Most of mine are things like setting a default for things like wifi or Bluetooth devices.

I want my phone to connect to my home wifi and know it’s the home wifi? I want it to prefer that wifi to other networks.

I want my Bluetooth headset to stay connected to the device I’m currently using rather than changing to a separate device when that device is powered on.

I’m sure there are others but I think these may not be solvable without changing the way these devices handle connections in their firmware.

Futurama suicide booths say what?

I’m going to say that while that’s probably true there’s something it leaves out.

For every life it saves it may just be postponing or causing the loss of other lives. This is because it’s not a healthcare professional and it will absolutely help to mask a lot of poor mental health symptoms which just kicks the can down the road.

It does not really help to save someone from getting hit by a bus today if they try to get hit by the bus again tomorrow and the day after and so on.

Do I think it may have a net positive effect in the short term? Yes. Do I believe that that positive effect stays a complete net positive in the long term? No.

My first thought was “Open AI is collecting and storing the metrics for how often users bring up suicide to ChatGPT”.

They knew what I meant and chose to ignore the meaning to avoid the question.

So when a kid commits suicide because the Generative AI LLM agreed with him in a harmful way?

Edit: In before someone says something about how the gun manufacturers still shouldn’t be held accountable.

Gen AI LLM’s in this instance are products working as intended/designed, and are being used in a way that the manufacturer knows is harmful and admits is damaging. They also admit that there are no laws to safeguard persons against how the AI is designed, implemented etc and these things don’t even have warning labels.

Guns by contrast have lots of laws involving how and where they can be sold and accessed, as well as by whom, and with respect to informing the user of the dangers. You don’t sign a EULA or a TOS when you buy a gun, waiving your rights to sue. You don’t agree to only arbitration.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not defending Google here because honestly, Google definitely is an ad aggregation company first and foremost and the android ecosystem as well as its other apps and services are all aimed towards augmenting or facilitating that business.

But Apple absolutely are also in the ad aggregation business and not only do they take kickbacks from Google in order to make Google the default search app on their I-devices, but they also have been fined for illegally collecting user data for targeted ads without user consent.

They absolutely do harvest user data for the purposes of ad aggregation. Their “ethos” of user privacy should not be trusted and anyone who thinks they’re the good guy in this space should probably do some research into this subject.

https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-france-ads-fine-illegal-data-1849950163

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-privacy-data-collection/

https://www.androidpolice.com/apple-google-meta-handing-over-user-data-at-alarming-rate/

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/apple-wiretap-settlement-privacy/

Emotional damage goes both ways.

I was basically forced to upgrade to the 9 pro from the 8 when I dropped my phone about 25". I could either pay to have the shattered screen replaced or pay for a 9 pro with the discount. I immediately realized just how invasive Gemini had gotten and I miss my 8 every day. The 7 was too big for me, but it was a solid phone.

Nope. It’s not. I had to follow multiple guides and use three different utilities including power shell, group policy editor, and regedit, and even then I didn’t get rid of everything until I got tired of them fucking with shit and used shutup10++ to just toggle everything off. And I’m lucky enough to only have windows on my work computer at this point and to have admin rights to that computer. This shit is exhausting. Every update breaks something new and brings back shit I have been trying to nuke from orbit.

I feel this way about a lot of stuff including fail compilation videos. I don’t know why they exist and I’m glad I don’t use social media anymore because they’re so prevalent. I don’t want to watch someone get seriously injured or die. No thanks.

I use Bazzite. I like it a lot.

Shock! No, but seriously. This is not a surprise.

Nah. Regular people. I am not an influencer and I got one of these emails. But I’m also not going to test their hardware for them.

I like pixel phones but I actually really really hate Gemini and I’m not buying the pixel 10. I think they’re also attempting to get people who bought their phones previously but haven’t bought one in awhile to use more of their stuff.

As I would expect of an Odin.

I gazed. It was a good time. 15/10 floof.

Mostly because I don’t like gaming on windows and I want things to work without having to tweak every single security feature and all the junk I turned off every single time there’s an update. I’m also tired of MS breaking things with updates and generally using the public as free beta testers to the detriment of their products.

Also, fuck 365.

Not anymore.

Nope. This was a rumor and the article title is misleading. Valve blocked NSFW updates of games that were originally labeled as SFW and then the dev tried to update with NSFW game elements.

I read an article the other day about the woman who wrote that tell all book about Meta. Supposedly (according to the article) she faces a $50K fine every time she breaks the contract she agreed to when departing the company by defaming them. But she has not ever been charged that fine. But she is facing bankruptcy.

That’s an article that’s so poorly written that it literally doesn’t seem to have warranted any comment except mine which says literally “I do not understand the facts presented in this article and how they correlate”. Last I checked there were no other comments.

We see articles like this all the time.