Th4tGuyII

Honestly, I think consumers allowing manufacturers to start integrating screens into cars was a mistake.

Knobs and dials are way easier to nevigate blind (whilst focusing on the road like we’re meant to), and none of that stops you plugging in your own third party device for other features, or replacing the headboard yourself.

Giant tablets with complex menus are dangerous to drivers, and only serve to milk the consumer for things they already had access to in their car as standard not 10 years ago.

Edit: Changed basically the whole comment, as you’re right. I looked at the Blog, and it does state in his FAQ that he had a backup. Which frankly makes a significant part of the article completely BS - as it makes multiple heavy implications that he didn’t have any backup.

This apparently happened with “no explanation and no recourse,” putting “terabytes of family photos” and their entire message history out of reach, as well as preventing the ability to sync work across devices.

He has copies elsewhere, so why would he be worried about losing access to this data.

Also, the end of the article discusses not storing all your data in one place…

If you store your photos and files in a single place, it’s a good idea to back them up to multiple locations to protect against something going wrong. But with how integrated devices are these days, it’s hard to avoid having all your apps, purchases and media within a single ecosystem. In cases like that, there’s not a lot you can do.

So it wouldn’t be wrong of most people to walk away from this article with the assumption that he didn’t have a proper backup strategy.

Everyone always learns the hard way, just the same as I did - one copy is usually as good as no copies at all.

For data you can’t afford to lose, the 3-2-1 rule is king. Original, cold local, and remote.

All I can do is pray that my current RAM survives long enough for this stupid AI bubble to burst, like with the Crypto-Bro GPUs.

But it is kind of horrifying how easily consumers have been priced out of the RAM market - at least for newer stuff anyways

Honestly. You need only try to listen to music or a podcast with open headphones near to a road to see how quickly it gets drowned out by even just having a car pass by.

Its annoying having to crank my music up to a relatively uncomfortable level just so I can hear it without having ANC.

Though ironically enough I do find the low, relatively quiet humming of a spinning fan comforting.

Honestly. It feels like way more people nowadays are way less conscientious of their noise pollution.

Like no I don’t want to hear you doom-scrolling through Instagram, no I don’t want to hear your playlist, and I’d really rather not have to listen to both ends of your phone conversation either.

If you need your ears open, then get a set of open earphones or bone-conducting headphones. Unless you go for the top brands, neither are all that expensive - and most will offer better sound quality than your phone on full blast in the first place!

As someone with light sensitive eyes, I sympathise with you on street lights and cars.

The pure white LEDs being put into every streetlight and car on the road nowadays are so unnatural and harsh to look at, and (for me at least) way more physically irritating to look at than the same brightness of warm lighting.

I hate them with a passion, and sincerely hope that governmental bodies will look to ban/limit their outdoor use in favour of warmer lighting.

Considering everyone I know with a folding phone has had a fault with the folding part of it - I don’t think its the best idea from a durability standpoint to add yet another folding part.

If one screen or fold point breaks, you’re now left with two unusable (but perfectly functioning) screens. Seems like an expensive gimmick to me.

Honestly I get your frustration. Feeling like you’re being hidden away…

But I think you’re taking what you’ve got for granted. It sounds like your family is fairly liberal and well-meaning, but that doesn’t mean her’s is.

Even in the west, religious conservatism can get nasty real quick (especially for woman), so I can absolutely see why she might be scared to tell her family.

She probably doesn’t like hiding you in the shadows any more than you do - you should be careful putting your feelings over her well-being.

Yep. The feeling of knowing you’ve forgotten something is so annoying, especially when its important

LLMs are made to mimic how we speak, and some can even pass the Turing test, so I’m not surprised that people who don’t know better think of these LLMs as conscious in some way or another.

It’s not a necessarily a fault on those people, it’s a fault on how LLMs are purposefully misadvertised to the masses

Tell you what Nicole is really dedicated to making friends on here. Messaged just about everybody, with multiple accounts even. Definitely nothing suspicious about that /s

The fact that they’re still doing this means people are falling for it, and I feel sorry for those people, cause this scam is clearly designed to prey on those who feel lonely and are too naive to know better

Looks like the UK government isn’t the only one slobbering at thought of being able to invade people’s privacy

So not only was this multi-billion dollar, fortune 100 company too stingy to pay for training data, it was too stingy to reseed the data it pirated!

Either seed or don’t torrent. Don’t be a leech.

Trump Derangement Syndrome… Otherwise known as being rightfully angry/shocked/horrified at the things Trump has been allowed to get away with doing and keep doing - things that would’ve landed the average person in jail for multiple lifetimes.

I mean for fuck’s sake guy literally embezzled a charity, yet we’re crazy for thinking he’s a morally bankrupt person?

Working in a field were I have to perform a lot of these types of tests, you’d be surprised how many look like Covid tests at a glance - always look at the labelling.

Also, in this form factor you’d pee into a container and pipette a very small amount into the test using the (usually) accompanying tiny pipette.

I’d do another test to be sure, but even a faint line can indicate a positive result (similar to Covid tests of the same form factor)

Imagine getting stabbed with a bootleg CS:GO knife

I’d say I’m tech conservative/cynic with a bit of normie - as I’ve long accepted that forgoing big tech completely means losing the ability to talk to most of my friends and relatives (because there’s zilch chance of me convincing them to move away)

How the fuck do people keep giving him more money??

Most of his ventures are dumpster fires, and SpaceX only runs well because he doesn’t touch it.