leisesprecher @ leisesprecher @feddit.org

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I just got a new phone (reluctantly) and it feels like 90% of the "features" are useless marketing gimmicks.

Most people still use their phones for very similar purposes to 2016 or even 2012. Instead of providing properly optimized software and batteries that last weeks, we get these huge heavy expensive unoptimized pieces of techno garbage. And of course they need fast charging, otherwise you'd be wired to a charter half the time.

I'm practically forced to spend 10€ per month, even if I'm hesitant to buy new stuff, just to have a reasonable phone. That's crazy.

Of course, but most governments are allowed to mostly be sovereign.

Sweden or Australia play ball on their own, no need for a coup here.

The US tried to invade Cuba as well, and tried to kill Castro, several times. That's ultimately why he did align with the USSR - choosing the bully that's slightly more on your side.

We, as a society, are still trapped within the "feminist revolution", there's fighting going on and no new normal emerged.

Both sides are ripped apart by two often contradicting sets of expectations, the traditional role and the progressive role.

What makes it so hard for a lot of men is, that it's a willful surrender of privileges. Men lost a ton of privileges over the last decades and it takes a bit of reflection to understand that these privileges were never legitimate in the first place. Instead, they frame women's rights as weakness, because it directly contradicts their narrative of a strong man.

And that also reflects on women, to put it extremely bluntly, he's expected to pay for dinner, but she still wants equal pay. It will take decades to sort all of that out.

Both can be true at the same time, because, you know, there are a lot of very different people.

That's actually the really sad story here.

Every "experimental" regime was either toppled (Chile) or had to align with the USSR (Cuba) to survive. There was never a real attempt at democratic socialist politics without interference from superpowers.

He's still on YouTube, in case you didn't know.

I'd argue that the structure of reddit is almost perfect for that kind of nonsense.

You have a huge pool of users from a wide variety of backgrounds, but split into different communities that are simultaneously tightly knit and very open. It's the perfect storm for the ackshuallys to get in contact with normal people, and thus feel absolutely superior.

Lemmy has the same structure, but simply not that many users.

But not to his account.

If he's even remotely smart, he put away quite a bit of money, or has some investment vehicle that keeps generating money for him.

He may be irrelevant in 5 years, but also wealthy enough to not care.

What really bothers me is that rpi seems to have "lost its way".

I'd argue, there are essentially two camps here. The close-to-x86 camp, who want powerful, but efficient small machines, and the tinker-board camp, who want cheap machines with barely any power needs, basically a microcontroller on steroids, that you can buy an entire school class worth of for a few bucks.

Rpis started in the latter camp. 35€ for reasonable performance, great software for kids to tinker with, hardly any requirements, everyone has a usb mouse/keyboard.

But nowadays pis are in the no man's land between. They're priced above cheap N100 PCs, but are not as powerful, and simultaneously way too expensive and involved for throwing them at children - like it was initially intended.

I'm not sure, how that's supposed to be sustainable.

In case you didn't notice: much of the news coverage uses passive. "Was killed, "died", stuff like that. Who killed them usually omitted, as if it's a natural disaster.

As a German: me neither.

You do consent often enough.

At least in Germany, there are at least two companies (Schufa and Experian) who will analyze your account data/money transfers to calculate a score.

Technically, this is legal because they claim to have a legitimate interest in the data and you do have to tick a checkbox.

No love for Einhell?

Could you please start a job at Nestle, Microsoft, BP, Raytheon? Either would be fine, but you need to weaponize your god level incompetence for a good cause.

My school was barely 15 years ago, but we also had a thin book handed out to us in 7th grade or so that contained charts and references for pretty much everything in a very condensed form. Periodic tables, formulas for math and physics, chemical and physical attributes for a bunch of materials, ... And the entire ASCII table for some reason.

That was in Germany during the 00s and I still have that book, and three or four copies I stole over time.

If you're so far on the right that even Goebbels would have found you extreme, everything is left wing.

I work at a company that does ai research.

You are so emotionally charged.

Let me rephrase that: "My salary depends on believing that AI is great, so I will not stop believing"

But sure, I'm emotionally charged. Not the guy who's (poorly) defending his excuse for work.

So all your points are "nu-uh".

Show me a single product that is even close to being worth the investment.

How can openAI ever recoup all the money?

This tech has already irreversibly changed coding, graphic design, marketing, writing, education,....

Where? Writing boilerplate articles without content for dying news outlets? "Coding" hardly changed. You know why? Because typing code is by far the least time consuming part of the work.

And where are all those great graphic design products? You mean those cool images of Trump riding a laser velociraptor?

You think companies would be investing hundreds of billions if there is nothing there?

Yes. Also, Metaverse, blockchain, etc. Ever heard of the dotcom bubble? Same pattern.

You would be wrong, as I work in AI research.

Hard doubt. Because the number one virtue of a scientist is to know the limitations of their subject. So either you're not actually a researcher, or a really bad one.

It's been like that for decades. It's the quintessential "saving face" bullshit. Every attack is just performative violence to show the own supporters/population that you are actually strong, proud and won't ever let anybody push you around!

Absolutely pathetic.