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?

There is no dab rig…

I don’t think communism is a moneyless system. Pretty sure people paid money for things in the USSR. Have there been any communist countries without money?

…try and figure out which Gun you like best.

A warm one, they’re happiness so I’m told.

My best friend who was younger than me died 2 years ago in her mid 30s. She was an alcoholic so didn’t exactly take the best care of herself. I don’t have any substance abuse issues but still don’t make the best choices for my health. I don’t exercise much and my diet is frankly horrific. Thinking about her death in this light has made me think that I really do need to get my shir together. Thanks friend.

It depends on the danger I was told about. If it was poisoned gas like Bad Boy Bubby then I don’t think so. If it was just there are dangerous or violent people out there then maybe.

If there were rumours that the outside world wasn’t actually dangerous that might have swayed me when I was younger but probably not now.

I don’t want to sound like a creep (and I wouldn’t think this guy was one if this was actually real) but if my wife was 38 years younger than me I’d find a way to shoehorn that fact into every interaction I had.

“How old do you have to be for a senior ticket? Oh, I qualify then because I’m 72 but my wife will have to pay full price because she’s 34.”

Can’t remember how I came across Lemmy exactly but pretty sure it was in an article posted on Reddit about alternatives when the Appocalypse started. I loved Reddit but hated the app, website and spez. As soon as I came onto Lemmy and found people talking about open source software and beans I never looked back.

Also yea of course those ages are bait.