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- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 8 hours ago:
it’s funny how big tech basically determines how things are going to go, regardless of what anyone thinks. i remember the “uproar” when whoever tf it was decided to release a phone without a headphone jack. everyone said “i don’t like that” and the response was “yes. you fucking do like that. you like it right up the ass.” and now literally no one complains about the lack of headphone jack on any phone that exists now.
i was also there when win 95 came out, and remember thinking “are people this fucking stupid, that they can’t get along on a computer without some fancy newfangled ‘graphical’ user interface?”
yep.
Remind me again how that went.
investigate how many businesses are planning to ditch windows for something else, regardless of how shitty windows is. i would actually be interested in those numbers
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 9 hours ago:
for Windows fans
LOL what? windows “fans”?
apple fans, i get. but who tf is cheerleading for fucking windows, and NOT getting paid to do so?
- Comment on The Trump phone just missed another release date 10 hours ago:
We never learn.
entirely by design
www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/…/06
We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
- Comment on The Trump phone just missed another release date 10 hours ago:
this con man could shit on a plate and his cult followers would spend their last dollar to buy it
it’s incredible how much of themselves they’re all too happy to sacrifice (i.e., transfer ownership to trump) in order to own the libs
- Comment on Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News 1 day ago:
what people get even more angry about is the suggestion that they delete their facebook account
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 3 days ago:
garbage in, garbage out and back in again
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 3 days ago:
he’s got nothing to worry about. when they crash down to $1, trump will call it a “matter of national security” or some shit, and then bail them out, courtesy of your tax dollars and my tax dollars. because they actually want the AIs for their police state surveillance
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 3 days ago:
i’m not understanding what you’re saying. “Still doable and not a loss”??
sounds like something AI would say
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 3 days ago:
i don’t think it’s emphasized enough that AI isn’t just making up bogus citations with nonexistent books and articles, but increasingly actual articles and other sources are completely AI generated too. so a reference to a source might be “real,” but the source itself is complete AI slop bullshit
- Comment on Almost 30 years later, Fallout 1's depth of choice, chance, and consequence is still an RPG gold standard 2 weeks ago:
so glad i got to experience this game when it came out. it’s dated to the point of unplayable now, but back then it was one of the best around
- Comment on In the US one can graduate *cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude*. There should be another honor added if you survive a school shooting. 2 weeks ago:
the problem is obviously we don’t have enough guns and we don’t have enough mandatory jesus.
if every american literature 1, transitions math, and concert band teacher were packing a tec-9 (at minimum), AND forced bible study jesus sundayschool everyday school was facefucked into every student everywhere, then there would be no such thing as school shootings. problem solved.
fucking /s
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 2 weeks ago:
it seems like just a stupid childish petty bullshit, and it is, but it’s really a textbook example of fascism taking total control of every possible aspect of artistic expression. first they got rid of DEI altogether, then started banning certain words (“climate,” etc.), and now you’re not even allowed to choose what font to use.
‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten…Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller…How could you have a slogan like “freedom is slavery” when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.’
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 4 weeks ago:
relevant article theringer.com/…/ai-bubble-burst-popping-explained…
AI storytelling is an amalgam of several different narratives, including:
Inevitability: AI is the future; its eventual supremacy is both imminent and certain, and therefore anyone who doesn’t want to be left behind had better embrace the technology. See Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, insisting earlier this year that every job in the world will be impacted by AI “immediately.”
Functionality: AI performs miracles, and the AI products that have been released to the public wildly outperform the products they aim to replace. To believe this requires us to ignore the evidence obtained with our own eyes and ears, which tells us in many cases that the products barely work at all, but it’s the premise of every TV ad you watch out of the corner of your eye during a sports telecast.
Grandiosity: The world will never be the same; AI will change everything. This is the biggest and most important story AI companies tell, and as with the other two narratives, big tech seems determined to repeat it so insistently that we come to believe it without looking for any evidence that it’s true.
As far as I can make out, the scheme is essentially: Keep the ship floating for as long as possible, keep inhaling as much capital as possible, and maybe the tech will get somewhere that justifies the absurd valuations, or maybe we’ll worm our way so far into the government that it’ll have to bail us out, or maybe some other paradigm-altering development will fall from the sky. And the way to keep the ship floating is to keep peddling the vision and to seem more confident that the dream is inevitable the less it appears to be coming true.
speaking for myself, MS can thank AI for being the thing that made me finally completely ditch windows after using it 30+ years
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 5 weeks ago:
who do i email to tell epic that they suck so fucking hard that i’m over here buying games on steam that i had already gotten for free on epic
- Comment on Around 500 million PCs are holding off upgrading to Windows 11, says Dell 5 weeks ago:
i went from ms-dos to windows 3.1 or something, then win95, 98. from xp i had to be dragged kicking and screaming to upgrade to 7, and then the same thing from 7 to 10. always just putting up with all the un-asked-for bullshit microsoft forced on the users with each new version
using linux only for the last 8 months or so, and honestly don’t know what MS would have to do to get me to ever put another windows on my pc–but it would be a lot
fuck microsoft
-sincerely,
never again - Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 5 weeks ago:
yea, i do a lot of dumb shit with money. gonna blame my parents for passing financial dumbness onto me
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 5 weeks ago:
sometimes i think that. but i can just look at the news on any given day and feel like i’m further to the right on the sanity bell curve
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 5 weeks ago:
yep. i took out a loan early in the year to build my new pc, knowing this ai shit along with the tariffs was going to make prices bonkers af, and i needed an upgrade anyway. 8% interest on a couple grand personal loan is better than paying 4x the price in cash
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 2 months ago:
genuine question: when someone says “i eat healthy,” do you also inject your own meaning of “i don’t use drugs or smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol or do anything else ‘unhealthy’” ?
in other words, to you “i eat healthy” = “i don’t do anything unhealthy”?
because that’s what you just did
- Comment on One photograph. Two daughters. Three Nobel Prizes. 2 months ago:
also if you want to be sciencey and technically correct, there are 3 daughters in the photo
- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 2 months ago:
Being totally wrecked in your 40s or even earlier is not good.
i concur: in my 40s, totally wrecked. i still consider myself extremely lucky. no ragrets
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 months ago:
i tried monjaro and garuda, seem to have had the best luck so far with pop_os out of the box. running an AMD ryzen 7 9800x3d and RTX 5070-- other distros apparently hated these things
- Comment on Public service announcement 2 months ago:
you will never quantify an inherently subjective (qualitative) experience
- Comment on Public service announcement 2 months ago:
you goober.
you will never quantify an inherently subjective (qualitative) experience. the fact that you’re trying to, and then calling me “goober” is quite enough for me to say: best of luck, tiger
- Comment on Public service announcement 2 months ago:
lol i love how the abstract cites a paper from 1942
look: if you’re disgusted by genitals, i’m sorry to hear that, and i’m not judging you.
but don’t sit there and try to tell me everyone, or even “most people” feels that way.
i can’t speak for goofy looking dicks, but vulvas are extremely attractive; i dunno wtf you, or your 1942 paper referencing “study” are talking about.
again–i’m not judging. but i suggest you post to asklemmy (or literally any other forum), and ask: “are female genitalia no fun to look at/unattractive/weird/whatever tf else” and consider that maybe whatever problem you have with vaginas might not be a baked in instinctual thing that everyone has
- Comment on Public service announcement 2 months ago:
develop completely separate processing systems to account for the fact that genitals look weird. Their appearances are so strange that you’d rather avoid them
wat
- Comment on negativity 2 months ago:
if you’re going to flood your veins with 500 grams of pure glucose, might as well do both. eat the waffle regularly, and wrap the pancakes around sausages and dunk them in that salad bowl of syrup you’re also eating all of
- Comment on negativity 2 months ago:
that downward spiralled quickly
