WashedOver

WashedOver, 8 days ago

I’ve been becoming irritated lately with search in other apps being taken over by their flavor of AI. I use the Microsoft Swift keyboard on my phone and it’s now trying to inject their AI search results over my Google searches in Firefox and the results take me to Bing.

Then today I was watching a video on Instagram and the screen went off. I lost of the video as the app refreshed when I turned on the screen again. I tried to search for it but now IG search has been turned into a Meta AI search. It offers AI answers instead of the videos I was looking and it seems like it’s the only option.

WTF are they messing up search across the platforms? Get off my lawn!

WashedOver, 10 days ago

If only he was Santa…

WashedOver, 10 days ago

I think the most we will hear is how it’s all Trudeau’s fault and the government is ruining their lives…

WashedOver, 15 days ago

There’s public washrooms like this in a mall in Seattle, or at least there was a few years back. Half height stalls. When one is sitting the walls only come up to your elbows. One of the most bizarre setups for a public bathroom I’ve seen in my travels.

WashedOver, 16 days ago

It’s a shame as their hybrid smart watch has been my go to for a few years now. Kind of reminds me of my old Pebble with the always on LCD screen. My gf also uses one too. The several days of battery life was another good feature

WashedOver, 16 days ago

I’m wondering the same thing for my Ryzen 7 3700X as I’ve seen a lot of press recently for these chips…

WashedOver, 29 days ago

I use Smart Launcher. I’m surprised there aren’t more users of it.

I’ve been using it on all my phones and tablets for years now. Doesn’t matter what type of Android phone I use, they mostly end up being the same feel with Smart Launcher

WashedOver, 29 days ago

That really sucks. It would be brutal to get that sorted. I’ve been lucky. I do recall once there was a botched update that reset all my custom settings on all of my devices. I was really choked but I had a old backup that restored it halfway. Reminds me to do another one now.

My huawei devices keeps reseting my launcher to theirs which is s really annoying but I think that is a Huawei thing.

WashedOver, 29 days ago

I will. I’ve been using the neon colored Azure icon pack for many years now. I could probably go for an update.

WashedOver, 29 days ago

Same here. There are quirks by I think I’m really use to them now. I tried Nova, Lawnchair and some others over the years but I think my long term Smart Launcher still fits me like a glove.

WashedOver, 29 days ago

Correction Outline icon pack is what I’ve been using. The Studio icon pack is pretty good. Thanks!

WashedOver, 1 month ago

I instantly picture Phil and Claire from MF as the couple with their role playing…

WashedOver, 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago)

This is the rub in some ways, but in others who risks their credit/capital and who also has the foresight to navigate the modern home building issues of financing a new home build for 2 years in many places without a shovel even hitting earth as permits and red tape are cleared? *It costs almost $100,000 just to get a permit in my North American city which the city keeps.

I chose to rent as I want to live where I want and don’t want to deal with the issues of home ownership once the home is built or the taxes, however just the journey to building a home is no walk in the park and has changed a great deal since our great grandparents could just build any old house/shack they wanted on land they paid very little for as no one was living in the areas beyond the natives that once called these areas home.

I’m not even sure the cabin my grandfather built in the 70s on recreational property in a remote area that he ended up retiring to could even be built today.

In the cities where real estate pricing is through the roof due to demand, and occupancy is at record lows, those that can take the financial hit from delays and the costs to build a home are at present the only ones seeing homes being built in these conditions so the market in terrible ways have created a situation right or wrong of rewarding that initial capital investment as who else in their right mind would go through that just to have less than nothing in the end to hand it over to a tenant without a full refund of all of those costs in the first month by the tenant?

Without these builders I wonder how many renters would be able to fund paying for the land for 2 years, then the materials for building the home, and the labor, then navigate the city, and manage the builders and trades, while working at their job full time (not related to home building in many cases) while living somewhere else during this process along waiting for a close with city approval to occupy once completed which might push this to 3 years?

Paying both the bank and then your rent to live somewhere during this process isn’t cheap either.

If the market relied on monthly renters for home building I suspect MANY more of us would be living in tents or campers… Which is also happening in the current system too but perhaps not at the same degree?

How do we as a society trigger the removal of red tape, nimbys, and fund the building costs of higher density housing might be a better question to ask as these challenges need to be tackled to see more homes built. Getting around the reward paying for the large upfront costs of building homes needs to be navigated too.

Unfortunately moving further west is no longer an option due to the west having run out for many of us.

WashedOver, 1 month ago

And they will package the Marvel with stuff you don’t want but make you pay for to get the Marvel and the same for Star Wars.

The high seas sure looks inviting again…

WashedOver, 1 month ago

Do we still need to add “not a drag queen” or is that only for teachers, coaches and police officers?

WashedOver, 1 month ago

I wonder how many just want out as they fear for their lives from the Maga crowd if their identity was to be revealed?

WashedOver, 1 month ago

I’ve just started seeing memes today for Diaper Don. The little I can find dates back to the Apprentice.

Anything else to confirm the hateful right are putting their all their hopes in a senior wearing depends and taking streaming dumps in front of others?

WashedOver, 1 month ago

As for the last part they must of had some awesome power to enslave “demons” for so long. I wonder how the mental gymnastics worked on that one?

WashedOver, 1 month ago

I saw there has been a recent update to Decentraleyes. Not sure if this addresses the abandoned issue though. Trying out LOCALCDN instead…

WashedOver, 1 month ago

Surprising to hear. My physio has a Model 3 she bought 5 years ago. She loves it a great deal. She thinks it’s a great commuter car.

She frustrated by how fast behind the tech in her new Tundra is in relation to the Model 3. She rarely needs to go to the Tesla dealer for anything as most updates are over the air.

She frustrated she needs to keep going back into the Toyota dealership for everything. She finally received her second key for the truck several months after she bought it as there was a shortage of chips. She needed to go to the dealer to have it programmed and was a little miffed about that too.

Despite the things Musk is doing now some of the things with Tesla they are doing I wish other makes were doing too especially the over the air updates. However those dealer visits are good for business I’m sure.

WashedOver, 1 month ago

I drive mostly older vehicles now. So the only spying that I allow is via my cellphone…

WashedOver, 1 month ago

One of the saddest parts for his followers is they think they are getting that strong man that’s going to clean up all that is wrong in their books and make it like some rose colored memory of how good things use to be before the world become too complicated for them to handle.

Trump isn’t coming in to do that kind of hard work, he’s doing it for the title, prestige, and the fact he “deserves” to be president, he should be president because he’s special.

Not to say it’s all about his ego which it is, but it’s also pretty handy in his mind to help deal with his mounting legal issues while slow to play out but they are piling up like Everest.

It’s unfortunate most won’t recognize the need for a leader to do the hard work of a true servant leader. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen one of those. Many will argue we’ve seen that in Carter and even perhaps despite his advancing years a little in Biden but most people have been turned against such presidents with soft skills willing to do the hardwork.

They seem to want those with a finger on the button ready to blow up anyone that dares challenge the US. That’s another area Trump supporters will be let down in when it comes to Russia…

WashedOver, 2 months ago

I wonder if this means political officials can be sued and jailed for allowing homelessness.

Until they get every homeless person off the streets, they will be fined daily and if after 90 days they will be locked up?

WashedOver, 2 months ago

Brb?

WashedOver, 2 months ago

Is it because they aren’t real and robots don’t need food?

/s