They also don’t need to know the technical side of it to say ‘wow, this app doesn’t work and/or it’s out of date’ to close it and go back to something that works/fits their use case, even if it has ads.

I’ve tried to get people to use FOSS alternatives, but most would rather it work with no effort and deal with a lesser experience than having to fight with it to make it do what the other app does natively.

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Makes me want to tear my hair out when they ask me for assistance

ProTip: stop offering assistance to people who come to you for advice/assistance and then immediately disregard your response.

I had family that did that all the time with their computers (I had a computer repair business), and constantly complained about performance, but weren’t willing to change their behavior after asking for advice to make it run better/not be a pile of shit in a month.

Funny how charging customer rates instead of friends and family rates made them either figure their shit out, or stop coming to me every 6 weeks expecting a cheap fix to their lack of willingness to improve things. Either way, I stopped hearing about their exact same issues over and over, so problem solved.

Lol, lmao even.

You have unrealistic views of the common person’s technical acumen if you think this is going to have an impact of more than fraction of a percent, if that.

Mmmmm, corpo defense via victim blaming. You love to see it.

Next up, Microsoft is obligated to install 24/7 spyware on all ststems because tech incompetent users don’t know how to use anything else.

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It comes down to the “hallucination rate” which is a very fuzzy metric, but it works pretty well - at a hallucination rate of 5% (95% successful responses) AI is just about on par with human workers - but faster for complex tasks, and slower for simple answers.

I have no idea what you’re doing, but based on my own experience, your error/hallucination rate is like 1/10th of what I’d expect.

I’ve been using an AI assistant for the better part of a year, and I’d laugh at the idea that they’re right even 60% of the time without CONSTANTLY reinforcing fucking BASIC directives or telling it to provide sources for every method it suggests. Like, I can’t even keep the damned thing reliably in the language framework I’m working on without it falling back to the raw vendor CLI in project conversations. I’m correcting the exact same mistakes week after week because the thing is braindead and doesn’t understand that you cannot use reserved keywords for your variable names. It just makes up parameters to core functions based on the question I ask it, regardless of documentation until I call it’s bullshit and it gets super conciliatory and then actually double checks it’s own work instead of authoritatively lying to me.

You’re not wrong that AI makes human style mistakes, but a human can learn, or at least generally doesn’t have to be taught the same fucking lesson at least once a week for a year (or gets fired well before then). AI is artificial, but there absolutely isn’t any intelligence behind it, it’s just a stochastic parrot that somehow comes to plausible answers that the algorithm expects that you want to hear.

Fuck, I barely let AI make functions in my code because half the time the fuckin idiot can’t even guess the correct method name and parameters when it can pull up the goddamned help page like I can or even Google the basic syntax.

these bed owners are asking the same thing" why the fuck does a bed NEED to be connected to the internet?

To harvest your data, obviously. Which is also why they don’t allow local connectivity: you might stop them from being able to data mine you.

I would have assumed it allows a direct connection between the controller and your phone.

Lmao, good one.

Just about any Internet of Shit device I’ve ever worked on, ‘cloud connected’ means ‘cloud first/only’. If your device says it uses the cloud and doesn’t SPECIFICALLY say you have offline access, you don’t.

This is why my smart shit is zigbee/zwave, you can’t cut me off if you can’t leave my network.

The fact that the pods cannot be controlled when you don’t have the internet is diabolical. I wish I knew this before purchasing.

Cloud service purchaser upset that purchase requires cloud for service to work.

Why do people never consider that anything that requires a server will likely end up in this position when the company decides it isn’t worth it to keep the servers running (or they just go out of business)?

If you want to keep running Win10, look into 0patch. They do in memory patching and are MUCH smaller, it’s what a real OS manufacturer would put out.

Wouldn’t that mean visiting Facebook?

I’m sick of explaining to every kid around what the difference is between nazism/racism/chauvinism/stereotypes and common sense

Seems like you’re not doing a good job of it, but you also don’t have a good take on those meanings based on your comments, so that’s to be expected.

Sometimes you might very strongly disagree with other people’s views, or even be disgusted by those views, but you might still want to find out what those views are.

Sure, but if they’re using SJW as a pejorative, you already know what their (disgusting) views are. I have yet to meet one of these people who didn’t fall into a rather specific shitty box when it comes to certain viewpoints.

What can this thing do that they keep trying to push it so bad?

Harvest any data they can from you to mine and sell

You probably had to be drinking from their toilet using their app to see it or some shit.

Its not my responsibility to close all their doors that are accessible to the public.

It’s not your responsibility to close the doors, but it is your responsibility not to walk in an open door and take something that’s not yours

As a US citizen, I’m liable for my own negligence and/or ignorance.

Yep, and that negligence/ignorance you’re liable for in this case is piracy.

You’re welcome to disagree with a bad law (and make no mistake, I absolutely think it’s a bad law), but you’re still liable for breaking laws you don’t agree with. By all means break it, but don’t pretend you’re not breaking it, and make sure you take reasonable precautions to keep yourself safe while doing so.

pension

I’m not sure how old you think most of us are, but I don’t think pensions are a common retirement vehicle anymore, and haven’t been for a while. 401k would probably be the modern equivalent, and it’s still running on the stock market for the majority of its life prior to beginning to withdraw.

Hey, give them a break! They work a dangerous job and just want to go home every day! Never mind that they’re not even in the top 10 most dangerous jobs, or that they’ve willingly signed up to put their lives on the line. No, they just want to go home at night donchaknow!

Yeah, unfortunately they got the government they voted for, and decided that nothing was good enough.