I agree

Almost 30 years and still basically useless.

The last time I tried that getting google play services working was a long, annoying process and did not work. I don’t expect google to make any of that easy for us.

There is no practical reason to “do better.” It’s fine.

Eh, I’d give him a poke.

Was this GPT4?

Take that, India! 😎

China makes those, too.

A dongle is a solution to the problem “I want to use my headphones with a device with only a USB-C port.”

I really like my Bolt, it perfectly suits my needs and I love driving it. I think the biggest compromise that makes it unattractive for long distance travel is the relatively slow charging speed. I very rarely do that, however, and if I did I might rent a different vehicle.

I think the sign in the photo still makes sense if you interpret it as “Don’t park here unless you’re using the Tesla charging station.”

It’s very common for forums to have rules against posting in a thread that hasn’t seen any activity for an arbitrary amount of time. When you do that, you will often cause a thread that has fallen from the front page to bump back to the top of the front page. It’s not clear why this is a problem, though. Maybe regulars just dislike seeing old topics brought back up?

Name just fifty (50).

Elon Musk is a brilliant inventor nonpareil. He invented tunnels, rockets, electric cars, and now Twitter.

You’re missing the point. I don’t want you to understand my feelings, I want someone to explain to me what the big deal is. How meta “moderates” their platform has no effect on me, a non-threads user. What is my stake in it?

Meta can only do that on threads though. I don’t care, that’s really not my business.

Kind of a drama lightning rod. Fair warning.

The way I remember “discovery” working on Napster was when someone incorrectly labeled unrelated music as by an artist you searched for. Wow, new music!

Here’s what Kagi gave me:

The passage discusses the concept of “enshittification” in the tech industry, where companies initially attract customers through innovation but then exploit them by increasing prices and fees. This phenomenon has occurred at companies like Facebook, Google, Uber and food delivery services. The term was coined by author Cory Doctorow to describe how these companies stop innovating and focus only on generating value for shareholders at the expense of customers. However, the passage notes that increased unionization among tech workers and more aggressive antitrust enforcement could help reverse these trends and encourage more competition in the industry. An interesting point highlighted is that while enshittification is not necessarily directly malicious, it can be a product of business environment pressures and lack of regulation that incentivize prioritizing profits over customers. This suggests policy changes may be needed to realign company incentives with serving users.

There’s plenty of art that I don’t value the human element of at all. I don’t think any of the Corporate Memphis blob people on tech sites or the designs on a billboard are “sacred,” for instance, but they are unambiguously art. If you do these things with generative AI, I won’t regret the loss of human involvement.

Art done to express something human will never go away as long as people feel a need to express themselves that way. Companies will hire fewer graphics designers, true, but I don’t really give a fuck to be honest.