What irritates me most about all these unwanted "innovations" is that they always make them opt-out. "If it's opt-in, nobody's gonna use it - and it's such a flawless feature, we should be shoving it down everyone's throats"
Recall IS opt-in. Personally I don't get the big deal. Opt out stuff is just a simple toggle. If they were shoving down everyone's throat you wouldn't be able to opt out of it. Like ads on Google Discover feed.
I understand getting triggered by em dashes in a comment section - nobody uses them like that, right? But in an editorial piece? That's where you expect to see them. At least that's what I thought...
Similar concerns were raised regarding the energy used to mine cryptocurrencies. It's basically wasted energy - no doubt about that. But this is different. Crypto's potential has been very limited all along, whereas generative AI has numerous potential uses, and we are seeing more and more companies, as well as ordinary people, utilising it.
Great potential uses like the upheaval of the jobs market during a time of political crises lol. Great time to destroy the energy market for the common citizen as well
Option C doesn't mention the Windows 11 LTSC version, which allegedly works on machines that don't support the regular W11, and it doesn't have most of the bloat. It is an enterprise version, but it's possible to obtain it legally.
However, after using Windows 11 for many months on my new rig and hating every minute of it, I'm seriously considering Option D (switching to Linux) for my older machine.
The telescope's result seems poor, especially considering its price tag and limited usability. Perhaps it's the image compression/post-production issue, but you can get much better results with an average DSLR and a budget 250-300 mm lens, which will offer much more for a similar price.
RSS feeds can drown you in quality content you're not interested in 75% of the time. Social Media can drown you in content that seems interesting, but is worthless 75% of the time.
But that's my experience - yours could be different (I totally made up the numbers, but you get the idea).
In the meantime, Spotify still cannot handle two different artists using the same name. It's almost 2026, and they still haven't fixed the issue with recommending songs from irrelevant "artists" who "borrowed" their stage names from more popular ones.
I wish I were creative enough to hold a natural conversation with an imaginary caller for more than 15 seconds, without feeling more awkward than I did in the actual situation I was trying to escape.
