I never put that together with wardriving but that’s exactly what it is. Thank you for that.
Unrelated story: ~20 years ago I was in the military and broke as hell. I went wardriving in my neighborhood looking for open wifi and found a business not too far away that had it. So I built an antenna out of a coffee can, mounted it up just outside my window, and got free wifi for months.
There’s another reply further down that goes into specifics. I ain’t the one because I didn’t come with receipts and I’m just a drunk.
I wish I could go back in time to warn myself not to read this. The memory of receiving those (and other awful shit) is indelibly marked in my brain.
I do not know how true it is, but I’ve heard that some of them will create a mesh network if your neighbor has the same brand and it’s connected to the internet.
I’ve always meant to look into it but I have big dumb TVs that work for now.
It’s just Shatner, isn’t it? Except even he doesn’t really speak it even though he was in a movie that was entirely Esperanto.
That person is an apprentice.
I removed Gemini and installed assistant. That made it searchable in my app list. Then I just plopped the button on my home screen. When I short press the button it pops up something that asks me to try Gemini, but I just say whatever it is I want and it does it just like it used to in the search bar.
The old assistant wasn’t bad, especially before they put lens in the search widget instead of being off in its own place where it belongs so that I can uninstall it.
I thought Gemini needed 6 more months of development to be ready for prime time. Apparently I wildly underestimated it. Simple tasks barely work and it offloads anything useful to the old assistant anyway.
I set up a separate assistant button because the assistant on the search bar, even without Gemini, only searches now. I use Firefox so I don’t need it for search. I use it to add things to my to do list and to set timers, the only two things voice assistants are good for in my life.
I don’t understand why they won’t just let me use technology the way I want to use it rather than trying to force me to use it their way. Well, I refuse to understand even though I kind of get it (if I used shit the way I wanted they’d never have the opportunity to show me an advertisement).
Edit: clarity
None of who appear to be theirs.
How many cows do they own in East Texas?
I guess it depends on exactly what part. I remember Longview being run by their kind of culty church, but I grew up not far from there and was taught just not to fuck with others for how they live their life.
On the other hand, looking back I realize I also knew a bunch of proto-SovCits and absolute nutjobs growing up so I might have missed shit and gotten lucky with the people who were actually the ones teaching me. Not just my parents, but grandparents and friend’s parents as well. They all wanted to be left alone and to leave others alone. The nutjobs just happened to be nearby and I was just told not to listen to their nonsense.
Anecdotally, there was this old guy named Wizard who used to be into all the crystal clutching bullshit and had somehow reconciled it with his Jesus bullshit. I remember my grandfather telling me that he was insane but not hurting anyone so just leave him be.
Same with most of Harris county.
East Texas was spot on, though.
That’s when it started, but for a long time everyone was still in that “fuck off, I’ll live my life and you live yours” after that. I remember being taught if you don’t like what someone is doing and it doesn’t affect anyone except the person who is doing it, you don’t have to watch them do it. I think the exact phrase was more succinct. That was in the 80s and 90s.
Even when I left the state and came back in the mid to late 00s it was a lot of “mind your own fucking business” as individuals. No one really started saying shit out loud until the mid 2010s that I remember, but suddenly it was everywhere.
Now we still have shit turnout but a lot of really loud morons who were telling everyone to mind their own fucking business 2 decades ago now yelling about trans women and abortion.
I’ve got a mouth like a sailor who stubbed his toe, mostly because I used to be a sailor who stubbed his toe a lot. Between my foul mouth and my either overuse or utter absence of fucking commas depending on how drunk I am I don’t think I’ll ever be mistaken for an LLM.
My boss didn’t need Recall to do that to me a decade ago. He called me out for going offline in our messenger app for an hour after lunch while I was helping another tech sort an emergency for a client from their machine.
I told him that’s fine, I’ll just let everyone know that I won’t be assisting and will show them that email every time anyone asks. He backed off, but not everyone is going to get that lucky to have a complete moron who is going to put dumb shit threats in writing without running it by anyone in legal, HR, or their own boss.
AI photo sorter so I can get rid of old shit I don’t want anymore.
It’s not terrible now, but it’s still not where you’d want it to be. I installed Fedora KDE spin on a surface pro 7 early this year and didn’t lose as much battery as you. Palm rejection is not where it should be but is better than it was 5 years ago with a few tweaks.
I’m not a big tinkerer anymore so someone with time and energy could probably do a better job with it. I think my personal biggest problem is that I did it on an external drive just to test it out and lost interest. I never use the damn thing anyway, Linux or not. I just don’t touch a computer outside of work except for my phone and some mini PCs I’ve set up as gaming consoles.
That’s exactly how I built a retaining wall at my last house. It had rotting railroad ties that I got rid of and I just stacked bags of concrete before it rained. The concrete set, the bags degraded, and I had a cool retaining wall in my back yard.
And ebaum’s world. And rotten. And something awful.