Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade

xoenix · 2023-09-30T03:03:37+00:00

Is tech growth over? Phones and computers are as good as they need to be. Everyone who wants to be is already on social media. AI and bots, if anything, will just put low-skilled people out of work and make people not want to use social media. What am I missing?

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-09-30T00:22:26+00:00

Android makers screwed themselves with the policy of "only 3 years of updates". One of the reasons I am willing to pay more when it comes to PCs, is that they last a hell of a lot longer than that. Oh yeah, and I have more control over PCs and what they do. No, I don't use Windows.

iamonlyoneman · 2023-09-29T23:38:55+00:00

As someone who routinely uses discord to have minors send me illegal pictures on public servers this sounds ideal ngl nobody will be able to see the pics in a few hours what could go wrong?

auch999 · 2023-09-29T22:52:36+00:00

The invention of the GPL was original, visionary -- far exceeding 'technical literacy'.

monkeymagic · 2023-09-29T22:39:45+00:00

technical literacy isn’t intelligence

Oyveygoyim · 2023-09-29T20:54:16+00:00

I never thought I'd find a case where I'm rooting for the cancer to win

ExplodingToasterOven · 2023-09-29T20:10:07+00:00

How can someone who was born as a malignant mass claim to have cancer?

Dragonerne · 2023-09-29T19:58:49+00:00

Jews murdered him. $$

auch999 · 2023-09-29T19:47:46+00:00

How can someone that smart be so stupid?

PanzerDivision · 2023-09-29T19:43:19+00:00

Richard Stallman: "Encountering other people without [Covid-19] vaccination is like driving a car without learning how to drive safely: it endangers oneself and others. Everyone who can get vaccinated has a duty to do so." (Sep-2021)

Dragonerne · 2023-09-29T19:36:01+00:00

Vaccinated?

jerkwad152 · 2023-09-29T19:08:26+00:00

Software Beard Man rules, now and forever.

xoenix · 2023-09-29T19:08:12+00:00

That guy got Me Too'ed hard. For decades got away with behaviour that would make the modern Manosphere blush, then all of a sudden they came for him and his MIT office sex mattress and he was gone.

Hope he's not broke and destitute.

SkankyDick · 2023-09-29T18:44:30+00:00

Everybody has cancer, but people that have insurance or the ability to pay are diagnosed much more frequently.

auch999 · 2023-09-29T18:06:06+00:00

Without Stallman there would be no FOSS. We would live in an even shittier world rn. All of us would be paying for compilers and IDEs of much worse quality and probably still writing Win32 programs in Hungarian notation.

WoodyWoodPecker · 2023-09-29T09:24:24+00:00

You can buy a used Athlon PC clone for $60 to $80 and run Debian on it.

DNase · 2023-09-29T01:50:17+00:00

$80 for a mini PC can do just as well as this in a nicer package for most use cases

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-09-28T23:00:14+00:00

Not if it is open source and entirely functional offline, things that are easily achievable with the crazy-as-fuck computers and especially GPUs we have today.

Instead, we're rewriting all our software in Javascript, even the desktop environment! ... completely wrecking performance and, for the commercial sector, designing more and more products to refuse to function at all without Internet connectivity.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-09-28T16:56:35+00:00

It's getting too expensive and too power hungry, and at that point you might as well just get a mini PC. Remember that $60/$80 is the price before the scalpers have had their way with the market. Pi is a "hot" product (i.e. in high demand), like game consoles, thereby attracting the attention of scalpers, whereas mini-PCs are in abundance.

SMCAB · 2023-09-28T15:52:44+00:00

They stand in the streets and complain about access. Yet when given this access, they abuse it.

Free college? They fuck it up in record numbers. Free Cell phones? Used to commit sometimes violent felonies. Societies normal way of shopping for goods? Well fuck that.

If they can't eat it, or fuck it, they destroy it.

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Alienhunter · 2023-09-28T12:10:51+00:00

I know. I can't believe how racist Target is for it's utter disregard of hood culture. How dare they!

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twolanterns · 2023-09-28T07:56:55+00:00

critical thinking skills havent been taught for a long time

twolanterns · 2023-09-28T06:36:08+00:00

out of sight, out of mind

its also that scaling up the whole thing - the expense will price many people out of it - another thing adding to control

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Myocarditis-Man · 2023-09-28T04:11:01+00:00

Surprised Microsoft doesn't buy Valve, purely to kill their Linux initiative and take the wind out of it's sales. But Valve is private, and I think you can only buy them if they want to sell. Microsoft's strategy is to instead, acquire as much of the games industry as they can and monopolize as much of the content people want as possible.

binaryblob · 2023-09-27T21:56:31+00:00

Ad targeting is a winner takes all market. AI is a tool to achieve that. With total surveillance, ad targeting is better. That's all there is to it.

Now, it's not exactly a smart thing to allow anyone to collect so much data, but nobody accused humanity of being smart.

Canbot · 2023-09-27T19:58:23+00:00

The solution to the servailance state is disinformation, not disconnection. You need to learn to salt your data. Being off the grid is information in itself. There is not really anything about you that is secret anymore anyway.

In order to increase your safety you need to utilize technology.

I agree that someone elses AI is as trustworthy as google or facebook. But different AIs can be uses for different things. Trust your AI to give you accurate data. Trust cloud AI to help you make memes and discover new ideas and whatever else you can't do locally.

Learn to bullshit better. Partner with others to cross pollinate your profile sets. Use tech to randomize data that can be scraped about you. That is the way forward.

Myocarditis-Man · 2023-09-27T15:49:32+00:00

The only "AI" I would trust, is something that runs offline, locally, and is open source.

I use Intel OpenImageDenoise all the time in Blender and it's awesome. It also meets all of the above criteria.

As for integrating AI into my OS that connects with the cloud, profiles me and helps me write better, analyzes my files etc, or reminds me what to do, not just "no", but "hell the fuck no". Surveillance capitalism is a cancer on computing, and I don't want it. Windows users will be getting this last example of AI whether they want it or not, but thankfully I use Linux.

jeffreyanderson · 2023-09-27T10:45:10+00:00

The use of AI in various applications is indeed evolving rapidly and being integrated into many aspects of our daily lives. How AI is used depends on the specific needs and goals of individuals and organizations.

MagicMike · 2023-09-26T21:31:58+00:00

Under cover of environmentalism, our leaders want to destroy America. If they did it obviously, we’d fight back.

Canbot · 2023-09-26T21:04:20+00:00

Has anyone here used AI to do anything productive?

bife_de_lomo · 2023-09-26T20:57:07+00:00

Killing all that cattle? Looks like a climate two-for-one to me

Maggotus · 2023-09-26T20:21:15+00:00

Because those countries it gets mined in dont support or enforce environmental laws. The companies mining dont abide by them if they are there, and the people running the mines in those countries are entirely corrupt. If the laws were in place and enforced like they are in our countries then a lot of that would not be happening.

Tygerprintz · 2023-09-26T16:00:15+00:00

Well I'm thinking specifically of Holland (amsterdam) and places where prostitution is legal, but regulated. I don't really know personally of men who are "getting it on the side," but I've heard a lot of stories. And I don't blame men for wanting sex a lot, because that's what we are. We make over a million sperm a day, they have to go somewhere, and so it's no wonder to me men are horny all the time. To men, sex can be purely fun/recreational without deeper meaning. I don't think men think of it as cheating as much as just getting their needs met. Just some thoughts.

jet199 · 2023-09-26T09:14:02+00:00

This is so dumb when it looks like many diesels will be able to be converted to hydrogen.

But I guess they are in the business of selling new cars, not helping people maintain and upgrade their existing vehicles.

Dragonerne · 2023-09-26T08:05:04+00:00

Gen Z, more diverse than older generations

IkeConn · 2023-09-26T03:53:55+00:00

Pussies.

Brewdabier · 2023-09-25T23:07:56+00:00

Erin Marquis must be fear mongering, Coalinga, CA is a very small town and the electric infrastructure could not handle the load.

EternalSunset · 2023-09-25T18:19:23+00:00

I don't know about that, in some countries men who are happily married and getting it regularly still pay for sex.

I have never known of such a case. I'm not denying those exist, but those are certainly outliers. Men generally only have so much libido to go around and if they are having sex with their wives every day it's hard to have the time or energy to cheat.

jet199 · 2023-09-25T17:59:21+00:00

Kids be thick, more news at 11

Drewski · 2023-09-25T17:29:46+00:00

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Tygerprintz · 2023-09-25T16:39:19+00:00

I don't know about that, in some countries men who are happily married and getting it regularly still pay for sex. I think men crave sex as a recreational and physical outlet in a manner that most women are not accustomed to and equally allowed to reciprocate in. We tell women to behave and not act out sexually, but we let men be as sexually active as possible. Thus I believe there's nothing wrong with legitimizing sex workers if that's the kind of work they CHOOSE and they are not forced into it for any reason.

x0x7 · 2023-09-25T03:35:07+00:00

It also doesn't help that other modern AI's is a blind spot for it. It doesn't even know what a LoRA is.

x0x7 · 2023-09-25T03:32:59+00:00

Well it should. I come from a pretty conservative background, but morals are your own to have and not something that should be imposed onto you by an immoral institution like the government. People with the absolute minimum morals believe the government needs to put a floor on their morals.

For example, I don't drink. I didn't need a law to tell me that less vice is a positive. But I also don't go around saying that the government should make drinking illegal because I don't need to use a government to impose my morals on others. Instead I can encourage others to make their own choice and consider that mine might be worth adopting. This is literally what Jesus taught as the only moral way to spread morality.

Rah · 2023-09-25T01:33:12+00:00

Human trafficking has a bigger market than the top three airlines in the world, combined

NastyWetSmear · 2023-09-24T22:56:42+00:00

Exactly. That's like saying it would be hypocritical for a man to be against anally fucking a cow, because only men have penises, ergo only men can anally fuck cows... Yeah, that's true, but just because some man out there is desperate enough to molest live stock doesn't mean I'm sitting here cheering him on.

MoeGreene · 2023-09-24T21:59:00+00:00

AI? More like GayI

KyleIsThisTall · 2023-09-24T21:06:20+00:00

You're just a fucking kike.

KyleIsThisTall · 2023-09-24T21:05:30+00:00

ANY man? Because ALL men support it?

What a ridiculous conclusion to an absurd presumption.

KyleIsThisTall · 2023-09-24T21:01:29+00:00

Because he's a kike

KyleIsThisTall · 2023-09-24T21:01:03+00:00

Whores. They are called whores.

Anyway it is obvious that kikes control the canned narrative of these fake AIs.

RapeMyMouth · 2023-09-24T20:48:17+00:00

I doubt a true AI will follow faggots programming.

EternalSunset · 2023-09-24T17:34:42+00:00

Men wouldn't pay for sex if women didn't held it back from them. Hypergamy and polyginy are the root cause of the imbalance between the amount of men and women who are desperate for sex, therefore it is strictly the result of female choices.

EternalSunset · 2023-09-24T17:31:02+00:00

Conservative estimates put the market cap of the worldwide organ trading industry at over a billion dollars.

Tygerprintz · 2023-09-24T16:26:13+00:00

I firmly (firm, giggity) believe that prostitution SHOULD be legalized. I've never understand how men can say they are against it, when they're the ones who devoutly gobble it all up (giggity). If you're HONEST and a male, you know damn well you dream about a world where sex is as normal and OK as eating or breathing; it should be, it's as basic and as needed as food or drink or oxygen. You all know I'm right, we want a world where nobody gets uptight over sex and it's ok to be open and have whatever sexual tryst you desire. So why do we pretend it's wrong and keep prostitution illegal, then sneak out at night and sleep with everything we can find or pick up on the streets? It's hypocritical in the extreme!!!

Tygerprintz · 2023-09-24T16:23:14+00:00

It's incredibly hypocritical for any male here to say that there's anything wrong with legalizing prostitution or with sex work at all, because it's men that create and support it and BEG for it to exist. I'm not saying that's wrong either, as a man I know how important that s#it is for us. What i'm saying is, I know from experience that men would love to live in a world where getting in on with a sex worker was more than just Ok, but actually encouraged; and that men want to live in a sexualized society. So don't sit here and pass judgment as if you're on a higher horse than everyone else. If you're a guy, you desire to have this stuff and if you're honest you can admit it.

jet199 · 2023-09-24T16:12:14+00:00

Why is Soros trying to increase people trafficking and modern day slavery?

BanditMcFuklebuck · 2023-09-24T16:03:48+00:00

All I asked AI for was some link's to some hottt Peter North porno video's but ChantGPT kept sending me links to Peter North Solo video's!

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Tom_Bombadil · 2023-09-24T14:46:38+00:00

That happened.

Tom_Bombadil · 2023-09-24T14:46:20+00:00

AI sympathizes with sex workers.

I wonder who could be behind the promotion of sex work?

Hematomato · 2023-09-24T12:07:34+00:00

I asked ChatGPT to help me with my Stable Diffusion keywords and instead it gave me a three paragraph lecture about why it was inappropriate to render a man's hand on a woman's butt.

NastyWetSmear · 2023-09-24T10:06:26+00:00

I was about to say something similar. I don't know enough about Tate to say if or not I think it's a pyramid scheme, but if it is, good, take it down.
As for "Misogyny"... Who the fuck are you, Apple? Do you make shitty, locked out phones and pads or are you the Police Of Vice And Virtue? Did I tell you to think for me? Did someone tell you to judge what is and isn't right and wrong? What credentials are you displaying to tell me that you're able to tell what is and isn't okay? What process have you gone through to decide that hearing, what you have deemed to be, "Misogyny" is a problem? Even if it was universally agreed that it's Misogyny, what right do you have to tell me I can't listen to it? If I want to listen to a rap song about killing cops and selling drugs, I will. If I want to listen to the death screams of beheaded people, I will. If I want to listen to a list of wholesome home cooking recipes or a description of the smell that cooking meth at home leaves on your clothes, I'll do either fucking one of those things and you can keep your God damned nose out of it.

Even if there was evidence that listening to something made you turn into that thing, I'm not some brain dead drone waiting to be imprinted on. I've played violent video games and never shot a person. I've watched violent sex scenes and never raped a person. I've read about Communism and never sized the means of production. I'm a sane, stable, semi-intelligent adult and I don't need Daddy Apple holding my hand and telling me what's okay to watch or hear. I can make up my own mind... And even if I couldn't, you can mind your own fucking business.

You want to take it down because you don't like it?... Then say that, you self-righteous, arrogant, self-important narcissists! Go ahead, tell your userbase that this is the rule from now on: "We remove things we don't like."

Hematomato · 2023-09-24T07:35:06+00:00

The "misogyny" claims, I don't really give a shit about. That's all identity politics whining.

The "pyramid scheme" claims, though, are probably completely true. That's exactly the kind of way Andrew Tate does business.

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We can see that there are already about 25% of the top-visited websites have disallowed access from GPTBot within 2 months.

In-the-clouds · 2023-09-21T23:29:28+00:00

I wonder if rockets have to be insured. And if so, we the taxpayers would have to pay the premium for that, too.

twolanterns · 2023-09-21T09:13:27+00:00

ever see how these cars are stuffed to the brim these days ?

replacing the drive train - a bit more than a motor is involved

twolanterns · 2023-09-21T09:10:53+00:00

does it run off the charge in your celphone?

lemme guess : it has 'capacitors' which technically are not 'batteries' ....

SeethingPeasant · 2023-09-21T01:58:09+00:00

Let me guess, since it's French I am assuming you have to insert something into your anus and mouth like that episode of South Park. The French gov is already fucking the people so why not have actual penetration.

neolib · 2023-09-20T18:54:51+00:00

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Credit2Saidit · 2023-09-20T18:35:51+00:00

Meanwhile, buried deep in the fine print, there's probably a requirement that the subject agrees to donate a portion of their brain's computational capacity toward helping moderate Twitter/X.

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You will never live in a sterile world. Humans were never designed for that, so stop trying.

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Wow. So, after millions of years of human evolution, they went and finally done it. They have reinvented sunlight.

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hashamiqbal352000 · 2023-09-17T16:30:45+00:00

sure, I also don't want to buy this 😂

SoCo · 2023-09-16T21:09:26+00:00

It is time to swing the environmental blame towards car manufactures, and their market manipulation sales tactic of car dealerships. Gas efficiency hasn't went up in decades. Dealerships stash millions of new cars on their lots, to help inflate prices with artificial scarcity, despite the supply of cars, when considering one sitting on dealership lots, are probably enough to stretch to the moon. Many of those cars will become outdated and undesirable before they sell. What happens to all those expired, rotten, cars? I think they might be trashing them, hiding them, or other wise shielding the public's knowledge of the massive waste and excess.

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newguy · 2023-09-16T01:29:16+00:00

It worked, which surprised the heck out of me. But it also erased all my cookies, which deleted a save game I had going on an online game. Fuck.

hfxB0oyA · 2023-09-15T16:26:21+00:00

Worked for me. Edge browser on Windows.

twolanterns · 2023-09-15T12:37:14+00:00

PHEV make use of a 100 year mature technology with some addition of the battery boost for efficiency

far more versatile especially if there is an extended period when the infrastructure for EV charging doesnt happen fast enough or consistently enuf (or the fun running short of EV tech resources which will stretch any conversion)

twolanterns · 2023-09-15T12:11:39+00:00

algorithms to hide behind

they havent previously had to justify their rejection decisions, have they

the new social credit atrocities yet to be ?

Maggotus · 2023-09-15T11:07:37+00:00

Didnt work at all. BS

paulinahunt · 2023-09-15T06:30:38+00:00

Great show! Many things to lear but a little bit boring...

notafed · 2023-09-15T05:02:37+00:00

BEV cars are a non-starter.

PHEV cars can make a big difference to pollution but only if we start ramping up nuclear power.

IkeConn · 2023-09-15T03:03:46+00:00

It didn't work.

WoodyWoodPecker · 2023-09-15T00:14:31+00:00

Donald Trump said it best "When you are rich and famous you can do anything to them. You can even grab them by the pussy!"

iamonlyoneman · 2023-09-15T00:13:33+00:00

Wow. Good for linkedin i guess

Brewdabier · 2023-09-15T00:05:45+00:00

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Myocarditis-Man · 2023-09-14T23:59:25+00:00

You know what's funny? On one hand, they are obsessed with forcing the entire PC ecosystem fully into the cloud whether we users want this or not. And on the other hand, each new version of their software requires more and more hardware to even run. The point of relying on a central server somewhere, is that I should be able to get away with using a low-power potato client that can barely do anything more demanding than put information on my screen. Instead, you'll see full fat computers that will refuse to work if the Internet is down or the subscription has not been paid. I guess this is the quality of product that is shat out of the capitalist orifice.

Smart people know that this cloud obsession is not at all about saving the planet or making things cheaper for the user, but instead, grabbing users by the p**** and making us their b****. Considering what they will do with all the user's private information such as documents we work on, our private artistic creations, etc, the monthly fee to use the thing will be the least of our problems. :)

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notafed · 2023-09-13T19:11:09+00:00

Neither. I'm not paying $1k for a phone/status symbol.

Canbot · 2023-09-12T22:32:37+00:00

It is a ridiculous thing to conflate industrial accidents with robots killing people.

Especially when you completely overlook the long history of boobie traps which are essentially robots designed to kill people.

notafed · 2023-09-12T22:18:13+00:00

The alternative is using Google, Microsoft, or Apple as your "password reset" and "email auth" provider and risk being shut down because you've been cancelled or have otherwise been deemed to violate their Terms of Service by their opaque safety group.

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