Nah, that was me ;)

I had maybe a similar experience with flamenco.

Nah mate, farming was where we took the wrong turn. We should go back to hunter/gatherer. I’d kinda like to keep my steam deck tho hmm

I guess ‘Slavering with greed’ has too many letters.

Yeah, I enjoy driving and am fond of my car. But offer me the opportunity to spend my 90 mins commuting time sitting back and reading a book, and I’d probably take it.

Of course the tech is not ready and shouldn’t have been deployed in its current state. Government is letting big business use us all as crash test dummies.

It’s probably a tricky balancing act for EU leaders. On the one hand they want to quietly step away from the US, on the other they are well aware that one of his tantrums could start WWIII.

They’re in that situation when you wind up talking to the violent lunatic at a party and you are quietly trying to remove yourself without flipping their switch.

My mum gave me her old slide-rule that she’d used as a kid. Kinda mechanical calculator, very early computing tech. She told me that there was debate about whether kids should be allowed to use them in school or just calculate manually. She said they were taught to do it manually then when they could do that they were taught slide rule, because many jobs would expect people to have slide rule skills.

When I was little, calculators still had kinda bulbs for each digit, then LCD screens came along and they suddenly got small and more powerful. There was the same controversy about whether we should be allowed to use them in class. We were taught how to do algebra n shit with paper and pencil, but also how to use the calculator.

This has worked for the past couple of generations of tech, I don’t see why this one should be handled any differently. Kids should learn Pythagoras and algebra n stuff, how to do it themselves. Then they should be taught how to do it using a computer, and all the other stuff you can do with the computer.

Honestly, computer lessons in schools need to step up, at least in my country. Back in the 80s we were taught on 32k ram BBC B computers - we only had to learn to code a bit of basic, but those of us who wanted to dig deeper could learn assembly, start fucking with registers n stuff, learning binary and hex. Gave me a very basic understanding of how a computer actually worked.

I’m told that in my country, kids these days are taught how to use office. And that’s about all. Fuckin shame and a missed opportunity for those children who are drawn to tech and want to dig deep.

So yeah, I’m just saying we gotta teach them to do math on paper, really understand it - and then we gotta teach them the tech.

While masturbating furiously.

Steam already kinda has age verification on their store - you need to register your credit card to access adult material. Honestly seems like one of the easier and better ways to do this. I don’t know if that existing check could be carried over to their OS, their OS and store are pretty much a bundle already.

For some reason, for the past month or so, when I google stuff the first result is ‘Can’t generate an AI overview right now, try again later’. Maybe one time in 50 it’ll do the AI response.

I don’t know if I changed a setting and forgot, or if they just don’t like me, or if their local processing can’t hack it. Either way, it makes me actually go to the websites, like the good old days of a couple of years ago! And I find better info doing that.

Honestly, the AI overview is crap. One time, searching for legal stuff about a potentially precedent setting case I’m involved in, it responded referring specifically to my case - as though it had been resolved and the precedent was set.

So yeah, I wouldn’t trust that shit to provide me a recipe for biscuits.

With blackjack! And children!

My insurance provider replaced all their customer service people with AI, it’s fuckin useless and I’m switching company.

He eats Dijon mustard!

Yeah, if we’ve gotta have capitalism at least turn down the volume a bit.

Sorry, I no longer own one. Had one a few years ago tho and was very happy with it. I used to mostly sideload books via calibre through a cable connection but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t feasible via WiFi. IIRC I put an android launcher on it so was also able to use the browser to download directly from various free books sites.

Never tried via WiFi, I just use calibre. But you probably can, it’s rich with features.

My insurance provider has already replaced all of its customer service staff with AI. As I found out when I tried to ask them a question the other day. I’m changing insurance companies.

And there will only be bots looking at it.

The tea & coffee fund

Yeah, the NSA proved that when their exploits leaked. Eternal blue and I’m sure they have a much more stuff we can only guess at.