I too vote to scrap sex reveal parties and instead use gender reveals when the kid chooses their gender

Quality shitpost

I understand you, I do… And often the rich and (in the case of the US president, or) powerful pull this shit anywhere in the world. That Dubai palm tree-shaped beach nobody lives in, the Trump golf courses in Scotland… I’m not American and I have grievances against capitalist pigs destroying good land.

Aside from being a circlejerk for the companies competing their bots, I’ve never understood why they use humanoid bots for most tasks. Are they all really that vain to believe the human body, a bipedal body, is the ideal for jobs like this.

I recommend moving to .odt and such, Microsoft altered the supposed-to-be-standardised formats they use, probably to lock people into their ecosystem. You could instead select all and copy from the docx into a fresh .odt, and fix the formatting differences.

And that is why turning off automatic updates is sometimes necessary, and a must for games, consoles and mobiles. Because the anti consumer practices by corporate shitlords are far worse than a low chance of being hacked through a “security flaw”.

This is bad news for me – I was planning to buy Sony but if they’re going to be assholes as well, only PC is clean, and then only GoG, Humble Bundle etc.

So, exactly what they did with the Xbox One. Pre release everyone was so angry at the console having an online dependency, even for offline stuff, that they made a last-minute change and reduced it to mandatory check-ins.

OGs use the console controller for the on-screen keyboard like a niche demon

I dont know how much of this is sensationalist peddle, but there’s a barely disguised advert for entrepreneurs by a YouTube channel called Statrys that mentions China’s plan to destroy the competition by doing what a dictatorship not held back by bureaucracy does best; investing fucktons of money into the industries. Link

In my attempt to drive a wedge into the ideal of unconditional government faith:

I have deduced that there are five laws of society:

1. State - national or regional regulations, uses prisons, sometimes to protect themselves rather than the community
2. Religious - based on the perception of guidelines of how to live, as per holy scriptures
3. Moral - the societal, generally accepted rules to not be a dick, such as harming others in malice, stealing. Not to be confused with subjective, personal morals
4. Ethical - a broader, more easily agreeable set of regulations, almost exclusively to protect life, the way of it, and the generally accepted ideas of rights for fauna and flora
5. Corporate - enforcement of copyright and intellectual property, a capitalist creation, often used to socially and financially destroy individuals rather than battle other businesses, in some regions utilising state law

The state legal system is sometimes the absolute enemy of the people and morals, especially when combined with corporate law, and shouldn’t be treated like it’s unconditionally justice.

Well, in one respect it’s humans - always humans - that cause destruction in one way. Even if some of us try, like backing a carbon offset program that plants trees (in correct places that historically support trees), there’s the rich and powerful creating some other hyperfixation like fast fashion, space races, greed wars, religious wars and witch hunts like the one against AI to cock it up again

On the other hand, I as a builder of tech fucking hate what the obsession with AI has done to the current global economy, and how generative AI is a complete waste of existence as its meaningful use is dwarfed by its cost…

But I do see value in developmental AI, and while it’s little more than a standard algorithmic program with memory, parameters and developer bias, it is useful at doing some work better than us, and much faster. And since the dawn of humanity we’ve been inventing things to make life tasks easier. I do believe that form of AI will persist. In a way, vehemently opposing the AI programs that make calculations or accurate code is about as righteous as refusing to use a hammer to nail together some wood, or making fearmongering pamphlets about the advent of electrified cities.

bitcoin isn’t cheap

Well, you dont have to buy whole digit BTC (or any other cryptocurrency), you can convert like €50 into the wild and sketchy world of unstable currency which will be around 0.0026436362 BTC, but is enough to cover the cost of the transaction. I’m not sure I recommend it, only that it’s technically not expensive because you’re still using the equivalent of your currency, with a transitional currency.

things like search that limits options

And you can self host SearXNG, metasearch engines are much easier to handle than search engines, and I believe they are private enough – no tracking or sign in data is communicated through each search API – but I do not know all there is to know.

They asked GPT 4o to peer-review the choice and they trust it because they pay US$10/m for it

Yeah nah that makes sense. I’ve got a weather integration in Home Assistant and chose to add relatively accurate coordinates for the API calls. That at least was entirely under my control, whereas their implementation was “use it this way or not at all”, demanding location access or no weather.

The next contractor is debugging why the upstairs cloakroom has a breeze running through it, only to eventually realise it should probably have four walls

I feel like they over engineered the heck out of ‘simplifying’ automations, to the point I stayed on Core v2025.8.3 for about 7 months. I disliked their menu changes and hate the big ol card that comes up on mobile when editing - much prefer the older style.

In some respects I’m glad the US gets invasive updates before the UK, it means I get a longer warning, and this realm isn’t always protected by EU regulations. I haven’t used Photos for a while but I still need to warn others. One saving factor: even though the article never says it, this feature seems to be for backed-up media only, and not for on-device media.

Try Fairphone. Ethically fantastic company, and they offer their phones with either Android or Murena /e/OS

>Downloads Niagara to minimalise my phone, reduce distractions
>Buys Pro, re-enables icons

Am I a heathen