GrindingGears

@GrindingGears@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is the 2020s version of Tulip Mania. It’s just fancy Google that elaborates, but you can’t trust the results it gives you, because it lies worse than my five year old on his way back from a late night trip to the cookie jar. It makes funny pictures of Mario committing 9/11 and all sorts of useless funny stuff that has kids smoking cigarettes at McDonalds with hot dogs for fingers. Which is great and all, but I can’t figure the last time I actually needed a picture of kids smoking cigarettes at McDonalds…

  And it sucks and you can always tell when something’s AI because it’s crap. Boomers can’t, but they also can’t do most other things, so I mean that’s not really a reliable metric of its actual success either.

  Boomer fuel is all it is. The new paperless society. It’s going to take my job, except my job will be on my doorstep a month later begging me to come back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is shifting rightwards politically⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like it’s boomer fuel, this AI. What actual use does it have, like it’s supposed to be changing my life, putting me out of a job, turning all of my hard work into nothing. Robots giving me handjobs and all of that. None of this is happening.

  No, the only thing that is happening, is a bunch of late 50s and 60 year old executives running around at work like a bunch of robots. AI AI AI AI AI AI Beep Beep Boop AI AI AI AI AI AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A former Meta employee reviews the new Facebook memoir⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just actually finished this book, not 10 minutes ago. My overarching TL;DR summary of it, in one sentence is this: For being an international lawyer, she’s pretty naive.

  We all know Facebook is a morally bankrupt circus, that’s been well known for quite some time. The Social Network taught us that he’s a pretty selfish terrible person (plus a weirdo). That movie came out in like, what, 2010? If she thought she could single handedly change this, which she pretty clearly does, the conclusions already written that it’ll be a leopards ate my face moment.

  I’m glad she shared her story, no it’s not fair, and I hope it’s brought her some peace. But I have to be honest that it was a slog getting through that book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yahoo is selling TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s borderline unusable at this point. No one serious uses it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X obtains $44bn valuation in sharp turnaround⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A fool and their money is easily parted. Whoever paid out these kinds of dollars for equity, the rest of the street is lolz at them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says Tesla ‘is the worst in the world’ at improving its technology for drivers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t disagree. Their direction as of late is confusing and seems pretty muddled. But that’s what happens when you have a sigma male at the forfront, who kneejerks their directions around like a toddler with ADD. They need to throw the morons and their board full of grifters overboard, and get back to it. There’s pretty clearly some smart people in that company, that is if they are still there, and probably not likely at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's latest decline could be one for the history books - $795 billion since Dec 17 or 53.7 percent⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even before all of this, with that pay package. WTAF?

  Apparently there’s quite the revolt brewing for their AGM. They probably can’t remove him before hand, because they need to turf the board here as well. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen something like this, arguably if even ever? It’s happened with lots of companies in the past, but not with one this high profile. At least that I can think of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says Tesla ‘is the worst in the world’ at improving its technology for drivers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are going down the toilet, because they are distracted. Look, they were the most reliable EV, and they were at the forefront of the EV revolution. They built the most robust and reliable charging network (one of the key reasons we went with Tesla over Hyundai or other options), and flipped the automotive retail marketplace on their head.

  But they also unfortunately have their hard work and progress overshadowed by a complete narcissistic manchild of a CEO. Who somehow controls the company with only 17% of shares held, who has a corrupt and compromised board on his side that will cater to his every little whims. A CEO who gets distracted, first with this Cybertruck nonsense, then X, then SpaceX, who then derails all innovation and future development with everyone focused on this autopilot distraction, and now all this. If I was a shareholder, I’d be furious. As a customer, I’m not sure I can rely on them anymore (could I ever?), so my future purchasing decisions will be made with that in mind.

  What goes up, must come down I guess. Sigh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says Tesla ‘is the worst in the world’ at improving its technology for drivers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s nice of you to assume that everyone is as rich as all these virtue signalling celebrities. Yes musk is a piece of shit, no I’m not buying another one until they torpedo his ass, yes autopilot is a scam. But I also happen to like the car, it suits our lifestyle the best, it has a five star safety rating and I’m not a Nazi just because I bought a certain kind of car a couple of years ago. Do what you want to the dealers, go after the corporate people, but leave the innocent consumers alone. None of us asked for this shit either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Inflation’s “sticky”. It took 5 years to get rid of COVID-related inflation, and it went up for quite a while before starting to go down. This is quite a bit more substantial, and it will take a long time for the effects on the overall broader economy to recede. The inflation itself will take about 1.5 years to fully work it’s way through the system, but there’s also going to be a larger scale contraction on GDP, which will very likely put the US and many of it’s trade countries into recession as well. This will likely have a negative impact on wages. The US is also very much going to have a supply problem, which is going to then also put upward inflationary pressures on a lot of products.

  Anytime a government interferes or puts in measures that affect trade, positively or negatively, it throws everything out of whack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GameStop selling 500+ stores because of "woke".⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing to do with the fact there’s three Funko pops to every game for sale, and they price their used games pretty much as high as new ones. Not to mention every time I’ve tried to buy a new game there, they then try to sell it to me without the wrapper taking the disc from who knows where.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Facts, amiright!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to undervolt your gpu and change fan curve⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I undervolted my 5800x3d (each core individually) and it cut the temps by quite a bit, without affecting performance. Actually if anything you could say the performance arguably increased because it was no longer the hot little hog it was ootb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to use Chinese giant Alibaba’s AI in iPhones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah so this is why ol Tim was greasing Trump up. I’m sure this will be a hit. What is he going to tarriff next, iPhones?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty gimmicky for sure. The electronic setup on my road bike is pretty finicky too, id rather cables to be honest, but it’s just the way everything is going. It especially sucks when you are at the door all geared up and ready to go, and realize that one of your batteries is dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell it takes me the rightful owner a fair bit of careful maneuvering to get that thing off the bars (my mount needs to be both twisted while having the release latch pressed). Someone would surely be getting a few smacks upside the head as they were trying to do that. A MIPS powered headbutt or two, as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait’ll you find out about ebikes!

  I mean it’s all e-waste at this point. My bikes are all carbon, which ain’t recyclable, plus the shifting is all electronic, and yeah my eMTB is a ticking timebomb that will be otherwise useless if either the battery or motor quits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly with the way the cycling industry has brainwashed most of the bicycle enthusiasts, they will have bought six different bicycles in the time this takes to break.

  Otherwise, your point stands. I’m more of a Garmin Edge guy though, personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 2nd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got super into it in the days after my daughter was born a couple years ago. I had a few weeks off work, so I was letting my wife get some sleep at night and I’d stay up playing Cyberpunk until the baby woke up and needed fed. I’m actually on the last mission on the main campaign, but for some reason still haven’t finished it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple reportedly excited to power Apple Intelligence with DeepSeek⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m so excited!”

  -The Boomers.

  “Meh”

  -Everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game publishers are starting to use "anti-DEI" as a marketing meme⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing screams, “I’m a piece of shit”, like basically putting on blast you are a piece of shit. I, too, never fully agreed with DEI as a whole. But I understand and appreciate the context and the point, and the necessity. It’s nothing to be mocked.

  I also don’t look at the video game industry for inspiration though. Somehow the video game industry has a more rape-y and toxic culture than even the grimiest hockey dressing room. All that incel rage, I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best version of Pandemic boardgame on Android?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You might be able to find the APK somewhere for pandemic. Might not work for the modern android builds, that’s likely what it is. That game was hard a f___.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a Bluesky fan, until it was announced they took money from Bain Capital last week. They’ll quickly be forced into monetization, and enshitification, thanks to their new corporate overlords. Who just happen to be one of the greasiest PE firms in existence.

  Don’t put your blinders on folks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Praise be. By his hand. May the Lord open.

  Gilead voted for this…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sega considering Netflix-like game subscription service⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would personally advise them not to, but Sega was never known as an astute business decision maker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨favourite gameboy family games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always had a soft spot for Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land. Also Tiny Tunes: Babs Big Break. The Final Fantasy Legends games are good too, I particularly liked the second one. The Pokemon games are clutch too. These are all original Gameboy games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Waits Outside Supermarket To Fight Call Of Duty Fan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to read this article, but omg has Kotaku gotten awful. No thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 takes a break on updates until 2025 | Digital Trends⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is the replacement for the paperless society.

  Here we are all these years later of AI changing our lives, yet Google Assistant/Gemini still tells me it’s now streaming Madonna’s Vogue on Spotify, when I ask it to turn the lights on. AI’s chats are still a mix of commonly achievable search results (that you’d have just as quick if you typed it in yourself) and a bunch of mumbo jumbo that’s often quite wrong or misleading. Ask it to spit out a bunch of code, and that code is about as useful as peanut butter on a pile of vomit. Maybe you’ll get it to create a picture of people eating at McDonald’s, except they have beetlejuiced sized heads, Picasso expressions on the faces of the people in the background, and everyone’s got six toes and foot long fingers.

  It’s still quite impressive, don’t get me wrong, but we need to tell the boomers and the stock market that it’s time to take the excitement from a ten, to a two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just one thing I’d like to point out, it looks like that, sure. Notice how it’s missing the entire B pillar? That didn’t burn off, they had to do extensive cutting.

  Also this is how it looked from a side view: toronto.citynews.ca/2024/10/24/…/amp/

  The accident was at high speed. That car is mangled. This is the press making a very big deal out of facts that aren’t entirely straight (there’s no way to open the doors manually! - when there is), and it’s heavily reliant on the words of a 74 year old man who’s feeding into this. It’s definitely food for thought, but it’s also a lot of hysteria.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot of cars that use this same design, which I agree is annoying. I also have a Mini Cooper and it’s the exact same damn problem. It’s always a bugger to wash them too because water gets inside the window trim and then every time you open the door it smears water along the bottom and the top, because the window recesses to be closed.