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And if you fried your food in lard like God intended, this wouldn't have happened.

(Also screw things that need phone apps to function and especially screw phone apps that then ask for every permission they possibly can hoping people just spam 'fine whatever, i just want to make dinner' as the response.)

(/s, kidding, etc.)

Something that's made shockingly unclear, for anyone who might be interested: you only need to have subscribed for a single month to have all the subscriber gated stuff unlocked.

I don't really know how that's a viable business model, but pay $14 or whatever, get all the expansions and inventory and whatnot unlocked, and then don't worry about it until there's another expansion you want.

They really do.

The sound great, and the ANC is great, but the "official" battery life for a brand new one (which these are not) is "up to 4.5 hours" with ANC on, and 5 without it.

It ends up being 2-3 charge cycles basically every day, plus a full recharge of the charging case.

They do, however, work amazingly well if you're in the Apple ecosystem; for example they'll swap between my iPad and Mac Mini if audio starts on one or the other.

But for actually sitting down with something and listening to a thing, I'd rather just plug in some headphones (via the lovely USB-C dongle) and not have to think about if the stupid things are going to die before I'm ready to stop listening.

(Disclaimer: I'm also a weirdo who doesn't carry a smartphone, and still uses an iPod for listening to stuff outside of the house, so feel free to roll your eyes and disregard my obviously bad opinions :P )

I don't have any pictures on my phone, since I don't carry a smartphone anymore.

I was just amused at the whole "See how an AI can violate your privacy! Upload a picture to us to send to an AI for you!' offer being made.

This is like saying 'pancakes require water and butter'.

You're not wrong, but you're so reductionist that you're also very much not right.

Cyberpunk has a lot more to do with the conflict between hackers and The Establishment(TM), where the conflict very much occurs in a dystopian future or under dystopian circumstances than it does any specific type of technology used to tell the story you want.

Please read more than Gibson's books and play CP2077 before reducing an entire genre to two "required" bullet points.

So, in order to keep our information private we should... upload a photo to a site using a google api to feed it to an AI model?

I'm very confused how, exactly, in any way, that's the privacy-first option.

My complaint has always been that the stupid things need to endlessly be recharged.

I've got some AirPod Pros and they're great... for about 4 hours.

Then you're stopping what you're doing, recharging for half an hour, and then you're good for uh, another 3 hours because that wasn't a full charge.

And after the 2nd or 3rd time you've done that, your case is dead and you get to throw everything on a charger for a couple of hours.

Ooooooooor I can put in my wired headphones, and not give a shit about any of that, because that's not how those work at all.

I suppose most people don't spend most of their day listening to podcasts and audiobooks and thus 4 hours is fine, but good lord is it annoying as crap.

Heh, I started another playthrough last night myself.

Never really gone through the Republic storylines, so I guess I've got a bit of game time ahead of me.....

I have reasonable insurance and the reason people "spend more time living with disease" is that the annual cost of not doing that is a couple of thousand.

The minute I hit a doctor for anything other than a cold, I expect it to cost me $1000, and if it turns out to be serious, I expect to spend out-of-pocket maxes, or $3000-5000.

So basically, the cost of 'going to the doctor' needs to be assumed to be at least $3000.

So uh, I don't go for any actual issues unless I'm prepared to spend that much.

This system is fucking stupid and designed to both discourage you from visiting and when you finally break down and go, to empty your pockets.

...but hey, if you can find cooperative doctors, they'll happily refer you to endless specialists and such so you can at least maximize the thousands of dollars you've spent? (This is still stupid.)

You mean "Fuck you, getting my full bonus" right?

It's true, because you could in theory go play the other aspects of the game when you're done fishing.

You won't, but you could so that makes it a better game.

A generative AI company ripping everyone off? Say it ain't so!

Regarding the video platforms, the only way is everyone hosts their own content and distribute via RSS… But then where is the money in it

The same place a lot of it is now: patreon, merch, and in-video sponsors.

Sure you lose the Google adsense money, but really, that's pretty minimal these days after constant payout cuts (see: everyone on youtube complaining about it every 18 months or so) but the bigger pain is reach.

If I post a video on Youtube, it could land in front of a couple of million people either by search, algorithm promotion, or just random fucking chance.

If I post it on my own Peertube instance, it's in front of uh, well uh, nobody.

That's probably the harder solution to solve: how can you make a platform/tech stack gain suffient intertia that it's not just dumping content in a corner and nobody ever seeing it.

I'm going to go with 'not dying' as the achievement of the year.

Sounds easy but boy, has it not been.

Had heart failure in 2022, and at some point in early 2023 it turns out I had a stroke and that seriously fucked up my head and destroyed my vision (I went meme-levels of cross-eyed).

2024 was recovery and uh, was not the smoothest. But fuck it, I'm almost normal and I didn't completely torch anything and so, yay.

Uhm, you can buy dildos at Walmart?

Why has nobody told me before now?

AI generated video ideas, AI generated thumbnails, AI generated comments from the viewers, AI generated comments from the creators....

I mean, AI already gave me the ick but this is super extra ick.

Youtube is going to be 100% over-run with absolute garbage, and there's going to be zero way to determine which content is human and not and it's going to completely make the platform utterly worthless.

It feels like the most urgent things to figure out how to make viable are things like Loops and Peertube, even over 160-character hot-take platforms or link aggregation or whatever, since the audience is SO much larger, and SO much more susceptible to garbage.

When you say you 'can't access local devices' is it just via the browser, or can you also not ping/telnet/ssh/whatever?

Uh, jesus christ, also what the fuck.

Computers were a mistake, and the internet just made it worse.

I don't know what I was expecting... but furniture fittings?

They decided right now was a perfect time to add a tariff on furniture fittings?

I'm laughing but like, uh, okay I guess then?

Can you tell me how to get to that universe?

I fucking loved Windows Phone and was horribly mad that Microsoft bungled it, bought Nokia, bungled it further, then eventually gave up.

It was years ahead of the shit Apple and Google were doing, but good lord Microsoft just couldn't manage to figure out how to sell the thing, even with super amazing hardware, like the Nokia 1020.