I literally woke up at 11 am, saw the results and poured myself a glass of whiskey (I’m currently unemployed). Now I’m going to buy some weed.

Or Google/Reddit/Meta.

I didn’t hear a single thing about this game until literally right now.

I love the line “when an explosion explodes hard enough, dust wakes up and thinks about itself”

SmartTube for Android TV is a must as well

I’ve had YouTube Premium since the days when it was called YouTube Red, so like a decade. I’ve grown used to not seeing any ads from Google and anytime I watch a video not using my account it’s torture.

A lot of creators have just turned into corporate shills. I stopped watching ETA Prime’s channel about tech reviews because it was becoming pretty clear that mostly everything he got was paid for by the company. Also, most creators are putting their own ads into their content.

So it’s not as bad as it seems, at least.

Agreed, people always forget that Google is a company or to make money, they don’t provide all of these services out of the kindness of their hearts.

The reason for this is because switching from Windows to Linux is a lot bigger change, requiring a fair amount of technical know-how, and even knowing that Linux exists in the first place. Swapping browsers is easy in the technical sense, it’s breaking the habit that’s the hard part, but if they piss people off enough all it takes is uninstalling it in order to break the habit, not a drastic paradigm shift. I’m a long time Chrome user, like over a decade and with the recent “unverified download” nonsense unless you enable their invasive tracking has put me over the edge. I had both the Chrome and Firefox icons pinned to the taskbar and just out of habit kept clicking it, I finally removed it last week

Also, there’s like 10 per webpage, and then you have the damn pop-ups when you scroll 🤬

Every time I turn off uBlock and reload a webpage I’m like “JFC this is eye cancer”.

It’s because AI is the new buzzword that has replaced “machine learning” and “large language models”, it sounds a lot more sexy and futuristic.

I was just talking with a friend who is a software dev (I’m a Linux Engineer so I do software as part of my job, just not my main focus) and we were just commiserating on how 75-80% of the world doesn’t understand that “AI” is just regurgitating information it has collected and it’s not like Jarvis or Skynet and thinks for itself.

I agree that the term “sexual abuse” is definitely misleading, I think “sexual exploitation” is better. I agree with you it’s no different than face swapping, but the difference is that it’s a lot easier for the general public to do it now than it was 5 or 10 years ago. It’s also pretty fucked that a fake image of you could potentially put you in “hot water” years down the road and you have zero control over it.

While I definitely hate the “AI bubble” that has grown tremendously over the past 2-3 years, we definitely need to figure out how to place limits on it before shit really gets out of hand in another year or two. The problem is that anyone that knows anything about this stuff doesn’t work in or for the government. The woman in the article that said that this needs to be regulated at every point of course doesn’t work in tech, she works for some rights organization 🤦‍♂️

I’ve never played it and that’s exactly what it seemed like from the article. Anytime a audio/developer releases an Anniversary Edition or something similar it’s just a cash grab that plays off of people’s nostalgia for the game (I’ll admit, I’ve bought Skyrim multiple times) and usually doesn’t change much, if at all.

Bees actually dance to communicate and it’s considered a language 😄

Half the time I didn’t even bother looking in the store she something when I know I can get it off of Amazon I’m like a day.

I’ve been looking for Dot’s Pretzels around me and can’t find them at Publix, CVS, or Walgreens. Amazon has them for one day delivery.

I thought that was Trump? 🤣

You’re missing one! 😺

I was gonna say “I worked desktop support for years…so pretty much everything” 😂

This is why I became a Linux admin.