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- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 1 week ago:
That looks like a dope project. Good luck!
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 1 week ago:
You can cast from your phone to a dedicated device. Going from easiest to hardest in terms of setup:
- chromecast
- nvidia shield
- custom PC
You’d use your phone (or tablet or laptop) to load the app/website (twitch, youtube, plex, whatever) then cast to the device, which would be connected to your TV. The chromecast is the most likely to have shitty features and forced upgrades while the custom PC will leave everything up to you. The end result is no outsourcing control of your primary display (TV) and you can leave it permanently offline.
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 1 week ago:
You give up control this way. Dedicated devices are superior.
- Comment on My friend Charlie is back.... 1 week ago:
Foam rolling + active release works better than pure stretching IMO. Also be sure to get your micronutrients in.
- Comment on vlc thigh high 1 week ago:
The whole interface is awful, but everything works.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
Yup. All this crying about the field is a big nothing burger.
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 1 week ago:
You can always get your own non-router hardware of significantly higher quality and run PFSense or similar for an end result that blows any consumer grade router out of the water. Unless they start banning all PCs this is the better way to go anyway.
- Comment on Teens using AI meal plans could be eating too few calories — equivalent to skipping a meal 2 weeks ago:
Your position isn’t an informed one. A quick pubmed search on ketogenic diets and cognition shows improved and protective benefits.
- Comment on Haha yes society is great 2 weeks ago:
This is one of the greatest myths out there. Renting usually comes out ahead by the numbers. Ramit Setgi has a lot to say on the topic, with a US focus. Ben Felix has the same perspective for the Canadian side. Home owners by and large aren’t honest with themselves about the total cost of ownership.
- Comment on Mother of wounded Maya Gebala sues OpenAI over mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. 3 weeks ago:
The tool isn’t sentient, it operates on logical weights, and provides output that mimics its training set. LLMs are pretty impressive at what they can output, but it would be dishonest to attribute human qualities to it. There are decades of implementations of various AI techniques to varying degrees in attempts to achieve the same. It is on the technical basis, and the technical basis alone, that we should be carefully considering legal constraints.
How much a CEO is worth, how trustworthy they are, what cirlces they run in, shouldn’t be part of that consideration.
That doesn’t mean I think Altman isn’t a turd who can suck a fat one.
- Comment on Mother of wounded Maya Gebala sues OpenAI over mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. 3 weeks ago:
False equivalence. Tools are not people. We going after magic 8 balls too?
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 3 weeks ago:
He knows his market. As others have mentioned, most casual users don’t need or care about that. Personal computing has become much more niche.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 3 weeks ago:
This is the computing equivalent to hoarding.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 3 weeks ago:
Yep. They absolutely have such clauses.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 3 weeks ago:
“Think of the shareholder value of firing all these people!”
This is of course problematic, but not directly the fault of the technology itself. The entire system is problematic, but that’s a digression from the effectiveness of the tech doing the job.
And the instances I’m talking about were running the ai stack and employee teams in parallel for nearly a year. The replacement wasn’t a “yeah let’s try this… whoops that didn’t work”. It was a tried and tested approach, and the employees made redundant (in the capability sense, not the firing sense, which followed afterwards).
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 3 weeks ago:
A lot of fields don’t require doctorate levels of expertise to render effective business services. I’ve seen first hand companies replace thousands of employees and shutter divisions because their AI counterpart has been doing the job quantitatively equally, and faster. Perfect is the enemy of good enough, in most cases, as they say.
Lemmy is filled to the brim with llm haters but you’re not only a minority, you’re probably also closing doors on the future trajectory of tech in business.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 4 weeks ago:
Walk me through how a company based and operating not in new york would be subject to any actions from this lawsuit.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 4 weeks ago:
I don’t see how you police/enforce this. The technology is out of the bag, people will find ways to access. Do we need age/location verification for this now too? What if I’m running a local agent? I don’t agree with this.
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 4 weeks ago:
ml user has shitty opinions
Par for the course.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 4 weeks ago:
Is she though? The cruel part is our own brain sabotaging our efforts
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 4 weeks ago:
Those are rookie numbers.
- Comment on Linux rules! How do you like my desktop? 4 weeks ago:
You can tell it’s KDE because of how ugly it is.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 4 weeks ago:
It’s not the car manufacturer’s responsibility to guarantee a drunk driver doesn’t plow into others.
Vulnerable people don’t get to outsource responsibility.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 4 weeks ago:
Exhausted.
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 5 weeks ago:
The US is an embarrassment.
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- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 1 month ago:
Aside from Sega I was going to toss Atari on that list but TIL they are very much still making new hardware, except it’s all targeted for retro gaming. Different focus and not a true competitor to Sony but technically still kicking.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 1 month ago:
For sure it did. Dumb decisions, compounded.
- Comment on You NEED To Selfhost 1 month ago:
Maybe. Depends on the use case.
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 1 month ago:
They make good points until this bullshit:
But if video games are ever going to be taken seriously as an artistic medium, they have to grow up, and that means learning how to love authentically.
No. That take is horseshit. They don’t have to do anything to be taken seriously as art. They already are. If you can’t see it because it doesn’t tick some of your boxes that’s a you issue.