Bongles

Before AI, I didn’t even know what an em dash was, it was basically something word (or other software) occasionally corrected my hyphens to. I learned about it because people realized AI uses it all the time and it seemed like a good replacement for all those damn parentheses I always use.


Didn’t end up using it much though.

Affinity 1 and 2 were also on windows.


Supposedly their plan for affinity studio (the new free app) is to make money with the canva AI subscription and other canva things. If that stays true and affinity studio stays a free, fully featured app (aside from AI features), I’d be ok with that. I’d also be surprised.

>disabled by toggling a single switch in a top level settings menu.

Until windows decides you really should have that switched on and flips it back after an update.

This keeps happening. I can understand using AI to help code, I don’t understand Claude having so much access to a system.

These people are more twisted and vile than we realized



You’ve said far worse. When you could speak.

I also had the Moto X and loved it. The wood back was neat. After then I kept getting bigger phones, from LG and Samsung, but nowadays I kind of miss smaller phones. I was also sold on the better cameras of these other brands. Depending what they release I might make my way back to Motorola. I’m pretty ingrained in Samsung at the moment.

I cannot believe that even once, I agree with suicide forest, crypto bro con artist, rug pulling Logan Paul. Even if this is just for attention, like some suggest, it's at least better to have someone wildly popular with younger people (somehow) to be saying this.

Hasn't this type of thing already been litigated?

Ain’t that the fucking truth…

I’m pretty sure I still hear of people using tapes for extremely long term but not often accessed storage. This sounds, just from the title, like it could be useful for that.

It works for me generally. Asking things like “who was i asking about X” type stuff.

It’s available everywhere at this point. My team has the license to have copilot in every main office app, the teams that don’t still have the generic web version. There are AI chat bots for various things with some stupid brain related name. There are a couple things we’ve done with an LLM that have actual business use cases that benefited an automated process (sorry, have to be vague). Another, not Microsoft, product we use is advertising their AI features all the time, which as a side note feels incredibly unprofessional for enterprise type software, if it was up to me I’d find an alternative over that alone. Another cloud database service also has a brain themed chat bot.


What my job doesn’t do is force anyone to use it ever (outside of the people that had to set it up). I use copilot in Microsoft teams, as it can pull from emails and chats to answer questions specific to my job, generic stuff like fluffing up a peer/self review, helping me find a conservation that I only vaguely remember, finding emails when outlooks search decides to be shit. Since it’s my work device with my work data I’m not concerned about my privacy so that’s actually useful to me. I’ve played around with the word and excel copilots but they’re terrible. Word can help you build a doc but if i open a doc copilot tells me it can actually edit anything in the doc. So what is it for, generic questions? Then excels can physically do things but it gets it very wrong for me. I was almost even excited for it because I thought, maybe I could say something like “Hey copilot, take this sheet, put it into a pivot table, use X for columns and Y for rows” and it would do it for me, rather than me taking those steps. But it doesn’t work so I stopped trying after a few attempts at getting it to be useful.

what the fuck is an EDC tactical wallet?



EDC being everyday carry, tactical at this point has lost any real meaning - pants with a few extra pockets, this wallet, any knife you might take outside of a kitchen, a water bottle holder that you can attach to something, anything that they put those little loops that are normally on military backpacks (actually there’s another example, all those “EDC” backpacks that are 150 bucks).

They do make jackets like this.