I think it depends how rich you are.

I wonder how long until someone hacks one and goes on a murder-robot rampage. . ?

Yeah but ppl are on bluesky

And when they get hacked, people will be able to do mass shootings from the comfort of their own homes. That’s what I call progress!

I don’t use apple products, but I understand their M1 chips are good.

Using AI systems to optimise other AI systems - it’s for shit like this we are boiling the fuckin oceans lol. But I’d probably try to do the same.

It would have to be a very high cliff.

I kind of think that someone who relies on this 100% of the time maybe shouldn’t have a pet. Pets need company and affection. I mean, I’d love to get a dog again but now I’m just working too much and it wouldn’t be fair.

Yeah it’s a shame, I’d be up for some augmented reality. Except it would mostly be ads, and too many people can’t be trusted not to be pervy with the cameras.

Same as me, except I never went back. I don’t spend as much time here as I used to on reddit, but most of that was wasted time anyway.

Yeah, look at Zuckerberg, who recently burned billions on his crappy virtual reality project, and is now doing the same with AI.

TBF we already have hugely invasive surveillance, at least here in the UK. Successive governments have cut policing and invested in cameras instead. It hasn’t made us safer, but we kind of got boiled-frogged into living in a panopticon. There was a bit of negative publicity recently about use of facial recognition at choke-points like major public transport hubs - but it never really went anywhere. Make people feel scared and they will give up their rights for the illusion of security.

Yeah, right. My boss gave me a bunch of risk assessments to read through and let slip that AI had ‘helped’ produce them. So I said I’d get AI to summarise them. All this vast computing power and climate damage is being used for bullshit.

Ah, sorry that didn’t even occur to me, thanks for the info.

I’m one of em. Finally listened to the linux evangelists on here and put mint on my laptop a few months ago. I’m not a very technical person but installation was a piece of piss, and setting everything up was easy too. Didn’t have to use command line once. Feels like I’ve got my laptop back, was hardly using it before because windows 11 was such a fuckin pain in the arse.

Yeah, I get the impression newer cars are designed to fail just outside warranty because the car companies make more on the dealerships repairs then they do on the sale of the car.

I guess maybe microwaves are not on the list because they have big meaty capacitors that could be holding a charge still?

Yeah this could be great. Part of my job involves clearing up fly tip, dumped rubbish, and a shit load of it is electric appliances. Most people don’t know how to use a multimeter, but you only need to know someone who does.

Maybe there’s a fab shop by you that could print the part? Or a local enthusiasts group or something? Never used one so no idea of price but small part, prob not too expensive. I guess finding the part spec would be the challenge. Maybe they can scan the broken one or something. I actually have no clue about 3d printing so this may not be a helpful suggestion 🤷

Fuck sake. . . In the old days you’d have got a trophy for that.

I wonder what they’d have done if you’d shown ‘Mild satisfaction’ or worse yet, ‘Utter joy’. Probably sent a mod round to crap on your doorstep.