WashedOver

WashedOver , 3 days ago

We are seeing this in full effect from the opposition party in Canada. They don't have a platform or anything except they aren't Justin Trudeau. That's all they have but it's working as in Canada we vote out governments of power, and not into power.

The current government has been in office for 8 years now and much like Biden is at fault for so many things in the world, our guy is too. At times I lose the thread on which one is a fault though... But yes I'm assured he's to blame for everything wrong in their lives...

WashedOver , 18 days ago

I've been becoming irritated lately with search in other apps being taken over by their flavor of AI. I use the Microsoft Swift keyboard on my phone and it's now trying to inject their AI search results over my Google searches in Firefox and the results take me to Bing.

Then today I was watching a video on Instagram and the screen went off. I lost of the video as the app refreshed when I turned on the screen again. I tried to search for it but now IG search has been turned into a Meta AI search. It offers AI answers instead of the videos I was looking and it seems like it's the only option.

WTF are they messing up search across the platforms? Get off my lawn!

WashedOver , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

This is the rub in some ways, but in others who risks their credit/capital and who also has the foresight to navigate the modern home building issues of financing a new home build for 2 years in many places without a shovel even hitting earth as permits and red tape are cleared? *It costs almost $100,000 just to get a permit in my North American city which the city keeps.

I chose to rent as I want to live where I want and don't want to deal with the issues of home ownership once the home is built or the taxes, however just the journey to building a home is no walk in the park and has changed a great deal since our great grandparents could just build any old house/shack they wanted on land they paid very little for as no one was living in the areas beyond the natives that once called these areas home.

I'm not even sure the cabin my grandfather built in the 70s on recreational property in a remote area that he ended up retiring to could even be built today.

In the cities where real estate pricing is through the roof due to demand, and occupancy is at record lows, those that can take the financial hit from delays and the costs to build a home are at present the only ones seeing homes being built in these conditions so the market in terrible ways have created a situation right or wrong of rewarding that initial capital investment as who else in their right mind would go through that just to have less than nothing in the end to hand it over to a tenant without a full refund of all of those costs in the first month by the tenant?

Without these builders I wonder how many renters would be able to fund paying for the land for 2 years, then the materials for building the home, and the labor, then navigate the city, and manage the builders and trades, while working at their job full time (not related to home building in many cases) while living somewhere else during this process along waiting for a close with city approval to occupy once completed which might push this to 3 years?

Paying both the bank and then your rent to live somewhere during this process isn't cheap either.

If the market relied on monthly renters for home building I suspect MANY more of us would be living in tents or campers... Which is also happening in the current system too but perhaps not at the same degree?

How do we as a society trigger the removal of red tape, nimbys, and fund the building costs of higher density housing might be a better question to ask as these challenges need to be tackled to see more homes built. Getting around the reward paying for the large upfront costs of building homes needs to be navigated too.

Unfortunately moving further west is no longer an option due to the west having run out for many of us.

WashedOver , 2 months ago

Is it because they aren't real and robots don't need food?

/s

WashedOver , 4 months ago

Reminds me a little of that Top Gear episode of when they were driving through the deep south... Shots will be fired...

WashedOver , 4 months ago

I'm impressed. It speaks to the strength of the Apple brand. Meta should benefit if this becomes the next thing despite the differences.

WashedOver , 4 months ago

Sure seems like a great way to avoid severance in those places it's required.

Amazing how the companies that "care about employees" don't care so much these days...

WashedOver , 4 months ago

I recall some pretty bold statements being made that Apple couldn't stop this reverse engineering from working ever in the early days of tech reporting on this.

Even as a Android user I thought this was pretty bold claims to make as this whole walled garden is a big part of the Apple brand and they will need to protect this as they really don't have leading software inovation and they are no longer ahead on tech advances or specs that made the first couple of iPhones ground breaking.

Since they are a couple to a few years behind the Android features and specs, they need to protect the special brand identity above all else so I expected them to tweak things to break anything they don't want to have happen to their systems.

I can't blame them at all from a business prospective. While I don't like or enjoy their products, they had built a great brand that sells itself for those that "want to be different" but actually the same as all of their friends.

WashedOver , 4 months ago

I recall the early days of PC chat services like ICQ, MSN, AOL and the clients like Pigeon and Trillian to try to have them all in one place. It didn't always seem to work the best for long.

It's too bad BBM took way too long to open up to others beyond BB devices. They had some of my favorite emojis and they had for a time a big user base that they could have kept in their services.

WashedOver , 4 months ago

That's pretty cool.

It's been awhile since I last used a iPhone 13 Pro Max for work but I do recall the constant announcements there with previous models when Apple would announce yet another great "new" feature for iPhone that Android users already had for a year or two at that stage.

Samsung also made some good media campaigns on the announcements and used the lineups for new iPhones fairly well in their advertising.

I will say I thought the iPhone 13 camera was pretty goof, the battery life was too, and within the Apple walled garden the texting of videos was nice. The overall user experience for me wasn't a good fit. I like to browse the web without ads and watch videos without them too. Some of that can be done with a iPhone but it's clunky and the web browsers are just safari.

There's other customizable options I prefer that I can do with Android that isn't an option yet for Apple but I do know they will be able to at some stage.

Overall the whole apple vs android has been great for consumers. If it wasn't for the competition between Apple and the Android products neither group would be as far along.

WashedOver , 4 months ago

I think this was the stock that the eventual "he ducks" crowd came from

WashedOver , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I'm reminded of this. I still think the Maga culture are a bunch of ignorant turds but it does fit the narrative.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/1cf89f9f-3b10-4330-9601-6a90d920dc24.jpeg

WashedOver , 4 months ago

I have a couple of phones in use. 1 never answers which is fine as I have a display too, but the other answers every time I can do that if you unlock your device first.

WashedOver , 4 months ago

If I understand this correctly in my use case Assistant will get worse in my car with a aftermarket head unit. The mic isn't that great on the radio and I've had better luck using the handset mic instead.

WashedOver , 4 months ago

Yes I've noticed this on my devices now for awhile. I gave up and downloaded a separate app instead.

WashedOver , 4 months ago

The real truth!

WashedOver , 4 months ago

That's a great one! It's amazing the culture of alcohol had most of us expecting this to be booze

*edit: lol based on the downvotes I'm not sure who I've offended more, the boozers or those that said this is the joke...

WashedOver , 6 months ago

I have to think miniature guns for toddlers would open up whole new segments for gun manufacturers

WashedOver , 6 months ago

My default was Active, but I've switched to Hot for All.

More new things but not a lot of comments. Kind of nice to get in on the ground floor for those wanting to comment though...

WashedOver , 6 months ago

I wonder how few will draw some of the parallels of the colonial expansion in Australia and the West in general.

I love the types that say others should go back to where they come from ignoring their parents and grandparents were not that far removed from the boat that brought them here.

Then they don't want to acknowledge that these groups were probably not that thrilled at being slaughtered and their kids taken away from them to make way for their colonial ancestors.

It's a amazing trait to me that humans can hold such diabolically opposed ideas as the same truths for them.