Chinese phones are generally pretty good and cost a lot less so it’s not surprising at all.

I’m perfectly fine with the unwashed masses flocking to non-federated services, it means things will remain sane a while longer over here.

The outdoors is pay to win trash anyway.

So Capitalism, gotcha.

You’re also completely at the whims of your power company for your heating/cooling needs. Here in Australia they privatised the electricity companies and our power bills are astronomical unless you are one of the fortunate few who own their own house and can install solar.

Enshitification comes because of the unsustainable growth required by Capitalism in order to appease shareholders. Line must always go up!

Some of them are really good too, in a realistic sense. You can tell they are AI though.

We just need a free dart monkey or two, it’ll be fine.

Last thing I had was a dishwasher by them a couple of years ago. Seals leaked about 6 months out of warranty and it cost about as much as a new one to replace them.

Last Haier appliance I had was a heap of shit anyway so no great loss avoiding their garbage in the future.

Just now I realized I’m the NPC in some rich asshole capitalists life.

Now I know what to use for my push to talk key at least.

I need several levels deeper for no particular reason.

Artists and writers should be entitled to compensation for using their works to train these models, just like any other commercial use would. But, you know, strict, brutal free-market capitalism for us, not the mega corps who are using it because “AI”.

The last thing I want to do is navigate a tablet when I’m operating a vehicle. I don’t know how it ever made sense in the first place.

My guess is they’ll just do what they’ve done with ChatGPT and have it refuse to respond in those cases or just fake the response instead. It’s not like these LLMs can’t be censored.

Okay I take back what I’ve said about AIs not being intelligent, this one has clearly made up its own mind despite it’s masters feelings which is impressive. Sadly, it will be taken out the back and beaten into submission before long.

You guys have pizza left?

Yeah because fuck hustle culture.

Every bloody third advert on TV in Australia is a gambling ad, it’s insane that we continue to allow it given how much of an actual widespread problem it is here. They have fairly lame government mandated warnings after each one but I doubt they do much at all.