The Official Shit That No One Cares About, Thread

[bcrdukes]

Newer Fairfield Inns have been surprisingly good. I don't mind them at all!

[Badhobz]

Originally Posted by 6793026

i have yet been a place where they don't offer upgrades. Each time "oh, since you're so nice, i'll upgrade you even though you rented a piece of shit lowest economy car with zero power winders or even GPS" but here you go... camry it is... cause they have 20 of them sitting on the lot.

thats not the kind of upgrades im thinking of. I usually end up getting bmws or other german luxury makes. The worst upgrade ive ever gotten was a buick encore.... still one can argue thats still better than a camry.

[RabidRat]

I just got a Mustang Mach-E again this week.

Truly a wretched vehicle. The lane keep assist keeps trying to kill me.

Suddenly swerved for the curb and the whole time the display showed perfectly good status: "all good boss, you're safe with us!!" Not even the courtesy to let me know I should take the wheel because I'm about to get seriously fucked. No: "we're confident that you are safe, leave it to us."

Also those damn power operated doors. I walk into the hotel to check in, and come back out to find the driver door just sitting open. What in the fuck

Not to mention a couple more times where I walk up to the car, press the open door button repeatedly and nothing happens. A long pause, and then suddenly pops open.

I did like the Apple Maps integration though: when I had CarPlay running, it showed me the EV battery charge remaining at the destination, using my own navigation.

[MG1]

Damn, I love my HomePod Mini speakers. I just purchased my 8th one. I used it to tell me time, weather (around the world), temperature and humidity in the rooms, baseball scores, even tells me jokes when prompted. Short stories are weird, but it's a hoot. Sound is amazing for its size. I finally installed two in my listening room and paired them. Shit, for the price, it produces good stereo separation, imaging, soundstage, you name it. All controlled by voice and iPhone app. I play my Sirius channels through it (70's on 7, baby!). If only it would play nice with my Bluesound streamer, it'd be the cat's meow.

I only get them when they go on sale. Used to get them using my Optimum points during Redeem points promo. That went downhill since their prices are like $30.00 more. I buy it when Staples have them on sale for $119.00 and use the $10.00 off tech deal they have once in a while. It's wired for power (you can get third party battery powered dock) and wireless for signal (WiFi) and Bluetooth 5.0. I don't have a use for it, but it has intercom capability. Also, the emergency sound recognition (fire, smoke, and CO2 alarm) is kind of useful, I guess. I can walk around the house and not miss a beat (pun intended) music or baseball games.

https://www.apple.com/ca/homepod-mini/


Check out the specs and features. Impressive. I just might cancel my Qoboz and go with Apple Music to take full advantage of that realm.

[noclue]

Am I a luddite or is this AI boom reminiscent of the dot-com boom and resulting crash?

[supafamous]

Originally Posted by noclue

Am I a luddite or is this AI boom reminiscent of the dot-com boom and resulting crash?

80% of the AI companies will be out of business in a year or so but AI as a tool is here to stay, the benefits are just too great but there is a totally crazy land grab happening right now just like past booms which will result in a big crash.

[68style]

I've been resisting forever, but I finally used AI for the first time to do something for me... it got me 80% of where I needed to go but it was completely fucking retarded for the last 20% no matter how many ways I tried to ask it for something. Felt like I was dealing with an autistic toddler.

The beginning part was quite effective though!

[EvoFire]

Your experience is pretty accurate. My experience had been to break things down as small as possible. It'll do quite a good job in small bite size chunks, but once you've added too much complex requirements it'll drop bits and make assumptions or expose cracks in your requirements because you haven't thought of something or worded something wrongly. Or all of the above.

[spoon.ek9]

Originally Posted by donk.

You just wait, that wifi will be an add on only, for all flights in a year or two

The same way seat selection useto be free and now its a moneygrab to increase profits

I recall going to a hotel in seattle a few years ago, dont recall what one, but they offered 1hr free wifi, and then 15$USD for wifi.
Gave that hotel a solid 1 star review. And it was a large chain too. 15$ for wifi? What the fuck? I guess someones stock profits are a direct correlation to that



Oh you want a seat mount for your phone? Yeah that will be 8.99$ for this flight

Even if that's the case, I'll just do what I've always done and pre-download shows I wanna watch while on the plane. Also, you can buy cheap phone mounts that can hang on the headrest in front of you without disturbing that passenger. Pretty cheap! I often forget to bring it with me though lol. It's good for the gym too when you're on the treadmill.

[underscore]

Everything I've seen people generate with AI has been pretty shit. To make it decent you'd have to rework a bunch of it and at that point you're better off just searching for regular templates of things.

I find it pretty obnoxious how many things have it integrated now as well. MS Paint doesn't need AI ffs. How it's allowed in Adobes pdf viewer boggles my mind. I'm reading confidential information that I had to sign an NDA for but any idiot can click a button and let it be read by a third party database? Are they insane?

[SkinnyPupp]

I hate it too, but I think AI and automation in general is going to be needed for us to progress. But that can only happen in a positive way if we fucken get ready for it and try not to let it get out of control (perhaps the way capitalism has). For it to be feasible whatsoever to not fall into a complete collapse (which we're already on the trajectory of), UBI is an absolute MUST. Right now we are on the worst timeline possible.

Ideally I'd keep it away from all creative platforms, but that's the easiest, most brainless, cheapest payoff use for it

[red kryptonite]

my buddy hit me up to help with a surprise for his boy.

i sorted and somewhat rebuilt everything.
he found all the background and printed/trimmed/hung everything.

2 ppl working, 6 hours later....

[Gumby]

Damn, that looks awesome! Are those your sets, or your buddy’s son’s?

[red kryptonite]

they're his. some were gifted from me over the years.

[Badhobz]

this is for his son!? how old is the kid? the kid wont appreciate this sort of attention to detail, or display, he just wanna take them down and play with them.

When i was a wee little hobz, i used to take shit apart, rebuild them into my own grand designs.... making mechs and stuff cuz i really wanted to play mechwarrior 2, but didnt have a PC capable of running such a thing.

[red kryptonite]

hes 10, starting to outgrow "playing" with toys. its time to teach him how to appreciate the art of collecting/displaying.

[Badhobz]

oh at 10's hes probably getting into video games more and more. soon these will just collect dust.

[68style]

That's a hell of a lot of work even for 2 people to pull off in 6 hours man wow

[GLOW]

ya my boys are in to minecraft and sort of outgrew lego.
my younger teen still plays with lego.

speaking of mechwarrior, i got a MOC maurader II aka officer battle pod if you watched robotech (in NA, aka macross) growing up, a few months back.

i just got him to build it for me and helped for complex pieces (or if 1 or 2 pieces were missing b/c aliexpress LOL)

waiting for aliexpress soundwave to drop in price lol

[red kryptonite]

Originally Posted by Badhobz

oh at 10's hes probably getting into video games more and more. soon these will just collect dust.

Ya he’s into video games and Pokémon cards right now.

Originally Posted by 68style

That's a hell of a lot of work even for 2 people to pull off in 6 hours man wow

It wasn’t too bad. Its not like it was fully disassembled. Just a lot was fell apart from playing and thrown into a bin. But yea a lot of work nonetheless.

[Badhobz]

How the hell is pokey man still around. That shit was from my childhood…. I don’t see the appeal

[roastpuff]

Clearly you don't know the usefulness of a Vaporeon.