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  • I used to have a cat with a very long tail. He would be laying around and his tail would wrap around and hit him in the face. He would get pissed off about it, so he starts waving his tail like cats do when they get annoyed. But that would just make it worse because he would hit himself in the face with his tail even more. So he would get really pissed off, grab his tail and bite into it. Only then he would realize it was his own tail and start cleaning it, pretending he was cleaning it the whole time and didn't just bite into his own tail like an idiot.

  • My brother used Google Home/Nest speakers with Google Assistant to automate his entire home. Everything from turning on lights, setting the heat/ac, turning on the TV, listening to music, controlling curtains and blinds etc. It was all based on voice commands. He also used it to make simple shopping lists.

    Since it got turned into the LLM based one he's been complaining non stop. It's super slow and doesn't understand what to do half of the time. Very simple voice commands will not be understood. Or it would understand perfectly, but instead of executing the command it would search on Google or something dumb like that.

    The latest update has made it much much worse it seems, with the thing becoming even slower and basically unusable. The dream of a Star Trek like setup where you can talk to the computer is dead at the moment.

  • I've looked into Revolt and it isn't there quite yet. But the road map is extremely promising. I'll keep my eye on it and as soon as they finish up a couple more features I'm going to use it.

  • What are you trying to say? Those are all shit hole countries so it doesn't matter what they do?

    I live in Germany, no fluoride is added to our water and it isn't there naturally. There is salt with added fluoride available and almost all toothpastes have it. There's also fluoride tablets people can take. And the dentist will apply fluoride treatments where needed or prescribe high fluoride toothpaste.

    Dental care and hygiene is excellent here.

    The same thing applies for many countries in Europe.

  • Other countries don't have fluoride in the water, it isn't the end of the world. And don't people usually drink bottled water in Florida anyways?

    HOWEVER other places that don't have flouride in the water do normally have affordable and accessible dental heathcare. And most people brush their teeth with toothpaste with flouride in it. You don't really need all that much of it, as long as you get some.

    With the anti-fluoride mindset, people are not going to get it through other means most likely. And this especially hurts poor people and the homeless, since they are going to have the hardest time getting enough fluoride and won't have access to dental healthcare. So small issues that would normally be prevented, are going to cause huge issues.

    It's just another way the Republicans can punish the poor.

  • And then the troubleshooting steps are like reset the app, reset your account and if that doesn't fix it reinstall Windows. If it still won't work, buy a new computer.

    It's terrible, just give me the info I need to figure out the root cause. It's probably very easy to fix. Instead of the ol' nuke it from orbit approach.

    And it's not just on the side of consumers either. More and more people are using docker to run shit and just reset or reinstall whenever an issue pops up. Sure that's often faster and it might work, but it won't prevent the issue from returning and you won't have learned anything. I learned the most from fixing broken shit. It requires you to figure out how it should work and what's preventing it from working like that. We are making ourselves dumber this way.