@karabaic Conceivably yes, the user could be liable for recording someone without consent in a multi-person consent state. But Limitless would likely be no more liable than Sony would be for making a tape recorder used to record someone without their consent in the same situation.
The thing on the right claims to be a "professional hole punch", but the end is designed to be very dull. I'm guessing this is related to PEX tubing because of where I found it, but why would that need punching?
I have absolutely no idea what the thing on the left is.
Well this is fun! I finally got my Apple Vision Pro in Glasgow, but it turns out it's not actually my Apple Vision Pro.
It's in the right box, but it's a 256GB model, not a 512GB, and the serial number of the device doesn't match my order. I have to assume that the store in San Francisco mixed up devices when they were packing them. And somebody in SF got a free upgrade to a 512GB one.
I suspect they would say “just bring it back”, but that's kinda hard now that I'm 5,000 miles away. Fuck.
@gruber LinkedIn is one of the major websites that I consider actively user hostile. Reddit, Xitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, Google search results, and Quora (as much as Quora can be considered “major”).
@joesteel I would say Contacts desperately needs an update (so many little issues and things it should be able to do given modern computer capabilities) but I don’t want Apple’s design team touching it and turning it into the next “Settings” app.
What annoys me most about the current Mac repair I'm having to do for my mom is that I'm literally having to do it. Like, look, she should be better at backup -- this is true -- however -- I cannot trust the Apple Store to do a backup and I don't know if I can trust Best Buy these days either. So it literally has to be me, even though what I'm doing any PC tech should be able to do. But I absolutely do not trust the Apple Store for anything data related.
@film_girl It’s a liability thing. Apple absolutely won’t touch your data, backup, recover, etc. When you drop it off you sign a piece of paper agreeing that they’re not liable for data loss. If you need to do recovery they send you to a Data Doctors type place.
Not to mention the headlines Apple Stores were found to be accidentally keeping copies of customer backups or something like that. Lawsuits galore!
@film_girl I agree with you and arguably they shouldn’t even need to offer in-store backup because it’s automatically backed up in the background to say I don’t know iCloud (seriously my iPad is 2TB and my iPhone is 1TB. I think they can handle my 1TB MacBook Pro backing up like my iPhone does).
Best Buy’s are authorized Apple service providers so maybe they offer a backup before service solution?
Truly loathe travel sites -- an airline in this case -- where the price goes up significantly in the middle of the search. It's damn close to bait and switch.
@thomasfuchs@lisamelton Agree with the rest of the list, and I’m very very very much an AI pessimist, but I’m going to quibble a bit with Customer Support replies. What is being used currently is a dressed up form of “if -> then” statements practically hard coded into the support flows. I’m not really kidding. I’ve set up several of these systems from different companies.
Context recognition and understanding is going to be massive when it’s properly applied to customer support. BUT you can’t just replace humans; the best approach is to use AI to collect context and provide information to the person on the other end fixing the problem, suggest documented solutions/FAQs, etc.
That being said, having worked in support for so long, the vast majority of support inquiries could have been google searches.