pjhenry1216
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- Comment on Phones should have FM radio again 1 year ago:
Many people have phones without those radios. If they want that feature, it's available to them right now via another device that is better suited to the task.
- Comment on Phones should have FM radio again 1 year ago:
They'll never include it as it needs the headphone jack. Unless they expect a huge market for radio, that is big enough for them to offer a mea culpa and give back head phone jacks, it's never going to happen.
Would people love to get headphone jacks back? I'm sure. But I don't see the market being there to get companies to give in on that.
- Comment on Phones should have FM radio again 1 year ago:
Do these chips have AM radio? Otherwise it's not that useful for emergencies.
- Comment on Phones should have FM radio again 1 year ago:
I'd rather a wind up radio for emergencies as opposed to wasting the battery life on the one thing I can use to call for emergency services.
- Comment on Phones should have FM radio again 1 year ago:
The shows don't really exist anymore. At least not in my area. Well over a decade ago they were all replaced by playlists and commercials.
- Comment on How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should 1 year ago:
Because spying on you is bad. They mention the privacy implications in the article.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Space forecaster? "Today there will be mostly nothing with a small chance of satellite showers in the evening. And when is the evening? I don't know. It's space."
- Comment on Your website can now opt out of training Google's Bard and future AIs 1 year ago:
You seem to be misunderstanding my position entirely. I suggest you read my first comment again. Cause you're using a lot of words and details to explain useless stuff.
- Comment on Your website can now opt out of training Google's Bard and future AIs 1 year ago:
If it's specifically what you want, it's not AI otherwise you'd be over fitting.
I'm not talking about any specific tools. I'm talking about the actual theory. I'm glad you can contradict yourself by claiming very little can get you immense details (except it's also exactly what you want?)
I'm sorry I offended you and that you're getting ridiculously angry and defensive when I said creating something via AI isn't art.
- Comment on You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2. 1 year ago:
The multiple posts of people not being able to do that should have made it clear that doesn't always work.
- Comment on Your website can now opt out of training Google's Bard and future AIs 1 year ago:
Every word has an impact that you can't predict. So no. All your words and condescending tone speak more about what you don't know. You are are hitting a button and continually trying new things until you get the results from the AI that you want. That is not the same. Especially since you'll start just changing things just because your original intent didn't match what you want so you'll start reaching for other synonyms and the like.
It simply isn't the same as human inspiration. There's a reason courts voted against giving rights to AI generated art to the prompt creator. Their reasoning holds.
Just because someone might not be able to tell the difference between a forgery and the real thing doesn't make them both equally art.
Same holds true to your example which I literally already used and explained why it didn't work. Are you even reading my comments or just ranting?
- Comment on Your website can now opt out of training Google's Bard and future AIs 1 year ago:
I'm not arbitrary. I explicitly gave a reasonable difference between content and art. You can create content without soul, that's fine. I'm not saying you need to mix your own paint. I'm saying art is inherently human by definition. You can pump out all the content you want, but it will just make finding decent art that much worse. It's like saying ChatGPT can pump out android apps more quickly, but I don't think anyone would argue it'd raise the quality of the Android app markets.
You're just thinking of everything from the point of view of middle management. Quantity over quality.
When you remove humans from the equation, it's not art. It's content. It's disposable fluff. It's mass produced. It's soulless. But sure, think yourself intelligent because you literally put money over anything else. Why don't you just flood the market with remakes and remasters at this point. It fits your argument.
You can't raise an expectation of art by literally removing any meaning to it.
- Comment on Your website can now opt out of training Google's Bard and future AIs 1 year ago:
I think you're missing the point. You're still generating something purely based only on other things. There's nothing of an artist in there. There's no message. There's no art. You created content. You aren't in there. And I know this seems odd because there's no way to know this without extra knowledge, but something is lost. And it's not an artist's tool. It's a non-artist's tool.
- Comment on You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2. 1 year ago:
The answer is a resounding maybe. If you activated with a Microsoft account or if there's a TPM chip, the chances of it still working increases. There are different kinds of licenses, but if it fails, there's a better than not chance calling MS support and just telling them you had a hardware failure on your laptop and you need to reinstall, they'll get you going. Not a guarantee though. And I'll caveat and say this information is a couple years old (I don't work in tech support anymore).
- Comment on You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2. 1 year ago:
Usually calling Windows support, they'll give you a key if you just tell them you replaced some piece of hardware due to failure, assuming you haven't been transferring the same key around for awhile. They tend to be more invested in keeping you in the Windows ecosystem than they are are just getting one more license sold.
- Comment on You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2. 1 year ago:
Keys are usually stored in the TPM chip and/or tied to Microsoft accounts if you use one. If you don't have an account, there's actually a limit to how often a key can activate new hardware. If there's no TPM, there's simply a limit within a certain timeframe that it can be used to activate on the same hardware.
- Comment on Your website can now opt out of training Google's Bard and future AIs 1 year ago:
It's not the same as an artist being inspired. It's more like an artist painting something in the style of someone else. AI can generate anything new and it doesn't transform things in its own way. It just copies and melds together. Nothing about it is really it's own. It's just a biased algorithm putting things together. Moreover, the artist could actually forget what the painting looks like, but still be inspired. If you erase something from the LLM, it will change it's output. It's basically more of a constant copying.
That analogy is what a bunch of people who want to sell AI art try to pitch. It's the difference between content and art.
- Comment on Your website can now opt out of training Google's Bard and future AIs 1 year ago:
I've seen AGI thrown around. Artificial General Intelligence.
- Comment on Streaming giants have banded together for lobbying power 1 year ago:
I didn't say the employees wanted corporations to unionize or not. The joke was corporations interrupting employees asking if they can also unionize.
- Comment on Streaming giants have banded together for lobbying power 1 year ago:
Corporations: hey guys, let's unionize so the government doesn't exploit us.
Employees: hey, can we als...
Corporations: NO.
- Comment on Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than bluetooth competitor. The us won't benefit from it for now 1 year ago:
I'm skeptical of any claims when they're only touted by the one selling it. I'll wait to see if it actually gets implemented anywhere and is verified by a third party.
- Comment on I feel like are all stuck in a movie where all the rich people live on some kind of floating island or satellite with everything they need to live well, and all of us have zero chance of going there. 1 year ago:
Folks aren't even able to get out of debt. Considering debt generally has a higher interest rate than savings, folks are even held back from saving. OP even mentioned that straight out. If you're a disaster away from destitution, you aren't investing money. Money years from now isn't worth more than money today when your bills are due today.
- Comment on "God works in mysterious ways" basically means "this doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm gonna ignore it" 1 year ago:
I mean, your given example isn't actually an example of your previous points. Its not a "every cloud has a silver linings" statement, it's a "I still believe in God even when bad things happen. This isn't proof of neither his non-existence or his non-caring." Eve your example is a poor thought experiment because it assumes a limited power god who can only break your foot, but can't actually prevent the drink driving accident in any less painful way.
It's a "I'm going to pretend this was supposed to happen and is a good thing regardless of whether good things come from it."
It's the response to "earthquake kills 1000s".
The other, less religious reasoning you provided is much more clear and less stretches with a lot better phrases. Even your descriptions would work better than providing the phrase itself to someone who is currently hurting. This phrase ultimately defends the bad thing as a good thing instead of telling the person shit happens, play the cards you were dealt, you can still win even when you're coming from behind.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Because most games do work at launch and the initial sales are what drives development and more games. If it fails at launch, it didn't matter how many folks buy it at $20, it's not getting a sequel.
And what do you even mean by "sustainable" in this context? Obviously it's sustainable at the other price as well, otherwise they'd stop doing it. I mean, let's be glad most developers aren't like Nintendo at least.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I mean, even if we accept that, it's far from the normal. At least in regards to Jedi, it again, made the news cycles because of how buggy it was. Think about how many games come out a year, hell even a month.
Not saying buggy games don't exist. Just that they're not the norm.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Is it the new normal though? Pretty sure this is widely known because of its issues. I don't think we've had anything reach those levels recently.
- Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. 1 year ago:
instead of creating an Android app, iOS app and a desktop app.
Why do that when you can just have a buggy and crappy experience taylored specifically for each device?
- Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. 1 year ago:
In things where I can't avoid an account, I use an email alias (personally I use Mozilla Relay, but Proton Pass offers logins as well if I recall.
- Comment on I would like to enjoy Zelda BOTW but … 1 year ago:
I got farther than you, but felt all of those things didn't really improve or feel as fun. The weapon breaking is annoying. I feel like it's too quick.
- Comment on Striking actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI 1 year ago:
ChatGPT is why the public is scrambling about AI. AI art has been around awhile and there's always been complaining because its lame compared to real artists. This has fuck all to do with it suddenly being open source AI.