Yeah, I can also see how somebody who might see a use for AI in their own field isn’t exactly for up it stealing work in theirs or others.

There’s a difference between “hey, we can train/build this tool to be useful to us” versus “we’re cool with it ingesting everything and barfing out cat pictures”

Or if just looking for a solution too music, Finamp is pretty good as well

A lot of those people (racist supremacist etc assholes) were also fucking “the help”, and even back then I’m pretty sure it wasn’t considered socially acceptable to fuck animals, nor would anyone ever expect progeny to happen from such. That kinda defeats the argument of non-whites being another species or non-human etc, so it’s more “they’re not human when it comes to rights but human enough for everything else”

I kinda feel it does make sense, though perhaps not so strongly as the parent indicated. Young brains are more malleable - that’s pretty much a known thing - and learning at a young age sets in high knowledge and patterns of learning that follow us through adulthood.

If one learns a certain thing from a young age and it’s pretty much been driven in multiple ways - indoctrination whether intentional or otherwise - that’s a lot of stuff that’s been set pretty hard. Even it somebody is actively aware it’s bad it can be hard to adjust one’s inclination towards a certain way of thinking.

I’m not trying to make excuses for racism - because frankly a lot of those people don’t even try to adjust their thinking - but breaking free from one’s upbringing is not a small hurdle and I’d put it in similar terms to breaking a bad addiction.

I got “one way” reflective film for the window that gets the most sun exposure and it definitely makes a difference, ones provides privacy during the day while still letting me see outside

Hopefully also as a supported option to the existing phones. I’ve got a Fold and switching is sounding pretty good right now…

I’m kinda surprised that these things aren’t being stripped for parts by meth-heads TBH

Glad to see somebody else notice this. I find getting a large plastic cup with these “disintegrate halfway though” paper straws bloody ridiculous.

I never had an issue with the paper cups. He’ll, I’d be more than happy if more places offered discounts to fill your own and I could just keep a clean tumbler in my bag/car.

If you’re willing to wade into FB Marketplace there’s also a lot of mini Dell/HP PC’s - probably retired business workstations - out there for cheap with 8-16GB of RAM.

They make dandy TV boxes of mini homelab hosts

Yeah it looks made me disappointed I never acquired any to share with friends and family

So basically the chocolatey version of the infamous sugar-free Haribo gummy bears?

He’s a pretty good example of chaotic good in this case

Not just AI. Many of these companies are also very entrenched in Cloud Services and have pushed cloud/subscription only models as a perpetual source of income.

By manipulating the supply chain to push up the prices of hardware, it’s similar to how buying up the housing market allows incumbents to squeeze out competitors and ensure that they control how much “rent” people have to pay

I’m in that ballpark (ok a bit over).

I’m in that vicinity (ok a bit last) and I think it kinda depends on what you’re doing. Talking to anyone about the latest meme/influencer BS will quickly make my head want to explode, but then again so does taking to prior my own age or older who engage in social-media-spawned politics.

But I also host people in the teens to early 20’s, and I absolutely love engaging with them in activities. Suddenly, those sites you’ve already seen a hundred times and stopped noticing become kinda new again.

It kinda goes the other way around too. There are many things I do that may beyond the means of younger people, especially stuff that involves technology which has massively jumped in cost these last few years (thanks AI tech-bros) but I’d already had before. They get to enjoy some of the stuff I like without having to front the cost-of-entry, and I get to enjoy sharing. Heck, even stuff like certain repairs/renos/shop-work can be interesting to somebody whose never had the opportunity to go hands-on.

I might not have the energy to do all the late night social stuff that somebody half my age does, but I do have the resources and energy-drinks to host a periodic late-night movie-watch, LAN-gaming session, aurora-hunting, how-to-do-X or various other stuff that we can all enjoy.

I think the biggest hurdle these days is allowing people across ages to find mentors without running into (or seeming like) creeps.

No, I got an error a bunch of times and it didn’t seem to actually post

Yeah, cameras should almost always be on a segregated network, preferably with port-security. The NVR may need to connect to the Internet for updates - assuming one can’t just upload that via the UI - but that’s about it.

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Man, this really makes me wish we had a more modern or powerful successor to the PinephonePro (that I could actually order from outside the EU)

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