Microsoft says AI is more productive than workers. Microsoft says workers are more productive in the office.

AI is not in the office.

So do we bring AI into the office to make it more productive?

Unfortunately, I don’t have one.

Is there one god damn phone out there we can buy that’s somewhat ethical and redirects or privacy?

Fairphone? Haven’t been following that, but I’m pretty sure it’s the most ethical phone to consume…at least in theory.

We had artificial power and artificial movement for much longer than we’ve had artificial intelligence.

(Ok, it’s not really artificial movement, but I couldn’t think of a better phrase that referred to motors and stuff while still being “artificial” lol)

When Apple catches up to Android and figures out how to encrypt RCS texts, then both “bubble colours” will be encrypted communications

This is more NoStupidQuestions than AskLemmy imo…

To answer your question, you most likely have mental (or even possibly physical) inhibitions that stop you from screaming “on purpose”. But sneezing is involuntary, so it isn’t stopped by inhibitions.

That probably wouldn’t have changed my perspective.

DVDs were nice because they were better than VHS, and bandwidth and storage were prohibitively expensive for me. Whatever came after was basically doomed to fail for me as a user (personally).

Probably BluRays. DVDs were much better than VHS, but storage got a lot cheaper to get me the quality I wanted from films from downloads.

I appreciate that BluRays have a need, so I wouldn’t call them trash. I just don’t need them.

Also not really a new form of media, but modern video games. There isn’t enough of a technological jump anymore. The last thing that got me excited (or at least curious) was VR. But that’s not really approachable for me, so I can’t enjoy it.

That’s a great point. There are also a lot of career panhandlers where I live. Like, “getting picked up in fancy SUVs” career panhandlers.

I hope they’re just scam artists and not victims of human trafficking.

Which raises another point – sometimes giving money to people in the streets is supporting human trafficking.

You have to really know who your money is going to. And 9 times out of 10, I’d wager the money is better off being donated to services that support people in need than it is going into a takeout coffee cup at the end of a stretched out arm.

But food is still probably a great help no matter what, even if it is for a victim of human trafficking. Everyone needs to eat.

Especially in Canada. A quarter can’t get you much of anything. You’d need 5 of them to get yourself the cheapest coffee. Probably more than one for a single piece of fruit, even.

Uh…I was just playing off of your last sentence, where you brought up the idea that someone could turn down food. I was imagining a scenario where someone would do that.

You can get down off your high horse if you’d like.

I wonder if the people saying they give money every time live in major cities (and walk often).

If I gave a quarter to everyone who asked me for change, I’d be out over $200 per year. Double that if they’re still going to ask me on my way back (which is likely).

Some of them would also be rolling their eyes at a quarter. Some panhandlers can even become aggressive if they don’t like what they get.

I’m not going to say that these people are going to waste the money on drugs, though some will (and I don’t care what they do with the money, really). But I’d rather…

• Donate that money to food banks and other causes
• Not carry around unnecessary change
• Not risk pulling out my wallet in the city (in case I forget to keep the change handy)
• And NOT turn city sidewalks into tolled walkways for people who can’t afford a car

As for what I do? I do the hand thing and apologize. I make eye contact (or at least look their way). If they ask again, I tell them I don’t have anything. There’s no reason to feel shame for not giving. Like someone else said, it’s a numbers game.

If there are regulars and people who are genuinely down on their luck, then (if you have the time and willingness), you could talk to them, and maybe offer to buy them food or something.

Of course, there’s always the chance that they’ll bring the food back and ask for a refund. But hey, they would’ve used your $20 the same way.

“I’m, uh, gluten intolerant. And I don’t eat processed foods.”

Why do you want to start a business? Usually, the first thing I’ll hear about a business is what it’s going to offer, or why someone wants to start a business…not “I don’t want to deal with X”.

I guess another question would be why you don’t want to deal with inventory to the point where that’s more important to you than figuring out how you’d actually convince people to give you money! Haha

Your title says “What are in you are top 3 favourite games of all time”.

You were thinking of “your”, which is possessive. “You’re” is a contraction of “you” and “are”; the apostrophe is a hint there.

Always will be that way, too.

IIRC, Lemmy.ml was the first instance; the ones who built Lemmy. We’re kind of the “normies” who’ve invaded their space.

I appreciate them for building Lemmy and letting it remain free (“freedom” free). Still, I’ll argue with people who are saying crazy stuff like NK being a good place for its citizens to live…

The community seems closer to my age.

I feel like the community is split between 25~40s and pre-teens, lol

Though to be fair, it feels like a 70:30 split.

There are a lot of Reddit refugees here. Many came over because Reddit sucks. Others came during the API debacle. Some seem to have come here because they were banned from Reddit due to not really knowing how to follow the social rules of the internet.

The AskLemmy Community, for example, will have posts like this next to each other (if you sort by New):

What’s the biggest issue you’ve seen when someone tried to shift to Linux?

Why do older people say im mature for my age but my friends still say things like hey buddy/pal??

Probably a Mystery Dungeon game. I’d go with Gen 5, having not played it on ages, for a mainline game.

Scarlet/Violet was surprisingly decent, at least in the end-game.

A lot of activity on the Internet

Being poor is already pretty illegal with no signs of changing