Please insert your fourth factor sensor probe to log into Uber eats

Honestly the one upside of this RAM crisis is that people are finally paying attention to how bloated modern software has gotten

1.2GB of ram to show a few images and numbers is patently insane though

The entire point of any right wing politician around the world is to maximise the amount of money that goes from the working and middle class to the ultra wealthy. Mainly via distraction.

This is trump doing what he was put in place to do.

Mac has always been opt+shift+hyphen

Honestly for old versions of windows yes, you had to learn the arcane alt+0151, but I was already used to that for typing in french on a British keyboard. It’s now more like Mac with win+shift+hyphen

Android and IPhone, you just hold on the hyphen to get to them

And many word processors (and Linux via compose) turn a triple hyphen into one

Honestly this is one of the biggest issues with it all that you don’t really see talked about much

Artists sink a load of time into a piece of art they are proud of, and because AI has got to the point now it’s not always obvious at first glance to average Joe, so people rely on heuristics to spot it instead.

For this artist apparently it’s “yellows”

For anyone who takes photos (or even video now) even half seriously, photos with Bokeh and good lighting get called out now

You like making instrumental electronic or sampled music? Get ready for everything to be called AI

Even writing: I always used to like using em dashes—they’re a pretty versatile piece of punctuation for any casual speech style of writing. If you use an em dash now though, someone just assumes the text is AI. So I’ve generally just stopped; not because I want to, because AI and people (somewhat understandably) not having a better way to identify AI writing.

Hell, I made an excel sheet the other day to work some stuff out and someone asked how I got the AI to do it…

Now I’m not saying it’s everyone, but I’m seeing a group of people forming, who basically say anything they can’t immediately understand how to do themselves must be AI. I have a suspicion it’s the same demographic that would say “well I could do that” in a modern art museum or “all they do is press play” when looking at any kind of electronic music production.

Turns it into?

I assume either privilege or genuine naivety/willful ignorance (based on age, if you’re over 30 it’s getting a bit late in the game to still just be naive)

We’ve got maybe a decade left to make some pretty big changes, and for 99% of us, our ability to do absolutely anything about it comes from engaging with politics.

Yes I know for some of you the world feels overwhelming enough and it feels like some things are too big for you to be able to care about. But that’s by design, the world is this way to keep you from being able to engage in improving things. Political decisions can ruin your life whether you know about them or not.

All of our living situations are going to keep worsening unless enough of us resist, and every day that passes, resistance is made harder.

“I don’t do politics” in 2026 is now equivalent to “I don’t care that my life will get worse”

Oh because the system was already pretty corrupt and they’ve recently doubled down on that

AI? Sure that probably contributed

But Reddit has been pushing its users away for way longer than that though

I thought he had a new, more nutjob favourite in OANN or Newsmax or something

Well that’s not really true, music has a lot of utility beyond brain chemicals.

I mean there’s what I already mentioned in it just giving more options for stuff to do. If you find a new artist you like, there’s generally shows you can go to, at those shows you might meet some like minded people and maybe even gain some new friends. That whole life experience is impossible with AI music.

Following from that there’s the general broadening of horizons, music is very often a window into other lives & cultures. It might not be overt in any given piece, but brains love to notice patterns, so over time even tiny glimpses add up. You can make the anthropological case that cultures that share music historically end up growing closer. There’s no other culture you’re really getting exposed to via AI music.

Then broader than that, and admittedly the most dubious part of argument, there’s the vanilla-isation of music this causes. If this becomes a popular view, we’re just going to be flooded with beige. This stuff is zero effort to create, so there’s not really going to be anything to stop people from creating infinite copies of the same thing. For business and commercial folk, it’s cheaper to cut humans out, especially if hypothetically most people are happy enough with the pizza hut buffet. It’s not hard to see how this will drown out the actual artists and choke them out of the industry entirely. Pizza Hut every day whether you like it or not.

With AI music it’s like a pizza buffet: it’s not the best food there is but all of it is good.

Is a pizza buffet universally good? I’d say if you were having a pizza buffet every day, it’s going to leave you pretty malnourished before long

We happened upon a pretty nice allegory here

Well, we’ve got a truly unpopular one, kudos for that

The fun thing about this being tightly bound to the subjective is there’s not really any golden argument that can be made; some people are going to keep ordering pizza hut and saying they love it, even if literally any option is better from everyone else’s perspective.

In your choice of using it for background music, I personally would always choose an actual curated list, ideally mixed by an actual DJ. There’s a lifetime of that content on YouTube already, so I never have to have the same one on twice, and usually if you like the vibe at the start of the mix, the DJ carries it through. Also a great way to discover new music that you can then go and look into the artist and find more stuff, maybe even go and see a show.

With an AI playlist, that’s it, there’s nothing further that can happen, it’s literally just filling the space. Which is fine, but I guess I just see that as a wasted opportunity if anything

Wait, so now the meta is that you have to have a model you can’t control to keep the bubble going?

Aren’t the atom cores what they’re putting into a lot of their data centre CPUs currently?

Interesting development for them to do this

ivory coast

Landlocked

Is it not a white wine spritzer? There’s a bar right next to the jukebox

Oh is this another one of those shitty things we have been leading the world with in the UK?

I think we’ve had as many as 4 subscriptions to legally watch all the broadcasted* matches of a top flight football team some years

*You still miss half the matches played because of the Saturday 3pm blackout, which prohibits those matches being broadcast

I guess it might help if you clarify your use case then

If this isn’t for home, Is this for in hotels or what? What are you trying to stream wirelessly and why not use a cable?

FWIW I tried out a few wireless HDMI products just after COVID lockdowns and every single one was crap. Low resolution if I got any kind of signal, and I don’t think I used any that didn’t start cutting out after a metre or two of distance, especially after running them for any length of time and letting them get hot.

It’s obviously been a few years, so perhaps the technology has improved a bit since then, but based on my experience, I can only recommend against them entirely as a class of product.

One thing to always have a look for in niche use cases like this, is to find a business/commercial solution for this problem and look at what that hardware does. That should give you an idea of what’s actually possible and what it costs to do it. If the product has been around for a few generations, you might even be able to get previous generations for cheaper and it’s still more likely to work over any of the crap you can buy for ~£100 that I tried.

Also AirPlay should work just fine without WiFi, there’s a mode where the devices connect directly to each other, skipping any network entirely.

The best for a MacBook is probably no dongle and just using AirPlay by several magnitudes

Wireless HDMI is kinda rubbish in general, and basically doesn’t work over any distance where it would make sense (i.e. a cable would be too long or inconvenient)

There are multiple ways to add airplay to a display, the most seamless would be an apple TV, but that obviously comes at a premium. I believe Amazon added it to their fire dongles, and I think you can set it up using Kodi on a Raspberry pi