It goes hand in paw with being instinctively scared of things that can potentially kill you and other species evolution with patterns and markings that make them less likely to become a succulent meal, Chinese or not.
Some preemptive advice if you're in the market of integrating TTS for some customer or service:
Do not ever use any "humanisation" tweaks. Having a computer voice stumble on a word or fucking cough is uncanny valley and how to make people feel manipulated in one simple trick.
If I've got it, I'd lend my long time best friends up to €1000 without question. I would not really expect them to pay it back. I trust that if or when they can they will. If they can't, they can't. People that are not my besties? No.
Another twenty plus years Linux server and devices admin and user that found last year that Linux is finally mature and stable enough to replace my desktop too without having the fiddle with it every once in a random update. It was a decision that I can accept making workarounds for legacy windows software and l can live without other eco system. Yeah, there are plenty of reasons that people are still running Windows and keep doing so.
Don't make being user of an operating system your identity, people. It's just as annoying and unnecessary as those Apple fanboys we all know and dislike.
Companies go out of business all the time and others decide to sunset systems in use so customers are required to upgrade despite it is still working. So yeah, be realistic about expectations for any external service you decide to invest in.
Edit; and some things like smoke detectors do in fact have a life span after which they are degrading. Ten years is normal for a smoke detector.
I remember that as the first months of slimey opportunists trying to get rich by hoarding toilet paper and hand sanitizer but I think it passed. I think there are, have been and will always be assholes that try to ride the wave of fucking other people over. But they did so a major exposure of their assholeness then, definitely.
Idk, I remember being frustrated with people that didn't care or even try, but I wasn't really scared other than that my mum might catch it because people are selfish dicks.
There were a lot of positive things happening, like breweries devoting production to making hand sanitizer at zero profit because it was the right thing to do. People coming up with clever solutions to necessary interactions and stuff like that.
I think many people at the time considered it an opportunity for change as they passed through the stages and arrived at acceptance of "this is what it is now". I remember talking with people that were optimistic that society might take a turn to the communal again.
Maybe it was different at different places, but I think here it grew stronger with time though it transformed from the celebrities singing on social media and applauding nurses to general acceptance of communal hardships and everybody pulling together to get through it. I think despite the hardships and suffering there was a communal spirit that is rare nowadays.
During the blockchain craze there were attempts of monetising distributed data storage by cryptobros renting out disk space for virtual currency. AFAICR it turned out more expensive and less reliable than most any competitive datacenter. So my guess is that it would be much less than you imagine.
A fringe case I've found ChatGPT very useful is to learn more about information that is plentiful but buried in dead threads in various old school web forums and thus very hard to Google. Like other people's experiences from homebrewing. Then I ask it for sources and most often it is accurate to the claims of other homebrewers that also can be correct or less correct.
Variants and derivates of Debian on my servers and other headless devices because no reason except I know it, it is stable, it works.
Been trying linux for desktop every five-ten years for the last twenty odd years and went back to Windows every time because it was too bad experience despite I really tried to like it.
Except this time.
Fedora KDE on my laptop, soon on my stationary as well. No more Windows for me.
whaleross @ whaleross @lemmy.world Posts 33Comments 553Joined 2 yr. ago
Biological programming goes a long way.
It goes hand in paw with being instinctively scared of things that can potentially kill you and other species evolution with patterns and markings that make them less likely to become a succulent meal, Chinese or not.