Omg I can’t agree with this strongly enough. Just typing this comment I’ve had to manually correct multiple typos because even with haptic feedback and autocorrect I still end up with totally garbled text. I have never been able to get the hang of typing on a touch screen. Im still pining for the good old days of blackberries and slide out keyboards.

Hell, even a built in stylus like the galaxy note had would be a welcome fix to constantly fumbling with whatever keyboard I’m trying to make work at the moment.

FYI here is a site with instructions on how to cancel your prime membership since it’s not the easiest thing to find.

I was able to cancel on the mobile app using this same process.

I’ve seen a tesla ‘self driving’ hit the breaks when approaching a bridge. No f-ing way am I flying on an AI-piloted plane.

Not sure where you get that data but according to Statista the top selling car is a Toyota corolla. Tesla model y is on the list but at #4.

Touchscreens probably aren’t the deciding factor in a purchase but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t a problem for users. People just have to decide what features they are willing to compromise on (assuming they have a choice, and touchscreens increasingly are unavoidable).

it’s going really bad. Especially for Disney, who deserve everything coming to them. <

I can’t like a statement hard enough. Amen.

“they intend to re-create events not captured by camera using generative AI,”

That’s going to cause all sorts of problems.

I’ve had issues with this in using govt emails too. DOD accounts all have multiple dots based on branch and dept. It broke so many systems and emails never went through.

Yeah I’ve been thinking about trying that actually. Even thought about trying to rewire the sleep phones to make them permanently bluetooth but didn’t want to mess them up. May try that or the adapter sometime.

I have the same kind of headphones. They cost $400 (at the time) and now they are useless with most devices.

I also use sleep phones at night to fall asleep to asmr and those run with cables. If my tablet didn’t have a jack I wouldn’t be able to use them, and those sleep phones are a lifeline. Being able to listen to asmr on headphones while laying on my side makes it so much easier to fall asleep. All the Bluetooth variants are cheap Chinese knockoffs that fall apart after a couple months, but the sleepphones are still working years later.

It seems it is legal for cars https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-law-will-install-kill-switches-in-all-new-cars/ar-AASt1Th

And it’s already in use for some https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-the-repo-man-can-remotely-shut-off-your-car-engine/

The problem is that there really isn’t a line between business and politics. HPs support for Isreal or anything other political issue is not based on the issue itself but on how it impacts their bottom line. They did the math and determined that supporting Israel earned them better relationships with suppliers, politicians and important (i.e. large business customers). This gives them political capital that they use to limit oversight and regulations that would weaken their competitive position. Then they can continue being shitheads to their customers.

That’s easy to say, but when every company doing this is also lobbying congress to basically allow them to build a monopoly and eliminate all alternatives, the choice is use our service or nothing. Which basically applies to the entire internet.

I may have missed this in the comments already but it is really important to note here that the article says the photo was taken using panorama mode, which is why the computational photography thing is even an issue. If you have used panorama mode ever you should go in expecting some funkiest, especially if someone in the shot is moving, as the bride apparently was when it was shot.

Sure but they are still maintaining data and selling access to it insights from it or ads targeted based on it to third parties.

It’s being used to target content to minors for the purpose of selling directly to them, influencing their choices without any kind of real oversight.

Even if the data isn’t sold directly it’s still not okay.

Unfortunately, old people who have no boundaries and believe it’s acceptable to post photos and details of themselves and others on their public account.

If you have older parents or grandparents online, watch out. Even without an account of your own, Facebook knows you.

A few weeks back I remember reading a comment here from someone on a thread about RTO who said they worked at AWS but had just left. They were talking about all the people jumping ship and how it was making things hard for the remaining employees. It seems like this is some evidence of that, especially since it looks like somebody leaked meeting transcripts to Business Insider to write about it.

Archive link for full article:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231202091630/https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-aws-executive-talk-senior-engineer-departures-2023-11

It’s clunky. Filters and tags make some of that easier, but it’s definitely still hard to find stuff.

I’d add one more- I set my purse down on the scan area (the only flat surface) to get my credit card out and get the “unable to scan item, please try again”. I try to set it with the bags and get the “unexpected item in bagging area, please remove from bagging area”. If I dont want to hold it while scanning and bagging I end up having to keep switching purse between shoulders or set it on the floor (which feels insecure).

They had to know that women carry purses and don’t always have a cart to set them down in, but they gave us nowhere to set them while scanning or bagging things and it just creates a mess.

I get why they’d be pissed. If they cut staff in their old AI team for ‘strategic reasons’ or whatever they told employees, they should stick to that reasoning and say it doesn’t make sense to bring on a different AI team. Otherwise it does send the wrong message to existing employees that they will just be replaced by an acquisition. I can’t imagine working at Microsoft and trusting anything that leadership team says regardless, but even the fact that they made that offer with all the cost cutting they’ve been doing just says that they aren’t being truthful about why they are doing it.