Tesla were advertising long before then, just not in the traditional sense.

They let YouTubers and influencers borrow their cars, and gave them a commission on every car they helped sell.

They purposefully stirred up controversy to get news article clicks.

They had a very outspoken CEO making outlandish claims and cosplaying as the saviour of humanity, bringing lots of attention to Tesla.

They launched a Tesla into space.

That stuff doesn’t show up on Tesla’s books as marketing, but it absolutely is marketing.

Go Pro used influencers and content marketing by their customers, the Dollar Shave Club made it to fame through viral videos.

All of that is marketing.

Windows is far more jank than a lot of Linux distros/desktop environments.

Like…

• Multiple different right click menus?
• No consistent and cohesive design language even throughout system or first party apps?
• Having to search online for an exe download page, download, open downloads folder, double click, click next through an installer? Then each app having to have its own update process, often that always runs in the background to check (or none at all)?
• Updates that happen when you don’t want them to, take forever, and break things?
• Fucking ads everywhere?
• Web results in your start menu before actual stuff on your system
• Multiple settings apps?
• Sleep that doesn’t work?
• Convoluted process for setting things as the default app?
• Dark mode that’s only functional for some apps?

It’s actually incredible how much money Microsoft has, and how much more they spend than probably all Linux DEs combined, but they’ve still yet to fix so much low hanging fruit.

The Adwaita team, and a bunch of devs that make Adwaita apps explicitly said that theming their apps is fine, they simply asked for users who theme their apps not to submit bug reports that are actually just theming issues.

There’s nothing worse than spending hours and hours trying to replicate or resolve a bug, only to find out it’s because the user installed an anime girl theme that’s caused some issue.

Those devs were completely right to put out that request, and I think it’s wrong that they received a lot of hate for it.

They are open source devs, donating their time to give you software for free. Is it really that bad they politely ask not to receive time-wasting bug reports for things that they never broke in the first place?

The difference is that Google decided this was a task best suited for their LLM.

If someone seeked out an LLM specifically for this question, and Google didn’t market their LLM as an assistant that you can ask questions, you’d have a point.

But that’s not the case, so alas, you do not have a point.

Yes, it. It’s not a person. Were you expecting me to call it anything else?

The only reason they are doing it is to blow up their numbers.

Ding ding ding.

It’s so they can have impressive metrics for shareholders.

“Our AI had n interactions this quarter! Look at that engagement!”, with no thought put into what user problems it actually solves.

It’s the same as web results in the Windows start menu. “Hey shareholders, Bing received n interactions through the start menu, isn’t that great? Look at that engagement!”, completely obfuscating that most of the people who clicked are probably confused elderly users who clicked on a web result without realising.

Line on chart must go up!

You aren’t wrong about why it happens, but that’s irrelevant to the end user.

The result is that it can give some hilariously incorrect responses at times, and therefore it’s not a reliable means of information.

They didn’t try to remove 32-bit support. One Fedora contributor floated it as an idea, and the press/comment sections went wild.

The only reason I’m still on Spotify is that I can pay like £2.20 to be in someone’s family.

But the incessant push towards podcasts bugs me. When I’m driving, I shouldn’t have to scroll through 5+ pages to finally get to the music section. That shit is dangerous.

As soon as Spotify inevitably enforces that families have to be the same household, as so many other streaming services have done before it, I’m gone.

Already watched it when it came out, I guess I’ll play it in the background while I work, muted, to help the algorithm.

I enjoy using Jellyfin and hope it continues to improve, but it has some problematic security of its own.

This feels more like politics news than technology news. Sure it’s done over social media/messaging apps, but so are plenty of things that I wouldn’t really call technology news.

I’m somewhat surprised that boys are at a much greater risk of online sexual exploitation than girls, though.

Do you think your bank serving your data/account access to someone that isn’t you would be acceptable?

After all, their servers are just serving data, therefore they’re correctly doing their job, right?

I had issues with his trying out Linux series, but that is not one of them, and I’m tired of seeing him be shat on because of it.

Firstly, he was trying to install Steam via instructions he found on PopOS’s website. Even if he did do something stupid (and I would argue he didn’t really), it is not the fault of the end user that doing that can completely fuck your install. It should not be possible to do that, yet it was due to a PopOS packaging error.

Yes, he did receive a generic warning about how by proceeding to attempt this installation, he could cause damage. Hidden in a wall of text of hundreds of package names.

But do you know what else has scary messages like that? Android. Windows. MacOS. A whole host of smart devices. Any new user could easily think that message was normal and would appear any time you try to install something via the terminal.

End users are used to seeing scary messages like that, and they’ve become numb to them. Deflecting criticism of that PopOS bug by saying “well there was a warning, so actually it’s the end users that are idiots and PopOS/Linux is actually perfect” doesn’t help anybody.

Most likely your motherboard. Asus and ASRock (they are related companies) have been fucking up recently, so if you use one of them it’s likely that.

Sure, if by doing fine you mean looking alright in benchmarks while having zero supply because they don’t make money selling them and thus don’t want to produce them in any significant amount.

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AMD has learned that laptop gamers don’t give a shit about anything that’s not Nvidia. Their dGPU laptop solutions were never desirable for the general market, so they’ve instead started focussing a lot more on stronger APUs.

It’ll probably be based on some silly WW2-era grudge, which I find stupid.

Or Dieselgate, which while awful, despite what the headlines would have you believe, the VW group was far from the only manufacturer with illegally high diesel emissions, in fact, they were far from being the worst.

There are of course other things, VW has started trying to get into the DLC for cars bullshit that others have, but IMO that pales in comparison to Elon’s bullshit or China literally using slave labour.

E: oops, there’s some transparency issues on that Wikipedia graph. Dark mode users may struggle. Here’s the link: Diesel Emissions Scandal