smackjack

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smackjack ,

I bought something on eBay for 10 dollars that was supposed to be able to copy key fobs. Didn't work.

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That the start menu has a search bar. You would think that everyone would know this after almost 2 decades, but too many people still navigate through their computers like it's 1998.

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The difference is that people that are in other operating systems already know that you can do that. You don't have to tell them.

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I just got a notification on my phone telling me that I can chat with my PDF documents. Why the fuck would I want to do that? Do these companies realize that literally no one is asking for this shit. I also saw an ad for a computer mouse that had AI inside it. Whatever that means.

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It's from the Adobe Acrobat app. Basically you can ask it to give you a summary of whatever document you're reading.

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I've never been able to ride a bike without at least one hand on the handlebars.

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I don't think Google can be beat when it comes to searching local businesses, but otherwise you might as well go straight to Wikipedia.

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It doesn't help that the AI answer it gives takes up like half the screen and takes 30 seconds to load. LLMs are great for asking complex questions, but that's not what I want to use a search engine for.

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Followed by "You were conceived at 12:01"

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Could it be that we were the only species that figured out how to communicate via radio?

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There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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Think of AI like computers and spreadsheet software in the early 80s. I bet a lot of accountants were pretty freaked out about what this new technology was going to mean for their jobs.

Did technology replace those accountants? No, but companies probably didn't need as many accountants as they did before. AI will likely reduce the number of programmers that a company needs, but it won't eliminate them

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Your living space being a disgusting mess, but you're able to ignore it by immersing yourself in your games.

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I own a Zune. Despite owning it for over a decade, it's still worth about what I paid for it.

(Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

I’ve been distrohopping for a while now, and eventually I landed on Arch. Part of the reason I have stuck with it is I think I had a balanced introduction, since I was exposed to both praise and criticism. We often discuss our favorite distros, but I think it’s equally important to talk about the ones that didn’t quite hit...

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I don't think I've ever used Ubuntu for more than a month. I just don't like the way it looks, how locked down everything is, and how hard it is to customize.

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