Do we know yet if you still have to mash X to run? In the year of our lord 2026?

So glad my 2019 car is a standard but still has CarPlay.

Like, CarPlay is about the most "smart" feature I need/want. I just want a good map and the ability to play podcasts and listen to music easily. That's it.

Since it's a standard the car couldn't get any of the "smart" features I didn't want anyway.

I'll drive the car, thanks.

Heh, mine is a 2019 Crosstrek, so, yeah, I understand.

Most beer tastes like garbage to me so it’s easy to not buy it.

My city sadly just voted to renew a contract for another year.

No one wanted this shit, but it happened anyway.

Linux nerds: "Ahh, you use Windows! You should be using Linux like me!" pushes up glasses

Some person: "Oh, OK. Ubuntu looks nice."

LN: "NO NOT THAT ONE. That one is for losers or intellectually challenged people! You must like the one I like!" pushes glasses up into brain

(And we wonder why people don't take the time to switch. Some of you guys are toxic.)

I got the “intellectually challenged” comment from a reply on this very post.

https://lemmy.world/comment/25386713

I’m not going to say all Linux people are mean or anything, but there’s absolutely a “I use Linux and therefore I’m better” mentality that floats around, and even some “I use the BETTER distro (read: whatever that person happens to like) so I’m even BETTER.”

And I like Linux! Two of my machines in my house are Linux computers. But I do think some Linux folks like to smell their own farts.

I'm very fortunate to have a job with a very small company (literally 4 people) where we get to set the rules.

It is funny to see the ingrained notion we (collective "we") once had that working from home could never work. I started this job in 2018, and I often suggested we do a work from home day each week since we all had laptops. My bosses (co-owners of this company) always shot it down. "Oh we'd never get any work done!"

Then, of course, COVID. And while I certainly would rather COVID not have happened, it did convince them that working from actually works. And, of course, they loved it as well. So since 2020 I have not had to go back to the office. We still have office space for some minor things, and once in a blue moon we might gather there. But in six years I've probably spent six days in the office.

Heck, I'm fortunate enough to finally have convinced them we should take Fridays off, too. We piloted that program two years ago over the summer, and it, of course, stuck because everyone likes that—though we actually just take every-other Friday off. But still. Hard to beat.

I say let em go to town, I’ll be over here playing Control 2 and Fire Emblem and then maybe the Zelda remake and Wolverine and another ten bangers going to drop the next month or so.

Here's a good article this week on just one reason why Flock is terrible:

https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.

VEHICLE SURVEILLANCE GIANT Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a system that does both, an artificial intelligence tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, WIRED has learned.

Drawing on a network of cameras that logs the movements of drivers in more than 6,000 communities, the tool can pick out potential witnesses by how often their cars pass through a neighborhood, or surface a driver’s “associates” from the cameras they pass together. Because the system also reaches police case files, 911 dispatch logs, and commercial identity records, those plates can be turned into names, home addresses, and relatives. It can search for people in an area drawn on a map based on nothing more than a physical description.

Bosses are in their 50s, but they came from a giant corporation then decided to make their own business.

Unfortunately no.

Benefits are actually kinda bad, honestly. We have insurance but insurance companies don’t want to give good insurance to really small businesses like this. No vision or dental.

It’s a perfect metaphor for the performative Christianity they love: all show, no effort

Right after he unveils his healthcare plan and right after infrastructure week.

You force me to check out my own groceries. Fine.

But don’t get pissed when I have a lot of groceries and have to move my bags because you gave me one square foot of space to bag everything. That’s often my biggest frustration. The robot thinks I’m trying to do some shady stuff, and I’m not.

Shoulda become president first THEN leaked classified documents to russia. He'd be fine in that case.

This is the USA, someone with a loaded gun in their car is near anything all the time.

So the darkness won, eh?

I know I’m not the only one who has been saying that this type of move makes perfect sense for governments and news organizations, but I’m going to go ahead and take credit for this.

You’re welcome, guys!

Another problem is they ruined their own search with AI.

Kicked themselves right in the nuts.