Opinionhaver
@Opinionhaver@feddit.uk
Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.
I say unpopular things but never something I know to be untrue. Always open to hear good-faith counter arguments. My goal is to engage in dialogue that seeks truth rather than scoring points.
- Comment on [deleted] 21 hours ago:
Well, I say sorry, please, and thank you to ChatGPT knowing perfectly well that it means nothing to it. You’re just further down the same spectrum. Is what you’re doing a bit weird? Sure - but it’s not hurting anyone, so I’d say go for it. The worst possible reason to stop would be fear of judgment from others. I see AI companions kind of like online dating: the early adopters are seen as odd, but give it a decade and most people will be doing it.
Also, as I’m sure you know, Lemmy has a disproportionate number of AI haters in its user base, so don’t expect the responses here to reflect mainstream attitudes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Nearly all public mixed saunas - even in Finland - require you to wear a swimsuit. It’s mostly among friends and family that people go to the sauna naked when both sexes are present.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
As a Finn I’d say that being naked in the sauna is a tradition - not a rule. I don’t go gatekeeping on people based on what they wear or not. If someone feels uncomfortable with nudity, then wear a swimsuit. I’d rather have them join in the sauna wearing that than not coming at all.
- Comment on Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown | CNN Business 3 days ago:
What a trash article. The writer’s personal opinion on AI couldn’t be coming any more clearly through. Just give me the fact - I don’t need to be told what to think.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 4 days ago:
If someone claims to care about the climate, then using wireless charging makes them kind of a hypocrite. I asked ChatGPT to do some back-of-the-envelope math - so take these numbers with a grain of salt - but if everyone in the world switched to wireless charging, it would increase global energy consumption by around 12 TWh per year. That’s roughly equivalent to the total power usage of a small country like Iceland.
- Comment on ChatGPT is shifting rightwards politically 4 days ago:
If a system has an inherent left-leaning bias by design, which I’d argue ChatGPT does - or atleast did, then correcting that by definition means shifting towards the right. That still doesn’t mean it becomes “right wing” unless they over-correct.
- Comment on Short attention span 6 days ago:
Man… I think I saw this (music?) video where that picture is from like over 20 years ago when me and my dad went to buy something from a stranger and his daughter was watching the TV and showed her dad this scene. I don’t know why, but that moment stuck with me for some reason and now here it is again decades later. Where is this from?
- Comment on Thicc 6 days ago:
Unless you’re doing heavy squats atleast twice a week you’re not thicc.
- Comment on I hate the modern web 6 days ago:
I get this too from time to time and usually refreshing my VPN fixes it. This is a bug of somekind.
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 1 week ago:
So you do go to gym
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 1 week ago:
The biggest issue with working out at home is that people simply don’t do it. They think they do but they dont. I’ve yet to meet a fit person that doesn’t go to gym, but hey - maybe you’re the first one. Or maybe you should just go to the gym.
- Comment on How did you guys get your fediverse real-time notifications to work? 1 week ago:
I didn’t and neither should you. You’re probably checking the app a dozen times a day anyway - isn’t that enough?
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 1 week ago:
Zero percent chance of that happening. C’moon now…
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 2 weeks ago:
The Linux community here on Lemmy is extremely helpful but as a complete novice I’ve found ChatGPT to be quite useful tool for this as well. I can ask it how to do something and if I run into trouble I can just take a picture of the terminal window and it’ll tell me where the issue is.
People would probably advice not to insert code into terminal, given by an LLM that you don’t even understand but the alternative is to put that same blind faith onto a stranger on a messaging board. In my experience the options are either to do that or not use Linux at all - unless you first spend few years learning it all yourself.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a huge gamer myself but the handful of games I do like to play every now and then all run on Linux.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 2 weeks ago:
What a coinsidence - I stopped supporting it too!
- Comment on How would "banning encryption" even work in practise? 2 weeks ago:
Would detecting that encrypted traffic be obvious or can you only see it after you start looking? So in other words, could the ISP just rat out on everyone who they detect using encryption or is that something that could only be proven by looking at the logs after you’re already under investigation?
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- Comment on How would we choose a "world language" in a fair way, for a hypothetical one world government? 2 weeks ago:
but its problematic since that is like telling the world that British Imperialism is somehow “okay”
…what?
Obviously english would be the choice as it has the largest amount of speakers. I know it’s not the most common language spoken natively but there are more people in the world that knows atleast some english compared to languages like chinese or spanish.
- Comment on Spain to impose massive fines for not labelling AI-generated content 2 weeks ago:
Applies to companies, not private individuals.
- Comment on Is it arson to pour water on a Tesla and it catches on fire? 2 weeks ago:
By pointing to this post.
- Comment on How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think they do. No military would buy such things. The way they prevent their own gun from being used against them is buy making the export models inferior to that of their own. Same applies to Abrams tanks too.
- Comment on Why do American leftists support / defend dictatorships? 3 weeks ago:
…asked the 16 hour old account with no other post history.
- Comment on How did you get your job? 3 weeks ago:
I odered thousands of flyers from online printing service and every time my phone stops ringing I hop on my bike and go stuffing them in the mailboxes of the houses near me. That’s how I’ve gotten 80% of my customers. The rest have found me on Facebook or gotten recomendations from previous customers.
- Comment on How did you get your job? 3 weeks ago:
Same response as last time: I didn’t get it - I created it. I’m a self-employed contractor.
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve got one too!
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 3 weeks ago:
Samsung somehow managed to include removable battery, a headphone jack and SD card slot in the XCover 6 Pro while maintaining ip67 rating and a price of under 700 euros. I’m sure they’ll be able to figure it out.
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t really care. I have nothing against amazon.
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve ordered from Amazon once. That’s the only occasion I’ve used any of their services. I’m not intentionally avoiding them, I just don’t have the need for any of it. I’ve always just used ebay and Aliexpress instead.
- Comment on The landlord special 3 weeks ago:
Probably so, but that still doesn’t justify it in my view. There are better ways to handle this. For example, they could inform the customer that the issue needs to be addressed before they proceed, offer to mask the control panel themselves for an extra charge, or simply ask if the customer really wants them to paint over it - which they almost certainly don’t.
Doing subpar work under a “not my job” mentality isn’t just unprofessional - it displays poor character.