Leon

This is so funny. It fails miserably and they’re all “yeah so this is promising.”

Sure, a world where your manager hallucinates meetings with you and assesses you poorly for not performing according to plans that were hallucinated through said meetings sounds like a fantastic idea.

Hoping this sets a precedent for the same kind of regulation about non-Chinese corporations. Otherwise it just comes across as sinophobic grandstanding and not actually about protecting the privacy of the end-user.

Ah yes, like Apple does. This makes sense.

Didn’t think I’d be excited about something Microsoft is doing, but this sounds great!

Which doesn’t make any sense.

LLMs don’t learn, and they’re not people. Applying the same logic doesn’t make much sense.

Because we’re all familiar with the famous Nintendo quality.

Definitely the latter while the former makes for a cute excuse. Saying “we shipped a flawed product” isn’t going to go over as well as “we’re doing this to protect our customers.”

The controller rumble isn’t continuously rumbling to a point where it is likely to cause damage.

Well yes. You obviously still can’t say “le dollar bean” without getting nuked from orbit. YouTube is a goodly Christian corporation after all, can’t have such content.

I believe it’s an original switch. Bought it quite long ago. The temps shouldn’t get very high on account of it not being in the sun and also there being no other equipment there.

I genuinely have no idea. I’ve read online that it could be because of

• Skin oils
• Lotion
• Alcohol
• Other detergent

Skin oils seems ridiculous because I’m not oilier than your average person, and it’s literally meant to be used with your fingers so if it can’t handle skin oil from your fingers without breaking the fuck down that’s a massive design flaw.

I basically just left it in its case for ~9 months or so, closed in the TV bench. There’s no way UV reached it and broke down the plastic.

The fact that a ~€20 pack of 2 replacement switches are mechanically better, and also designed to have the caps be removable so you can replace them is criminal, given that the controllers themselves cost like €80 by default. I’m definitely not buying the Switch 2.

Official Nintendo case for the Switch, I believe.

They have the added bonus of the joystick caps being able to just pop off and replace, which is great because the original sticks can just spontaneously fucking melt.

I’m still mad.

The rest of us will be stuck with those consequences also. When idiots are at work, third party always suffers.

It’s honestly ridiculous too. Imagine saying that your whole business model is shooting people, and if you’re not allowed to shoot people then it’ll crash. So when accused of killing people, you go “nu uh” and hide the weapons you did it with, and the legal system is okay with that.

It’s all so stupid.

I prefer the overview I get with them. I’m on an ultrawide monitor so it’s not like I’m sacrificing horizontal space either.

Through the years I’ve bounced between different engines. I gave Bing a decent go some years back, mostly because I was interested in gauging the performance and wanted to just pit something against Google. After that I’ve swapped between Qwant and Startpage a bunch. I’m a big fan of Startpage’s “Anonymous view” function.

Since then I’ve landed on Kagi, which I’ve used for almost a year now. It’s the first search engine I’ve used that you can make work for you. I use the lens feature to focus on specific tasks, and de-prioritise pages that annoy me, sometimes outright omitting results from sites I find useless or unserious. For example when I’m doing web stuff and need to reference the MDN, I don’t really care for w3schools polluting my results.

I’m a big fan of using my own agency and making my own decisions, and the recent trend in making LLMs think for us is something I find rather worrying, it allows for a much subtler manipulation than what Google does with its rankings and sponsor inserts.

Perplexity openly talking about wanting to buy Chrome and harvesting basically all the private data is also terrifying, thus I wouldn’t touch that service with a stick. That said, I appreciate their candour, somehow being open about being evil is a lot more palatable to me than all these companies pretending to be good.

There are search engines that do this better. There’s a world out there beyond Google.

At my old workplace we ended up getting like a thousand toilet seats delivered to us. We were a web publishing firm.

Might there not be a way to extract them?