This is one that was shared recently:

!https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/42247576

I can’t remember much about it now, but I remember really wanting BeOS. I managed to get it installed once, but couldn’t get the internet working, so ended up uninstalling it.

I’ve noticed a new news bot in the last few days, and it’s the only one that seems good so far. It posts links to news articles, but puts a short summary under it too. I find that to be a lot more helpful than the bots, and even the users, who post a headline and a link, then nothing else.

Because it’s a scam, and they’re trying to find as many victims as possible 👍

I listened to an audiobook by Levar Burton a few days ago, and this sounds similar enough to his pattern of speech during the intro that I wouldn’t have known there was anything unusual about the AI voice. If I’d heard it read a book, I would have just assumed that the pauses were a style choice.

I like the idea of it, but I wouldn’t trust a camera from Xiaomi. I’ve got a Xiaomi Mi 10t Lite 5g phone, and the camera is a pain to use. There’s about a 50/50 chance of a photo taken using the zoom to have random artifacts over the image. I’ve had some great photos ruined by it. It happened with my wife’s Mi 10t Lite too, so it’s not just my phone.

They removed features from the software too. One of the reasons that I chose this phone was because it had a burst mode on the camera, and I had a young child. After the phone was out of warranty, one of the updates removed the burst function. It also resets the settings if you switch apps or lock the screen. I was using the star trails mode last night, and switched to an astrophotography app to check I was pointing the phone the right way, and when I switched back, the camera was back to the default settings. Not great if you want to use one of the other modes.

I’ll reply to a human, and they might reply back. Replying to a bot is just shouting into the wind. The bot isn’t going to see it, and isn’t going to respond. Even if it did respond, it would just be more nonsense.

Every post on Lemmy has a comments section, even the ones with external links…

The opportunity to post is there, but that doesn’t mean the bot is driving engagement though. The fact that it’s a bot actually puts me off from engaging.

You can **be** the change you want to see in the world.

I am, I’m complaining on the internet. Viva la revolucion! ✊😁

But that’s my point. A bot that posts links to external content isn’t driving engagement or fostering discussion, it’s just sending people to other sites. Even a brief summary of the link would be better, as it gives you a starting point.

A plain link is pointless, other than posting for the sake of it and claiming that it’s content. Browsing All and seeing post after post of links with no discussions is just depressing, and doesn’t make me want to stick around, and especially not have conversations with bots.

It’s not though, is it? You’re replying to a question post here, in a community for questions. A significant portion of Lemmy is communities for questions, media, memes, and tech conversations.

Of the posts that share links, a decent number of those are either posted with a summary to encourage discussion, or are at least posted by a human that you can speak to. A headline and link to another site, posted by a bot, does nothing to encourage interaction with Lemmy. It’s literally a link that points to content somewhere else

I haven’t seen much from the rest of the instance, but I blocked the bot a while ago. It’s a bot that drives engagement to other sites by posting nothing but plain links. I don’t see how that’s supposed to be helpful or useful 🤷🏻‍♂️

Typical, I’ve just spent several hours over the last few days downloading everything manually 😫

Couldn’t agree more. I put a 128GB card into my action camera last night, then remembered that my first computer had a 170MB hard drive. That’s close to a thousand times more storage, and according to t’internet, it’s physically more than two thousand times smaller :o

If it makes you feel any better, I did something just as infuriating a few years ago.

I had set up my home media server, and had finally moved it to my garage with just a power cable and ethernet cable plugged in. Everything was working perfectly, but I needed to check something with the network settings. Being quite new to Linux, I used a remote desktop tool to log in and do everything through a gui.

I accidentally clicked the wrong item in the menu and disconnected the network. I only had a spare ps/2 keyboard and mouse, and as the server was an old computer, it would crash if I plugged a ps/2 device in while it was running*.

The remote desktop stayed open but frozen, mocking me for my obvious mistake and lack of planning, with the remote mouse icon stuck in place on the disconnect menu.

*I can’t remember if that was a ps/2 thing, or something specific to my server, but I didn’t want to risk it

It’s one of those things that you hide away for most of the year, but every now and then, when your partner’s forgotten about it, you move it to the bathroom in the middle of the night 😁

This has just let me recover a podcast where the feed from the site I was using stopped working, thank you :D

Yes, sorry. I woke up in the middle of the night, but apparently my brain didn’t…

I’ll correct it now 👍

Briar is the one that was mentioned a lot when the protests were happening in Hong Kong, if that helps 👍

It’s the last one for me

‘Just write it down’

‘IT DOESN’T FUCKING WORK!!!’

‘Honest Doc, that’s exactly how it got up there!’