TechnoTalk: Time to Tech

[Nintex]

Buy whatever you need right the fuck now fellas 

[who is ted danson?]

Buy whatever you need right the fuck now fellas 

Price increase to all current gen consoles again

Switch 2 shortages until 2029

PS6 delayed until 2029

[Nintex]

There is nothing you can do. You can only sit back and watch

[who is ted danson?]

AI can automate away software enigneering jobs

Consultants are using AI automate their own jobs and revenue streams

But everyone else is too tech illiterate to even think about using AI, so their job is safe

Checkmate

[Nintex]

 instead the same iPhone will get a $5000 price hike

[who is ted danson?]

 instead the same iPhone will get a $5000 price hike

no chips no phones

[Nintex]

I don't care Tim if Melania doesn't get her new iPhone Diamond Glitter Pink 

with 256 gigabytes

what's that

256 gigabytes

200 gigawatts TIM we're going to send a B2 bomber to your house you understand

[Nintex]

The problem these companies make is that AI by itself isn't anything.
It's a tool to create and most people suck at that and just want to consume or be entertained. 

They don't have brilliant ideas like Terranigma x Fire Emblem. Don't want to curate the output.
The Ghibli thing was popular because it was just copy + paste and you could use it to entertain the ladies.

For some creators it removes the activity they like more than the creation itself: creating.

[Uncle]

"admitting people aren't interested in AI PCs" = finding a convenient reason to sell PCs with worse specs because RAM is now through the roof

I'm not saying the statement isn't true, I'm saying that's what drives the strategy of announcing it

[benji]

If you click through to the story in the second paragraph they admit they're just not selling them as "AI PCs" because nobody gives a shit about that branding, they're still putting the NPUs into everything. They presumably had no explanation for why anyone would want an "AI PC" when everyone in their target market can use AI on all their existing devices because they'll only ever use the client-side of it.

[Polident]

AI or no AI, windows has gotten so bad I'm actually going to go linux with my next desktop. Dark days.

[nachobro]

has it? maybe i'm just not using my pc enough or something but it all seem exactly the same as it was years ago. click an icon in the taskbar or press start and type in.the name of the app i want, then do work or play a game. has something changed in any major way that i've missed?

only change i had to make was to set copilot app not to open at startup. not really a huge deal and took about 3 seconds out of my day.

[Polident]

It’s the direction it’s been going. For many basics like calculator, paint, notepad, file transfer, etc I’ve already switched to other tools. And my current desktop was built a couple years ago, there was a workaround to avoid the account sign in. That’s said to have been taken away.

Part of it is Linux getting simpler. Using Linux on my steam deck, there are quirks compared to windows, but I can see it doing everything I’d need it to do.

Obviously a little dramatic. I’m using windows 11 daily. But next time I’m starting from scratch, I don’t see a reason not to try Linux. Worst case I try dual boot.

[Uncle]

It’s the direction it’s been going. For many basics like calculator, paint, notepad, file transfer, etc I’ve already switched to other tools. And my current desktop was built a couple years ago, there was a workaround to avoid the account sign in. That’s said to have been taken away.

there are supposedly still ways: https://www.notebookcheck.net/More-workarounds-appear-to-get-around-Microsoft-s-local-account-restrictions.1134227.0.html

but yeah

Windows 11 is trash garbage, it's a multitude of small details and decisions that add up...they got rid of legacy apps and legacy ways of making system changes without ever having finished their new shitty apps

it's hard to articulate how bad it is, because by nature you sound like a crazy person drilling down on minuscule details, "when I open the printer list I no longer have an easy way to get to 'devices and printers' with its multitude of convenient right click options for dealing with them, instead it's this barebones wasted space interface where sometimes the button to remove a printer isn't even present, like Windows is implying it's a permanent part of your system now and it's like what the fuck am I supposed to do, and you end up googling how to remove it manually and destructively via registry entries"

it's the above repeated dozens of times across every aspect of the system

is Windows Recall really a disabled feature because everyone hated the privacy invasion, or are they secretly turning it back on with each update

why does notepad remember everything I ever typed, the whole reason I used it was for temporary notes, I don't want to be smacked in the face with whatever I pasted in a month ago, if I needed that saved then I'll fucking save it manually

I will never use OneDrive, stop fucking pestering me about it

[TylenolJones]

has it? maybe i'm just not using my pc enough or something but it all seem exactly the same as it was years ago. click an icon in the taskbar or press start and type in.the name of the app i want, then do work or play a game. has something changed in any major way that i've missed?

only change i had to make was to set copilot app not to open at startup. not really a huge deal and took about 3 seconds out of my day.

Last couple of months they’ve been pushing terrible updates. 

[Uncle]

https://www.techspot.com/news/110817-windows-11-performs-worse-than-older-windows-versions.html

[nachobro]

I just sign in with an MS account and back up to one drive and shit just works 🤷‍♂️ Like truly never had a issue with my 2019 PC, slightly updated with a newish gpu and cpu but otherwise the same.

Sucks for y'all though. I just rarely dig in that deep anymore to notice this stuff but it's good to know the reason for all the complaints

[nachobro]

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why does notepad remember everything I ever typed, the whole reason I used it was for temporary notes, I don't want to be smacked in the face with whatever I pasted in a month ago, if I needed that saved then I'll fucking save it manually

See, I love this. Was a feature of notepad++ that I have wanted in regular notepad for a while, and now I don't need a third party app to do it. Same with tabs in Explorer, big fan

[Alpacx]

I've wanted a cheap, nonsmart Bluetooth single speaker to plug in and put on my nightstand to listen to podcasts before bed instead of just using my phone's speakers.

Rtings (lower recommendations were all Amazon Smart Shit) and Wirecutter ($$$ or Amazon Smart shit) recommendations were useless Google search turned up nothing but slop links.

Open Gemini, tell it what I want, and in 30 seconds it recommends a specific IKEA speaker or a cheap jobsite speaker which fit what I want.

This AI stuff might not be too bad...