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  • Impossible! Everyone has a smartphone with which to download The App:tm: to handle that. The only people who don't have smartphones are actual criminals. There are senators completely ready to endorse this line of thought! Too poor? Nonsense, you're a criminal. Straight to jail.

  • I have itsfoss in my RSS feed mostly to keep an eye on the FOSS community news in general, but will agree most of their articles seem to lean quite heavily into soft endorsing certain brands.

  • Sometimes it feels like people forget this used to be the only option. Was it a little annoying? Yeah. But oh well.

    Ironically I remember reading somewhere that part of the reason people are so consistently shitty to each other is they forgot how to deal with the millions of little face to face interactions we had pre-internet in order to get things done in life. How ironic would it be if big tech forced us back into that mold and we all became a bit nicer because of it?

  • You know what, that's fair.

  • Agreed, it's an odd move when so much else about the phone is being marketed as having the user's interests at heart. If you scratch a bit and squint at the wording they're using, though, it feels more and more like the CEO has his own idea of how people should be using their phones and is pushing that. The fact that it is more privacy respecting is incidental to the fact. I could be wrong, but that's the vibe I've certainly gotten.

    It's too bad. I wouldn't mind having a phone with no social media but no browser is probably going to be a dealbreaker for me. Their FAQ says it's basically a way of 'cheating' to get to social media sites and that's incredibly condescending. I probably just want to look up if a nearby store is still open or something.

  • Agree, but highly recommend checking out Privacy for temp cards.

  • Nature is extremely unhurried which is so radically opposite of almost every aspect of modern life that it's like finally get a breath of air to be able to immerse yourself in a setting that isn't manically trying to get your attention.

  • There is an extremely good reason why the government is preemptively getting a rubber stamp with "technology extremist terrorists" written on it ready. They know how fraught things are getting

  • When I was job seeking I had two versions of my resume. Things where I was pretty sure it'd be ingested by an AI, I used that resume. Sometimes a rare listing asked for a direct email and I used the more personal resume for that one.

    Then it didn't matter because a recruiting agency scooped me up for something I didn't even apply for.

    However I will say definitely be the most 'you' that you can be while still being, yanno, work appropriate about it, that you can be. Good soft skills make such a huge impression.

  • I sat in on a couple interviews. Blew my mind how many candidates were clearly reading from an AI. They all gave almost the exact same, very AI-sounding answers to the skill based questions then just slammed into a wall when we asked them questions that are more opinion based.

    Not all of them of course, and we wound up hiring the person who sounded the most like an actual human being having a conversation with us out of the lot. (Of course, he matched the skills we needed to so that wasn't the only factor.)

  • I'm mostly just concerned on what I'll do if a piece of hardware dies or corrupts at this point.

  • You are absolutely correct. I hate driving. I take any opportunity to not do it that I can.

  • Ah bummer. Though I should mention the Tesla workers comment was just me paraphrasing a different article talking about Tesla's auto-driving, not Waymo related stuff. I saw the two today, but saved one and not the other.

    I've edited in a disclaimer to be skeptical. Thank you for catching that!

  • Or trollies! Or subways! Or rickshaws!

  • You couldn't pay me to get into a Waymo but you COULD probably convince me to pay a person to get me somewhere. What a novel concept!

  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board

    futurism.com /advanced-transport/waymo-pulled-cars-freeway-fled-police
  • How a word is used can induce confusion too. It'd be like if someone said "Anyway, Rotteners for the comment. Sorry."

    Though 'rotteners' would be a good word for a spoiler that makes you hate something afterwards haha.

  • Last.fm is now independent

    Jump
  • Navidrome lets you do both so if you're a self-hoster, you don't have to choose which is nice!

  • If you don't mind paying for it, I like Kagi. There are some people who don't for reasons outside of its performance, so make sure you do your research if you care about those things.

    For free, DDG isn't bad, but there's also options that can be self-hosted or you can find other people's hosted instances: SearXNG and LibreY for example. (I'd link to some but I don't want to accidentally get them hugged to death since they're being run by small independent servers.) I don't use any of the above free options so I can't comment on which one's better or not but at least I am aware they exist. I know SearXNG lets you also pick and choose which search engine services are used in your searches.

  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Linux is Getting a Free Pass on Age Verification in California and Colorado

    itsfoss.com /news/age-verification-open-source-exemptions/
  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Kobo ereaders are integrating with Goodreads alternative StoryGraph

    www.engadget.com /2178088/kobo-ereaders-are-integrating-with-goodreads-alternative-storygraph/
  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It's Inexorably Driving It Out of Business

    futurism.com /artificial-intelligence/google-gemini-runs-entire-coffee-shop
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Lessons For Round Two..or three.. or-

  • Linux @programming.dev

    Systemd’s New Feature Brings Age Verification Option to Linux

    itsfoss.com /news/systemd-age-verification/
  • Technology @lemmy.zip

    OpenAI will notify authorities of credible threats after Canada mass shooter's second account was discovered

    www.engadget.com /ai/openai-will-notify-authorities-of-credible-threats-after-canada-mass-shooters-second-account-was-discovered-112706548.html
  • Technology @lemmy.zip

    Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness'

    www.engadget.com /ai/burger-king-will-use-ai-to-monitor-employee-friendliness-173349148.html
  • memes @lemmy.world

    Don't Forget To Daydream

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Send HOAs To the Stone Age

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev

    I'm In Danger!

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Duckeo, Duckeo, wherefor art thou?

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev

    Beautiful But Deadly

  • Curated Tumblr @sh.itjust.works

    The Dreams of Printers

  • Curated Tumblr @sh.itjust.works

    Posts That Get Better Each Year

  • Curated Tumblr @sh.itjust.works

    Instructions Unclear, Test Subjects Staring At Me

  • Curated Tumblr @sh.itjust.works

    It's Fine, Don't Worry About It

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world

    Bother Bother Bother

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world

    How?

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world

    Handslap