I hate Comcast as much as the next guy but I feel like 1.5TB a month would be reasonable. Even at those speeds you probably wouldn’t be downloading more, just downloading whatever you do now but faster.

Thanks for the read!

Ah, I will look into adding that to my React layouts. Thanks for the suggestion!

Ah I will look into that, maybe there’s a Matrix library I can implement so that I don’t have to do that manually, lol.

I have been looking for an alternative recently, I was going to publish an article about why I dropped disqus and my search for an alternative but I never saw this. I guess the search term “self-hosted website comments” has all its SEO clogged up with Disqus by now. Will check this out though, thanks!

I do have an RSS feed! It’s https://floridaman7588.me/feed.xml I should probably put it in a more obvious place on my site tho, haha. And thanks for reading!

Haha April fools, right? Right??

Their products have become pretty junk as of recent, at least on the consumer side. I hear good things about their enterprise devices.

And that’s why no one should do crypto stuff. *FTFY

(/s btw I don’t care that much)

womp womp

Their Matrix bridge is open source, and (at least they claim) everything is E2E encrypted. I love Beeper, and as unstable of a service as it is, it’s still really great and I fully trust it with my messages. Waited 2 years for this service and I’m gonna use it lol.

you know how it goes

checks out

“a very few special exceptions” lol

Many security keys have NFC, or if you’re on a modern phone, you can use USB type C (Yubikey 5C)

I think Lemmy accepts markdown formatting, the syntax might just be different

For example, this is a strikethrough

I waited for ~2 years to get onboard and just having the ability to use iMessage on my Pixel 6 has made it worthwile. Plus the tight integration with other services and being able to use it to sync SMS between devices is like Apple level. It’s probably not the best service for certain aspects (e.g. privacy, they say it’s E2E but who knows what their stack is), but the secret sauce that is the app just ties it all together so well. Plus, they have support built right into that app via a private Matrix Room and a REAL PERSON will respond to almost any query within a couple minutes. I accidentally sent a DM request to the CEO and he replied in like 3 minutes. If you want to skip the line I can give you my invite code so you can try it out.

I’m sure it’s highly variable by region, I live in a, I suppose you couldn’t call it rich, but not a poor area, and nearly everyone in my school has an iPhone. Not only an iPhone, but usually the latest one or at least within a couple generations.The district also provides us with MacBooks. (Writing this from a Pixel 6 though!)

tl;dr, you’re right but I’m more concerned about the media and lay people misusing the term, and it just annoys me personally too

I am sorry, I should’ve been more clear, and I do genuinely appreciate your comment as it is very useful information. I am referring to lay people using the term ‘AI’. These institutions and individuals, who I agree are the most trusted on the topic, use the term because it is becoming the term broadly recognized. I have no problem with these people using the term, because they are aware of the context they use it in. I have a problem with people who are not versed in the topic using it, and that is what I agree with Connover on. When the media, and more broadly the general public, use the term AI, they are usually considering it to be a big spooky thing that could come for everyone’s jobs, and especially on the Internet the term is used to perpetuate a grift. I don’t wish to argue either, I just wanted to append this to clear up what I meant. And don’t get me wrong, I’m no expert on the topic, as much as I made it sound like that, I’m just tired of the media and the actual grifters misusing the term without actually understanding the connotations. Artificial Intelligence sounds like something that can replace a human mind, and to some extent, a lot of generative LLMs can do that, but they aren’t intelligent, they are just large algorithmic guessing machines, and using AI just feels to me to be misleading in that sense. I know this comes down to personal opinion in the end, at least on my part, but you are right, and I’m just tired of hearing people spout about AI like it’s some existential threat as it is now.

Wow that ran on, sorry if you read the whole thing lol. Also you don’t gotta reply, I just wanted to clarify what I really meant to say.

Also ETA: sorry I sounded so snarky, I’m just so tired of this whole topic

Tech enthusiast here! If you say AI in any context of current technology you’re either severely uninformed or grifting. There is no AI, it’s all machine learning. Adam may have been in the uninformed group, but he’s still been more right about “AI” than anyone else recently. Machine learning ≠ Artificial Intelligence, and if you think otherwise, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Read some of the white papers, and don’t use the term AI, please.