I have a question, do you only get an email notification, or donyou also get an in-app notification?

I wonder for my own sake…

As others have said, just don’t bring it up unless specifically asked.

Most users won’t care, and you might easily overwhelm them with data.

It is far better to introduce them to Lemmy/Piefed/mbin/kbin/Pixelfed/etc as a specific service, and answer further questions as they come up.

This year, probably once every other week…

Dear Apple, instead of focusing on AI, can you fix the setup process on new iPhones?

It is a fucking mess, shit has been added seemingly at random to it and you need to do stupid workarounds to activate an iPhone without a physical SIM card while setting up an Apple account.

I am an IT guy, I have to help our users several times a week with setting up new phones.

If you have a new user with a new phone you have to do it like this:

• Sign in to WiFi,
• skip setting up an Apple ID,
• skip through all settings until the phone is activated without an Apple ID,
• go into settings, mobile service, add an eSIM card with a QR code,
• disable SIM PIN,
• wipe the phone, but keep the eSIM card,
• activate the phone again, but this time, create an Apple ID,
• verify the user’s email and phone number,
• start the enrollment with Intune

The issue is that for some idiotic reason, Apple puts the eSIM part of the setup after you sign in with your Apple ID, meaning that unless you have a physical SIM card in the phone, you can’t activate an Apple account on the device since you can’t verify the phone number.

The one useful feature of AI that I have found is to use it as a dynamic manual.

I ask about specific commands, or how to do something, similar to a normal search engine.

I then test the answer given, and if successful, I implement the knowledge into my code.

Something like this:

How do I make a progress bar with diagonal stripes in HTML/CSS?

I get a generic answer and start experimenting with it.

I could easily skip the AI part and go back to regular searching, it would slow me down, but I would be fine + it would be less wasteful.

Wasn’t there a huge fallout from them changing the license a few years back?

Have they changed their license back to Open Source?

Don’t care, they like all smart glasses they have a face mounted recording suite.

So we should support these camera glasses just because they are not Meta or Google?

Nah mate, they are still a creepy recording device.

Yeah, I saw the Veritasium video about that

Go away with your ads, Lemmy is not the place for them.

Holy shit I misread “outlined” as “outlived” and had a mini panic attack until I reread the sentence.

I am an IT guy at a financial company, I have been put in charge of rolling out Copilot pro licenses to anyone who wants them, I have yet to roll one out for myself.

I learn far more by doing the work myself than to just ask an AI.

The most I use an AI for is like an advanced search engine.

If I am coding something in a web project, then I might ask it something like.

“I want to make a loading bar similar to the humanity theme from Ubuntu 9.04, how can I set up a custom style in CSS?”

I then check the sources and work from there.

I may not be as productive as other people using AI to a larger extent, but I have a better understanding of the end product.

To be perfectly frank, I find AI responses to be quite annoying and mostly just dumb, though it does get good sources.

For me it was when I noticed that some of my photos had been affected by bitrot.

Instarted building my NAS last year, and got caught up in the increased HDD cost, I need two more 8TB drives to get my 32TB Zraid2 going.

I was going to use TrueNAS, but now that they have turned their back on opensource, I am not so sure anymore

It absolutely might, but you should still keep an eye on the battery’s physical condition.

In general, laptops are good about keeping the battery charged properly, but lithium batteries does not like to be charged to 100% constantly.

Sweet, one word of caution though…

Keep an eye on the battery, see if you can run the server without it installed, if it starts swelling, that means it has started to become unstable, and may become a fire hazard.

Yeah, it has always seemed creepy to me how positive it is about anything you ask it.

I hardly ever use it, and when I do I imagine I am talking to a beautiful saleswoman with a large name tag with the logo of the company.

The AI may be pretty, but it always represents someone else’s interests

Because investor confidence is all that matters.

Good, as it should for normal people as well