Yeah It’s a pretty funtional wheel, but how can WE do it better?

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I get pissy when the AI tries to summerize my emails or messages when I’m driving. I just want it to parrot what my friends in the group chat have said but it keeps trying to paraphrase and I honestly don’t get what is so fucking hard about letting the phone just read the god damn words that my friends wrote!

The entire tech industry has signaled its intention to abandon the consumer market for wider profit margins in AI industries, and it’s really not possible to feel good about that as an informed consumer.

Nothing about this is positive. We can hope for a correction in policy, but really, it’s unlikely that we will ever see lower prices again. The future envisioned by the shareholders in these companies is the death of personal computing. Even if various AI markets fail, the vision remains: a future internet that is sterilized, information that is controlled, and personal computers that are glorified cable boxes.

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That’s on my to-do list. I’m currently reworking my entire build because I realized I had enough last generation parts to build a media server. Once I have windows set up to only run on VM and get my stuff moved and backed up I’m going to install an LLM

I wish that I didn’t have to use them, but for basic Linux troubleshooting, it’s easier to ask the chatbot and have it explain itself and cross-reference than to use a search engine or forum. The internet has become so shitty for self-teaching. You either end up on YouTube watching videos that aren’t relevant, your search engine pumps you to garbage on top of ads, or you find a forum from 5 years ago with someone asking the same question, but it was closed because it’s the same question that was asked 20 other times, and all the solutions don’t actually work.

I know that I am robbing myself of this collection of secondary skills, and that part of it is a lack of patience, but the pool of knowledge that is the internet has been poisoned. The only way I even get to useful guides anymore is if Claude links me to them. It’s becoming impossible to use the internet otherwise. Even spell checkers have gotten shittier.

Even in Word, it will try to autocorrect or just tell you something is wrong without auto-correcting, as if I want to search for the word that it obviously marked in red. Even if it offers a correction, it will be one word, and it will be the wrong word. My phone too, constantly changing my words or somehow hitting the wrong letter when it didn’t before.

I just don’t even know anymore. The mental energy to “do it myself” is exhausting. Then, of course, whatever I do or learn to do will be undone with the next update that gets pushed out and changes all my settings. My fucking phone settings have completely changed between when I got it and today. Every app has tied its permissions for functionality to its permission to send notifications, and those notifications are just ads. If I want to order DoorDash and know when it arrives, I have to agree to have DoorDash bug the shit out of me to order food when I don’t want to.

I’m just tired, and if using an AI helps me figure out how to replace my bootloader when I accidentally deleted it, then so be it. I can’t fight every battle.

heh. they turned the comments off on the youtube vid. can’t imagine why.

Those earrings are really distracting. What are those diamonds and pearls…at a commencement?

Don’t you worry about blank, let me worry about blank.

It’s how you figure out your characters kinks!

It do be like that sometimes. I played a Giff once for DnD…it got wierd.

running pugmire was also a challenge. protip: crop the smutty bits out so you only see the face.

I was imagining they were eventually going to go bankrupt and consolidate, with their IP ending up in, like, the Disney or Warner vault. Cable has evolved too. I’m not selling here, just explaining. Your streaming service could get offered as part of a cable package or even part of your internet. SaaS is taking over so streaming might just become another part of some software package like a cable channel.

Hey now, be specific. Millennials hate the shadow economy that is debt exchange and the stock market. You know… the rich man’s economy.

You don’t even have to pirate. gog and other platforms besides steam are almost giving them away. Sometimes platforms ARE giving them away. You don’t have to pirate, you just have to be content with playing games that have been on the market for a bit.

how far things have fallen. I remember 15 years ago, I actually reached out to Netflix directly to tell them how great they were as a product. I was like 17 and stupid. I reached out to their help desk just to say “hey you guys are awesome!” how times change I guess. Yoho and all that.

seriously, signing back up just for a title won’t make them change. It will just lead to them releasing weekly and adding more ads so you have to stay longer and get a worse experience. I don’t have a single amazon product but I’m still caught up on The Boys. It’s not that hard and you will save so much money.

Streaming platforms broke the piracy truce first. You don’t owe them anything.

This is the way. Get armed. Not because you want to enact violence but because you want to protect yourself and eventually they will find some trumped up reason to take away gun or ammo rights. You don’t by a sword to become a highway man. You do it because there are already highway men with swords. It’s a form of power.

bro.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6eFBOBgRrdiSCrCwaxC25o

There you go. or find it yourself. The dollop give all their sources at the end each episode and further, posts it for their audience. in fact…

Main

· Levin, Josh. “The Welfare Queen: In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan villainized a Chicago woman for bilking the government. Her other sins—including possible kidnappings and murders—were far worse. Slate. (Dec. 19 2013) http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2013/12/linda_taylor_welfare_queen_ronald_reagan_made_her_a_notorious_american_villain.html Josh Levin’s story has been expanded into a book, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/031651330X/?tag=slatmaga-20 as well as a podcast miniseries: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/the-queen-linda-taylor-welfare-reagan-podcast.html

Other

· Black, Rachel, Aleta Sprague, and the New America Weekly. “The ‘Welfare Queen’ Is a Lie: Programs that should be crafted around people’s needs are instead designed to deal with a problem that doesn’t exist.” The Atlantic. (September 28, 2016) · https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/welfare-queen-myth/501470/

· Bazelon, Emily, John Dickerson, and David Plotz. “The ‘You’ll Drag Me Out of the Supreme Court in a Pine Box’ Gabfest” Gabfest. [podcast] (December 20, 2013) http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gabfest/2013/12/the_gabfest_on_judge_richard_leon_s_nsa_ruling_ruth_bader_ginsburg_s_refusal.html

There you go. All the sources used for a goofy little history podcast.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Taylor

there’s her wiki. looks like I was wrong. It was more than 10,000. More like $50,000 in welfare fraud? Regardless, she was a petty criminal who was caught pretty much every time, was arrested for her crimes. By the time Reagan was talking about her she was cooked.

I haven’t had a food card for a bit. It was just a prepaid card. I don’t really know what small and insignificant way it’s used that these fucks would complain about but I just made an example off the top of my head.