It *can* be an accessibility thing, for someone with ADHD, object permanence or auditory processing or memory issues, or even for someone with dementia, it could be a great QoL thing.

... It's just, y'know.

Not being marketed for that. Also a data processing and privacy nightmare. I hope it burns.

It's a dot-com/blockchain style bubble, yeah. "AI" *is* still useful & not *just* a solution searching for a problem...

... But they're trying to create the next "internet" so they can replicate Amazon/Google's stranglehold on now-essential services.

The next AI winter will be long and painful.

Almost certainly so. It’s the only reason I can think of for AI companies to be investing in it tbh. You might argue it’s to sell their subscriptions but those aren’t profitable anyway and most people don’t want to pay for it to begin with.

Oh just because there are Windows 7 users doesn't mean there aren't going to be companies around the world tossing out entire departments worth of PCs. I'm sure there will be people clinging to Windows 10 for a long time, too, but the vast majority will just buy new PCs.

I guess the campaign worked. It *is* legitimately interesting stuff, we had one of their scanners at Labs while I was at LMG

This, too, is a big mood.

Yeah, it's maybe a little dangerous if you're too focused on them at night, but it's almost hypnotic. I'm glad I was in the passenger seat so I could just keep looking.

That's pretty much how it be sometimes. I guess it's a little bit like that thing where you read something, then realize you don't remember anything you read. I remember a Star Trek episode where someone mentioned being able to pick out a voice in a crowd like it's a normal thing and I'm like ??????

I can only imagine how frustrating that is. For me, I can hear just fine, but sometimes it just breaks up once it comes time to process, especially if the environment is noisy. I hear syllables and I know there's meaning in them, but they don't go together properly, they're just sounds.

It's always really cool driving through an area with a wind farm. Land that's gone unused, harnessing energy that's already there. I think the biggest farms I've personally seen are in semi-arid land in Northern TX, which really surprised me. Apparently there are even bigger ones down near the gulf.

You can thankfully completely disable that via group policy, but if you're on Home edition there's extra steps. Same deal with Copilot. And even with it completely disabled, Microsoft's horribly inconsistent UI makes sure you still see a button for it from time to time.

Ironically, we've got less of That, and more of This.

Almost feels like the timeline is attacking me specifically because I perceived the world to be boring for the first half of my life, barring 9/11 & Iraq.

I wasn't in a state to enjoy it then, and I'm not in a state to enjoy This now.

Wha, how did I miss this? I checked and I've got nothing on my end saying I left that message. I'm not quite sure how they did that, maybe a zero-width space or something in the username, or some lookalike character for the l.

On one hand, I love seeing people get owned by their own creations when they're clearly wrong

On the other, the explosion of people using some flavour of "@grok is this true" unironically has terrifying consequences