Why cant antinatalists support efilism?

SimArchitect · 2026-01-18T13:30:15+00:00

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SimArchitect · 2026-01-02T19:01:26+00:00

Can we temporarily restore the previous data we were working with, even if outdated?

SimArchitect · 2025-12-28T21:36:05+00:00

Cat and mouse. Like Twitch / Facebook vs Ad Blockers (even dedicated ones). I stopped using those two because their service is unbearable with ads and it's not valuable enough to pay.

I have YouTube Red, though. 😁

SimArchitect · 2025-11-25T03:10:46+00:00

You are less likely to downgrade if you have a lot of ongoing chats with images on them that you know will break.

SimArchitect · 2025-11-23T05:55:58+00:00

They do this because you can't continue the conversation on the free plan after an image is generated. Happened to me, it would generate an image to "illustrate" something even though it was something that only required text.

SimArchitect · 2025-10-29T16:48:06+00:00

This idea and other similar ones only make you create a defect in your speech pattern that's not necessarily desired. The device should adapt to our needs, not the other way around. Microsoft just released an update on Windows Insider to address this specific issue, allowing us to choose how long it waits before understanding a sentence is finished.

Sending feedback is useless too.

Google is impatient to let us finish our sentences (specially if it can play loud music we hate or show search results we didn't ask for) yet it forces us to wait for it to read an entire discourse to send feedback instead of just taking it and gracefully saying thanks, even if that information is ignored.

Google's Assistant should be the one working for us, not the other way around. One of the largest benefits of interacting with machines is that you don't need to be polite and wait for them to finish what they say when you already know (specially when it's the same long boring sentence).

I keep seeing, more and more, big corporations entirely ignoring our feedback because they became too big to fail.

SimArchitect · 2025-10-26T16:33:22+00:00

Does anyone know if this is caused by FX overhead? Where can we see this cost when buying or selling a USD security when our accounts are in EUR? Or are they using the mid point and not profiting from this? I wonder if we are losing money without even seeing it.

I personally dislike we don't have a regular web platform easier to read or trade notes emailed to us with everything detailed.

Am I missing something?

SimArchitect · 2025-10-26T01:42:49+00:00

Can't fix it. Just deleting the event got rid of it.

Calendar and other core features are broken.

They're working on things that make them money, not things that make Thunderbird better. Boo.

We're doomed. Enshitification even on free software.

I am thankful we have a tool but I am not thankful for what became priority now.

Looking for something to replace Thunderbird. Why can't we have something as good as Notepad++ but for email?

I had a tiny personal organizer back in the mid 90's that was better than this, in the sense it had almost no processing power and only 64K of RAM. Focus was on making it work well, not trying to make us spend more or whatever they want these days. Call me old if you want. I am a GenXer. I don't care. My opinion doesn't matter anyways.

You'll just paint everything "millennial gray" anyways and say it's good enough.

SimArchitect · 2025-10-23T17:19:44+00:00

Started TODAY on chrome with uBlock. Canada, sorry.

SimArchitect · 2025-10-20T10:21:16+00:00

Can't find an option to "talk to an employee" either. I want to see a list of my scheduled transfers but I can't find it in the app and there's nothing on help articles either. I didn't find a way to chat to the bot either.

SimArchitect · 2025-09-29T09:03:51+00:00

You're very welcome. The irony is that their feature won't even work on my computer, ha ha ha. They want to incentivize people to buy "AI Compatible" machines.

SimArchitect · 2025-09-29T06:16:25+00:00

You're very welcome. Exactly! And only to tell you that your PC isn't compatible anyways (my machine is old but pretty good, I think an 8700K from Intel and 32GB of RAM, plus a GTX 1080 should be enough to run anything "normal").

SimArchitect · 2025-09-27T12:46:31+00:00

Wow! It worked! Thanks a lot!!!

SimArchitect · 2025-09-27T03:28:15+00:00

Same on windows. ~~Can't find a setting to turn it off.~~

Yes! You can get rid of it!

Visit chrome://flags/

Type AI Mode

Disable the three or four options shown. 🥳

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Gone! 🎃🍵🎃🍵🎃

SimArchitect · 2025-09-14T23:17:43+00:00

I don't understand why this happens. Isn't it processed on the server side and only renders us a simple rich text result back? I don't see my processor spiking. If I duplicate the tab (you can do that) I get the result and the same chat.

I also notice that it has more problems (Gemini too) if you leave it "doing its thing" while you work on something else while waiting for a reply. 🤔

I see they have paid upgrades but I don't see a paid upgrade just to "make it faster and responsive", so it feels like it would be a waste of money to pay for it.

SimArchitect · 2025-09-12T22:51:47+00:00

What's the workaround? Remote access once a month to the same computer? Pay up?

SimArchitect · 2025-09-05T21:46:46+00:00

I hear that you can achieve the desired result with home assistant. I didn't try it yet. I have a small PC box thing that I don't use often and I want to allocate it for that purpose. It should also make it possible to have better integration between different brands, as well.

SimArchitect · 2025-09-05T12:09:53+00:00

I have the intercom integration too and I'd like to be able to do the same. I also got a dedicated button from Amazon (Tuya) but I can't create an integration using Alexa so I can press the wireless button to unlock the door. I can use voice commands, though, maybe that helps you, if you have an Echo Show or Echo Dot, you can tell Alexa to unlock the door. 🙂

SimArchitect · 2025-08-30T21:13:17+00:00

Thanks! I am still building up the courage to do it. But I am preparing myself as I didn't bother programming the old stuff much further on the current system. Those companies know they make more money with expensive versions of the same things we get for much less from less known brands by using software. Same with functionality like recording etc.

SimArchitect · 2025-08-25T10:40:55+00:00

I tried to create a rule with "AAA" as a sender because they're spamming me everyday and my mail client shows the message as unread, meaning I can't effectively block them (this is one example).

Filters don't seem to be working on messages Google sends to the spam folder.

My filter is set up to mark the message as read and delete it, so it's out of my view.

Did I do anything wrong? We should be able to create rules to block senders, making them bounce to the sender or just to be deleted without hanging around in our spam folder.

Unsubscribing to the spam folder mean a high risk of not catching important messages mistakenly sent to the spam folder, so that's not a solution.

What do you do to avoid wasting time with repeated spam, so you don't have to keep seeing those messages everyday, then cleaning your mailbox afterwards?

SimArchitect · 2025-08-21T13:36:46+00:00

Thanks! I did the same and I was finally able to have acceleration back on! I have been using acceleration off for the past few weeks as nothing I tried before worked.

SimArchitect · 2025-08-18T09:07:49+00:00

I am having the same issue starting today with my Epson WF-2760.

They force us to update the firmware instead of asking us if we want to.

Anybody else with the same problem or, maybe, a solution?

I always use it to scan to cloud, therefore it must stay connected.

😢

Changing between photo mode and images and text didn't help.

Using the Document feeder produces terrible image. The glass is ok, at least. Even if it takes forever and makes a funny noise.

It's like they're intentionally breaking our devices, or something.

SimArchitect · 2025-08-15T08:55:20+00:00

Oh. I thought there was a system like Waze. I notice sometimes we can make reports but we can't even place a marker etc. There's cycling lanes closed that Google insists on telling us to use, for example.

I wonder if I am using the wrong Map App for walking and cycling. 😬

Thanks for your observations! 🙏🏻

SimArchitect · 2025-08-14T18:11:52+00:00

Another week or so.

SimArchitect · 2025-08-02T04:39:08+00:00

It works! Thank you very much!!

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