They just get endless redirects now.

Beautiful. The thought of all those robots.txt ignoring theft bots running in circles made me smile. Thank you.

At lest my speling is gue enuf too write “Facebook is shit”.

Nah. We would have to add patriot dollars that can be spent on freedom necessities, instead. We don’t tolerate communism.

feels like I’m escorting a little celebrity.

Especially if they have tiny carts for the little celebrity to push. It was fun to watch the entire check -out line briefly grind to a halt due to cuteness overload.

Right. All this consideration of medium-term consequences for decisions is why Lemmy isn’t ready to build a CEO LLM, yet.

Noisy shareholders want a briefly increased stock price, not a long term investment.

Edit: I’m not sure this is even sarcasm. The world is just a deeply stupid place, today.

There is a pretty good chance that Satya goes first.

It really might be an improvement.

Totally random behavior would likely outperform optimizing for the next quarter share price.

If an AI simply fails to commit to various wasteful hype trends (return to office, DEI policy rollbacks, needless investment in AI) the company run by it might well outperform companies run by humans who jump on those trends.

Well…I do now.

What if being offline for a very long duration of time - means that when connecting it again - the firmware update bricks my TV?

We don’t see many updates that outright brick your product (yet). What we do see is updates that just happen to make your product run much slower than it used to. There’s always excuses why it is necessary, but in the end those updates tend to lead to sales of new devices.

Keeping the device fully offline is a defense against such an update.

Myself, I don’t see any reason for my TV to ever be online, so I take some comfort that it will not receive such an update.

Oh, the data center? Yes. That, too.

Haha. Thanks!

I try to apply Wil Weaton’s law as consistently as I can.

Also I forget who said it but I ask myself “would am asshole say that?” and if so, I try to say something else.

The faking it part is weird, since it applies to everyone I interact with, for different reasons:

• Coworkers - I just need to earn money to buy stuff. Plus, they’re just in the same boat.
• Staff at places I shop - they’re just trying to get by, and don’t need my crap to make their day worse.
• Actual friends - they probably don’t realize how much I appreciate them, so every little bit helps.

I guess my philosophy is we’re all going through some shit, so I hope I’m making it a little easier where I can.

(there’s always the next bullshit hype)

We should get that printed on some shirts to wear to meetings.

Surely this will turn out well.

I’ve had the privilege to watch people who intentionally pissed off lawyers to try to make a quick extra buck.

Interestingly, the lawyers promptly pursued legal action, and everyone agreed to settle out of court for some reason…

It almost felt like fucking with someone on their home court is a stupid move.

Hell I’m at a point of commit very wrong code to GitHub under an MIT license just to start poisoning Copilot.

I’m way ahead of you. To…uh…poison the AI…not just because a bunch of my code is shit…

Here’s some ways I can relate:

• I would rather not talk unnecessarily at work.
• But I am aware that I occasionally come across as rude, abrasive or disdainful.

I found that people began to forgive my occasional accidental rudeness after I built up habits for myself to proactively communicate to others that I like them.

Now I have a whole set of habits that don’t take me much energy to apply, and make others feel likes by me. It helps tremendously when I later put my foot in my mouth, which I still sometimes do.

I don’t mean to imply that is your situation. It was my situation, at a time when I felt as you do now.

The habits I developed:

• I’m the first person to greet someone when they come in for the day. Bright smile, bright tone. I’m mostly acting, but people just like being greeted.
• I invite folks to grab lunch together. My rule is to never go out for lunch, without extending one invite. I’m pretty random about it, so I eventually get to know everyone. I don’t talk much, so people see me as a great listener. I have learned since that I sometimes makes someone’s day, when they’re the only person I invited.
• I thank people for doing the bare minimum as demanded by their job. I don’t mention the “bare minimum” part. I just say “thank you” anyway. This one still sometimes irks me, but it costs very little and sometimes I’m the only kind person they run into on what turned out to be a really rough day for them.

This list might sound condescending, it’s not meant to be. I had to intentionally thoughtfully build up some habits that others seem to have known how to do since childhood.

Markor is a handy fast Android note taking app with Markdown and todo.txt support.

Since everything it creates are text files, it pairs well with various file syncing apps recommend in this thread.

Breakout71

I could not believe I didn’t find this fun free gem sooner. I’ll let the description from F-Droid explain the details:

This is a roguelike twist on the original Breakout formula: The goal is to catch as many coins as possible during 7 levels. Coins appear when you break bricks. They fly around, bounce and roll, and you need to catch them with your paddle. At the end of the level, you get to pick upgrades. There are 50+ different upgrades that impact the gameplay in various ways. Many upgrades will impact your combo, that’s the number of coins spawned for each brick broken. Your “combo” is displayed on your paddle. Your score is displayed in the top right corner of the screen. Oh, and don’t miss the ball, you don’t have extra lives.

Dino (for desktop) pairs nicely with Conversations for Android (mobile).

For a few brief beautiful moments, I assumed you were talking about the firmware running on the Fisher Price toy.

As your answer included more details, my understanding became a delightful confusion and then realization.

Also, all three pictured devices are probably running Linux… Or at least could.