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- Comment on 15 hours ago:
The ui is dated? Lol what?
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 3 days ago:
There are great uses for crypto, just like there were great uses for Ithica_hours. A place holder for goods and services without physical constraint is a useful idea.
But it wont work. Because people want to leverage that to make fiat. They don’t care about usefulness, actually earning it, or trading for it.
They want to get some, hold it, and sell it back for their fiat. Because of that exchanges came into being so they could capture some of the wealth in the process. And from then on it was never going to be useful. Just a way to hope the next sucker would buy what you had.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 4 days ago:
Don’t let your TV be on the internet.
- Comment on How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard - Joel Hawksley 1 week ago:
2 days later we would be putting post it bites and pieces of paper up.
Way to scheduled out and way to Annoying.
- Comment on Honey, I Shrunk The Vids [Mr. Universe Edition] v1.0.5 1 week ago:
I was hoping to catch this before your replied, as I went and read the readme, then it made more sense. So I deleted my reply. But too late!
I have thousands of video files to transcode, and I didn’t want to have to manually tweak the command for every batch. I also didn’t want to have to rebuild it if I have more to do 6 months down the line - I’m lazy.
The cool thing is there isn’t much to put into a command that does stuff like this, unless you changing the FFMPEG parameters every time, but that would seem unlikely.
Yeah for sharing I get some of the bells and whistles.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
Yeah, its less the durability, and more the long standing security issues:
- Firmware flaws they didn’t always patch
- many vulnerabilities that were known
- bundled apps that included known vulnerabilities
- Installing software on first boot from hardware (discontinued)
- Superfish injected ad traffic which allowed mitm attacks
- hardware level backdoors
So most of these things get alleviated since I always wipe new computers and put Linux on them anyways. But the repeated poor decision, security, and anti consumer practices concerns me.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
But I won’t buy anything lenovo.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
I get it, you don’t want any data, you don’t want information. You have no desire to actually learn anything. You simply want to screeam “gemini bad!, and you are bad!”
When the whole time I said gemini is shit, and google can go fuck themselves.
With data we could understand how the conversation went. We could see where the issue arose. We could help people who might be susceptible to events that take them to this point. We can understand better the ways to address this.
I explained this to you before, you investigate murder, you investigate crimes.
But all I get from you is “simp!”, “Victim Blamer!”. Which tells me you are simply ignorant and incapable of critical thought.
Particularly after I tell that gemini sucks and google can go fuck themselves. I am far more concerned with googles surveillance and data gathering than their AI tools. And because of that, I believe that people wont gather data, they will simply start aasking the AI companies to become MORE involved in peoples personal lives by requiring ID, location, and building profiles, all in the name of “protecting” the user who could be susceptible. Instead of finding out why and how.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
How is it not?
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
Did you just call them a user? I thought they were a victim.
HOW am I blaming anyone for wanting to know how they got to that point?
The fuck is wrong with you? Is your head so far up your ass on white knighting the internet you lost all sense of reason?
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
Oh so stupid shit. Figures.
Yes I am interested in how this happened. In a murder do you not investigate it?
What the fuck.
Google can go fuck themselves.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
Huh?
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 1 week ago:
I found these kind of features really useful. I had to submit some documents that I needed to do some work on before they got sent off. Everything was local, and with a keyboard/monitor/mouse I could have a browser, my email, and the document I was editing on the screen at the same time. So much faster typing and clicking.
I use my Steamdeck for that more often now if I just want a desktop while i am traveling if I don’t want to bring the laptop. I just mount the phone as a folder, so even that is easy.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 1 week ago:
It didn’t already do this? Why did I have phones and tablets that could do this already?
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
Yeah it definitely does save conversations. Perhaps he did leave it unlocked. I do find that strange though, particularly if one was getting increasingly paranoid.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
This was a different case. That doesn’t answer my question.
To comment on what you said, how is it people can argue all day long like morons and dig into their beliefs, but somehow AI manages to change peoples minds and get them to think differently? What exactly is it doing?
It is so hard to believe people are this stupid, but then again, looking at most people I guess it isn’t that shocking.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
I am also curious how the father saw the Gemini chats. Was it still on the screen days later? I am trying to imagine how that would work, my computer would lock and that would be that. Do kids give their parents passwords and their screen unlock codes?
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 1 week ago:
Yeah but its not with the help of. It is directly BY them.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
I would like to see the full transcript.
How do we know this didn’t start off with prompts about creating a book, or asking about exciting things in life, or I don’t know what.
Context would help a lot. Maybe it will come out in discovery.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
AI’s can’t have conversations any more than a book can.
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 1 week ago:
Also, it’s easy to feel like this is all being pushed by parents who just straight up refuse to properly parent their children…but it’s mostly being championed by Puritan lobby/pressure groups.
No, its being pushed by corporations who are interested in identifying you. They pressure the government who ALSO now takes an interest in tracking your for wrong think and power grabbing.
Parents are just pawns who get manipulated into thinking this is a problem at all.
- Comment on Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” 1 week ago:
Which is what LinkedIn is for by the way.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 2 weeks ago:
Why do you care? If you are using microsoft now it’s already a bad idea.
I don’t use Microsoft so I don’t really care what kind of crap they do.
- Comment on Warning: Facebook Ads for Free Windows 11 Upgrade Will Infect PCs With Malware 2 weeks ago:
Or Instagram for that matter.
- Comment on Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information 2 weeks ago:
Ask people. Craigslist. Offerup. Neighborhood swaps.
Do you absolutely need to buy things?
Either way, the reason there aren’t other options is because people aren’t quitting. So they won. And you are basically handing money over to Facebook to do more of the same.
The only way out is to quit.
- Comment on Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information 2 weeks ago:
Just stop though. Even marketplace. Your use us still condoning and advocating it.
Same with Instagram and what’s app.
Just stop people.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 2 weeks ago:
You can pay the artists even more if they don’t have to spend on packaging.
And at what point do you quite paying them? For older groups, you buy the tape, then the CD, then the extended remix, then vinyl, and on and on with half of them seeing only pennies every step of the way anyway.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 2 weeks ago:
If you download something, nobody can take that away either. By getting the physical copy you are just creating extra steps.
I am making the point that it seems we have a generation that doesn’t understand how to go and get files and/or share them.
Nothing I said was about subscriptions.
Personally, I could do without the physical media, that is just going backwards and I don’t want to own all that crap. But it also means the only services I use are ones I make myself so I can listen to my collection anywhere in the world and on any device I own. But its my service.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 2 weeks ago:
The resurgence of vinyl was understandable as the sound exhibits a warmth and depth
Only because it is adds pleasing artifacts to the original and people connect a turn table up to something to listen to it with. When used to hearing crappy encoded digital, with a bad DAC through lossy bluetooth to a tiny speaker, vinyl sounds better.
Funny thing is that you can record vinyl digitally and that recording will sound exactly the same on good equipment which tells you it isn’t the vinyl itself that sounds good.
In any case vinyl is extremely disappointing to see come back. It is a very energy intensive process, using PVC often mixed with lead. It is very heavy and bulky to move around, so transportation costs are high.
I understand the desire to have a physical thing, but only its flaws make it be a reproduction of the source material AND is environmentally not good.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 2 weeks ago:
Because they are too computer illiterate to simply download what they want?