Of course there aren’t any reviews (not that I’d automatically believe them, anyway). While it sounds super exciting, I’m not super willing to spend almost 300USD for unverified tech. Somebody should send link this to Gamer’s Nexus to review lol

It’s crazy how little experts like these think of humanity, or just underestimate our tollerance and adaptability to weird shit. People used to talk about how “if we ever learned UFOs were a real phenomena, there would be global mayhem!” because people’s world views would collapse and they’d riot, or whatever. After getting a few articles the past few years since that first NY Times article, I’ve basically not heard anyone really caring (who didn’t already seem to be into them before, anyway). Hell, we had a legitimate attempt to overthrow our own government, and the large majority of our population just kept on with their lives.

The same AI experts 10 years ago would have thought the AI we have right now would have caused societal collapse.

Literally the only times I’ve heard anybody say anything about it was basically when they first learn about it and giggle for a few minutes, then get on with their lives.

I think the only way the name could be any sort of issue was if they were explicitly trying to be “family friendly,” which would imply that it’s intended for either christian mothers or advertisers (we all know how the children feel about sex jokes), which, since this is Lemmy and we’re talking about FOSS software, I’m sure I don’t have to explain why that’s a stupid idea.

The internet is dead, or at least heavily necrotic, by this point. Aside from previously trusted sources that haven’t succumbed to the AI-generation hellscape, and even those trusted things are now so ad heavy that it feels like my back would break without my ad blocker on.

Lemmy and the fediverse I feel are better suited to absorb the negative effects of all that than any of the current monoliths.

Even though the eventually admitted their mistake with the whole “ManBearPig is real” episode, the damage had been done years prior. I haven’t watched many recent South Park episodes, but I hope they learned their lesson to maybe not ignore actual scientists next time.

From what I’ve seen, being a main character in one would suck way worse though.

30 years ago people were asking what use a redular citizen would have for more than a couple of megabytes of storage. So yeah I’m just going to assume AAA game powercreep.

I wonder if Google will just let microsoft have this since it’s still chromium, or put in some kind of update preventing them from doing it (obviously with a backdoor specifically so chrome can do it)

I only use goigle when I’m specifically looking for a product, because that’s really all they’re good for. Ecosia is my default

Man now I’m wondering who are the nerds holding up that last 29% of value it has. i can’t imagine that many people paying for verification.

Whoever you are: just let go~ let Xitter sink unceremoniously into the abyss~

Not only was it messy, but the point they were trying to make could have been boiled down to a few lines for each point and still have been understandable to anyone who’s not familiar with the VPN’s function. I do appreciate the call out for the true main purpose of a VPN (🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️) though.

I agree, which is why I’m kinda happy this happened. Big companies (such as Apple) are notorious for this practice, so now that one of them is a victim, well, I was gonna say “maybe something will finally be done about it” but we all know that won’t happen so at least we can revel in the irony a bit.

Anyone in the market for a printer: Get a Brother (printer, not human)

And here I thought I was the one with a dongle issue

Wasn’t he forced to leverage a shit ton of his stock in his other companies for the purchase though? Tanking Xitter threatens those investments, as well. Even if it is intentionally malicious, it still has a whole helping of dumbassery attached to it.

Hopefully they don’t go to shit with the API like The Other Site so I can at least continue using Pipe

They had me at referring to prunes with “his or her”

Guessing purely from saying you lived in multiple countries with the same culture about it, are you in Europe by chance? It may just be another example of the USA still living in the stone ages for the weirdest edge cases.

Okay I see this sentiment everywhere and I’m genuinely curious how people are living their lives that they have no use for voice mail.

Everytime I’m working with a job recruiter, a doctor’s office, or a financial institution, when it comes to notifying me of a need to talk over the phone or in person, or just give me a brief update, phone/voicemail is usually the go-to. Email is usually reserved for more “important” communications, and banks, especially, aren’t normally going to text you anything beyond their standard notifications/ questionaires. And in the case of recruiters, specifically, if you don’t have a voicemail, there’s no message to them confirming your number is yours, and they may just assume your information is incorrect, or determine you’re too much of a hassle to get in contact with.

It’s not like I don’t have issues with it. 90% of my messages are unsolicited garbage I end up deleting anyway, but I would find it incredibly stressful if I’m waiting to hear back from somebody important and think the reason the comms aren’t going smoothly is because I don’t have voicemail.

My first smartphone was an iPhone back in 2011. I hated that damn thing so much and I can’t even remember the specific reasons why, but I know that I did, and that was years before they went “full Apple” so I will probably never willingly touch another one of their products for the rest of my life.