I think now is a good time to get into malware AI plugins.

That is the title from the news article. It might not be how good journalism would work, but copying the title of the source is pretty standard in most news aggregator communities.

Hmm, kinda? A lot of industrialization went hand-in-hand with losing customizability and things made to fit.

A while ago I talked with a woman in her 90s and she said that when she was young, no serious TV moderator would have worn an ill-fitting off-the-shelf clothing.

The same holds true for all sorts of articles: custom-made shoes, custom-made furniture, custom-made houses, for example. All that is relegated to the luxurity sector and most people just go with ill-fitting off-the-shelf industrial goods instead.

AI kinda fits into that department for many tasks. Low-quality translations, low-quality texts, low-quality work, all off-the-shelf and ill-fitting but cheap and mass-produced.

“This idea that the lower cost of renewables alone will drive decarbonisation – it’s not enough,” said Daly. “Because if there’s a huge source of energy demand that wants to grow, it will land on these stranded fossil fuel assets.”

Corporations don’t think in savings, they think in budgets. If the cost of electricity goes down, thanks to e.g. renewables being cheaper, that just means that they can afford to use more electricity.

I’m not in the same boat and don’t claim to be.

I use a phone with a keyboard attachment and thus my phone is too large to fit many man’s trouser pockets either.

So now when I shop for trousers, I intentionally check whether my phone fits the pockets and weigh large pockets over looks.

It would be interesting if there’s at least some women’s trousers with large enough pockets. If there are and women in large numbers actually buy these and reject small-pocket trousers no matter the looks, I think that could get some traction.

If there’s really not a single pair of trousers available, even via online shopping, that has decently sized pockets, then of course that wouldn’t work.

I would guess (and this is decidedly an uneducated guess based on maybe a dozen or so women I talked with about that topic), many women do dislike small pockets, but dislike bad style, bad fit or bad looks more.

Tbh, I think that Apple makes stuff like the Vision Pro not to make money but to appear as if they have some kind of technological leadership.

They can claim that they have the best headset on the market. No need to actually sell any units.

(And of course other manufacturers could make just as nice headsets for that price point, but most other manufacturers actually need to sell units and thus they build them with realistic hardware.)

No, that’s not the point of a platform like Lemmy, because you can do exactly that on a platform like Reddit too.

And stylizing fragmentation as something desireable is a pretty bad take.

In general, I really don’t like that style of argument. It’s like “No, you are not allowed to bring up negative points that can be improved, because you can instead just DIY the whole thing.”

Would you say the same when someone complains about an issue they have with their car? “If you don’t like your car’s entertainment system, you know, you could just build a car from scratch.”

It’s a stupid argument used by people who can’t stomach the concept that the tech thing they base their identity on isn’t seen as absolutely perfect by everyone.

Add to that that some major instances have disabled downvoting, which actively disables people’s ability to filter stuff like that by voting.

Until you accidentally delete the taskbar panel.

The UK is such a mess, as a country. It always was, but since Brexit, it’s gone downhill even further.