tomiant

I’ve been saying this for yeeears. People shouldn’t be near as afraid of AI as they should be of the people in charge of it.

How out of the loop are you people? That has been a thing for a while, we’ve got more than a handful high profile AI religions and cults out there already…

The vast majority of conversations I have with people on a daily basis are on an order of magnitude more moronic than the ones I have with AI. So that also plays a part.

Not really. A mirror shows an actual reflection of yourself. An AI response is a highly curated version of a particular subset of ideas, in fact, the more I think about it the more this analogy straight up implodes.

You make it sound as if every system is perfectly equal, and that all humans are the same, and that nothing we choose or decide matters at all and that the only form of existence is the one we are seeing right now.

Jesus christ if this was a film you’d happily be hooked up to a bunch of tubes in a goo pod pretending you’re free.

He threatened to sue that guy.

Here’s one of the Elon jet trackers on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ElonJetTracker/

I liked being able to accidentally brush up against my headphones or putting them down for a moment without them turning off my music.

This is the route I went years ago. Not only do i not feel like lugging around an obnoxiously long buttonless 1kg remote control, within two months the display will be shattered because I sneezed, and I will have to buy a new one because replacing the screen costs as much as a new phone.

I know they do that shit by design. Why would the back side of the phone need to be made of fucking glass? It’s literally the only reason I ever buy new phones, the screen is the only thing that ever breaks, and they never survive long enough to be “too old” to use.

None of those have worked for me on Android since a couple of months.

Firefox with uBlock Origin is the last bastion, and don’t think that’s not on their radar.

My suspicion is that the main purpose of Googles decision is to stop F-Droid and Aurora Store from working.

“No” is what I would prefer to say but for some reason “that is extremely unlikely” hits the point home harder.

You can research a phone you like and check if it has an unlockable bootloader, root it, and install something like LineageOS on it. It’s fairly straight-forward, not super technically demanding, but it does require some tinkering and time setting up.

xdaforums.com is where the rooting kids hang out, post guides for specific models, upload images et c, you can probably do it in an afternoon with GPT.

The issue is that some apps, notably banking and official type apps, usually don’t work as they rely on google services for operation. I solve it by having a cheap secondary phone that I only use for that stuff.

Oh, I almost forgot: FUCK YOU GOOGLE

It’s a bottle of vaseline. What’s the weird-out?

How this isn’t obvious and something we should collectively want is beyond me. We really don’t fucking need more than 8 billion people. I don’t think we need more than 1, and even that is pushing it.

I like being able to give instructions without having to poke a damn screen.

So they just trim the instructions so it doesn’t take joke orders, so it can make more reasonable decisions, like:

“May I take your order?”

“Two double whoppers with extra mayo and a chocolate cherry banana sundae”

“Oh you’ve GOTTA be joking!”

Royale with cheese, fries with mayonnaise, and a beer. And no plastic cup either, but a glass of beer.

Yeah, I can’t get over people scoffing at AI as if it isn’t improving by the day, and fast.

Aye, it be true. It done been like the man say’th!

You were also able to type out a message and send it using a single hand, you only needed to recharge the phone once a week, and it didn’t shatter like an icicle if you so much as sneezed at it, it was cheap and it didn’t spy on you. Smart phones is the dumbest thing that happened to humanity.