• Gumby@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    FAKE! Obviously no self-respecting Apple iPhone user would own a Windows PC. Gotta keep it all in that walled garden, baby!

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      Max had already turned on the shower for me, setting the water temperature right where I liked it. As I jumped into the steam-filled stall. Max switched the music over to my shower tunes playlist. I recognized the opening riffs of “Change,” by John Waite. From the Vision Quest soundtrack. Geffen Records, 1985.

      Ready Player One had an AI that prepared his shower for him

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        setting the water temperature right where I liked it.

        I have that too, it is called “having separate knobs for temperature and turning the water on and off” though I wouldn’t exactly consider it AI.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    I used to wonder why someone didn’t just make a Linux distro that could natively run Windows programs until the whole copyright shit was explained to me; can’t incorporate DirectX and other crap without permission yadda yadda…

    Now I just wonder why someone hasn’t done it anyway just because fuck Microsoft and because if they don’t even distribute it, how would they have actually broken a law? Make the world’s most perfect OS; and then keep it to yourself. Be a sick flex.

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      I bet there is such a distro being kept hidden from us. I wouldn’t be surprised. Even if it isn’t public, someone probably tried doing it for his own personal sake.

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      Or just do what other people breaking the law do and release it entirely anonymously via torrent, once it’s out there it’s out there.

      Don’t even have a website or explain anything, just dump it on pirate Bay and let word of mouth do the rest.

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      …But my smart watch is local sync only through FOSS alternative app. Maybe it’s a normally intelligent watch instead of a smart watch.

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      It’s always cancer.
      Sore throat - cancer.
      Back ache - cancer.
      Tiredness, cough, loss of taste and/or smell - maybe COVID. But also, cancer.

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        In its defense, the symptom I googled most recently like a year and a half ago, did, in fact, turn out to be cancer.

        Yes, I’m fine now. But sometimes it’s right.

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          Doesn’t take away the fact you should’ve asked a doctor instead of a search engine, though.

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            Yeah, that’s… what I did after? It sure didn’t go away on its own lmao

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    No wait, you’re telling me that mega-corporations don’t care about me getting good products and having sole ownership of my personal data?

    B-but [sponsored tech-geek blog], [generic gaming-news outlet] and [irrelevant apple shill] only ever told me so! Are you implying they lie to me?

    Realtalk I only use cracked win11 pro workstation and iPhone because of work, every telemetry possible disabled (god bless the EU).

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      I have a trash internet connection so I just play whack-a-mole with internet privileges. Windows update? No. NVIDIA? Not a chance. Google? How is that even on my computer? But also nah.

      Turns out most things use fuck all resources without internet

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    On that matter, why is Norton antivirus so popular? I don’t remember being prompted to install one when installing Windows, yet I’ve seen a lot of people with it.

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      Back in the day, Norton actually made some useful tools. They’ve been coasting on that 90s reputation for decades, though. It’s all unnecessary bloatware now.

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      Back in the day, you were pushed hard to either put McAfee or Norton on your computer when you bought one from Dell, Compaq, etc. A lot of older people still think you need to do that so it’s still pretty popular.

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        strange, most IT professionals will tell you the only thing you need is Windows Defender and an ability to think before clicking strange download buttons

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      What kind of hardware are you using for voice controls/voice output? Been looking to build an Ai waifu to control the lights.

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    beep boop “You’re wrist circumference is too wide and the tracker noticed no physical activities.”