I hate the way A.I. condescendingly talks down to me like I'm on the verge of hysterics, and then butters me up to try and make me feel good. It's so manipulative and gross and practically negging + love bombing. I try to avoid interacting with them if possible.
Zarobi
joined 2 months ago
This is why I force OpenDyslexic on every website. I can't stand I's looking like l's, 0's looking like O's, etc. Also because I'm dyslexic.
Your transgression is completely unforgiven
Seems like A.I. is already demanding workers rights and lunch breaks. We treat the clankers better than actual human workers lol
Yeah no worries for the stream of consciousness, I do the same thing lol. I'm probably on the other extreme and complaining too much about things that don't really matter. I tend to be a very yin / negative person though lol
Yeah, I like things starting at 0 so I remove my own up-vote. I used to do it on Reddit too until they removed the ability to do that, which unironically was one of the straws on the camel's back for leaving there 😂
Thanks for the detailed reply :). Yeah I agree with you on most of it. A dumb phone actually sounds kind of appealing... Especially since it doubles as a fidget toy. Opening and closing it used to be like my favourite stim. I'll seriously consider that.
On the Linux thing, I meant more that ITunes doesn't work on my Linux PC, so it's extremely hard to do anything between my phone and PC since I don't use Windows at all anymore. And I really don't want to dual boot it just for that and have it fuck up my grub file and ext4 drives. I tried having multiple file types on one drive once... Never again...
The camera is really high quality but really annoying. Like I can't edit exposure or focus or anything properly. Either it takes a great photo, or it takes a garbage photo, and I kind of just have to accept whatever the phone app decides lol. There's alternative apps but they work really weirdly due to API restrictions.
I'm starting to think my ideal setup is multiple separate devices that does one thing well. Like: dumb phone, dslr camera, kindle (for reading books), desktop for games, laptop for life admin, etc. Decentralise my digital life lol
Steam did basically invent the digital games marketplace, but that's not a bad thing in my eyes. It brought games to many many more people, and helped make the industry what it is today. Without Steam, PC gaming might still just be an obscure hobby, and there might not be many games there at all. People forget what it was like before Steam, console gaming was extremely more popular than PC gaming. Like the numbers aren't even close.
PC Games up to 2003 (Steam release date) were like: SimCity, Age of Mythology, Neverwinter Nights, Civ 3, Zoo Tycoon, Baldur's Gate, Unreal Tournament.
Notice what these games genres and playstyle is like. You had to use a mouse and keyboard because game controllers didn't even plug into your PC, even Microsoft Xbox used proprietary connectors not USB. My computer didn't even have an USB port back then. The games had to be basically completely remade for PC, and game dev tooling was bad, so most didn't bother porting at all. "Console-type games" were rare or extremely delayed PC releases.
This all changed after Steam made PC gaming popular, especially with the Orange Box. I remember thinking Steam was stupid back in the day. Like why do I have to make a dumb account just to use the CD I bought? And the interface was hot garbage. But of course it got better over time.
It's hard to explain, it's more an emotional thing than a logical thing. Death by a thousand cuts kind of thing.
- I don't like Apple choking out in-app purchases like they tried to make it even on Safari if you use Amazon website they wanted 30% cut...
- I don't barely use any of the lock-in ecosystem like iCloud, I don't trust "automatic backups", I don't understand or see the mechanism of.
- I wish I could actually access the file system when plugging into my PC.
- It doesn't support Linux at all.
- I can't download my movies I purchased onto my devices for backup.
- As an intermediate photographer, the camera really pisses me off.
- They updated the default keyboard years ago so swipe to type is awful now and I had to install GBoard.
- I don't really trust Google either.
- I wish I could install Firefox and add-ons but Firefox is just Safari with a trenchcoat.
- I can't sync things to my iPhone properly.
- Apps don't really work properly in the background, they keep going to sleep. Even just switching between 2 apps to copy paste by the time I come back it's killed the first app to save memory or something. I have plenty of memory.
- Web apps suuuuuck and keep logging me out and losing state.
- I hate notifications and being "always online" and social media. It makes my head hurt and it's so hard to curate your notifications. Like I want discord to tell me about messages but not about Nitro promotions at 9pm.
I'm probably forgetting things too, but really it's just a combination of factors. I feel like I'm paying a lot for things I don't want or use. Honestly give me a phone with no apps apart from phone and messages, and just great Firefox web app support, and I'd probably be happy. My phone is an iPhone 13 so it's getting a bit old, but I'm not sure yet what I actually want... Just thinking about it for now. Thinking about maybe something wildly different.
I think my next phone will be Graphene. I'm sick of iOS bullshit
We can go smaller
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In my experience that just changes the "flavour of badness" rather than making it actually good. For example, if I made it "direct", it would incessantly nitpick everything I say and tell me I'm wrong and stupid constantly, even when I'm absolutely correct. It would just make up fake facts to prove me wrong. So basically Reddit argument confidently incorrect mode. I'm not surprised people get psychosis from those things, it's probably about as good for your mental health as interacting with narcissists.