circuitfarmer

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago

When will people stop supporting this clown?

Remember when some people were like "well, I don't support him, but I've had this Twitter account forever, so I'm not leaving." This is what happens. Things just get worse until you gain plausible deniability for continuing to support the bullshit.

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago

Who saw this coming???

/s

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago

You also can't do shit with their service, app and web, if you're on a VPN. It just refuses. Even -- and this may be illegal -- unsubscribing from their emails.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago

This is the way

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago

This result is predictable for a lot of different things that started as products and seem to be ending up as services.

Microsoft wants Windows to be a subscription service with the associated perks to the company (namely, targeted ads, and also extreme control over anything the system does, including this ad scheme), and so an increased number of people seek a more traditional OS.

The movie industry pushes streaming down everyone's throat as a highly fragmented market where media ownership no longer exists; thus an increased number of people start to return to physical media.

Car companies push to paywall features of their cars behind subscription services. An increased number of people seek used cars which have no such paywalls.

The patterns are clear, in my view, but the C-suite is always driven by a naïve lust for ever-increasing profit.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago

And the really annoying ones hide the "this will become a hybrid position" deep in the copy. It's almost like businesses know a lot of workers prefer remote roles...

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago

Meh.

It's not designed for or good for VR gaming. As an AR device, I find it a bit silly since I can just look at a real screen. It would be a novelty at $100, but at the price Apple wants I kind of think of it like a joke.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago

$3000 is way too much for a tarp stapled to the back of an overpriced pile of shit

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago

My thoughts exactly. By this reasoning, Candy Crush Saga could get taken down for copying Bejeweled.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago

We paid for the development of the internet. We contributed the content. Now we watch the yacht owners take advantage of both because regulators are asleep at the wheel owned by corporations.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago

Most of their entire business model relies on collecting data hand over fist, constantly. Hell, even actively not using their products doesn't even make you safe.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Many companies are using AI to generate AI training data. Most of them are data brokers where the margins are becoming razor thin. It's totally a bad idea, but it is definitely happening.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Ahahaha what do you think it's 1995?

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

I've tried to make this point several times to folks in the industry. I work in AI, and yet every time I approach some people with "you know it ultimately just repeats patterns", I'm met with scoffs and those people telling me I'm just not "seeing the big picture".

But I am, and the truth is that there are limits. This tech is not the digital singularity the marketers and business goons want everyone to think it is.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

it still exists

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/702bc5b6-fdbd-4d07-81de-7131e0eba7cf.webm

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Yeah, like... This just makes me not want to support Nintendo even more. Maybe selling 30-year-old games for exorbitant amounts shouldn't be a key part of their business model.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

I mean, the point of Debian is stability. If I'm running Debian then I'm not even gonna want to try and install the thing until after I've seen 100 people use it. I don't think they'll be looking for it in repos.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

I think all those dongles hanging off the car would have been a problem anyway

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

The windscreen is made from high-tech Apple SpaceGlass, and the integrated HUD (*Pro car only) presents all non-Apple cars as green bubbles in real time

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Lightning (in the US; USB-C in the EU)

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

My sentiments exactly. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, as annoying as they can be. Now that I'm not using reddit I wish them the best of luck wreaking havoc.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Apple isn't necessarily doing anything specifically innovative

I don't think they have really innovated for quite some time. But that said, they do know their market. They've got tons of people in the ecosystem and simply have to maintain them. It's a lot easier than courting new users.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

It might be true that you get more conservative after you e.g. own property, have a lot of money, or a bunch of other things that happened to boomers in their 30s.

Now that those things are far less accessible, people aren't moving conservative with nearly the same frequency. The fact that boomers did is a symptom of the easier time they had, but there's nothing intrinsic about aging that should make one more conservative.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

As a renter, I have no way to charge an electric car nightly. The availability of charging infrastructure outside of private homes will be more and more of an issue, unless battery tech significantly improves to be at parity with gas (e.g. I spend 10 minutes at a public charger as if I were filling a gas car).

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

C-suite should have chatted with their own people in manufacturing, I reckon

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

No shit?

I'll do one better: don't tell Google anything personal. Or any company that makes significant revenue off of ad targeting, for that matter.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Most every other social contract has been violated already. If they don't ignore robots.txt, what is left to violate?? Hmm??

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

I'm sure they do. AI regulation probably would have helped with that. I feel like congress was busy with shit that doesn't affect anything.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Weird, I see "You will need to use a different service/company"

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Yeah, this is a great example of a true statement that just serves to muddy the water of the actual argument.

A better way to think about it is: an AI-dependent photo is less representative of whatever is in the photo versus a regular photo.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

...but the lights weren't on.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

I mean, you're debating the meaning of "accurate representation". We may as well debate the meaning of perception, too, but I don't think it changes the point of my original argument.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Yeah, they're pricing themselves out of their own market. It's been happening for years but the recent economic shifts are making it more apparent.

circuitfarmer , 4 months ago

Everything is just perception man... Just waves of energy flowing down a massive cosmic river.

But somehow I don't think this is Samsung's official position.

circuitfarmer , 5 months ago

Though I imagine that a lot of ongoing operations at the time probably had to be cancelled prematurely, the consequences of which might never really be known.

This is the fear that is always instilled in people whenever the government takes an L. I'm not saying it's a false statement, but it's also unsubstantiated.