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New comment by intrikate in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

intrikate — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:17:57 +0000

I purchased an iPhone 15 a few months ago and ended up making this discovery myself. CarPlay would refuse to launch unless I enabled Siri. I didn't do any of the Siri setup, or anything but the app would hard refuse to launch unless I went and toggled on Siri. Maybe that's different depending on your make/model, or the specific infotainment system in your car, but in my '21 Kia Forte, Siri is a very hard requirement.

New comment by intrikate in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

intrikate — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:18:45 +0000

It seems to me that anyone going out of their way to compare current prices against prices from five or more years ago to adjust for inflation is not the average consumer, and shouldn't be juxtaposed as such.

New comment by intrikate in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

intrikate — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:12:01 +0000

This is a really interesting thing to think about. English is my mother tongue, and I'd never really considered this, it's always just been part of the language.

If I ask my partner to turn the volume "up," I am asking them to literally move the volume knob "upwards" towards the maximum limit. The physical motion doesn't literally track with televisions and remotes, for example, but you're still moving (turning) the volume upwards towards maximum.

That's how it shakes out in my head? You're moving something upwards towards the maximum. More is bigger, bigger is up.

New comment by intrikate in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

intrikate — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:49:10 +0000

Ah, okay, that makes your original comment make more sense. Thank you for the clarification.

New comment by intrikate in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

intrikate — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:03:36 +0000

I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. If you don't understand, you aren't smart enough to and shouldn't try? If you learn slow, just stop because you're... slower? What are you talking about?

New comment by intrikate in "After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban"

intrikate — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:25:46 +0000

"...Flowers said, "I believe personally that guilty people act defensively. If you don't have anything to hide, then it shouldn't be a problem."

Oh boy, back to this crap again. If that's true, for you to be acting this defensively sure is sending some signal.

New comment by intrikate in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

intrikate — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:22:34 +0000

Are 'working' and 'learning' not part of 'living?'

New comment by intrikate in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

intrikate — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:24:31 +0000

I am so sorry to piggyback on someone else's comment for this, but this thread has piqued my interest in what I can do to de-smart my 2021 Kia Forte LXS.

Any chance you can get the service manual for it? I appreciate it, even if you can not.

New comment by intrikate in "Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue"

intrikate — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:07:39 +0000

It was a big enough deal that Nintendo put out advertisements in 1990 [0], asking people to not use "a Nintendo" to refer generically to other video game systems, specifically out of fear of genericization.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/5m9grz/theres_no_...

New comment by intrikate in "Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue"

intrikate — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:51:04 +0000

I believe they meant "why people are so up in arms about the developer being so strict about enforcing their trademark," not "why are people upset that the port author is being deceptive."

New comment by intrikate in "Quirks of Human Anatomy"

intrikate — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:51:28 +0000

Same! Why bend over when I can grab with the floor hands and bring it up to my air hands?

New comment by intrikate in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

intrikate — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:33:39 +0000

Isn't this basically exactly the behavior described?

New comment by intrikate in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

intrikate — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:38:33 +0000

No. Monitors are small, and suited for one person working close up. I am looking for a television without the "computer" inside of it.

Yes, of course, it needs to have a computer to decode and display images, but I don't want it to be running a stripped back version of Android, that shipped out of date and hasn't received any updates, with apps that are laggy and often not current relative to other "smart" providers, that also takes pictures of my screen once every thirty seconds to tell the manufacturer what I'm watching and for how long, to build a better marketing profile on me.

I want a big OLED panel with enough smarts to drive the screen. I will plug my own computer into the television, if the need should arise.

New comment by intrikate in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

intrikate — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:22:58 +0000

Watts in TDP are not the same as watts in electricity, although they're both measures of energy.

TDP is a thermal measurement, it's how much heat energy your heatsink and fan need to be able to dissipate to keep the unit within operational temperatures. It does not directly correlate to the amount of electricity consumed in operation.

New comment by intrikate in "Chuck Norris has died"

intrikate — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:51:16 +0000

Unless poll after poll is contacting and registering answers from 100% of people in the country, that's only 35-40% of the people who answered the poll, which is a much, much smaller number.

New comment by intrikate in "A simple web we own"

intrikate — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:24:16 +0000

No good reason to do this, but I would imagine you could set up a site-to-site VPN with Wireguard (or hell, Tailscale) from your phone to a VPS, and have people hit the public server which routes back over your tunnel to your phone for access to the data.

I'm almost curious enough to try for myself.

New comment by intrikate in "How did Joann Fabrics die while Best Buy survived? It wasn't Amazon"

intrikate — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:12:03 +0000

I mean, yeah, sure if you view having to go to the store as a negative, then you would prefer to order online and have it brought to you.

After years (my whole adolescent and adult life, more or less) of online shopping, I find that it's actually quite refreshing to go to the store, find the product I need, and purchase it. I have it immediately, I got to handle a demo unit and get a feel for it. If I need to return it, I go back to the same store and get my money back the same day.

There are pros and cons to both, for sure, but these days I find I'm valuing the offline experience more and more.

New comment by intrikate in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"

intrikate — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:59:11 +0000

I might be wrong, but, wouldn't the recommendation to avoid Amazon if you want to be sure come from the massive amount of training data pulled from internet conversations? The kind that would already have been discussing the issue of counterfeit products on Amazon being mixed in with legitimate products from the original manufacturer, since this is a problem that's been going on for, what, at least a decade at this point, right?

The LLM is inherently distrustful of Amazon due to having consumed and trained on a bunch of text that's about how one should be distrustful of Amazon.

New comment by intrikate in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

intrikate — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:41:19 +0000

Sure, but why would I, as an entity buying advertising space, pay the same amount when YouTube is just going to try to show them to people who are asleep, that can't see the ads, and thus would have no effect anyway?

New comment by intrikate in "RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung"

intrikate — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:29:43 +0000

I might be out of date, but last I knew, it was "most of them."

International models tended to use Samsung's Exynos processors, while the ones for the North American market used Snapdragons or whatever.