smooth face for a smooth life

not saying it’s healthy, just that it can have good effects

it is a way to vent, and venting/relieving stress can be pretty good. it doesn’t really solve the underlying problem and actually adds some problems of its own, but y’know.

all good use cases, i must admit

what would you use it for? maybe petting a third cat?

i didn’t mean it in a bad way, but sort of I guess.

just the corny story as a response sounds a bit like grok’s freshly squeezed plagiarism juice from what I can tell from popular grok screenshots on lemmy. I haven’t ever dealt with grok myself.

unironically sounds like what grok would write if this was a tweet and somebody asked for grok’s opinion, so you get my reddit star and also my entire reddit account if you like

ouch

gay thot enbies?

then you need to buy 6x more alcohol, which is clearly not worth it

true here in germany

phones are already very full and dense, and a headphone jack is a very large component. plus, the Bluetooth is simply part of the small SoC, it’s a microscopic size. That doesn’t mean I prefer Bluetooth, but it makes some sense.

as someone has been fiddling with dongles for years, it’s not that bad, and you can just permanently connect your headphones to your dongle. the apple dongle is excellent and beyond enough for iems and a lot of headphones. I personally have one dongle + iems for my phone and another dongle + headphones for my PC, and that setup works really well for me. You might want to consider it. Otherwise, those big beefy Bluetooth headphones might be semi-repairable, and there are of course also Fairphone Bluetooth earbuds that are apparently fairly repairable (though I know nothing about those). At least you can replace the batteries and the ear tips or pads, and that’s usually enough to last you a decade with these things.

yes but what if a company has the ability to create billions of close friends who can recommend sponsored products to you? why would it care about whether you want that or not?

also bard was a way better name for google’s LLM. it has its origins in an isaac asimov story about a robot who is programmed to tell random stories.

that story didn’t actually happened the way those headlines said it did. the AI was a genuine LLM, but the company also had human contractors that could custom build features for you.

way before WW2 vs. right after WW2

i meant other types of captchas as well, but yes, cloudflare is fairly configurable. I also know other captchas can be more aggressive. And of course captchas can also block or harass “high privacy” configuration browsers and clients, and there’s also the strategy of infinite delay, where a captcha is never quite sure you’re really a human, so you have to work through 12 phases of it only to have to do the exact same thing again the next time you’re on the site. Recaptcha V3 with its “automatic” background captcha is also in a surprising amount of places you’d never know about unless you’re infected with some kind of The-Mainstream-Internet-Hates-You disease. Captchas discriminating against poor countries isn’t some big secret though, as far as I’m aware it’s fairly well known.

they also often prevent legitimate traffic from poorer countries, and aggressively so

farfetch’d is a duck that comes with its own leek

I’m pretty sure Isaac Asimov said that all androids are gay so this is like a betrayal of the fundamental spirit of robots