This is the main reason why I seldom install anyone's "app".
Most of these apps aren't true apps anyway, they're just customized browsers that lead you to a website and are free to collect as much data from you and your phone as they want.
I'll go on your website first if I have to and 9 / 10 I get what I want. Besides, I'll only ever visit the service once or twice so I don't need to install a permanent app on my phone for that.
I've owned about ten smartphones at this point and I've saved them all over the years.
Never cracked one and I still use my old devices once in a while for fun or for a project. And I'm not easy with my devices, I take them to work on construction jobs, have them in my pocket all day while working and set them down with all my tools. I'm careful enough and over the years, I've never lost a phone.
My wife is not as active as me and doesn't do much physical work .... but for whatever reason, she's broken two phones ... one while in her jacket pocket that flopped out and got bent in half and crushed with a car door.
subtle
Some of my people have been saying this for 500 years.
This is how I envision the future of modern day AI crap online ....
".... ... the answer to your question is ... imma gonna kill you .... lol .... what else would you like to ask?"
I don't have kids but I have lots of siblings that do ... and I have a few friends in southern Ontario who have their own kids.
Hockey parents are the worst, especially in small town rural southern and northern Ontario. They all believe that their four year son (specifically boys) are all going to grow up to become a multi million dollar NHL all star by the time they turn 18.
The format is all the same with them. The kid has lots of potential when they are four, nurture the sport into them and they'll become great. By the time they're six, they haven't shown promise but there's still time. By the time they're eight, signs are starting to point that they aren't that athletic, but we can still try. By the time they're ten, they are definitely not raw talent, but we can still hope. By the time they're 12, they are an average player in the little leagues but the kid is just lazy and not motivated enough at this point. By 14, we're starting to blame the kid for not making it. By 16, they are being blamed for not doing enough or working hard enough. At this point, the parents give up and they forever live with a disappointment of a son who never made it to the NHL like they wanted. At 18, the kid is in the beer leagues and doesn't like playing hockey any more but loves to talk about it.
Not all parents are like this ... but I've seen about half my friends with kids go through either all or part of this scenario.
I got to know two players from northern Ontario that made it to the OHL and QMJHL, basically one step away from the NHL. Both players were natural athletes with huge muscular forms and they could run/skate/train like an olympic athlete. They trained 365 days a year and spent mornings at the rink, the days at they gym, and evenings with more training. They did this from the time they were about 12 or 14! And even with all that and years and years of hard work ... they didn't make it to the NHL and their hockey careers dried up and the best thing they got out of it was a university education.
The estimate I've heard is that each little hockey player out there has about a 1 in 100,000 chance of making it to a league that might give them a chance at the NHL .... and that's if the parents dump tens of thousands of dollars into the kid every year for about ten years ... and that's if the kid has natural raw talent and the genes of an olympic athlete. It is about a 1 in a million chance for them to make it to become a highly paid professional athlete.
I've seen far more kids being destroyed by organized hockey than I've seen any make it.
This thog wants a piece of you
Shitposters also run the risk of being torn apart, ripped open or impaled by giant alien super bugs from space.
I hurt my back just reading this comment section.
Isn't that what the second monitor is for? Seems like a perfect description to me.
You can cause chatgpt to hallucinate if you keep asking it "are you sure"
I talked to it for about an hour with friends the other day. We kept bombarding it with all kinds of random questions. At one point, it got so confusedthat it's responses started to try to mash up every response it generated for the past hour into every topic it talked about there after.
It was telling us stuff like the square root of pie was related to how round peanuts were and that birds liked it while flying at 30 kilometers an hour and then tacked in references to politics, communism, economics, Joe Biden, South America and China.
It was both hilarious and disturbing.
I thought I should take the responsibility to post this and remind everyone about what today is.
National Day For Truth And Reconciliation
Both my parents are survivors of the residential school era and my family have had to live with this horror all our lives ... whether we knew it or not.
For me the day is not to shame anyone or lay blame on those around me.
But rather to let everyone know about this history and never allow anything like it to ever happen again.
In The Original Series in the 60s, people had no idea what the future would look like or what technology would look like. In one of the early episodes, they had a paper print out machine on the bridge that looked like a fax machine, which was considered futuristic in the 1960s.
Like the example of the Enterprise fax machine, what technology or system do you think are we displaying in the current Star Trek shows that will show how dated we will become in the future?
I didn't see it posted so I thought I should.
I'm Indigenous, full blooded Ojibway/Cree from northern Ontario. Both my parents survived the residential school system in the 50s and I attended the last vestiges of Christianized schooling when I was growing up. We saw a lot of discrimination against us in my family and we were always made to feel less than every other Canadian we ever knew.
Even with all that ..... my dad always enjoyed celebrating this holiday because he just thought it was fun and a good time to celebrate with family and friends. Maybe he just didn't know but whenever this time of year comes around, all I can think of is how much he enjoyed just having a bit of fun today in the middle of summer.
In my own experience, I've travelled the world to 34 countries so I got see and compare how our country compares to the rest of the world. With all its shortcomings and blemishes .... this is still a great country and a prime example of decent democracy. It isn't perfect and it is very problematic and unequal in many ways ... but its on the top of the pile of mostly or more democratic places on the planet. I may be wrong on that but that is just my opinion.
So with all that said .... to all my Native, non-Native, nation born, immigrant, brown, white, black, and every shade in between ....
Happy Canada Day to all of you.
I didn't see any one mention it here but today is the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy and what has become to be known as the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
James Doohan who famously played Scotty in The Original Series in the 1960s was a veteran of this famous battle. This was also the day he famously lost his finger which he always did his very best to hide from the camera.
Read about him at this webpage provided by the Juno Beach Centre.
https://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/james-doohan/
For those who don't know Juno Beach refers to one of the five named beach areas of the D-Day landings. Juno Beach was the landing area for the Canadian Forces of which James Doohan was part. And also for those who don't know, James Doohan was a Canadian.
Yet another video test using a GIF from a Pixelfed server at pxlmo.com
Let me know if this works any better or worse
and also, Happy Vulcan Day .... lol
attempting to find out how and where I can post short video content and how it appears and works on Lemmy and the general Fediverse
for your info - this was posted via the Lemmy webclient on Firefox running Linux (Ubuntu) in Canada ... and the video is being posted and hosted on a Pixelfed server on pxlmo.com
if you have a moment let me know if this works or doesn't work or looks or acts strange depending on what service, app or set up you have
Thanks
He never listens