I just reduced my codebase by 100% and it’s now running infinitely faster! Thanks!

All it takes is a software update for these to be bricks. If (and when) Tesla goes under, I doubt they will allow driverless cars that are no longer owned by a company. They will inevitably lock their firmware down as much as possible. It will, for all intents and purposes, just stop working the day the company stops existing.

Or the new model will come out and they’ll just stop supporting them. Or any number of other cynical tactics that Tesla and companies like it have shown time and again that they are totally open to doing.

How are these going to be any different than the e-waste scooters and bikes that have to be Frankensteined (Berm Peak YT link) to barely get working? And these can’t even be used as traditional cars as a fallback. They are made only to be driven by wire.

Now any minor stoppage is a journey ender. Need to go around an accident and an officer is directing but your car is confused? Can’t. Need to interrupt it as it starts approaching an animal or child it doesn’t see? Can’t. Need to pursue in rough weather because someone is injured in the passenger seat? Can’t.

Sure, you might say, “But you wouldn’t hire one of these vehicles in those scenarios.” But now that vehicle is destined for a short life as an upscale taxi that will never be used for anything practical. No second chance to do literally anything practical or useful.

These are all things every single car up to this point has been expected to be able to do. It’s a machine at the end of the day. The new standard is to start taking those things away and finding a ways to make us pay a premium to get them back. Trust me when I say the end goal in these people’s minds is that we all sit in cars that we pay for but never get to drive.

So yes, I am cynical because every one of these companies has given me nothing but reason to be cynical.

Oh awesome. They don’t have steering or pedals so when the cloud service fails in 5 years, the entire car will be complete e-waste.

Oh you flew to Tijuana East? We’re at Tijuana West!

I rebuilt my entire setup less than a year before the spike. Also pre-ordered the Steam Deck. I regularly count my blessings with those. I realize just how lucky my timing really was.

At first when I read your comment, I thought you were referring to studs in the cheek, which I have actually found kind of attractive at times so I was a bit confused why you said extreme. Then I reread.

Cheek gauges??? Wow. That’s wild.

You don’t need any of that stuff though. That’s just for rich bike nerds. Tell those dorks to get stuffed while you save a few thousand dollars.

Is this from something? It’s quite a good quote.

I honestly don’t get the streaming thing. I’m down to just one service and unless I’m doing nothing but streaming constantly, I just don’t run out of stuff to watch.

If you’ve “reached the end” of a streaming service, drop that one and find another at least, but don’t just sub to like 8 services because you “need” to see all the latest stuff. People are convinced they need so much more in their lives than they actually do.

Another major bonus is the fact that it only takes about a weekend of study to learn how to maintain and repair 99% of bike parts. Also, far cheaper parts. And also free bonus exercise.

This one frustrates me for other reasons too. If you knew-jerk to calling everything AI, you aren’t actually trying to determine if it was an artist making it or if it’s generated, which only makes you worse at detecting the differences between them.

I will sometimes stare at an image for 30+ seconds just to try and find which way I think I lean. If I’m not sure, I don’t call it out, but remain skeptical. We should always be trying to be vigilant and never just accept “that looks weird” as being “that’s AI”. There’s also always the chance it’s a real photo depending on context no matter how weird.

To think at least one person spent dozens of hours sculpting that with strong artistic vision they felt they needed to share with the world. This was their gift.

That’s been happening pretty often with all the companies having it try to do something simple and rack up massive fees.

If I catch even a hint of it, I can’t follow up with another bite. It’s probably one of my least favorite common flavors.

I can’t believe I’ve read through the better part of their documentation and never made that connection. It might even be called out in the documentation and it just didn’t register at the time.

For those who don’t know, many, many of their examples use Monty Python references for sample context.

While I still tend to stick to the terminal for updating, I still have fond memories of doing everything through Synaptic Package Manager when I first got into Ubuntu in 2009.

Same here! I can put together a half-descent network in just a few hours, but even programming simple stuff on microcontrollers is a major endeavor. And the documentation is usually terrible or nonexistent. And the tutorials are usually barely able to cover basic questions. At least in the space of networking, there’s enough context clues in the UI that I can piece together the solution I need.

You mean the people who consume ads get extra work breaks throughout the day?

The suffering is like, all on purpose or whatever idk