LupusBlackfur

😂 🤣

Yeah, mine did too…

I updated the “entertainment deck” to a unit with aux, usb, sd card, and Android Auto (which is what I really wanted).

All good!!

Have dog, considered same.

But, I live alone and don’t bother to vacuum everyday.

Haven’t yet found the cost/benefit to be worth it. 🤷‍♂️

Ya know…

Regardless of the truth/validity of this particular item (I’ve certainly no love for Meta)…

After a long run with Google, it strikes me a bit sad that I now find myself at a point where the phrase “Google says” causes me to instantly question the validity, sanity, and value of whatever that phrase is referencing.

Sad that Google has brought me to this point. “Don’t be Evil” has fallen a loooong way.

Oh, look…!!

Yet another good reason I’ll not buy a new car. 🙄

Perfectly happy with my current 03 model thank you…

Not trying to make this sound like nyah, nyah or anything…

But here’s where I’m glad I never got into that genre of “robotic” assistants. Happy to clean my floors by hand, thank you.

Wonder what kind of illumination this situation might be shining on the current “AI assistant” craze…?? 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️

Good.

For once, hit 'em with a fine for each and every instance of infringement.

Not one of those bullshit “all in one” fines either.

Make it count or it’s meaningless.

And, how much of the masses of data they’ve stolen from those systems has/will be left “somewhat less than totally secure”…

Available to the rest of the world.

🤔

Largest data breach in history, conducted in broad daylight, by some of the most untrustworthy data usurpers (AI’s, crypto’s, etc) available.

🤦‍♀️

There’s tesla buyers who dont even know who musk is or what he does/owns.

Citation??

Or, you just guessing based on the sentence that follows… 🤔

I’d bet significant money that 99.999% of rational car-buying adults know the relationship Musk/Tesla. 🤷‍♂️

Welp…

Guess they don’t really need to confirm that which is blatantly obvious to the casual observer…

🤷‍♂️ 🤦‍♀️ 🤷‍♂️

+1 for LibreWolf. Dialy driver and not looking back.

Ice Raven on Android.

Looks like Mozilla has decided they can no longer ignore the money they can gain from having more and more data to sell.

Joining Google on the ad/data sales Evil Side.

🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ 🖕

Used ThinkPad’s are pretty common on Ebay.

They’re what I use. Also with Debian.

“Recent” is a factor of how much you’re willing to shell out.

$300.00USD will get you a good Debian compatible box. You may want to then replace the battery and/or add RAM. Those are both found inexpensively also.

Not just computers…

As a septuagenarian, started very early as a voracious reader. Usually in bed before sleep. Often by flashlight.

Needed correction for nearsightedness by age 10.

Saw a study recently that attributed significant amounts of reading as a possible/likely cause… Tend to believe. This study seems to come to same/similar conclusion. Also tend to believe.

Can never be certain, but… 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ 🤔

“will eventually roll into a subscription model”…

At which point I will happily cease and forego any/all use of Kindle.

Sunk costs and all.

🖕 🖕

🤔

Dewey Decimal applied life-wide…

Could be useful… Could be over-complicating…

🤔

Pfft…

Good job.

The “one liner” thing is entirely overrated.

Honestly, who the fuck cares…?? 🤷🤷

+1

In the world I want to live in…

Google would have taken a principled stand against such an attempt at a govt.

Instead, they bent the knee along with every other Tech Oligarch and, therefore, deserve the hit.

Whew…

Lotta words for a semantics quibble that amounts to a distinction without a difference… 🤷‍♂️

If there existed any valid reasoning for the change… 🤷‍♂️

But the Felon Dicktater is only doing it so he can claim himself architect of global geographic change. Same reason he wants Greenland, Panama, Gaza, etc.

Fuck that.

I back Sheinbaum on this one. Won’t matter, but do it anyway.