The amount of wasted white space in Settings is ridiculous, like they didn’t involve a single UI designer in the entire development process. You have to do so much scrolling and clicking through submenus to find things that there was plenty of room for on the landing page, it’s a very stupid layout.

Navigating through the extensive settings menu is beautifully simple with the new touch screen user interface.

I am sorry, a fucking settings menu on an oven is a primary sales argument?

Lol fuck that. A touchscreen certainly isn’t a selling feature on a device I expect to be reliable. And why would I want a menu of options for a device that normally offers all its settings up-front?

They even brags about internal steak and bread thermometers, we have had those for decades.

And they either break after a few uses or they just don’t read the temperature properly and cause the oven to set the temperature incorrectly.

Well obviously, it has a connection to an app or even a smart speaker, and ofcourse the UI on the oven is a touch UI.

If it doesn’t work without a network connection I don’t want it. An appliance should be dead-simple, standalone, with near-bulletproof electronics and no built-in process decisions that are not clearly surfaced to the user.

Thanks, but no thanks, I’ll keep using my oven with normal knobs…

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

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The object in the picture is a monument to man’s hubris.

The other one is a border wall.

Never were.

I travel the world and the seven seas…

Oh I know, but try to put yourself in the mindset of someone who is prevalent to making snap judgments based on aesthetics, who has never actually interacted with any furries, looking at the furry community from the outside.

Exactly, they were like, “shit all the people who know how to actually make computers work hate our fucking guts, how do we seem more friendly to them?”

Alternative interpretation:

This entire incident was a misguided, half-drunk attempt to make the FBI inclusive and welcoming for furries.

I always wanted to be remembered with, “He forgot more things than most people ever knew.”

This is likely to be true, because two of my grandparents had dementia/Alzheimer’s.

Cheer up kitten, one day we will all be mushrooms.

1. The cost of operating these machine learning systems is too high, and the benefit too low:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemmagreen/2026/07/02/ai-costs-more-than-the-people-it-replaced/

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-costs-spiral-as-firms-lose-spending-control/articleshow/131397973.cms

https://cybernews.com/ai-news/ai-token-human-salaries-automation-spending-tech-execs/

2. The most productive thing the current generation of machine learning systems has done is fill the Internet with garbage:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/1971683/ai-is-filling-up-the-internet-with-garbage-spam-sites.html

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/over-50-percent-internet-ai-slop

https://mashable.com/article/ai-generated-internet-era-already-here

3. LLMs are real, AI is fake.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/#llms-are-fake

The current trends in software development are being driven primarily by the interests of venture capitalists who are trying to escape the debts they acquired buying into Web 3.0 (remember Web 3.0?), the Metaverse/VR, and cryptocurrency. They’re looking for the next big get-rich-quick option, and manipulating the market to try and force it to happen. The people making decisions about which projects get funded literally do not care if the end product is useful or destructive or whatever, as long as it looks convincing enough to get other people to buy it. This is why there’s been so much recent hype about “AI” “escaping” its test environments and hacking other companies &etc. It makes the product sound more capable than it is in reality. It’s also why the Trump administration is all-in on “AI” development and actively threatening people who object - because Trump loves a good scam that he can make money off of, and he loves to respond with violence or threats of violence when people get in his way.

The current generation of machine learning models requires vast amounts of input data to achieve useful outcomes. The entire content of the public Internet has already been scraped and ingested. There is no more training data to feed in. The current systems will gain marginal improvements in efficiency and in focusing the models to perform better at certain tasks, but that will be it. They will not magically become capable of learning new tasks for which there is not millions of data points for training. The training is done, refining is in progress, but there will not be any major leaps in capability. There certainly won’t be a general artificial intelligence.

Maybe the next generation of machine learning will produce software that can teach itself without an Internet’s worth of input data. That will happen after the current market implodes, and another generation or two of research and development is completed.

Perhaps there is some value in the current generation as you say. Whatever the benefit of it might be, the cost is far too high. It is not and never will be worth the damage being done to the Internet, the economy, human society, and the environment we all live in.

And I haven’t even gotten into generative models being used to create child exploitation material, run massive scam operations, produce massive amounts of propaganda, or enable the authoritarian surveillance state. This stuff is trash, the people in charge of the development are trash, the people peddling it are trash, the people funding it are trash, and the people that support it are trash.

Get correct.

Only one?

Time enjoyed is not time wasted.

Ah yes, I would like to pay $30,000 to have a surveillance device in my home, connected to the public internet. Microphones, cameras, probably sonar, maybe lidar and radar, plus a half dozen different communication antennas, on a platform that can move around my home while I’m not there and interact with things, controlled by some underpaid, overworked contractor in India. Surely the cybersecurity will be perfect, and no one will ever breach the teleoperation system and use the surveillance device to spy on people or actively commit crimes.

Same model as Waymo, 1 operator for a dozen-ish remote devices.

I miss when the web was mostly HTML with the occasional picture. JavaScript was a mistake.

Sell them as scrap metal? Or are you actually finding buyers for individual cables?

https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/