I had one of these! Qwerty keyboard on a phone is a thing I sorely miss.
I had one of these! Qwerty keyboard on a phone is a thing I sorely miss.
I think the common denominator for all these things are people. People are pretty terrible in large numbers behind anonymity.
That’s actually how I do my Lemmy feed. I have one chance to comment on a thread and if I don’t do it, when the page refreshes I lose it forever.
I’ve learned to accept that there are just some things the universe never wanted me to comment on.
With how wearily often this seems to happen nowadays, I feel like if I was working somewhere like this I’d be looking at new work immediately as soon as I knew it was getting taken over.
Ideally, there should be some kind of way to prevent this happening in the first place.
But it’s easy for me to say this kind of thing from my pedestal. The only opinions that matter are from those who are involved. There’s nothing more depressing and scary than to know you could be jobless at a moment’s notice.
That makes me think about what soundtrack my life would have… Linkin Park would have to be a top choice. Constantly reinventing myself every few years, but never not filled with angst. I would probably say “Numb” would be the title of my movie, assuming we focused on my 20s.
I’ve always told people to sound momentarily disgusted whenever your see it.
Köln becomes K-errrh-ln, for example
It’s also really hard for me to switch between languages at the minute because both my English and German keyboards are active on my phone so as soon as I spell Köln correctly, my keyboard thinks “oh scheiße, es ist Zeit für Deutsch!”
Fighting the Frizzies at 11
I love cars, but even I’m getting to a point where it’s just “generic SUV”, “generic hybrid crossover”, “holy fuck BMWs are ugly now”.
Petrol heads here in the UK 👍
I’d consider myself one, but I’m always skeptical when I meet others because I know my opinions are not aligned with what people generally consider a petrol head.
I feel the term can have negative connotations because whilst some may think of the kind of people who have their own little project car which they keep in their garage or put on a trailer and take to events or track days, others will instantly think of those asshole teenagers with their riced up compact cars who tear around the streets without insurance.
Call me old, but all I see is Snoopy
Summer was hard on me in my teenage goth years.
Can’t really get many light shades of black.
Yes
Again remember that freedom of expression is freedom to not be punished by the government for that expression.
Private companies are not concerned with your freedoms.
Not saying I agree with how things are, just saying how it is. Only way to tell a private company to fuck off is to not use them.
I like the idea that the more they make up malicious lies the more we should make up stupid ones.
I’d be quite happy spreading the rumour that Trump is incontinent. He’s a weirdo, he smells funny, and he poops his pants.
Because let’s be honest, being a criminal isn’t a deterrent to his fan base, but the idea that he’s a smelly old man who wears brown streaks in his pants could better serve to turn people away from him.
Let’s not forget how much JD Vance loves a good couch.
Doesn’t need to be “intelligent”, it needs to be fit for purpose, and it clearly is.
The closest comparison you made was to the cyoa book, but that’s only for the part where it gives me options. It has to have the “intelligence” to decipher what I’m asking it and then give me the options.
The fact it can do that faster and more efficiently than a human is exactly what I’d expect from it. Things don’t have to be groundbreaking to be useful.
To be fair, it is useful in some regards.
I’m not a huge fan of Amazon, but last time I had an issue with a parcel it was sorted out insanely fast by the AI assistant on the website.
Within literally 2 minutes I’d had a refund confirmed. No waiting for people to eventually pick up the phone after 40 minutes. No misunderstanding or annoying questions. The moment I pressed send on my message it instantly started formulating a reply.
The truncated version went:
“Hey I meant to get [x] delivery, but it hasn’t arrived. Can I get a refund?”
“Sure, your money will go back into [y] account in a few days. If the parcel turns up in the meantime, you can send it back by dropping it off at [z]”
Done. Absolutely painless.
You know, I’d never actually thought of it that way. Very informative video for it’s short length. Thank you for sharing.
Never have I been so disappointed to see Till brought up in a conversation about Musk.
Till is infinitely more valuable to the human race than Musk could ever hope to be. 🤘
Enshittification happens to all things, sadly.