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So my phone force enabled Gemini AI after I disabled it, and when using it to do a command while driving I discovered that it picked a voice really fucking close to mine and is using some of the same mannerisms I do like "a'ight" and I cannot even express how disturbing that is

I never ever ever want to hear "a'ight" from a clanker
 
Betonhaus said:
So my phone force enabled Gemini AI after I disabled it, and when using it to do a command while driving I discovered that it picked a voice really fucking close to mine and is using some of the same mannerisms I do like "a'ight" and I cannot even express how disturbing that is

I never ever ever want to hear "a'ight" from a clanker
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That sounds really awful. I’m sure there are some people who love the sound of their voice so much that they need to have it as their AI voice.

I absolutely hate hearing my own voice played back to me. So this feature would be awful for me. Just let me select the voice from TNG.
 
GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
That sounds really awful. I’m sure there are some people who love the sound of their voice so much that they need to have it as their AI voice.

I absolutely hate hearing my own voice played back to me. So this feature would be awful for me. Just let me select the voice from TNG.
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It's just damn creepy, especially as I'm not used to the sound of my voice as recordings always sound a little different. I'd prefer it if I could set it to a transatlantic accent as that's clear and easy to hear in a noisy vehicle
 
You know what drives me up a wall? When you work with/in tech, people expect you to know EVERYTHING tech related. Even some obscure app you've never heard of until now. Even better, the app or program runs or looks like shit and you're automatically meant to know it then and there.
 
The Last Stand said:
You know what drives me up a wall? When you work with/in tech, people expect you to know EVERYTHING tech related. Even some obscure app you've never heard of until now. Even better, the app or program runs or looks like shit and you're automatically meant to know it then and there.
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I don't even work in tech and my mom still thinks I know everything about computers when all I do is search my problem.
 
Is there a good list somewhere of smart products that don't require a subscription, cloud management, or shitty app to use?

I'd love to find a smart lighting product that doesn't require an account, app, or building an entire Home Assistant ecosystem. Just a hub with a web server where I can punch in the IP and pull up a page where I can change automations or add/remove bulbs. I have a small multiplex that has a mess of mechanical timers controlling the outside, landscape, and parking lot lights and it's a nightmare any time there's a power outage or we switch between standard time and dst.

A personal recommendation for smart but not cloud-dependent is Network Thermostat. They have a cloud service but you're not obligated to use it, the 'stats have a web server built in. It's less convenient to control if you're away from home but a VPN router or port forwarding can take care of that. I've had them in my rentals for years; stat in the boiler room and remote sensors in a couple of units.
 
The Un-Clit said:
It's compression really was outstanding for it's time. The first movie I ever got a full rip of was 'Princess Mononoke' in 1998 or 1999 in .rm format that was around 50-60mb, or half a ZIP disk. I couldn't believe it was the whole thing, fansubbed and all.
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It wasn't .rm but the first media I put on my original iPhone was a sized-down (I think h.264) Finding Nemo. Mind was blown having cinematic quality in the palm of my hand.

Thank you, thank you Steve Blowjobs, just let me gobble your knob.
Curry Teafag said:
Every time my modem made those dial-up connection noises, I'd be like, "Yee-haw!"
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Remember running a wardialer every night to find the half-dozen or so X.25 Telenet nodes with no passwords?
 
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AnOminous said:
Remember running a wardialer every night to find the half-dozen or so X.25 Telenet nodes with no passwords?
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No. I don't think we had that here. But we had a local nerd club that back then offered free dial-up Internet access where you only had to pay for the local phone call, no extra ISP fees. It was even harder to get into than AOL with its retarded traffic light, but it wasn't limited at all, unlike AOL (and CompuServe, remember them?).

There was also our local YMCA that had set up a few Internet PCs where you could go and surf for free. I remember getting scolded for surfing to the website of the NPD, a far-right political party. There wasn't anything against the law, but still, Christcucks being Christcucks.
 
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What the fuck is this shit?
 
Curry Teafag said:
No. I don't think we had that here. But we had a local nerd club that back then offered free dial-up Internet access where you only had to pay for the local phone call, no extra ISP fees.
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You might have been surprised if you tried. I had at least three in the middle of cowtown in the early '80s.
 
AnOminous said:
You might have been surprised if you tried. I had at least three in the middle of cowtown in the early '80s.
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I don't know if what you've mentioned was a thing in Germany in the late 90s, and to what extent.

In the 80s, only West Berliners were able to enjoy some real freedom (and run lots of BBSs) because they didn't have to pay for local phone calls and weren't as tightly regulated by the federal government. It would be Bildschirmtext for the rest of us—Kraftwerk mention it in their 1981 song, Computer Liebe.
 
Dante Alighieri said:
What the fuck is this shit?
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It looks like the modern day combo of nagware and "We want your personal information to hassle you further about using our product. So please buy the full version, ok?"

Curry Teafag said:
There was also our local YMCA that had set up a few Internet PCs where you could go and surf for free. I remember getting scolded for surfing to the website of the NPD, a far-right political party. There wasn't anything against the law, but still, Christcucks being Christcucks.
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When my first professional job completed its trial run of internet access with the execs and gave everyone else in the office access, I still recall the owner of the company coming up to a coworker I'll call "Barry" today and saying, "Barry, I see you were browsing the North Korea web site the other day..."

Barry was more of an odd duck than most, so I'm not surprised. Still, I wasn't sure if the conversation was a reminder internet access was monitored or if it was an attempt to shame Barry out of his odd philosophical beliefs. I can think of far worse sites Barry could have been browsing 🤷‍♂️, and I'd almost wonder if that was a conversation best had one on one and not for everyone to hear.

Thread Tax: The increasing number of software programs or web sites that want users to upload data to their servers in order to receive output. With the various shenanigans and AI underhandedness going on in the tech industry, I don't trust third parties to be good stewards of my or anyone else's personal/private data - especially with all the various data breaches that have exposed data originally believed to be private or otherwise not being saved remotely.
 
Notifications not actually notifying you.

I subscribe to two channels on YouTube. One I know when he streams, the other I'm not sure exactly when he might stream. So I'd like a notification when he starts streaming. Apparently Notification means either browser notification or app notification, there's no longer any way to say "Just send me a fucking email." So my phone goes "ding" and I look at it and see what's happening without yet another fucking app sucking battery and my privacy.
 
Stella d'Oro said:
Xupiter, Gator, MyWebSearch, BonziBuddy, CoolWWWsearch...Bringing back memories.
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Every website had a toolbar that they aggressively pushed... (Even some setups force-installed popups)
The Un-Clit said:
Schnuffel, aka the Jamster Bunny in North America lives on in my nightmares to this day.

ANY late night channel you would see the fucking Jamster ringtone commercial with this fucking CG rabbit stroking a carrot and singing in an autotuned voice about it's 'sweetest love'. played back to back 2x because it was a 15 second commercial. Sometimes you would see the goddamn thing literally 4 times in a single ad-break.

I can't believe it ever enticed ANYONE to have that annoying slop as their ringtone, but it obviously made money, at least for a little while. I've never seen Jamster past 2008 or so. Mind you I cut the cable and went Internet only around then too....
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Yea Jamster was sued into oblivion
 
There was this one car show where some "Zoomer"-looking younger guy asked this old guy, in a somewhat soy-sounding lisp, if there was a "social media" for the old guy's car.

Of course the old guy said there wasn't, becuase why would you want to make a "social media" for your car anyways? Current Year thing?
 
ToroidalBoat said:
There was this one car show where some "Zoomer"-looking younger guy asked this old guy, in a somewhat soy-sounding lisp, if there was a "social media" for the old guy's car.

Of course the old guy said there wasn't, becuase why would you want to make a "social media" for your car anyways? Current Year thing?
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Was this one of those zoomers who have their fucking instagram handle on the side?
 
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