Watching LotR in a packed theater, get to the part where Frodo gets just speared in the back by that bigass spider. I wasn’t prepared for that fatality so I let out an involuntary mini-laugh/snort. Guy directly behind me, as loud as he can, screams “Shut the fuck up!” directly into my ear. Murmurs of agreement all around.

Dude just basically assaulted a kid who was quiet the whole rest of the movie, but OK.

My brother and both of my parents will not stop talking about youtube premium with me. My brother is definitely smug about it. I’ve hit all the talking points: How easily ublock origin solves ads completely. How it’s a moral imperative to deprive Google of as much money as possible. How sending one month’s fee directly to the creator or buying their merch is infinitely more supportive.

They’ve never rebuffed any of that and just kind of change the subject. And less than 24 hours later we’re back to a beamingly proud “I got YT premium man, I’m telling you it’s so worth it. You should get it!”

I think next time I visit, the first time my brother brings it up (probably within an hour of arriving), I’m going to force him to acknowledge that we’ve had the conversation before. What YT Premium does to a mf, smh.

The reaction they should have is “I’m glad this is finally getting attention!”

Yeah, the only reason I would need the number always visible and not just visible on down-swipe would be if it ever ran out during the day. Probably would be necessary for people who stream videos a lot.

I’ve always said Proton feels like they just can’t wait to be Google. I don’t trust them at all.

The problem is, I nailed it the first time so it’s hard to change the story meaningfully without ruining it. Tried to do a dark urge playthrough, and

I can’t live like this.

I’ll never understand why successful companies can’t just keep printing money, but give in to the insatiable desire to enshittify.

Yesterday, I forced myself to get up four hours early and sleep four hours early. Unsurprisingly, I woke up at the usual time today. This is a dark curse.

I only started paying attention to him recently, but I could swear he had a little meltdown in a video hating AI and had to calm himself with his word association game. Maybe I’m thinking of his brother.

People always tell me I need to keep my phone up to date, but every time I update I regret it. Did so yesterday and they turned a bunch of AI bullshit back on. I’m so tired.

They also changed the way everything looks and I can’t revert it. Took me 40 minutes to change the clock on my lock screen from dark grey back to white.

I bought a game and similarly forgot about it for years, and when I finally got around to playing it there was no discussion board. Come to find out the game was completely delisted, felt like I was in a ghost town, but it was still functional!

Now make them make the date printed on bread legible. I hate it when the printer is misaligned so the date goes completely off the loaf, or when it’s black text on a black background.

I tried to describe this to someone who never played it, and he just gave me a concerned furrowed brow.

I feel like megacorps should have to tag their stuff.

Based on this thread, it sounds like people with enough brainpower to know what pronouns are don’t eat there anyway, so this might actually make Chile’s money.

If someone I knew told me they asked an LLM to generate their password, I would no longer talk to that person.

I don’t care if you seed or not, but if you’re torrenting then you’re seeding a little bit while downloading. Quitting quickly doesn’t mask you completely. It might pay to look into your options more.

There might be a way to shut off uploads entirely, though iirc torrents are designed to stop if you do that.

If we press the EM dashes hard enough, no AI model will ever use them again. Then, we can prove we’re human with EM dashes.

Is the main image above this article AI generated? It feels like it but I can’t pin down exactly why.

I went to Wendy’s the other day, and they have this automatic pre-recorded English-fluent woman cheerfully ask for your order. While an actual person didn’t indicate that they were ready, I know they won’t do a second intro message either way, so I started to order. A heavy spanish accent comes over the speaker “Fucking wait, god.” My only thought was “Fair enough” and I waited.

Whoever implements these systems is crazy. We don’t pay people enough to be policed that heavily.