No it’s just a typical smart socket and I’ve put my phone charger in it. (an old 1 amp charger so it is easier on the battery.) The 60% button turns the switch on for about three hours for example. (Phone has 5A battery.)
The charger is on from midday in case I forget to select a charging amount before sleeping.
You could do similar with an old fashioned rotary mechanical timer socket.
The AI only fools us into thinking it’s intelligent because it picks the most likely text response based on what it’s read before. But often, the output is confidently wrong as it’s really just a parlor trick.
Now, since it’s starting to ingest more if it’s own output, the definition of ‘what is the most likely response’ has been poisoned a little from ingesting that formerly wrong response.
Add in all the blog spam, the fake but funny reddit answers etc, and the system - which doesn’t actually think - starts to get more and more deranged.
I dont know about others, but sometimes I am not able to check my phone, or be fully present in a conversation that I’m part of. Maybe I’m concentrating on work, or driving, and not able to look. It gets distracting when my phone is constantly buzzing and chiming for 5 minutes straight. Muting the chat can help, but if you...
In this article, I aim to take a different approach. We will begin by defining a laptop according to my understanding. The I will share my personal history and journey to this point, as well as my current situation with my home and work laptops. Using this perspective, we will explore the current dysfunctionality of the standby...
In an effort to increase my privacy, I decided to buy a Pixel phone second hand to use with GrapheneOS. Due to some miscommunications, the phone ended up being carrier locked with T-Mobile. GrapheneOS’s own website advises against buying carrier locked phones in order to avoid the hassle of carrier unlocking it....
I wonder if the concern is that unlocking the phone might allow you to run some form of data recovery on it and thus obtain access to some of the previous owner’s info?
Mine is nostalgia. That's literally my copium drug and it really is strong some days. It's not that I sit here everyday and never move on to newer things, I do sometimes embrace new things and realize there's more out there than what I have....
Microplastics found in every human testicle in study (www.theguardian.com)
IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like deputy editor Alice Bell (aftermath.site)
Welp, this didn’t take long....
Cyclists blame "utterly ridiculous bike prices" for brands' ongoing struggles (road.cc)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/19380579...
German politician's video of licking public toilets goes viral (www.thenews.com.pk)
cross-posted from: zerobytes.monster/post/932095
iFixit is breaking up with Samsung. ‘Samsung’s approach to repairability does not align with our mission,’ says iFixit’s CEO. (www.theverge.com)
iFixit and Samsung are ending their partnership on a direct-to-consumer phone repair program....
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There needs to be a way to only get one push notification for every new message in a group chat
I dont know about others, but sometimes I am not able to check my phone, or be fully present in a conversation that I’m part of. Maybe I’m concentrating on work, or driving, and not able to look. It gets distracting when my phone is constantly buzzing and chiming for 5 minutes straight. Muting the chat can help, but if you...
Cans are raining down from a Portland highrise...and nobody knows who is behind it (www.independent.co.uk)
“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups (arstechnica.com)
Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper’s account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company....
Israel Threatens 'Severe Consequences' for Nations Who Recognize Palestine (www.commondreams.org)
Software to use laptop/tablet screen as an external monitor
Basically the title, I want to use my laptop, which uses Arch Linux, and my tablet, which is an android one, as an external monitor for my desktop pc.
"Hardware Error" after power failure (lemmy.world)
Hello,...
Have you ever clicked on an ad *on purpose?*
Just as the title says: Have you ever clicked on an ad, knowing it was an ad, on purpose? What ad was it? Why did you click it?...
Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler (yt.artemislena.eu)
Caught get don’t but…walls climb, blue turn, glass scratch, sick stay!...
State of S3 - Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore (blog.jeujeus.de)
In this article, I aim to take a different approach. We will begin by defining a laptop according to my understanding. The I will share my personal history and journey to this point, as well as my current situation with my home and work laptops. Using this perspective, we will explore the current dysfunctionality of the standby...
T-Mobile's Forced Arbitration
In an effort to increase my privacy, I decided to buy a Pixel phone second hand to use with GrapheneOS. Due to some miscommunications, the phone ended up being carrier locked with T-Mobile. GrapheneOS’s own website advises against buying carrier locked phones in order to avoid the hassle of carrier unlocking it....
Johnny Castaway is in a strange world! (lemmy.world)
Johnny Castaway is in a strange world!...
Don't you blaspheme in here! (lemmy.world)
(hearsay)
How do you cope with, life and the decaying world around you?
Mine is nostalgia. That's literally my copium drug and it really is strong some days. It's not that I sit here everyday and never move on to newer things, I do sometimes embrace new things and realize there's more out there than what I have....
Would you rather be stuck in the woods with an updated Windows 11 or a Windows 7?
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Good morning! (lemmy.world)