It is speculated that Reddit is selling all of its users data to train large language models (AI). The exorbitant API fees are just slated to be the collection method, so in a sense you’re contributing to them still by providing valuable training data.
As far as getting hate for it goes, most people probably don’t care one way or another. There may be a subset of people that do, but don’t let it get to you.
Think of all the breastfeeding children we could save by making white screen black. SMH. Fuck Nestle
It was tough at first, but I haven’t logged in or looked since deleting all of my comments. The only time I go there now is when I absentmindedly click a Google result.
Liftoff feels like a love letter to Relay for Reddit. It’s just missing a quick toggle to move thumbnails to the left or right in compact view.
Props for referencing the NoPoop meme in the settings too 🤣
ZorinOS is a pretty good and consumer friendly “distro” if you can call it that.
Something one of my college professors pointed out a long time ago is that a lot of DVD players and smaller consumer electronics ran a custom version of Linux. Here we are 10-15 years later, with Android being easier to work with. It’s probably replaced a lot of those Linux installations.
More on your point, the giant smart display/kiosks in each room at the allergy clinic I went to last year still ran Android 10. Because I had to spend long periods of time alone waiting to see if I was allergic to things, I ended up tinkering and managed to get it out of Kiosk mode and setting a security policy lol (don’t worry I reverted my changes and let them know!)
2 or 3 of those would cause pretty extreme screen dimming and slowness with my Pixel 7 Pro. I drive a lot so now it’s my kiddo’s daily driver lol
It was interesting. A buddy and I were out riding our motorcycles and endeavored to “get lost”
Took a few pics lol https://imgur.com/gallery/xGUsnOb
It’s been neat seeing the subtle UI changes and seeing new features get added in. Thunder may end up being my daily driver.
Limiting people’s ability to view ads was only the start, it seems. Genius!
I think the biggest issue with Google hardware is that there is always at least one huge flaw. My pixel watch for example has terrible battery life. My 7 Pro display got a green tint and died while I was using it to navigate, after two months. I RMA’d it, but the display I got back had a disabled fingerprint reader.
It’s always a gamble with Google hardware sadly. :(
Ya know, I used to be a pixel fanboy. I’ve had every mainstream pixel from 1 to 7. After a botched RMA for a dead display, the fingerprint reader is now disabled. I’ve been ghosted by support about the new display so now I’ve switched over to Samsung.
I’m a former Apple employee and have had enough of their shit. Everyone at the office was drowning in the kool-aid. I’m done with iOS 🤣
If they could get away with it, they’d remove instructors and support as a whole and just replace them with AI. It’s so much cheaper to automate everything and at the end of the day it’s all about money to them.
If they can count an AI process as an instructor, they’re going to do it until it screws up lol
ITS RAININ SIDEWAYS
While it’s great that their aim is a 1:1 teacher to student ratio, I am a bit wary of ChatGPT being used to teach people. Especially given that a group of lawyers cited ChatGPT and landed in hot water after it was discovered that it was actually just making shit up lol
That being said, its ability to facilitate code / functions / snippets is very good. I suppose it all depends on how it’s implemented.
After the stadia debacle, I doubt anybody trusts Google with gaming. It’s only been six months lol
They truly deserve all the clowning they’re going to get for this
Assuming stuff was still open, I’d go to the bank and deposit it immediately.
Afterward I would pay off every debt I have online.
After that? Pay off my sister’s car and my girlfriend’s college debt. Then probably rent as far in advance as possible.
I honestly wouldn’t have much time after doing that so I would maybe do an online grocery order to stock up and then seriously make a random DoorDasher’s day.
Do we have NotTheOnion yet? This is perfect lol
My first thought was “shouldn’t he be lobbing law bombs?”