HeavyDogFeet

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[–] HeavyDogFeet 4 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Im not saying it’s impossible, but it’s not “the best”. Even in your example, you set everything up. But if something goes wrong, will you be there to fix it? With a Mac, which is lately idiot-proof, if something breaks there’s an easy number to call or places you can take your machine.

Again, not saying it’s unusable, but just being usable wasn’t the claim.

[–] HeavyDogFeet 26 points 10 months ago (28 children)

Hilarious. In what world is a Linux a good choice for “Elderly people who are not familiar with advanced technology and prefer clean and simple computer usage”.

The elderly people I know already struggle with the systems they’ve used for years. And when something goes wrong, they can ask basically anyone and someone will be able to help them.

Now insert Linux (which “flavour”? Who knows, pick one) and see who can help with even basic tasks or problems. This is fantasy shit.

[–] HeavyDogFeet 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, it’s really not good, especially because the people I’ve seen use this stuff the most are the ones who would rarely ever question the quality of the work it does or bother to make sure it’s accurate.

And because managers and business owners see “productivity” increase, they expect that that’s the new standard, and AI will essentially just have made doing quality work harder for everyone involved.

[–] HeavyDogFeet 79 points 10 months ago (5 children)

That’s the trick, you don’t read them.

Person A creates an email with AI, attaches a ppt created with AI, and send it to person B.

Person B gets AI to summarise the email and ppt, and create a response.

Repeat.

It’s an ouroboros of shit.

[–] HeavyDogFeet 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Web 4, now with Grift 2.

[–] HeavyDogFeet 38 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Web 4 — it’s web 3 but this time the grift is slightly different.

[–] HeavyDogFeet 1 points 11 months ago

I’m sure you’re right and it wouldn’t be an issue, but I’m anal about reducing redundancy and complication wherever I can. If I can have one place to charge everything and don’t have to check what belongs to what, I’ll do it.

[–] HeavyDogFeet 9 points 11 months ago

Wait til they find out I'm happy to pay nothing and still get the same content (often with less hassle).

All these streaming services seem to have forgotten that piracy is incredibly easy and a lot of use chose to use their services because they were originally convenient and affordable. Now that they're more fractured than ever and way more expensive, why would I bother?

[–] HeavyDogFeet 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't have many tools (or any children) but if I'm buying a bunch of battery operated stuff, you can be sure it's all going to be able to use the same batteries and chargers.

[–] HeavyDogFeet 4 points 11 months ago

What are the chances that it won’t cause extinction, but will just make things a bit (or maybe a lot) worse for a lot of people?

I don’t think any reasonable people are all that concerned with doomsday scenario as much as with the slow march towards a bullshit future.

[–] HeavyDogFeet 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That’s fair. You could still have that same functionality through something like double tapping the shift key (like it currently works on iPhones) but I guess that might also be hard for some people on a physical keyboard?

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