Yeah, I’d disable that if I could. I’d much rather have no thumbnail than an animated one.

Fuck them for these games. It’s an abuse of their market position.

Does Google offer a phone number for me to contact them about problems with their half-assed products? I’ve tried lots of times to reach a human being, but never raised a response as a private citizen.

That’s not what I consider negligible on my phone, which is already resource constrained. Yes, I have a problem with an app that intentionally wastes my valuable resources. I wouldn’t care so much from my desktop, but I mostly just use a desktop client to do things I can’t easily do on my mobile clients.

No big deal. It’s not as if my participation is especially valuable. I would just participate less.

edit: my objection is obviously more in principal than it is practical, but it would hardly be the first time I walked away from software (or a network) on philosophical grounds.

And use copper pot still with silver solder.

Never heard of, eg, Vioxx or thalidomide, I take it?

That’s a hard NO from me, dawg. If Lemmy goes down that path, I will just not comment. My account settings let me just block bots. I dont need my resources wasted so I can interact with the “good bots”.

What is it with people who think everything they don’t like should be illegal? Have you never read a history book? Authoritarianism is bad mmkay

Yeah, that’s not especially enormous compared to startups in the valley offering huge equity alongside already generous compensation packages.

Which is ironic considering the source.

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I guess it really is an unpopular opion. Lol. I have have eye fatigue issues with HDR too, though.

I also can’t watch 3D for more than 5 minutes without getting a migraine. I don’t know enough about how the display works to know why. Both feel like it is trying to fool my eyes and my brain doesn’t like it. Maybe my eyes/brain get fatigued trying to play along. Some types of HDR seem to bother me more than others. I can watch an HDR movie mostly fine.

No. Think about it. Where is all the video from those cameras going? It is digital video, which the homeowner probably wants to record and playback… Many home security setups, particularly those that don’t rely on a cloud service, are basically a DVR back end with a security focused UI.

you have correctly identified the joke.

very likely won’t cause any security issues.

Hahahahaha. Oh wait, you’re serious? Let me laugh even harder. HAHAHA

Just once a week? They must be improving.

While the Sky voice and a version of ChatGPT Voice have been around for some time, the comparison to Johansson became more obvious due to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and many others, drawing the similarity between the new AI model and the movie “Her”.

When your CEO inadvertently helps build a copyright suit against your product… Not a good look.

Instead we’re going to get “D- All of the above.”

As has become a bit of a trend lately, they put the useful information in the subtitle so it it won’t get picked up by link aggregators…

Now, Microsoft Word will use the ‘merge formatting’ option by default.

Ahh, I see how it could be interpreted that way. I’ll just pretend this is asked in good faith, despite it being just an off-topic rhetorical jab at the state of the US government.

Why can’t they regulate capitalism when it comes to important shit.

The US government can do this (as opposed to your favored issues) for two reasons: 1) This is executive action by the Biden administration, not requiring Congress. 2) This is inherently uncontroversial, even popular. 81% of Americans have an unfavorable view of China. It is one of the few things Americans agree on with such strong bi-partisan support, thereby making China an easy punching-bag for campaign season.

Further, I would contest the assertion that the Biden administration isn’t also doing those other things, to the extent that is feasible, given the currently widely divided state of our government.

…This article is about the US government doing exactly that. Did you read anything other than the headline?

The US government has allegedly revoked Qualcomm’s and Intel’s licenses to sell chips to Huawei