I want anything AI-related to be forced to be opt-in. I’m sick of having to find out these things on the news/Lemmy/wherever when it is likely too late to have them use the data already

I don’t have any options for you but make sure you get one that doesn’t use battery when not in use. It’s really annoying replacing those little coin batteries all the time even though you only use it like .001% of the time

I had a return recently where they opened it due to “lack of bubble wrap” and put more in. That wouldn’t change the weight much but if they used something else it could. So there is then drop off weight, ship weight, and receive weight

The Jungle follows up…

Found the corpo plant /s

Ah that’s rough. Probably chatted with AI as well

The biggest thing is view distance vs size. Your eyes can only see up to a certain density.

https://www.rgb.com/display-size-resolution-and-ideal-viewing-distance

Nice yeah coffee isn’t always the play for me either for that reason. I like Yerba mate and white/green tea too

I like short coffee naps. It makes it really easy to get up afterwards. I’d only recommend it if you are able to fall asleep almost instantly though.

Basically you chug a cup of coffee and then nap, setting an alarm for 20-30m. Once you get woken up the coffee will be mostly in your system and you’ll feel really refreshed.

They wonder why piracy is on the rise. Have they tried no corporate greed yet?

Yeah third party apps can do end to end encryption. It uses the data network and not the cellular network then though.

Google Fi on Android actually does run E2E on calls https://fi.google.com/about/end-to-end-encrypted-calls/