… that’s what she said…

I’m so sorry.

The latter if I had to guess. This is some French revolution type of radicalization. The wealthy are radicalizing their victims. Hard to empathize.

I watched this earlier, great coverage!

Not a lot of people trying to defend consumers in media right now. Glad they’re doing something about it.

Ok.

On my phone, I can use Google sheets (or excel or whatever) and get all the benefits, except for the automatic recording. For $5/mo in perpetuity?

I’m not anti app. I don’t understand why someone would pay this much for this function.

The internet allows us to communicate quickly over distances we couldn’t otherwise without a long time between messages. What does this app do that I can’t do cheaper and easier with pencil and paper?

I’m not opposed to technology, but I’m not paying for it if there’s no benefit.

Why Alexa?

Other than that, a $1 notepad and a pencil will do usage tracking just fine for years. You can’t take a trip unless you’re already sitting in the car where you can see and write down the info.

Foss struggles to get dev time. If everything was foss, we could coordinate easier.

YouTube playing, scrolling lemmy, and playing cities skylines fixing traffic.

I feel called out.

Ha! That went right over my head. Thanks for explaining.

What’s texas red?

Like I said, I help design them. I’m interested to know why you think that. You work with them? How old are the ones you work with?

Big iron means a mainframe. The Ferrari of servers.

I design big iron. The hardware is great, don’t blame us.

That’s just double speak at this point. We’ve always been at war with easteasia.

One of many shrines to our capitalist overlords and the mighty dollar.

All cultures use pyramids to show the reverence due to their gods, right?

Never did. It’s just more and more obvious with each new “feature” that it’s built for monetization, not for user functionality.

I love Obra Dinn, but not top 10 love. I think the fresh style in an industry of samey games using the same few engines made it really stand out for me. It’s retro styled, but also goes beyond that to show you it’s world in a new way.

If the art style doesn’t do it for you then you might not enjoy it as much.

I think it’s that, and something even worse as well. There are probably many well meaning people working on these things thinking they really are creating and guiding and intelligence. It’s an opportunity to feel like a god and a tech wizard at the same time.

Similar number of neurons too.

The Chinese Room thought experiment is a good place to start the conversation. AI isn’t intelligent, and it doesn’t hallucinate. Its not sentient. It’s just a computer program.

People need to stop using personifying language for this stuff.