Yes my corporate overlord! All hail the shareholder value!

Lol. Why do people even still pay for this shit? To get another great series canceled or the 4828262th bullshit-series? Or to just get a fraction of what the muricans may see, spiced up with local shit noone ever asked for?

Or apps that won’t work on your devices unless they’re just rented and not owned?

You’re absolutely right. Totally unrelated: wanna try some free blow?

Oh wow, yeah. One phone in one specific version or setting is ownable by exploit. until fixed. I’m flabbergasted.

Make them all ownable, by default, by law.

I don’t pay >1k moneyz to basically rent a phone that is never mine.

Who cares. Go home windows. I’m waiting for Microsoft doors.

If you use that pile of crap, you deserve it.

Oh no, don’t get me wrong. I like multicultural stuff. But the key-word here is MULTI. That is not what is happening here. I love my occasional asian supermarket, indian shop or even that one bulgarian mini-shop that exists. What i can’t stand anymore is that one single cultural theme taking over complete areas, especially every main street. This is no exaggeration for drama’s sake. Most of the inner-city-shops don’t even have anything in german (or at least english) on their windows. All arabic. You don’t even have a clue what it’s about. Hearing spoken german in those areas is the exception. And they don’t want any non muslim. To them we are…well.

I’m no racist, I’m misanthropic. I think the whole species is a virus, i don’t care for race or sex or whatever. But i do despise religion in whichever form.

If i’d emigrate, I’d learn the language and try to assimilate the culture as much as possible. I would not try to make that new place my old place. Why would I even emigrate then :)

No, I’m not the european MAGA-equivalent. There just a VAST difference between multicultural variety and monocultural invasion. We also have a “little tokyo” here, where there are predominantly japanese migrants. It’s a great place, you’re always super welcome everywhere. They WANT us there.

Also it’s not all of germany though. I happen to be born in a conglomeration of many cities into one big heap of cities next to each other. Long story short, yes, cultural integration can work both ways and it’s dope to discover other cultures (hence i love travelling and have seen most places on this earth). This is no “foreigners bad!”-rant. It’s a sad observation from 40yrs ago to today.

Besides, yes. we have a strong drift to the right here too. No armed hillbilly yokels like you have, but still dangerously strong tbh. I’d argue that the next elections may already be doomed and we will go nazi again. At which point wifey and I will finally move elsewhere.

If you had read my comment you’d known that none of those stores actually do customer service. Especially not in germany. I tried nearly every shop - mostly electronics - and I heavily regretted every single one. Except those where I never had a reason to use customer services.

Finding other stores is not really the problem.

Fair points. We actually do buy much stuff used, even clothes. As a principle. Though I always kinda feel bad to buy stuff others could have needed more or are forced financially to do so. It’s a mixed bag…

As for employees that’s another thing. Offline shopping is so annoying that most stores closed already and the inner cities here basically became lil Istanbuls where you can’t even read the signs anymore unless you can read Arabic. What’s left are mostly chains, of which many are US-owned or lick US-boots (nothing against you guys, but the country and its course). So buying there or at Amazon doesn’t change much. Super large companies that shit on employees and would rather own slaves than pay minimum wage.

And the few shops where shopping is still fun, peaceful and with a variety that sparks joy, are often shops not meant for the average Joe. The last one we strolled through was awesome. Except that unless they see your platinum or better card they wouldn’t even talk with you. And we usually don’t look like we’re loaded and we got treated this way. So fuck them too.

I hate offline shopping. And I loved it 30yrs ago. I went to the city core every day and shopped like an idiot. It was fun, informative and efficient. Now that feels like a story from my dead granny

Hm, what’s the difference? 😁

I don’t know where you live, but shopping offline is a nightmare here (germany). Not only can you drive a lot to actually find any store that might have the shit you need, but also have to find parking. And then pay more for that than shipping costs of a fucking 200" TV.

And then you have to deal with overcrowded shops with a gazillion stinky people in line just to endure a totally clueless yet unmotivated employee.

And then they offer one or two of the things you want. Nowhere near what you actually want or way too cheap or way too expensive. Or just plain crap. Or exactly what you want, but in pink hello Kitty design.

And then…despite all our legal rights and customer protection laws, you can fight every fucking merchant ever whenever you the dislike the product after a few days or, god beware, it broke and you need a new one or at least repairs.

Amazon got me 20yrs ago when my top of the line gaming GPU broke after 2 years and they just refunded it, no questions asked. And they still do. I literally saved a 100k on their lash policy over those 20yrs.

I hate amazon from the depths of my heart, I avoid any and every us-company, all big tech and social media and whatnot. But those damn fuckers? I would have to spend triple to get a fraction of everything and drive hundreds of hours. And I’m a goddamn cheapskate that turns around any cent, despite having enough.

We only have one other very big shop here for online, and they only have a tiny fraction. I shop there too, but…

Up to this day I have never had an account and never ever looked at their shit. And guess what I have been missing since then? Exactly. Social media is mostly cancer and Rest Propaganda. Especially if its us-owned.

Hahahahahahahha…but yeah, that’d be awesome. Fucking damn touchscreens in cars.

Of course! I’m deeply sorry the previous version didn’t compile. Here is your absolute 100% final working game “star citizen 2” as requested. And this is why it works: (blahblahblah)

(Any LLM ever)

how the company can scan neighborhoods for missing dogs

Hilarious. Thanks for making me laugh.

“Windows must both remain an open platform and be secure by default”, says Microsoft in its Windows Experience Blog

…but it isn’t either and will be neither. It will just be even more closed down, like android. It’s so tiring reading shit like that.

No thanks. Good I finally ditched win for Linux. Should’ve done this earlier.

Yeah sure, i can understand that too of course. But…except for image- or videogeneration, what good would a subscription do? they’re all still free to hook us up. and the paid models don’t deliver the promise of intelligence either.

Didn’t say they’re 100% useless. They’re just 90% useless to me and 10% super helpful. Surely depends on what you actually want from them. But I couldn’t think of one area where i might seriously consider dishing 30 bucks a month out for an LLM. Except I’d do tons of translations every day or your proofreading. But for that, the free tiers would already be enough.

I have no idea how disabled people have anything to do with the current quality of LLMs. I didn’t say it’s not helpful at all, i didn’t say it does not work. Can you americans just think in binary dimensions? Some people don’t have a political agenda and just see things like they are. Like I do. And to me, LLMs are 90% useless, 10% incredibly helpful.

I didn’t say the don’t work. They’re just mainly useless. For coding? Nice for quick prototyping, seeking alternate approaches or such. Real code? Rarely working and in the end you spend more time fixing stuff than it initially saved.

For everyday research? It’s helpful sometimes, but mostly plain wrong. That one sure isn’t inherent of LLM but the data it feeds on.

For what it’s great is translations, summarizing stuff or a nicer web search. And my own locally run for the smart home. For that it’s a blast. Like “close gate, open front door, turn on all lights at 50% in a lush shade of green, and turn on the coffee machine”. Absolutely awesome.

But paying for that? And even like 30 moneyz? No way. Don’t get me wrong, I fucking love all tech and LLMs are kinda a dream coming true. But it’s still not really there. My last session with Claude ended in the “AI” giving up and asking ME how I solved it. Only to then admit my answer would be useless as it is forgotten anyway after that chat 😁

I have no political agenda and surely don’t lack experience. I don’t even see LLM as an enemy. I wish it was actually intelligent and really helpful/timesaving more than 50% of the time.

Not questioning generative powers for video or image or sound. They’re awesome there and totally timesaving and extremely helpful.

And I’d also argue that the “average person” to whom it is very helpful is easy to please with any answer to their everyday questions. Especially if presented in the usual asslicking way based on total and absolute confidence.