Phen
@Phen@lemmy.eco.br
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 16 hours ago:
Guns getting sucked into MRI machines is a recurring news story at this point.
- Comment on SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S 16 hours ago:
How big is the battery on the legion go? The deck’s battery drains so quickly I wouldn’t be surprised if it couldn’t last 7 hours even in the home screen.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 16 hours ago:
Search WAS good when it was a simple search. Sites were indexed by the search engine and if you searched for the words you wanted to find, the results would be exactly that. In that context, it worked perfectly.
But the problem was that most people used search engines in a different way. They weren’t searching for specific content, but searching for answers to questions. And for that, search engines would only show results that had that same question and then you’d need to hope that the question had been answered.
Over time, search engines kept shifting into trying to better support the questions and answers format, making the basic content search worse as a result. Where we are now, neither or them works too well. Google is now better at understanding what people are trying to search, but worse at finding it.
AI is just expanding this with yet another layer: it might make Google better at understanding what you search and maybe even might be better at finding it than the engine is now, but it’ll add the ability to misinterpret the results too.
Honestly I’d be pretty happy if I had a simple indexed search again.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 17 hours ago:
I wonder how high it needs to be to get to that point.
- Comment on [deleted] 18 hours ago:
But if she breaks up with him, then he’s the first to go.
- Comment on ONE PIECE: Season 2 | Special Announcement | Netflix 1 day ago:
Not sure if you’re just joking, but that’s just the date for the Netflix event where they’ll maybe give the show’s air date.
- Comment on Yes 3 days ago:
I think that’s the same key I had memorized when I worked for a sketchy PC repair place as a teen.
- Comment on Year of our Lord 1195 4 days ago:
In the greentext itself I got quite confused with the multiple pronouns and terms. I’m still not sure if it’s meant to be a trans women who’s saying that they are out in their assigned gender, or just a trans men.
My confusion comes from the fact that they seemed to appreciate being called “ladyship” but then mention they are in boymode.
- Comment on Year of our Lord 1195 5 days ago:
Modern? It’s over 800 years old.
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 1 week ago:
You can always try to memorize some key phrases, like:
“did you see that ludicrous display last night?”
- Comment on What are some of your unpopular opinions, hot takes about series, streaming services, the wider industry etc? 1 week ago:
Black Sails was the best action show that nobody watched.
And I can say that with all the confidence of someone who never watched any other action show.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
And treating grown ups like kids is useful sometimes too!
- Comment on HBO Go HBO Now HBO Max Max Is Changing Its Name to HBO Max 1 week ago:
Streaming service formerly known as HBO Max is changing its name to HBO Max.
- Comment on EA employees "upset and confused" at return to office mandate 1 week ago:
That’s just one of several possible reasons. None of them are better tho.
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ‘Hey, Copilot!’ in Windows 1 week ago:
Next they’ll make it pop-up on its own like Clippy used to do, offering “useful” help based on the context of whatever you’re doing.
You click on a link to an article in Firefox, 3 seconds later copilot opens edge with a summary of that article ready for you to “save time reading”.
“Follow me for more glimpses of the upcoming hell.”
- Comment on Github keeps shoving copilot everywhere. 2 weeks ago:
- Can my coffee maker make tea instead?
That is a very good question and good on you for looking for healthier options for hot drinks. In short: yes, your coffee maker can make tea. For that you need to turn it upside down and toggle on the “use herbs” button.
- I don’t see such a button.
Ah, that’s a classic case of coffee makers not showing their buttons on the external side. You’ll need to open up the equipment and press the internal button with a screwdriver. Would you like some help opening it? I can make you a detailed guide about how to turn screws if you like.
- I’ve opened it. There’s no button. There’s no sort of control of anything for different types of drinks.
Ah, that narrows it down quite a bit. What you’ll need to do is buy several pieces of equipment and install a custom built module for turning coffee into tea. I can help you build a list of the most efficient parts to acquire for this. Would you like to start this project now?
- Comment on It's My Nature 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Uncultured 2 weeks ago:
Do I get a pass if English is not my first language?
No, before now I did not know the name for it in my first language either.
- Comment on Anon takes the last bus 2 weeks ago:
Plus that’s not the total distance, the bus drove for a while before they got off.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 2 weeks ago:
For a while, burning CDs was my way of keeping backup of stuff. I might still have a bunch of them stored somewhere and if I still had any way to read them I would be picking them up right now to see which ones still worked and if there was anything interesting in there.
- Comment on Forced to lie on a questionnaire 2 weeks ago:
And I never understood how to use it. If I click on a Google result from Pinterest I’m always taken to something completely different.
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2 2 weeks ago:
Now that you mention it, I remember that I would play it with mouse + controller for some reason (back at 1.0), not sure why I picked that as the best way to play but there was probably something bad about using the keyboard and also something bad about not using a mouse.
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2 2 weeks ago:
The slow movement is what kept me from playing it forever. I know there’s mods that improve it, but I wish the base speed would be higher.
Back at 1.0 launch it also had a bug where walking diagonally was even slower, so that may have affected my judgment as well - it was fixed after a week or so.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
They could simply have the pals hold on to gliders that the players can use and nothing would change in the gameplay…
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 3 weeks ago:
Brazil’s “new” plug (two decades maybe) is pretty good. Doesn’t have any of the problems you mentioned. It’s similar to one used by a few other countries around Europe.
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 3 weeks ago:
Well, search is the one thing that AI is doing somewhat well at least.
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 3 weeks ago:
B) 60% because I’m generally very lucky.
- Comment on I am sick of seeing the rich and powerful on my screen. Where are all the TV shows about normal people? 3 weeks ago:
Here it is:
That was a joke due to the English name, but Brazil is actually pretty good at making shows and movies about normal, ordinary people.
- Comment on This is a photo of irony. 3 weeks ago:
Ah, shit, I forgot she actually specified “take that flight” in it.
(my comment was supposed to be only a joke, but yeah it doesn’t work as I had intended)
- Comment on This is a photo of irony. 3 weeks ago:
The examples in the song are ironic, she just does not include enough details to clarify it. For example, an old man was afraid to fly so he took the train instead. And an unrelated plane crashed into it, killing him. He died on a plane crash due to avoiding planes. Ironic as fuck.