The Life & Times of Tim

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God I love Monkey Dust. Can’t believe it ended 20 years ago now.

“I never done it, I only said I done it so they’d take me bellend oot’a the Magimix.”

FPV-Rover (Tank) on Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1240754

I’m going to build the 3D printed RC car below but I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole and looked at other printable RC machines.

https://www.printables.com/model/758615-mini-rc-car

Ultimately I want to build an RC Benchy to use on the lake at my local park but I thought a car would be easier to try first.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2821525

I had this conversation with some non-tech savvy relatives a while ago. I think because they’d heard that adage they were under the impression that just by virtue of something being posted online it will remain there forever. Its more like once you post something online you can potentially lose control of it. So it could disappear completely if the site goes down, the file is corrupted or you remove it yourself and the platform or host you used didn’t keep a backup. But also someone could download/ screenshot it and even if whatever host agrees to delete it and any backups you still have no way to stop it proliferating, so you should act like everything you post will remain online forever.

I have a JBL Clip 3 I use in the bathroom when I shower. Sound quality’s pretty good but I just listen to podcasts with it rather than music.

Work out, do DIY at home, volunteer at my local cat shelter and dedicate more time to making music, gaming and general computer fiddlin’. If it was literally just basic needs with no cash maybe host some services for people on a small scale or teach about self hosting for money to afford luxuries.

I did a similar thing. I was talking to my friend through my headphones as I was getting ready to leave the house and put my phone in my hoodie pocket. Then I put my rain coat over my hoodie and left. 5 minutes later I freaked out when I couldn’t find my phone in my rain coat pocket. My friend reassured me that I must have it because I was still talking to her but I didn’t remember what I’d done until I took my rain coat off. Was a weird experience and one that made me realise how dependent I was on my phone.

Do you live in the UK?

18° during the day, 16° at night. I remember reading somewhere that getting down to 15° or lower for extended periods of time can cause problems for your house.

Hey no problem, aren’t we all. That is an incredible username by the way.

Why would you take that away from my comment? I meant Rastafari is derived from Christianity and uses cannabis in groundings which is the closest parallel to the sacrament in other Christian sects.

Isn’t that basically Rastafari?

My country banned smoking in all public indoor spaces almost 20 years ago. As a smoker at the time I thought it was ridiculous, felt that my rights were being violated and thought it would never last. The quality of life improvement it made is massive. Today I vape rather than smoke but wouldn’t dream of doing either indoors or being where someone else is. It was 100% the right move. Not quite the same thing but you sometimes can’t really understand the benefits of an alternative to the status quo, even if you understand it logically.

That would annoy me. I’m staying in a hotel at the moment where the TV can’t be turned off at the mains so the standby light is always on which is annoying the hell out of me.

SCAB

Fair point. I’m a techie, that’s where most of my interest lies.

I’d really appreciate it if you could provide as much info as you can about how you’re accessing Lemmy.

Is it through a device you’re allowed to use or one you’re using illegally?

Is it a desktop, laptop, smartphone or tablet?

What operating system does it use? Windows, Linux, Android, iOS?

What method does it connect to the internet through? Dial up, wired broadband, wifi or through a mobile network?

AI isn’t ready to replace programmers, engineers or IT admins yet. But let’s be honest if some project manager or CTO somewhere hasn’t already done it they’re at least planning it.

Then eventually to save themselves or out of sheer ignorance they’ll blame the chaos that results on the few remaining people who know what they’re doing because they won’t be able to admit or understand the fact that the bold decision they took to “embrace” AI and increase the company’s bottom line which everyone else in their management bubble believes in has completely mangled whatever system their company builds or uses. More useful people will get fired and more actual work will get shifted to AI. But because that’ll still make the number go up the management types will look even better and the spread of AI will carry on. Eventually all systems will become an unwieldy mess nobody can even hope to repair.

This is just IT, I’m pretty sure most other industries will eventually suffer the same fate. Global supply chains will collapse and we’ll all get sent back to the dark ages.

TL,DR: The real problem with AI isn’t that it’ll become too powerful and choose to kill us, but that corporate morons will overestimate how powerful it already is and that will cause our eventual downfall.

Are you in my house?