Newsflash: American car manufacturer says “Our cars are crap and overpriced”

Imagine showing up in school with that in the 90s!

Isn’t it too easy for the current chatbots/LLMs to lie about everything?

Train it on garbage or in the wrong way, and it will agree on anything you want it to.

I asked DeepSeek about what to visit nearby and to give me some URLs and it hallucinated the URLs and places. Guess it wasn’t trained to know anything about my local area.

I was hoping for “get an older one that uses a defunct connectivity method”

The last car I got is from 2015 so in 10 years I’ll get one from this year (but not tesla).

I want the new technology but it has to work like the old, and I can answer myself: Okay boomer!

I’ll have to find a compromise when I finally get an EV.

Is there an option to physically disable this?

When i finally get an EV I don’t want it to be online in any form, is it even possible to get one like that?

APAP: All Politicians Are Preposterous?

Latest sneak peak of the phone in action:

Remember 10 years ago the YouTube app only showed ads on every 3rd video and often only a single 5 second ad, and everything longer could be skipped.

Like a frog in a pot I could tolerate that amount, a few years later they started the ad ramp-up and what finally drove me to install vanced were 3 unskippable ads you had to endure just to watch something.

j/k h/l I learned those playing Nethack

Good there’s other free alternatives out there. I’m in the office 97/2003 was peak ui camp, the rest is just a more flashy UI that doesn’t really add more value.

The only reason I would listen to 5 minutes of adverts is if I had no way of stopping them.

You are right, do it well-planned and slow.

At least they give it a year, instead of just chainsawing it. That said a year is still very fast, if they did it over 5-10 years that would be right.

To me the leaf must mean that we toke and code, instead of code using AI tokens.

Browsing the internet will be like playing AI Quake II, you’ll think you are in this alternate universe.

The ICE guys face seems to say: If you love your job, then it’s not just a job, it becomes a passion.

I use Devuan on my servers, changed because I was annoyed that systemd was forced on me. (I have mellowed a bit since and accept that systemd is here to stay)

I chose Mint for my laptop, because I just want a OS that works and still gives me a taskbar. (Here I got fed up when Ubuntu switched away from gnome)

All of them are apt based Linux because it just works and when apt shoots itself in the foot during dist upgrades you can still wrangle it back in working order.

The Damascus steel guy Alec Steele, visited not long ago.

They need to keep it running 24/7 because the startup price is much higher than letting it run.