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LockheedTheDragon

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LockheedTheDragon ,

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LockheedTheDragon ,

Amazon Lockers. Where I use to live I would get gas at Costco but would pickup packages at the Amazon Lockers next to a gas station and go in and buy something a lot of the times (Homer voice : Fountain drinks. drool) When that gas station got a kitchen in it, I ended up getting pizza there instead of going elsewhere for food.
Gas stations will adapt and change as they already been doing. There probably just won't be as much of them.

X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)

On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some users began noticing that posts viewed via X for iOS were changing any references of "Twitter.com" to "X.com" automatically....

LockheedTheDragon ,

Does anyone know if he use to have Handlers? I always figured the reason he got hyped was because he had people who did his social medias for him and got him good publicity like being on The Big Bang Theory and he thought it was all him. He then fired them all and people saw the real him.

LockheedTheDragon ,

When I read the title I sarcastically thought "Oh no, why is AI deciding to create fake historical photos? Is this the first stage of the robot apocalypse?"
I find the title mildly annoying because it putting the blame on the tool and ignoring that people are using it to do bad things. I find a lot of discussions about AI do this. It is like people want to avoid that it is how people are using and training the tool is the issue.

LockheedTheDragon ,

AI is more like torrents, password cracking software, TOR, ect than guns. Just because they can be used for bad or illegal things doesn't mean those software programs are bad. When companies in the past tried to get certain software banned they ran into the issue that if it could be used for legal reasons that enough for them to exist legally.

Now AI does have the issues with how it is trained so the AI itself can be problematic.

I didn't say we shouldn't talk about the problem with the AI I have issues with people making the AI the complete issue ignoring that people use the AI. It reminds me of how automakers tried to make the people driving cars the reason for deaths in car crashes.Thankfully that didn't work and automakers where forced to make cars safer making it safer on the road. It didn't stop car crashes from happening since the human element is there. Which there are things in place that partly address that (Such as Driver's license test, taking away some people's driver's license, ads reminding people of the rules of the road.). I'm annoyed that articles are doing the opposite of what car makers did. Humans are using the AI to do bad stuff mentioned that also! How can we change that? Yeah, it will probably be best to do something to the AI program, but we can't ignore the human element since they the one who are creating the AI, using the AI, and consuming the AI products.

People use guns to kill people so we need to look at both to make it happen less.

LockheedTheDragon ,

I think this is companies making something annoying blaming it on EU privacy laws and then they thinking people will be against these laws in other countries because of the inconvenience.

Same strategy of companies doing things like putting "Contents may be hot." on hot coffee and encouraging people to make fun of the McDonald's Hot Coffee lawsuits. People think it was a joke when it was McDonald's deciding to keep coffee extremely hot since it last longer, they saved so much money on coffee they could easily pay people off who got 2nd and 3rd degree burns because of the extremely hot coffee. But then one elderly women got severely burned in the groin area and the jury got so angry they awarded her a couple days worth of McDonald's coffee profit.
Don't let companies do this type of thing!

LockheedTheDragon ,

You could get a pelvic exam while unconscious without knowing it happened. Some states have put limits on it, but then they can bury it in the T and Cs you sign and do it "technically" with your consent and not tell you.
So unfortunately the privacy and dignity you think you have from the medical system isn't as good as you think.

LockheedTheDragon ,

At work we can only use Edge. But we search using Google. Which you had to fight Microsoft to do. "Do you really want to change your default search engine?" Yes, I'm required to use it and Bing is annoying.
But while searching on Google using Edge it is annoying the corner pop up asking me if I want to switch to Chrome. I can't, stop asking!
I want to switch to Firefox but I want all of them to shut up about "switching", "downloading", or "trying".

LockheedTheDragon ,

I've been saying for years I was going to move back over to Linux. This will be the push I need.
Sadly my Dad is bad at computers and will need Windows 11 when using 10 becomes a problem. I'm throwing this at my brother since I was the one who got our Dad a Windows 10 computer. FU Microsoft, you peaked at XP.

LockheedTheDragon ,

I got a Chromebook years ago to have to write when out, but now they won't update it and to install Linux I have to flip a physical switch on the other side of the motherboard.

My Dad gets upset and let's me know when Yahoo changes their homepage. (Yes, he still uses yahoo mail.) He has a flip phone and still struggling with it.

LockheedTheDragon ,

A couple of years ago I was trying to reinstall Windows 10 without Internet. I hadn't bought a switch for that room yet so ended up having to unplug another computer so Windows "Special Snowflake" 10 would let me a little easlier set up the admin and user.

LockheedTheDragon ,

Your post reminded me. I worked tech support for years at an ISP and we would not help people with Linux systems. Only Windows or Macs. Android on a cell but only help with connecting to Wi-Fi and very basic settings up email if they used the ISP email.

LockheedTheDragon ,

I could see the argument that 7 was peak, but I think it was XP.
My Dad pretty much downloads pictures from his phone and browser the web. One issue is some of the sites he uses are set up weird. That why he finally allowed me to upgrade him from 7 to 10. He complained about certain sites, which I really didn't pay attention to which, would give warning about browser being out of date, then the sites refused to even load. That is when he allowed me to upgrade. They probably would work but I don't want to risk issues with any sites having problems with Linux.

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