There needs to be a special kind of therapist for people like us.
I remember stepping people thru reinstalling DUN so many times I could probably still do it in my sleep to this day.
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gr4yb34rd commented on Gamers 50-plus are a growing force in the tech market aarp.org/research/topics/... · Posted by u/ChancyChance
Being one of those gamers, I do question why a lot of the games targeted at us (looking at you Path of Exile) has to have so much goddamned pointless busy-work clicking. I play a league, then skip a league, which means I skip buying a supporter pack, just because my arthritis can't put up with their bullshit interface year-round.
I recently discovered that T-Mobile does this too, but they actually let you disable it on their site. Ostensibly, it's a feature for your benefit (somehow), and they're doing you a favor by enabling it by default. In reality, of course, it's for their own benefit, and they're banking on people not realizing it can be disabled. I suppose giving you the option lets them advertise things like "no throttling" and "4K streaming supported" while still reaping the benefits of throttling/lower-bitrate streaming.
T-Mobile gives me full speed when I set my APN to B2B/IPV4.
Have I missed something? Last I heard Bing chat was off the rails, "vastly improving" the ability to rationalize contradictions rather than to reason. There was that screenshot going around where, facing a logical inconsistency, it resolved it by insisting to the user the current year is 2021.
It always just gives me the hand emoji and tells me it doesn't want to talk if I correct it. That was like a week ago. Not sure what it's doing today.
gr4yb34rd commented on Amazon’s big dreams for Alexa fall short ft.com/content/bab905bd-a... · Posted by u/kjhughes
It doesn't need to upload audio data though, transcribing it to text would accomplish 90% of their use cases.
I doubt the guts of something like an Echo would be capable of containing any kind of speech to text model. It'll probably be a lot more of a concern in a few years when speech models like that are getting baked into cheap chips for consumer devices, though.
gr4yb34rd commented on Flight Simulator gave birth to 3D video-game graphics spectrum.ieee.org/microso... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I remember playing Skiing on my TRS-80 Color Computer in 1980 and being pretty impressed by the (crude) 3D graphics: https://youtu.be/ex1QblMz_nU?t=404
There was also that P51 Mustang dogfighting game for the CoCo had 3d space to fight another player over 300 baud modem play.
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gr4yb34rd commented on WW2 Bomb Explodes in England cbsnews.com/news/wwii-era... · Posted by u/mensetmanusman
what happens if they send germany the bill for damages?
gr4yb34rd commented on The curse of the corporate headshot economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
> I am of above average attractiveness.
Greybeard things.
indeed.