-y comment I've read today, and I'm 43.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use it at work to clone a customer's proximity card when I work in their building so they don't have to leave me theirs to get around. The one legitimate use I found.