I don’t like it when stats like this are lumped together incorrectly. It just makes the stat meaningless.

A taxi is a vehicle that is on the road and contributes to the gridlock so shouldn’t be lumped in with the other options that actually contribute to reducing the gridlock.

In the UK, we used to have king size chocolate bars that received a lot of bad press saying that they were encouraging obesity.

The solution was to come up with packs that had two smaller bars in. The marketing was focused on either sharing or saving one for later. It was bullshit as most people just eat one then the other but it did allow the companies to say that they weren’t intended to be eaten at the same time.

I think that the sharing bags are a similar tactic to allow them to argue that they aren’t encouraging people to eat too much.

You seem to have got your knickers in a twist over something and I don’t understand what.

Let me summarise the conversation from my point of view. Someone asked what subreddits kept someone on Reddit. I made the comment that a particular sub that I liked on Reddit was more active than the equivalent communities on Lemmy. It wasn’t a complaint but a statement of fact about what made the transition more difficult for me which I made to contribute to the discussion. Then you seem to have taken that as a complaint and taken offence at it for some reason.

A sample size of one isn’t sufficient to conclude that every question gets answered.

Also, I didn’t say that it was inactive. I said that it was nowhere near as active as Reddit.

There are about two or three posts per week which includes all the release announcements for home assistant and various components.

On Reddit there was at least five or ten times that activity with posts every day including questions, automations and dashboard ideas.

That’s a fair point and it is the latter.

I have only posted one question about a problem that I had and I got an answer that resolved my issue.

Unfortunately, I’m not in a position to help build up the community. I have a very small and basic setup and don’t have time to build it up let alone make posts about building it up.

I went cold turkey after the third party app debacle but I really missed the home assistant subreddit. There is a home assistant community but it’s nowhere near as active.

I used to see tip buttons on payment screens a lot in the UK. That seems to have reduced recently and you have to ask for a tip to be added. There are still restaurants that add a 10 or 12% service charge to the bill though.

Windows machines frequently do updates without a reboot nowadays and you can usually postpone an update to a more convenient time.

The problem is that when an update that requires a restart is waiting, it changes the standard restart button into one that does an update and restart. You can often fall into muscle memory and accidentally trigger an update.

When combined with the fact that you quite often get problems that go away with a reboot you can easily get yourself into OP’s position where they’re waiting for an update to finish at a really inconvenient time.

As a heavy YouTube user this simply is not my experience. Not that it never happens, but it’s not the default to the point that you can just assume that. In most cases your assumption is wrong.

Maybe it just depends on your viewing habits and what the algorithm pushes. I see loads of top 10 movie clips (e.g. sci fi movies on Netflix) in my feed that have an AI generated thumbnail and when I’ve viewed some of them there’s been no apparent AI use in the video.

I am also seeing AI generated clips where the thumbnail doesn’t look AI generated. That one’s very annoying as I don’t want to watch AI generated videos at all.

I got the emoji list up all the time on Teams when I didn’t want it. Apparently I use brackets a lot.

This is much better IMO.

Although they could have told us. That would have been nice.

It was actually a post made by ChatGPT.

In no particular order:

Titanfall 2 single player / Titanfall 1 multiplayer Cyberpunk Batman: Arkham Knight Ghost of Tsushima Wipeout 2097

I thought that Descent was way better than Doom. We used to play it after work and it was fantastic.

I’ve never been a first person shooter fan though.

Yeah. All the companies seem to think that ads for their own products don’t count as ads. Same with all these ad free mobile games…. 99% of them show ads for in game purchases.

I think that the bullshit mental gymnastics that they all went through to allow them to do that was to call them promotions, not ads.

I was thinking that it was going to be a mobile game until the Xbox logo at the end of the

That’s more than mildly infuriating!

And why is that “mildly infuriating”?

Charging a fee to accept payment is ridiculous. If a cost is unavoidable then it should be included in the price.

I accept that some payment providers charge more than others but there should be at least one that is free even if that means adding the cost of the cheapest one to the base price.

Ideally they would all be free and you’d just add the average cost of payment processing to the price.

There was a time in the UK when you could get a flight from Manchester to London for £8 but the final price ended up being ten times that due to additional costs that weren’t optional.

The books have one or two references to him working as a labourer or other jobs between books.

He does have access to a shower. He stays at motels mostly and very rarely sleeps outside.

There’s no explanation for that body though as he definitely never goes to a gym.

If that’s the case, then as long as the “AI research” was thoroughly checked by a human, then I can’t imagine how he’d have even been caught using AI. So, it’s strange that he was caught.

I just did a search on it and apparently someone said that a particular sentence in the video sounded like it was written by AI. He said that it wasn’t written by AI and in fact wasn’t written at all as it was ad-libbed during filming. He then confessed that he has been relying too much on Chat GPT for research and that his script did sound too much like AI.

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