The tech companies are doing a great job at making me uninterested in the hottest new phones. I used to follow the news about them and know the tech specs and stuff, because I’m a nerd and gadgets are fun and smart phones in particular are the intersection of SO much technology and engineering. Moore’s law was alive and well during all my formative years, so I am even conditioned to expect the excitement.

But lately, not only have I been ignoring what the big players are offering, I have been ignoring the phone I already have! Instead I have a PC at the end of the couch with a monitor on an arm that s swings right over my lap.

I use my phone pretty much just for music, web browser, Voyager (Lemmy on the go), and occasional texting. When I am at home I will sometimes misplace my phone for hours and just not worry about it.

I have already pushed the megacorp phone + social media experience so far out of my daily life, that if future options for open linux phones are rough around the edges and don’t have tap to pay then oh well I don’t think I care.

It’s much easier to live without the shiny new thing once you see how well your brain does when separated from it. (and you have some loved ones who are still hopelessly addicted to the scroll)

Wow, is it too much to ask that our big evil movements to dismantle decent society and drag us into fascism have some decent leaders??

/s

Yeah, they seem to think we are like the drug addicts who will seek out the batch killing people with ODs because it must be strong.

Should we tell them that the free first hit is supposed to make the user feel GOOD? Meh, let’s watch how much money they can burn before it all crashes down.

Oh touche, not Michael Woolridge! The technology has created an entire segment of the economy worth many trillions of dollars based on NOTHING BUT promises! We are living in a promise-based economy!

~/s but not really~

RAG-AI doesn’t place weight on some sources over others

I had to smile reading this because doing that is why google exists.

Felony murder is used like that all the time, for any death that they say results or was influenced by your lawbreaking.

Unless it’s something trivial, like storming the capitol of the country and getting a few folks killed along the way.

Oh no. We can’t have enshittification cross over into our actual shitters!

With the stupid numbers being thrown around in the AI “industry,” buying up a company like Toto to harvest its organs seems run of the mill stuff for private equity.

Yeah, don’t compare them to the ideal in your head. Compare them to the best their competitors have put out there.

You know, like the assholes here in the US that would just have humans remote control them from the next room to get worse results. And yeah of course China can lie and fake shit too, but I think this would probably be just as impressive if they were all mimicking the movements of a mocap-suited athlete off stage.

Yeah, and you start AND end the game riding with other goats through the farm on a replica of the Skyrim prisoner cart from the meme.

Yeah, it is a really good looking and really thoughtfully made game. If you have been a gamer for decades there are tons of references and jokes you will appreciate. I appreciate the Sweden references too. I’m an American but I’ve gotten to visit the real-world equivalent of Goatenburg.

It is really good to play with a group that includes non-gamers or kids, because you can’t really die but you can use overpowered abilities and items on each other and NPCs. It is damn funny.

I see the Postal series has gotten some mentions, but where is my Carmageddon Crew?

Goat Simulator 3 has up to 4p split screen co-op, and it’s a big GTA-style sandbox game just loaded with hilarious stuff.

Oh they do care, just in the wrong way.

In the business world “benchmarking” basically means “let’s copy what the successful people do, so that line go up”

In their robotic, amoral view of the world, they see one of the most successful people on the planet (according to their definition of success) constantly spouting obvious lies and being surrounded by sycophants while getting elected twice and grifting billions and facing no punishments. Maybe if the tech CEOs get rich enough and their companies get important enough, they can join his club.

Ohhh, and they must be how we get oligarchies!

I think it’s a combination of that and the worry that there will be one winning ubercorp that practically merges with the US Government.

I mean, they are all pushing all their chips in at the same time. It’s like they know it’s now or never.

I think for some of the scumbags in control the cruelty has gone far beyond a side effect of their hatred, and into a focus of how they validate themselves and one-up their friends. They need so badly to feel superior that they will do horrible things just to show that they can. That would help explain how blatant and comical things have been.

They need to show that they are at the pinnacle of the group the law protects but does not bind.

I think the green specks they mentioned ARE the parts where it didn’t work. It was not like an analog issue that might tint the color of all the pixels, it was a digital issue where more than 99% of the pixels were the EXACT correct color and then a handful of spots had corrupted data which manifests as green specks on that monitor.

I don’t know what the specifications say should happen when data loss happens, but I’d much rather my screen show a random spot rather than refuse to display anything that’s corrupted.

you can think of the units of measure as multiplying and dividing sort of like the numbers themselves.

So if the nuclear battery continuously delivers 1 watt…

In one hour it would have delivered 1 Wh or watt-hour, because 1W * 1h = 1Wh.

And it works in reverse. If it takes 2 hours to deliver that 1 Wh? That’s 1Wh per 2 hours or 1Wh/2h=0.5W!

ahkshuallly, don’t you mean a capacitor?

Well maybe this time the new battery tech can be real and gay!

And he’s not the only one: During Trump’s second term, 19 Democrats have voted to confirm at least one of Trump’s nominees.

I am not familiar with the nominees in this case. Are they the typical Trump unqualified pieces of shit?

I read the sentence quoted and thought “that sounds a little bit too much like team sports.” But then I also thought about how ridiculous the real world has become, so maybe zero support was the correct amount.