NutWrench, nutwrench@lemmy.world

If internet companies would fix VOIP protocol, so that spammers couldn’t spoof any phone numbers they wanted, then 95% of spam calls would disappear.

The Do Not Call registry was the easiest thing in the world for Congress to do, because it didn’t actually do anything and it didn’t cost them anything to do. You can’t catch a spammer unless you can identify them. And you can’t do that with a spoofed phone number

Ubuntu is the Windows 11 of Linux distros.

Every time Microsoft does an update, they reduce functionality. Basic functions like print, search and file storage get moved into sub-sub-sub menus. The point of this is to make room on the main screen for ads. Screwing up your work flow gives you more time to look at them. This is intentional.

Human sacrifices to the Turbine Gods.

Boil ‘em…mash ‘em…shove ‘em up your ass … PO-TAY-TOES!

And by “White House App” I’m going to assume they mean Twitter, since the article is REALLY light on specifics.

I find it stressful to live in a country where his goons can murder me or deport me for no reason at all. And I have no hope for any justice.

Fuck his stress. I hope it tortures him to madness.

Chat bots should never give medical advice. Chat bots dispense basic, standalone factoids, like “aspirin is a pain reliever.” But they don’t know or care about dosages, comorbid conditions or whether or not you live or die, so they won’t ask follow up questions.

Also, I doubt a GPU that’s been on blast 24/7 for the last couple of years will be worth much at auction. Might as well bury them in the same landfill as the data center.

Freaking finally. Maybe RAM prices will finally start coming down.

Use a VPN and an operating system that doesn’t spy on you and harvest your info. Use 3rd party encryption.

I think the best way to turn people on to Linux is to give them a bootable live USB, so they can try it out. Otherwise, they have no basis for comparison.

Too many people just accept whatever Microsoft gives them, shrug and think, “Well, I guess this is just the way computers are.”

Businesses have invested too much time, money and promises in AI to admit they made a mistake, now. And like all business models based on the Sunk Cost Fallacy, it’s going to do a lot of damage along the way before it finally dies.

The whole point of “AI” is to take humans OUT of the equation, so the rich don’t have to employ us and pay us. Why would we want to be a part of THAT?

AI data centers are also sucking up all the high quality GDDR5 ram on the market, making everything that relies on that ram ridiculously expensive. I can’t wait for this fad to be over.

When even China has to ban your product due to safety concerns, you’ve probably made some seriously bad design choices somewhere along the line.

This is also why governments are pushing so hard for “AI.” AI won’t be used to improve the quality of our lives. It will be used for advertising, propaganda, surveillance and control. Only AI is fast enough to run all the bots and generate the blizzard of BS fast enough to counter the opinions of millions of people online.

Remember when we were worried that TikTok was going to be used by the CCP to spread Chinese government propaganda?

Good news! It’s STILL going to be used to spread propaganda, it just belongs to another group of billionaire dingbats, now.

The Sun also creates tides, just not as strong as lunar tides. So we would still have tides, even if we had no Moon.

The problem is, the TV won’t let you. The Visio TV won’t let you do anything with it at all until you set up your WiFi connection first. So you can’t even use it as a dumb monitor.

And if you disable WiFi later, the TV will nag you to turn it back on every time the TV starts up. I’m sure this design is intentional.

Here’s a 32” one on Amazon. Found it in just a few seconds.

https://a.co/d/aYmShxr