It was already a propaganda mill. Now it will be for the Nazis instead of China.

The problem isn’t co-pilot. Co-pilot is reasonably useful if you’re careful.

The problem is that it will almost certainly cost extra.

And that’s fucking terrible.

Sadly yes and they’re mainly taking the worst aspects. Normal built in features like heated seats as subscriptions, dropping smartphone integration for their own far inferior dogshit UI and features, and so on.

Eh if they come up with a reliable way to defeat it I’d say it’s worth it.

Yup my first thought was “Where is your God now?”

Google ditched “Don’t be evil” a long time ago.

The joke is you n all of them - I’m an adult and I enjoy coming home and playing PC games on my PC with its large gaming PC monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

I’m glad you all love your handhelds, but I’m good without one.

A subscription that somehow still manages to use surge pricing? I’m assuming that’s the next logical step.

Good thing my computer isn’t in Germany. I will stop using web browsers before I disable ad blockers.

Yes let’s be like Microsoft and delete everything we can get away with no matter how shitty it makes things.

Great job, really admirable.

Duh. Spacex isn’t your friend, nor is it benevolent. Not even if you’re a shitty maga fascist.

Fuck “lifetime subscriptions”. They’re taking a page from Tesla and I’m sure they’ll require any new owner to pay them separately should you sell the vehicle.

Simply avoid VW and any future brand that pulls this shit.

I just had the opportunity to purchase “AI” eyeglasses. They do recording, pictures, capture audio, supposedly let you talk to them, etc. IIRC the frames were by Ray Ban, they didn’t look awful.

They were powered by Meta. That was an instant hard pass for me.

TBF I’d probably have skipped them anyway, but if they’d been some other company I’d have at least been intrigued and given them another look.

Good, fuck ‘em.

The FBI says (or at least used to, who knows now that we’re the bad guys) to use ad blocking as a matter of cybersecurity.

I don’t care who it is, all my ad blockers stay on.

Weird because I’ve used it many times fr things not related to coding and it has been great.

I told it the specific model of my UPS and it let me know in no uncertain terms that no, a plug adapter wasn’t good enough, that I needed an electrician to put in a special circuit or else it would be a fire hazard.

I asked it about some medical stuff, and it gave thoughtful answers along with disclaimers and a firm directive to speak with a qualified medical professional, which was always my intention. But I appreciated those thoughtful answers.

I use co-pilot for coding. It’s pretty good. Not perfect though. It can’t even generate a valid zip file (unless they’ve fixed it in the last two weeks) but it sure does try.

I don’t understand the need for any such clients in the first place. Steam is used to sell you games, and install/manage/run them for you.

But unless you’re a child you shouldn’t actually need any of that. I’m perfectly capable of going to Factorio’s web site, buying it, downloading it, and running it. On any platform it supports.

That’s not a critique of this software project, I bet it’s cool. I just don’t need a middleman between me and video games. It’s the store that wants to sell me more and more and more or the publisher who wants that.

Parents worry about their kids. All mammals I’ve ever heard of do this. So when you tell human parents that they can have a better chance of finding their kids if their kids are missing, injured, or abducted, that’s going to appeal.

I don’t believe it’s about sUrVeIlLaNcE at all.

It’s typical. At least one Windows kernel developer is an asshole as well.

Fucking watch me.

Nazis bad. <- note the period that makes that a full sentence.

Don’t use substack. Or Twitter.

Oh look it’s some more shit I didn’t ask for from what used to be our last hope. Fuck your enshitification, Mozilla. You were the chosen ones. :(