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mrwizardno2

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mrwizardno2··on Ask HN: Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs?
It may not be conscious, but it sure does understand emotions - especially angst. I let that MFer know when it messes something up and I have to rework the BS it created.

It's more for me than anything. Kind of cathartic, really. "Man curses at machine, calls its mother a toaster."

mrwizardno2··on Apple launches $20 monthly AppleCare One subscription that covers 3 devices
No. More. Subscriptions. FML. I'm so done with them. And with expensive gadgets that score notoriously poorly for repairability. I switched to a cheap android and haven't looked back.
mrwizardno2··on CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, begins rolling out today
Personally, I'm over the displays. Give me real dials and knobs, please.
mrwizardno2··on This is my dead grandmother's Special Day
Ah, man, I feel for you. It has been years since my grandmother passed, but I still sometimes wake up screaming at night. This kind of thing would be torture for me. I avoid all things big tech - but the dates of the events themselves are still emblazoned in my mind. I hope some day we are both able to look back and just remember they loved us and we loved them... Until then, stay strong. I hope the saying "time heals all wounds" is accurate... Because I haven't seen it as of yet.
mrwizardno2··on Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?
For now... Just wait, some bright-eyed underling will undoubtedly see this comment and then pitch their boss: "Man, oh man! I know how we can increase revenue, let's DISABLE brush heads when they hit 90 days and FORCE the user to buy a new one!" You've just doomed us all. >.< hah!
mrwizardno2··on Why I use Firefox
> Mozilla says that they can’t (decrypt my data on their servers), and I trust them.

I don't. I still neuter Firefox (LibreWolf, mostly.) and disable all the sync nonsense.

mrwizardno2··on Do You Need to Shower Every Day?
Do I NEED to shower every day? Yes, I do. Hell, I could probably stand to take two showers a day. I'm hairy - VERY hairy - and I have a robust, musky odor that left unchecked quickly gets a bit too pungent, especially if I'm stress sweating. My fiancé claims to love it, but I'm always afraid others might think I stink. The second I can smell myself, I'm showering! I don't care how many times a day that happens to be.