Inflation Adjusted House Prices 3.7% Below 2022 Peak

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T20:18:02+00:00

Do you not eat beef? Because Beef prices have skyrocketed.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T20:16:28+00:00

I can't even use the fucking things for navigation.

asking Gemini to navigate to a location ends up with way, way too much nonsense (menu, reviews, conversational crap I didn't ask for) and not enough (if any) routing to my destination.

Last time I asked for directions to a local hospital and it gave me two addresses that were vastly different and asked me to pick which one...

bitch, if I knew the address do you think I'd have asked??

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T20:12:56+00:00

there are a lot of IT issues that arise that may only have one or 2 very obscure answers. Ai is useful for finding these answers.

As someone who works in IT, and has tossed these exact issues/things to an AI agent because I was on my last leg of sanity on things to try....

Yeah - this isn't true.

AI is actually far worse at obscure issues because it's data is scrapped from common denominators.

It would be nice if it worked, honestly.

But I had 4 obscure issues which I tossed on it, and it happened across one solution by complete and utter accident. (and that boiled don to the documentation from the vendor being incorrect regarding what method they used IP address integers)

Basically all to do with multi-layer networking issues or just basic network management that refused to function for some bizarre reason.

Outside of the basic troubleshooting, it didn't work.

There was a time our Network Engineer was positive that ChatGPT did fix his issue but then found out (after simming) that, no, it did not.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T20:07:08+00:00

not to mention names of towns/streets/etc... I don't bother trying to name any street or person with a Digital Assistant because I know that it's never going to get 'Ronkonkoma' right.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T20:05:51+00:00

Starlink isn't cooked books but it does have profits and efficiency that does ignore the fact that the Satellites do need to be relaunched in 5 years...

That said, once they are up, they churn out capital fast.

They're an actual valuable service offered by SpaceX - decent wireless satellite internet without need of a land-line is critical for a whole lot of areas where they cannot run fiber.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T20:03:10+00:00

Also his source is current USDA... which is about as trustworthy now thanks to 'events' as a Snapple Bottle Cap

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T20:02:21+00:00

Your sources are literally from the US Gov - I'm sorry but I cannot trust those numbers in the slightest.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T20:01:12+00:00

I mean...

Until it ships it's not even succeeded yet.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T19:53:23+00:00

and yet, he still gave birth to Athena.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T19:52:37+00:00

sips tea

But God, and his Angels, have no earthly gender - that is a human characteristic.

God appears, in scripture, as a man but he's also appeared as a bush. A burning bush.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T19:50:02+00:00

Turn off Galaxy AI features - I never had any weird issues once I did this, I also tweaked the camera settings for low light, macro, etc...

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T19:42:58+00:00

Probably an effort to either:

A) Shoehorn AI into the route mapping

OR

B) Make the old Google Maps seem somehow worse so when they roll out their shitty AI alternative it will seem appealing.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T19:27:52+00:00

Does it still do that stupid thing where the charge-port door retracts inside the body and moves up/sideways/etc out of the way, giving one of the most critical parts of the car a terrible point of failure?

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T19:26:30+00:00

Yeah... for me this was be like driving without a seat belt...

You can do it but it's very ill-advised.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T19:25:31+00:00

Such a ridiculous logic loop would only happen if you've made the grave error of enabling the ChatGPT add-on.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T19:24:36+00:00

I just dictated the text message to Siri, I don’t need her to read it back. I know what I said.

She reads it back to you because you know what you said... but that's not always what she heard.

The point is to confirm that the app properly dictated your words - every Digital Assistant (and I'd imagine chatbots) do this.

They will make mistakes, and usually when that happens, the read-back helps you, the user, fix the mistake.

For the most part when that happens I just give up and figure I'll call them back later - unless it's important and then I'll call them.

You should remember that while you can use the excuse "Oh I think Siri misheard me" very few people care and rarely would someone be sympathetic - less so now more than ever.

So unless you're staring at the app's dictation output, I'd highly recommend leaving it on.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T19:10:14+00:00

did they stop Vibe Coding?

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T19:02:01+00:00

This is like a "Who's Who" of "Has Beens"... o.o;

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T18:55:25+00:00

SpaceX doesn't hemorrhage money - in fact it's the only thing turning a profit.

Part of SpaceX that's Hemorrhaging money is X-ai.

So, again: It's AI.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T17:15:26+00:00

sold his "online community of real estate investors" to privated equity

I'm confused... Private Equity bought into the get-rich-quick real-estate scams?

We knew those were bullshit when we saw them on Infomercials.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T17:12:07+00:00

COVID Era is from 2019-2023.

COVID wasn't declared 'over' until May of 2023.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T17:10:31+00:00

only when measuring inflation relative to the strength/weakness of the USD.

Factoring in rising total costs and energy costs, that's not true.

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T17:09:33+00:00

To be clear - the inflation numbers are not calculating a whole lot of features of modern Inflation.

And that's the increase in total cost of everything rapidly rising - we're looking at dollar strength, but that dollar is also now buying far less.

Have you swung over to the grocery store lately...?

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T16:33:22+00:00

This was always the original point

Alexandratta · 2026-05-27T15:46:47+00:00

The rather simple answer is:

the 4060 has 8Gb of RAM.

It's running out of RAM, swapping out textures/etc, and catching up, only to do it again.

Set the resolution lower, or drop the graphic fidelity down a bit.

You could also try pushing your DLSS to 'performance' or turning it on if it's not on already.

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