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Thwompthwomp , 22 days ago to technology in Humane is said to be seeking a $1 billion buyout after only 10,000 orders of its terrible AI Pin

He does get a bit ranty. I still appreciate his take though. Some of the LLMs are super helpful for me for some tasks, but the hype cycle for AI is really a lot to take and it does warrant some actual pushback against it. I can tell I’m becoming more of an old man, but it’s nice to have someone else confirm how bad the Internet is becoming. It’s almost like a hazy dream for me of back in the early days when it was just people sharing weird stuff with each other and not the active battle to fend off ads and scummy sites to find things.

Thwompthwomp , 2 months ago to technology in 20 years of Gmail

That’s almost the exact opposite experience for me. Maybe there’s been a more recent update, but I remember searching for specific phrases in decade old messages and the gmail (web site) search would just flat out refuse to show things but I could find them from my phone. I’ll try again, but to be honest, I’ve somewhat given up on google search in general for results that aren’t recent.

Thwompthwomp , 2 months ago to technology in 20 years of Gmail

The search has been broken for me for a while. I get better results in the iOS mail app. Searching from within gmail will just flat out not show old results.

Thwompthwomp , 3 months ago to technology in Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods

Similarly, in the midst of historic layoffs in the tech industry, no one blames the CEO for horrible management leading to the over hiring or bad management that led to this. O one blames Zuckerberg for renaming his company and betting an an absurdity that is already being scraped off of PR releases. All because some growth number goes up. It’s insanity.

Thwompthwomp , 3 months ago to technology in Can you un-smart a smart tv?

I have an lg tv that I route through a pihole that blocks most stuff. I wasn’t going to connect it to the internet, but it had airplay support. I think I’m using this list: github.com/TheShawnMiranda/LG-TV-Ad-Block

Thwompthwomp , 4 months ago to nostupidquestions in If we can ban trans medical procedures, why haven't we banned circumcision?

I dont get it either. However the American pediatric association and a couple others keep suggesting it’s “cleaner.” I think it’s based on some large global datasets and there are less STIs with circumcised penises? Even WHO recommends it. It seems like recommended people clean themselves would be much easier…

Thwompthwomp , 5 months ago to foodporn in Chicago Deep Dish Pizza

I ate more Costco pizza than deep dish when I lived there.

Thwompthwomp , 5 months ago to linux in Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve

Snaps just act strange. They update in weird ways, it’s always automatic and it’s confusing how to keep something in a version that won’t auto update. It’s been a bad experience for me.

Thwompthwomp , 5 months ago to technology in ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit

I think this is a good point. Lemmy pre protest sucked. There was just no content or activity. Post protest, it’s not too bad here. It’s viable. Slowly, hopefully more people end up here over the years. I still browse Reddit (not logged in, my account is kaput) and it seems the same as it was before though. However, digg too died, so there is hope yet.

Thwompthwomp , 6 months ago to linux in Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them?

It’s been getting absolutely worse and worse with hardware as they shovel crap at you and then also expect you to buy subscriptions to make it usable. Keysight/agilent/ whoever they are had been really annoying about this.

Thwompthwomp , 6 months ago to linux in Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them?

We have a piece of test equipment that runs windows 2000. It has to be quarantined on its own subnet isolated from the rest of the network.

Thwompthwomp , 6 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Here as well

I was also reading an article about nutritional quality of food itself has been declining over the last 50 years. So to get the same nutritional amount, you need to eat more food period.

There’s also bigger systemic issues about food access that is driving people to “choose” it. Lack of time, cost, availability, transportation all factor in that are beyond a simple idea if a person having a pure choice between two equal (or even somewhat equal) options.

Thwompthwomp , 6 months ago to technology in Twitch updates sexual content guidelines amid ‘topless’ meta backlash

There are also Mario videos and Suika. It’s not just nips or Bloodbath the Incinerator HD.

It’s hard parenting because the platforms change quickly and navigating when and how to have impactful conversations with kids is hard.

Thwompthwomp , 6 months ago to greentext in Anon sends a file

Similar thing happened with cars. My grandpa would take them apart and reassemble them. my dad (somewhat generalizing to generations a bit) were really into cars and engines and would do some basic diy. I know nothing about them and don’t care to learn much.

I think computers are doing a similar thing. Millennials sit in the middle of the adoption and saw it emerge from more of a technology wild Wild West to being central to modern society. We could take the time to delve into details (since they mattered), but now it’s more taken for granted and things are there.

I guess, I’m just thinking it’s some sort of technology adoption thing that naturally plays out in a “victim if it’s own success” way.

Thwompthwomp , 6 months ago to linux in What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024?

Not OP, but I’m excited about the baked in tiling. Nervous about Wayland as I think I have some stuff that will break, but we’ll see.