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I don't think it's being questioned that at some point there is human behind this. Though it could always be that spider.

I got an old pair of Sketchers which are great.

They are a bit worn, so a year or two I bought a new pair which are absolutely horrible to wear for any extended amount of time.

Been looking for a good replacement ever since, while my old ones are slowly wearing away. Plastic pieces chipping off the heel every week.

I'll keep it in mind when these fail.

> How many Apple Watches and AirPods have ever become obsolete due to their batteries not being replaceable?

Every single pair of AirPods I've had has died due to one of them not charging anymore. I assume it's the battery.

No idea where/how/who looks into this though, so I've just bought new ones.

I had a bug that both ChatGPT and Opus 4.8 failed to solve, but Fable solved it quite effortlessly.

Anecdotal, sample size of 1.

The only reason I tried fable was because Opus 4.8 went down the same line of reasoning about it as ChatGPT did. Fable solved it a lot faster than the other 2 spent looking into "false clues".

> I’m fully bought into the Apple ecosystem, and I’ve had Teslas for 8 years and we currently also have car that supports CarPlay. The CarPlay interface is overall far inferior, especially with navigation. First of all, searching for destinations is terrible on CarPlay compared to Tesla

Tesla and surprisingly Hyundai are outliers, the vast majority of cars have terrible infotainment systems, and them deciding to suddenly focus on it does not assure me at all.

Sir, that is a claw, not a hand.

It's a bit of a stretch to assume that every single user on reddit would reinstall Windows for this, or even as much as 5% of them.

Or that they all even run Windows in the first place.

Epstein

Someone sent me https://e24.no/norsk-oekonomi/i/OkEMRb/433-millioner-i-miste... and I immediate thought of this post.

On e24, opting out of cookies is a paid service.

I maintain a program using WebView2, it runs quite nicely.

It needs to render custom content, and the HTML renderer is much faster than I'm able to make it myself using the native API.

Do you believe there are many enough of these at scale to make any meaningful impact?

The vast majority of personal projects are not built by those receiving FAANG salaries.

> It became way better when microsoft started tormenting the users of win11 instead of win10, and now that windows update doesn't bring new catastrophes and unexpected reboot, the OS is finally not interfering with usage anymore.

Yesterday when I booted my windows 10 desktop PC I got a bunch of popups (Win32 MessageBox) about errors in some O365 AI dll files.

Turns out some MS AI software was silently installed on my PC in late may.

I do not have MS Office or anything that should require any AI software.

> I think it sets a dangerous precedent to put guardrails in that return a response from a prompt that was modified by the system in real time

In practise though, how is this truly that different from system prompts?

They are essentially just trying to re-inforce that the system prompt must be respected.

> Onedrive constantly trying to steal all my files

By default setting, windows defender will upload "suspicious files" to Microsoft.

A while back I caught it trying to nab my OpenVPN installer which also contains the certificates.

> If I buy the SpaceX stock it's 100% certain to go down. If I don't buy it it will rocket to the moon.

The answer is clearly to buy stocks and then short it.

(/s!!)

> because my employer is the one paying for Copilot & wants us all using it

I was told we're moving off Copilot and over to Claude desktop sometime this week.

Burned trough 30% of our included credits yesterday, while intentionally attempting to use less.

The maximum they can take in fees in a 12 month period is 100% of the original sum, having a 600% interest rate just means they get to the 100% cap that much faster. Ensuring that the consumer does not have sufficient time to pay off the debt before it doubles.

I am sure they gain something from it.

My Brazillian bank charges me 600% yearly interest on credit card purchases.

However, the cost of a lawsuit can quickly offset the costs of a CC. Depending on the state, there may not be a maximum cap on expenses, making lawsuits incredibly expensive. (Whereas having paid by card you could ask for a chargeback instead of needing to sue)

It's also a very time consuming ordeal having to sue vendors in these instances.

> How many digits/letters long is it

nnn.nnn.nnn-nn

A CPF is nationally unique.

You also have a RG/RNE which is unique per state. Not too often you get asked for this one though.

> What does this mean for travel if Visa is not “everywhere you want to be”?

You'll live life as if you had AMEX instead.

> PIX from Brazil is even better, to be honest.

You lack the inherent fraud, bankruptcy and other malicious actor protection that Visa/Mastercard provides.

Bought something online and didn't receive your product? With PIX you're SOL, with Visa/Mastercard you get a chargeback.

> People underestimate how difficult it was to transfer money before Pix, even between local banks. The process was hard to use, it could take days and the fees were huge, depending on your bank. Pix solved all these problems.

Nearing 17:00 in a bank: Does anyone here need to do a TED or a DOC? Come to attendant now before the system shuts down for the day!

> To be able to pay with Pix, one needs to get a CPF (Brazilian Tax ID).

There are third party apps you can use to pay with pix using a credit card, can't recall that name, but read about it here a few months back, on another pix-thread.

> CPF (Brazilian Tax ID). Then to open a bank account

Getting a CPF is absolutely trivial, but I'm not sure you can open a bank account without RN/RNE, at least not with local banks. Can probably manage with one of the online banks.

> How do people find Lightning cables robust? Every single one I got from Apple failed

My third party cables are lasting 3-5 years. Absolutely would have preferred lightning cables, but it is what it is.

That said, Apples lightning cables were/are indeed quite low quality.

I referred to the swapping of cars to a far inferior model than you paid for.

However I do also pay for milage (KM), and extending the rental period does often* NOT extend the milage range. Eg 1 month=1000 KM, 2 months=1000 KM, so you need to split the rental periods yourself and do all that hassle, or pay extra.

(*May of course vary depending on the rental company)

This being in Brazil.

Having rented cars a lot, this is actually quite common.

Would only need to be at the top, to balance out the camera.

The only reason I use a case is that the iPhone is close to unusable on a flat surface without it.

> PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL

Pretty sure this is a persistent setting. Don't need to set it per-connection.

Working fine for me right now, from Brazil. Claude via Github Copilot at least.