Mannnn. We really did come full circle on hieroglyphs huh

They also are against using mspaint as a clipping/editing tool (for very basic things mind you so there’s no reason anything more than mspaint is needed)

And i wont take blashpemy against mspaint. Hes not a very fun guy indeed lol.

Uninstall new notepad.

Install Notepad (classic).

Ezpz. Although i wonder how long that’ll last. My manager got upset i wasnt using the new notepad because of its features.

I explained np++ is for things that last more than a day. Notepad classic is for thoughts i dont care about when i shut down.

One of my coworkers messed up by not checking ai output before following its direction.

When they were reprimanded, i was used as an example of what they should be doing to better use ai safely due to my low amount of fuckups.

I dont use ai and clearly they dont realize that.

I only found out because this coworker, who is a genuinely good and curious diligent worker, asked me for tips. After telling them i just dont mess with ai they let me know what happened.

So now im wondering what the funniest way to cash in on managment assuming i use ai is.

“if you can, dont support the companies that are causing the problem youre trying to support a fix for”

“nEvEr GoOd EnOuGH!!!”

Doing more to make a bad situation better SHOULD never be enough until the bad situation is over. Do what you’re capable of, not ‘do the bare minimum because its good enough’.

Cant donate? Go work to deliver/serve food.

If the places giving food have all the food, but have a line. They need more people handing it out. That’s “free” to do.

Not me! Im just a normal ordinary citizen who’s first time using the internet is this very session that lives at -mullvad external IP address-!

(Its been great to me and everyone ive word-of-mouthed it to!)

You know it! Rich people love working their three jobs to make yacht ends meet. Always working and never getting a vacation, just so busy! If they lost one of their jobs, they’d be SO bored. Theyd have to find another hobby job!

Wonder if its the same logic as “i can’t be racist, one of my friends is black!”

“It can’t be hate speech, im friends with donald trump!”

Did they have to go to the police evidence locker and come back before they found it like they did with luigi?

Yep. Its one of those “um actually” things that at surface can make you seem annoying, but unfortunately the nuance is really important.

In order to hallucinate it’d need to be capable of proper thought first.

In the same way people ask of their software “why doesn’t it just work?!” Well… It actually DOES work. Its doing exactly as it’s been programmed to do.

Whether the issue is because the dev didnt think of an angle you use it on, the QA didnt test it enough, or you yourself have a weird expectation, etc, it is doing exactly what it is only capable of doing in the situation that you see as “it isnt working right”.

Its then on you, the human, to recognize that and proceed.

This dissonance even happens from human to human conversation. “Oh i thought you meant this.”

If you go to an agriculturist and start asking them about the culture of another country, they’d probably stop you to point out the issue. They could also just start giving you agriculture info and leave you confused. The nuance is important and what lets our biological brain computer figure it out where the metal brain needs to be specifically told to make sure they meant land agriculture.

Ill do you one extra even. One of our customers, a lawfirm, has asked we remove AI from their environment over privacy concerns. We, as their IT, are still trying to push and sell licenses to our other customers and even use it ourselves.

All against the wishes of the actual workers themselves in my company. The execs and sales team is pushing it so hard and ignoring that a literal law firm is super against it.

Surely this will turn out well. I let that customer know that we’re still pushing AI, and management is very pro AI still. It might be a good idea to look for a different IT provider if that goes against your values.

All current “working and marketable” linux phones are built on top of android currently for compatibility with that existing market, so it depends how detached from android you want to be. (To my knowledge. Id love to be proven wrong)

If completely, then no.

Better bet is an android OS that has everything ripped out of it and privacy hardened. Its the same thing the linux phone is doing but without the linux portion sitting on top.

Otherwise you can attempt to use a pure linux setup but it’s going to be rough unless youre already set on dropping creature comforts.

Yeppp. Try to go get groceries or go visit a friend or go to work without passing by one. You’ll quickly realize it becomes a game of which angle and backroads do i have to take to get there.

Modern day underground railroad type stuff but with license cameras.

https://deflock.me/

Now more than ever, and even more so tomorrow.

Love doing this with modern atlus games. Cant wait to buy the “royal golden reloaded remaster collection” edition for $20 from a used/third party retailer.

Modern missed connections type shit, but you can reliably still meet with them anonymously. Cute

To wield or to use. Either is fine with me!

20 years will do that.

Nope!

Amusingly there is a very large overlap in the companies that want to try to force ai tech crap onto their workers, but dont limit admin controls for users.

But to be more specific, what i meant by work-controlled is that you cant just install linux on a work machine or uninstall office products for alternatives due to company licensing.

Nothing preventing you from just not using that crap though of course but at that point you know your own company limits than i would so god speed!

Last thing you’d probably want to do is be forced into sitting in a class with Mr.MiddleManager / Mr.NepotismHire to go over why these AI products are actually good for you and they arent happy you circumvented that.

Ah you are indeed correct. I’m probably thinking of classic paint, not notepad.

Either way, i have the downloader for ye old notepad and paint tucked away on and off my machine for future sake when my company middle management decides they want to try to push the new AI tools down our throats for productivity again.