Quiet quitting is such a bizarre phrase

It’s just a trendy phrase for what has always been called worke to rule.

Do precisely what your job description requires and not a single bit more.

The next year before the Midterms is going to be a wild circus.

The criminal attacks on the entire democratic process will be at a new peak.

If you’re going for chaos based investing, just buy a goldfish

these “smart” appliances are all addressing things radically important for households

Are they, though?

Most of these “smart” functions are at best a slight convenience. And a lot of the “smart” functions in most of them don’t really add anything useful to the user experience.

If we’re talking about them setting up the skeleton of a project, then templates have already been around for decades at this point.

That’s what LLMs are good at - taking old work (without consent) and regurgitating it while pretending it’s new and unique.

If it is a cheat sheet as in commands

With most modern distros, I would say that most typical users shouldn’t have to go to the command line any more than they had to in windows (which is to say very seldom).

Yet there is that lingering reputation that you have to be some sort of command line guru to even think about using Linux- and that simply isn’t true. Hasn’t been true for decades.

back then, I thought it was some scary OS for people who’s tech savvy

That “too hard, too scary” reputation is a big part of what has held back linux adoption.

But when people actually give it a try, most realize that reputation isn’t really true.

That’s the beauty of Linux- there are so many distros to choose from.

Something for everyone.

And if enough people don’t like the existing options, you are always free to fork what exists and make something that fits your needs better.

My penguin doesn’t listen to what Microsoft wants.

I know that if AI knows about this stuff it must have been produced by a human.

For now. Maybe.

It won’t be long before these LLMs will start ingesting the output from other LLMs, biases, confidently wrong answers, hallucinations and all.

all websites should block ai and bot traffic on principle.

Increasing numbers do.

But there is no proof that the LLM trawling bots are willing to respect those blocks.

Powerline adapters are almost always a “last resort” option.

It’s always possible, but not often practical, especially when you don’t have permission to drill holes in those concrete walls.

I suppose you could do surface runs, but those are ugly and more vulnerable to physical damage.

Freecad has gotten much better with the recent updates.

It’s UI is (obviously) different than fusion, but so are other CAD programs.

Sure, it may not be at the stage where it could be used to do 100% of the mechanical and electrical design on a jet helicopter, but how many people need that level of complexity for their projects?

How about having the self-cleaning mode on the oven require you to use the app?

Yes, that was one example we saw when we were appliance shopping.

just because the appliance you bought offers an internet connection, it most likely doesn’t need it for core functionality.

…until it does.

It’s not unprecedented for manufacturers to lock hardware capabilities behind software controlled paywalls.

When I was shopping for stoves, there were a couple of models with “features” that were not available unless you connected to the internet and used their app on your phone.

We chose a model that didn’t have any networking at all.

mobile web browsers, most websites would serve either a separate style sheet that gave a simplified layout

A simpler layout and usually a more lightweight page in general because mobile data was slow and expensive back then.

If someone wanted people to actually use their site on the go, they had to make it load quickly and not cost $5 worth of data doing it.

CCTV cameras as crime prevention. They rarely work, as folks desperate enough to commit regular street crime simply aren’t deterred.

Combine that with the reality that identifying people from surveillance footage can easily be defeated be employing advanced counter technologies such as “generic black/grey hoodie”

Since there has been people, there have been people trying to steal stuff from other people.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. /s