beejjorgensen

@beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t, unfortunately. I still have an old Smart TV that isn’t too offensive and doesn’t show me ads. If it starts showing me ads sometime, then it’s gone. But I’m not really a videophile and I’ll watch shows on anything so I haven’t really looked at what’s better, only at what’s cheapest. I do hear it can be tricky because the commercial displays are meant to be brighter than TVs and maybe it can be hard to get them dialed in the way you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Last I looked, we could still buy commercial displays. They’re dumb TVs. They cost more, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal -- [Opinion]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If the President controls the Press, and arguably Trump does, the US is in big trouble. It’s grim.

  And yes, we can do all that stuff to fix it, but let’s be honest: we (as a country) are not going to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal -- [Opinion]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The one thing I like with Lemmy and Mastodon (and decentralized in general) is that there’s no economic incentive to push echo chamber/inflammatory stuff. Doesn’t mean it can’t be there, of course, but at least there’s no one making more money by pushing it in my face. My feeds are tame and boring compared to those on “algorithmic” social media. And that’s how I like it. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like with spam and its basically zero conversion rate, yes. But I’ve seems to remain clear of it in the tags I follow. So far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just hope that the fediverse stays small enough to remain an undesirable target for AI slop mongers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Is Flooding Medium⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the difference is scale. Before it was x% of humanity making shitting opinions where x < 100. Now it’s x% of humanity+AI, where x is, say, 100,000% of humanity. I don’t think we’re currently equipped to separate the wheat from that much chaff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Sells Fake, Dead Toshiba Hard Drives as New: Detailed Inspection &amp; Proof of Their Scam⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yikes. Back to Newegg for me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If you want to have a good party, ask your friends not to take photos’: Carissa Véliz, expert in ethics applied to technology, advocates for a system of digital anonymity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was in college we had disposable film cameras. That was more than enough intrusion, thank you very much. I’ve always been incredibly happy that we did not have digital cameras in those years. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Question. Will the people that have to wait until 70 to get Social Security ever get what they paid in to it back out before they die since men's life expectancy is only 77 now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can start collecting at 62 and get 70% of your computed payout, which I will be doing.

  The math is too hard for me given inflation and all that, but since social security rarely seems to have enough money, I’d guess they’re still paying out more than they take in…?