What's worse is when your computer software manufacturer makes such a bad, unintuitive product that they have to invent an artificial super intelligence just to help you figure out how to use it.
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joined 6 months ago
This is so true. I'm nearing 40 and becoming more and more frustrated with (mainly) horrible UI redos that move shit around every 6-9 months.
I can't think of computers as tools anymore because every revision of their OSes just completely obliterates the muscle memory that I've built up from decades of using them.
And every single one of those companies has gone through rounds of layoffs in 2025. Not only that, but each one of them had released statements saying that their layoffs were (paraphrasing) "strategic reductions in force" unrelated to economic factors.
Which is a long way of stating the obvious: corporate tax cuts don't encourage job growth. Even if that stupid theory were true, companies would have eliminated chunks of their workforce with or without the tax breaks because AI investments (/gambles) are majorly driving this iteration.
Thune: "We're not going to negotiate on anything until Democrats stop holding government funding hostage"
So it's "hostage taking" when you're the ones getting leveraged?
Countdown until Repubs start chanting "free the hostages!" in reference to the American people... 🙄
My work laptop has at least 2-3 browser extensions that are glorified keyloggers/traffic sniffers.
One of them legit intercepts all my web POST requests and runs them through a locally hosted ML model to try to detect whether I'm mindlessly spilling company data into ChatGPT (or any other big name AI).
That's all fine or whatever, but Chrome shouldn't be burning 10-15 GB of memory on my laptop with only a handful of tabs open...
Sigh