My company hired an AI person and I was sure to tell him I stripped the registry values from my computer. I’m an admin sooo

And yet we don’t want our posts to be fed into AI slop, nor do we want independent hosts to pay for the massive amount of traffic generated by a massive corporate entity to trying to consume data en masse.

I remember NiCad batteries still being used in power wheels toys as a kid. For all I know they may still be, but the battery advancements have been particularly amazing.

I used to be a POS tech. It’s such a gross, mismanaged walled garden.

Currently I spend a lot of time advising against pop ups like that :^)

I’ve also seen it used as niche industry abbreviations, which made me very uncomfortable at first, regardless of it being disused

This is huge. Thank you!

If you actually just set it up, this is the perfect time to reset it, and then press shift + F10 then enter “oobe\bypassnro”

It will reboot and you will be able to say that you don’t have access to the Internet and set up a local account. That /might/ remove some bloat as well, without needing to reinstall from a flash drive. Which would require reinstalling drivers also.

Taking medium into account changes everything. A sculpture artist or painter doesn’t have the same interest or concern about AI art yet, and may never. They also tend to not have the same comprehensive view of AI generation as well as training data.

That being said, digital photography doesn’t remotely compare. If I were to set my DSLR up with a lens, set an F stop and shutter speed, the results would be similar to that of a film camera. A sensor takes in light in the same way film does. A 30 second exposure at a 500 ISO will compare to a 30 second camera on a certain film type, which is comparable to ISO settings.

Artificially bumping up light sensitivity on a DSLR degrades image quality. Analog and digital are largely comparable. So how would it apply to photography? It’s not just automatically making a picture, and if it were doing that on auto, it’s still not all that different from a film photo with generic catch all sensors and light metering.

Photography is all about catching the moment, personally I captured night landscapes via manual long exposure on a DSLR, but none of that is automatic.

If I may ask, why still use .world then?

.world users doing their thing. It’s fine for a starter but not someplace to stay

Part of that is only because any and all Instagram accounts are also considered Threads accounts. I have a feeling active users is probably in a similar ballpark

With every hit I’m that much closer to leaving 😭

As an organization admin, it’s great for business use. Don’t force it onto users alongside other bloatware slop.

Genuinely I’ll give Michaelsoft credit on skipping 9, they did that to avoid SEO poisoning windows 9x variants.

Windows 11 Pro is pretty good!

Windows 11 Home is pretty stinky!

I use 11 for work and 10 for my personal usage still.

Do I have bad news about twitter… At least no one profits from it here

I’m gonna have to take the strong stance of this not being a case of language evolving.

It drives me insane how many people turn a blind eye to the funny numbers needing to always go up. Every “investor” will tell me how the market has never not recovered; how I’m the fool and surely not them for trusting in the system.

I hate that my retirement depends on a 401k, or money that constantly depreciates.