I pretty much agree.

The only thing I would add is that it’s not our place to tell others to lose weight or to point out their weight; people already know they are overweight and that it’s unhealthy. We shouldn’t be policing other people’s bodies.

It’s also possible to be overweight and have body positivity; being overweight doesn’t equate to being unattractive.

So the trump regime still hates trans people and denies climate change, to the point of vehemently working to deny the existence of both. Got it.

Do you remember the model number? I would like to research this.

Crypto is a scam.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/ben-mckenzie-crypto-documentary-everyone-is-lying-to-you-for-money/

‘Hallucinations’ are not a bug though; it’s working exactly as intended and this is how it’s designed. There’s no bug in the code that you can go in and change that will ‘fix’ this.

LLMs are impressive auto-complete, but sometimes the auto-complete doesn’t spit out factual information because LLMs don’t know what factual information is.

New OS versions feel like threats.

Who holds the encryption keys? If it’s X/Twiiter, I wouldn’t trust it at all, especially considering who owns it.

I think the law should be changed; copyright law is kind of a mess, but I don’t know how to make it better. It would also need to be changed in a way that’s fair, which these companies absolutely do not want; fairness would mean the end of laws like the DMCA.

Thank you for mentioning that. I am able to see it by clicking through to the post in the Europe community.

Even after refreshing, I still can’t see your additions. 🙁

Yeah Google claims it’s not recording, storing or being sent the conversations or sharing them with anyone, and that this is all done ‘on-device’.

The thing is, I don’t trust them. At all.

Maybe the terms and conditions will silently change. Maybe their definitions of “recording” and “save” will change. Maybe they’re blatantly lying and are willing to pay a fine if they get caught.

Google’s whole business model is harvesting and selling people’s data, so I have to assume the worst intentions.

Exactly. And unless RCS with e2ee is made equally available to companies other than Google and is implemented by the carriers, RCS will continue to be a monopolistic data-harvesting grift.

I’m surprised there is not more outrage directed at Google over this.

I get it.

I can’t use discord because my privacy settings on my devices is such that discord demands my phone number from me, and that is not a piece of personally identifying information I will ever share with them.

I am guessing you don’t want an old Steam Controller? You might want the new one Valve is making, but unfortunately I don’t think details or a release date have been announced yet.

STOP USING DISCORD

And there are no better camera hardware else where

Sony and their Xperia phones would like a word.

I had trouble with it too. The site told me to disable all the privacy settings on my browser, at which point I simply decided that the whole thing was no longer worth my time and data.

I really wanted to play this before I knew it was predatory and manipulative gotcha garbage.

It’s hit and miss. I was getting bad switches in Logitech mice back in 2005. The double-click problem has been around for a long time.

If you live in the US, your state may have an “implied warranty” law that extends the warranty of the device you bought. I think for most states that have such laws, the warranty period is 4 years. Many states have such laws but I can’t find a list online. If you have an implied warranty and valve doesn’t honor it, you can get the state involved.

Sorry your Steam deck broke. Devices like this should last many years, especially when the only moving parts are the buttons and the fan.