Brandolini’s law, aka the “bullshit asymmetry principle” : the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

Unfortunately, with the advent of large language models like ChatGPT, the quantity of bullshit being produced is accelerating and is already outpacing the ability to refute it.

Have you contacted the operator of the bot?

The L4sBot user bio lists how to get in contact with the handler @[email protected] .

TottalIy agree. i was not impressed with season 1 of Picard. I forced myself to watch season 2 and I almost just quit watching mid season - it just felt like they lost the magic. I wasn’t even going to watch season 3, but then I heard about all the cameos and thought it would be nice to see the old gang back together and it turned out to be the best season of the bunch. Still, Strange New Worlds is lightyears better, imo.

I would NEVER recommend a modern HP printer, but…I have a HP Laserjet 4000 (Circa 1997) that I ‘acquired’ from the company I worked for that went bankrupt.

This thing refuses to die. current impression count is over 500,000 prints. All its patents expired over a decade ago, and it’s still easy to find parts and toner (originals, and now even 3rd party knockoffs). It’s old enough now that modern generic drivers have built in support for it. The only parts I’ve ever had to replace are the rubber sheet feeder rollers which dry out and stop working correctly after 12-15 years.

So, I guess the point here is that some really solid printers were made a couple decades ago, back when manufacturers still took pride in their products, and they are old enough that the hardware is no longer protected by patents (so practically open) and robust driver support without all the bullshit. Picking up something from this era and cleaning it up would come close to satisfying a lot of your requirements.

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They can’t be dumb enough to fall for the sunk cost fallacy can they? I think it must be something else.

It comes across as if it was a business decision without regard for their customers…without the basic understanding that their customers ARE their business.

Some were produced that were claimed to be dimmable - and I wasted my money on a few and was still unhappy with them. The other problem I forgot to mention earlier was the startup time: the earlier bulbs (and the cheaper ones) wouldn’t just ‘turn on’ when the power was turned on…they took some time to start making light, and the colder it was the longer it took - this is an aspect where LEDs are amazing - maximum brightness within milliseconds of getting energized.

One problem is that CFL bulbs is that they contain small amounts of mercury (about 4mg per bulb). Because of that, disposing of them responsibly requires going through big hassles rather than just throwing them in the trash. Also, because of that mercury, accidentally breaking one means contamination of the environment around the break.

Flickering - always was a big problem for these things.

Longevity: They were very sensitive to heat, which meant that they loved to burn themselves up in a lot of applications.

Dimming: CFLs were NEVER good at being dimmable.

CFL was just a very poor technology detour on the way to the vastly superior LED lights.

Do you sanction all theft, or just theft of things you personally disapprove of?

I haven’t seen this issue reported here yet, but it is a reported and tracked issue against lemmy-ui on github. It was introduced in version 0.18.3, which a lot of instances are just upgrading to (or have just upgraded to).

Here’s a link to the tracked issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1999

How long have you had the dog?

I’m still rocking the v60 also. LG started packing a world class DAC into their smartphones back with the LG v35 and kept it going all the way to their pinnacle (the v60). The v35, the v60, and everything in between had audio superiority that still hasn’t been beaten by other modern flagships.

I’m going to be inconsolable when my v60 finally needs replacing.

Maybe I am in the minority but I’ll never need an aux jack again

There is still significant lag for bluetooth audio on both ios and android platforms. It’s doesn’t really impact calling, and it doesn’t really impact watching video content (because they figured out how to measure that latency in real time and inject artificial delay into the video stream so that audio and video sync). But what they haven’t figured out yet is the answer for bluetooth audio for gaming. When gaming, you can’t arbitrarily delay the video feed so that it lines up with audio, so the bluetooth audio experience is complete dogshit for any gaming scenario. If you game, you have to use the physical cable or the constant audio lag will drive you mad.

Also, there used to be (still are) a fair number of accessories designed to work through the aux port. Examples: mobile credit card readers that connect through aux jack (like square/paypal) that are used heavily by small vendors (especially for shows/events); also things like selfie sticks that use a cable plugged into the aux jack connected to a length of wire running inside the selfie stick to a button on the end of it.

The market is starting to come up with wireless versions of these things, but the modern wireless versions now require unique ios and android versions of them when the aux-jack solution used to be platform independent.

Also, the audio quality of an aux jack is an order of magnitude superior to anything that can be piped through bluetooth…still.

I very much appreciate devices still throwing traditional aux jacks onto mobile devices. Ideally, there will be a wireless technical solution that eventually is superior, but that technology is definitely not bluetooth and we’re still waiting for it to be invented and hit consumer availability.

If it’s trained on previous community interaction, it’s just going to automatically tell people (in the rudest way possible) their question is a duplicate and kill the thread for each and every new post.

To take it a step further, the end site that causes the ad to load should also be jointly liable. They are the entity that makes the partnership with the ad network, they are the one benefitting, and they are the one making ads a requirement to use their site. It’s the end site that pushes the requirement for the user to see ads to use their site, and so they should inherit some of the responsibility for ensuring those ads are not harmful.

if you force me to view ads to use your site, then you should be forced to vouche for the integrity of those ads.

Like any kind of contest, finding rules violations is hard and not foolproof. It’s like sports that forbid using steroids - competitors do regularly take those substances while training, then quit taking them for competition and go uncaught. Competitors who are discovered later to have been violating rules are stripped of titles.

That said, I don’t think it’s a very controversial concept that a beauty pageant shouldn’t be a contest about who could afford the best surgeons. Well - as I said earlier I think beauty pageants are absurd to begin with, but if they have to exist I don’t think it should be a contest between surgeons.

The difference is that when the robot reads that book, it maintains a verbatim copy of that book as part of it’s training material indefinitely and can reference and re-reference that material infinitely. That is not how it works when a human reads a book.

The ‘copy’ that the AI retains indefinitely is a verbatim copy of the original work, and the entire point of “copyright” is to control how and where copies are used.

Yes, there are ‘fair use’ exceptions to copyright. I don’t think you realize it, but your argument is less about whether this violates copyright (it absolutely does under the textbook definition) and more about whether there should be a fair-use exemption for AIs; you seem to think yes, I would disagree.

I’d also argue the AI example qualifies as it as ‘derivative work’ based on the original, which STILL would require honoring copyright laws and compensating the creators of the original works. Basically, before reading the book it was just “AI”. After reading the book it has become “AI + book1”, a derivative work, and on and on and on.