scytale

joined 1 year ago
[–] scytale@piefed.zip 95 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Wild how Crunchyroll started as a piracy site, worked its way to becoming legal, and is now the very thing it was created as an opposition to.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Because the executives either drank the AI kool aid or have FOMO, so they mortgaged the entire company’s future for it, resulting in layoffs, job insecurity, no clear plan or direction, and 0 morale.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 3 points 1 week ago

And the circlejerkers on linkedin are foaming at the mouth with his manifesto.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Shut them down for good. They collect a shit ton of data and sell it to anyone. Your car's telemetry data get collected and they sell it to insurance companies.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Premium users

enabled them to skip ad breaks

Does not compute. Wtf is the point of paying for premium when you still get ads? Podcasts should automatically have the ads skipped if you’re paying for them.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This works for people who have FOMO and keep upgrading every time a new model comes out and have a monthly payment in perpetuity.

I just hope they don’t make this the ONLY option. I keep my phone until it dies or runs out of security updates.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago

And by the time the data centers are ready, all those chips will already be obsolete.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 15 points 2 weeks ago

It’s way before that for me. When I get word of the event, I look up the venue immediately to see the parking situation. If it’s bad and the event isn’t too important, I’m not going.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

I’m on beta (testflight) on IOS and the latest version now allows adding a second phone. But I think previously you could already link an iPad or a laptop.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

For casual conversations, maybe. But for actual computing tasks, it’s more effective to outline prompts and give it direct instructions without fluff.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, basically an enhanced Siri.

 
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