You are merely floxinoxinihilipilificating at this point, I feel.

The problem here is it's about local news mostly. The national/international chains will likely survive in some form, but they won't be uncovering the corruption in your town council or dig into what's being done about the terrible road condition at the junction just near the high street.

News is consolidating true, but it's also more homogenised and bland. Outrage about the same subjects, and all channelled towards those subjects. I'm in the UK - the number of kids who have a strong opinion on US domestic politics but none on their own is ridiculous, and it's because the media they use is dominated by large US chains.

So yes, the 'monopoly on the truth' model is broken forever and good riddance. But that doesn't necessarily mean there aren't problems elsewhere.

My RX480 hit its first problem this year - the Elder Scrolls Online Necrom expansion. There were parts of that where the machine literally just switched off in the middle of the battle at high detail and even medium detail. Forced me back to low res for a bit.

Thing is a GPU upgrade for me would likely trigger a machine upgrade rather than just GPU (Skylake-era i5, can't run Win11), and I just don't see the value for me personally. It's just a games launcher to me, I use other platforms as my home and productivity stuff, I don't play a great range of games the ones I do have been out for a while. Just sort of meh, I can wait.

But Brave Browser has no problem blocking them.

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I'm not an Alexa person, but damn this pisses me off.

IFTTT has been a really useful tool to let home users really push their smart home setups. I'm pretty sure I've heard rumblings that Amazon is not making jillions of dollars from it and thus sees it as more of a liability.. and in their quest to maximize profit, I have to wonder if they're going to eventually just strip more and more functionality as they lay off as much of their dev teams as they can ...

I've always been a passive open source supporter, but the more enshittification that happens in tools and systems I rely upon, the more I see the writing on the wall that I should be prioritizing OSS in my choices..

I bought into the Apple ecosystem because my spouse was an Apple person, and it was the path of least resistance rather than trying to get competing assistants/systems to play nice with each other (stuff like I was using Google Keep for grocery lists - which would work on iPhone but my spouse really liked using Siri and the Apple Watch to add stuff to the list.. just going with Apple so we were both using the same things greatly simplified the integration fight

I have poked around with Home Assistant and I think that I should probably move toward that as much as possible .. but it's that voice assistant thing - the apple watch and iPhone and Siri do work incredibly well for us to control the lights and such and it's my understanding that there isn't quite a "ready for prime time" solution for completely abandoning Alexa/Google Assistant/Siri yet...

I'm really trying to not be all doom and gloom / negative Nancy on this but, I had a bad experience with Amazon Fire TV that this change worries me will be repeated here.

I've had Rokus for years, and thought hey I'll try an Amazon Fire TV for this room... Got it and started adding my servcies... when I got to BritBox I could not find an app.

After some research it turned out that they don't have an app because Amazon sells BritBox subs.. Now, had there been an option to use my existing sub to unlock the Amazon Prime Video app to let me just watch my BritBox content, fine.. but there wasn't.. so I'd have had to cancel my BritBox that I had directly and then go resub through Amazon.. between that and how much more "spammy" the whole experience felt like with Amazon trying to push various shows I had no interest in.. I just returned the thing and went back to Roku

I have an AppleTV because my spouse had/has a lot of Apple purchased content etc.. and is kind of into the Apple ecosystem. I place it as "not as friendly as the Roku, but way better than the Amazon Fire" but this push toward focusing one on their offerings.. I worry .. I've accidentally gotten into the AppleTV part of the interface instead of the main apps and really hated the UI/experience.. I find it much more intuitive - I open YooToob or Wondrium or Nebula or whatever app it is for the service I want and use it directly - maybe I'm old woman yelling at clouds here (pun intended) but I just don't have much faith that this is going to benefit me in any way - being on the Autism spectrum, I don't handle change for the sake of change very well to start with /sigh

I have tried both CarPlay and AndroidAuto just about once each - Honestly doesn't give me anything I want so I just use my built in nav system which I like better (I live in an area with sketchy cell data reception ... where you want fully on board maps in your GPS ... and I just use the bluetooth audo and play from my phone ...

I know some like those car apps so they aren't fiddling with phones but I generally set my phone on a playlist or podcast and go without fussing with it.

I find both CarPlay and AndroidAuto (at least the implementation that my vehicle system offered) to be just klunky and annoying.

I can't imagine that many people are really listening to radio though -

There are those of us who paid for PKZip...

I'm not sure you're following. OpenJDK and various other builds are completely free, completely open source and completely without restriction.

For some versions of the Oracle-supplied JDK, you need a commercial license. The moment that appeared everyone switched over to OpenJDK and got on with life. There are no restrictions.

Oh sorry I realized I was responding to the part about using AI to construct search results - not the title which was about images..

Images direct from prompt? um ok so long as I get to say "I'm searching for existing images" vs "I am ok with you generating something with AI"

But also I guess for search results for sites - if they start using Large Language Models to build search results I fear there are going to be more issues like that law office that filed a brief which mentioned entirely fabricated cases cuz AI just "confabulated" ("hallucinated")

If it wasn't already giving garbage full of ads already - I just can't see this working well - with LLMs "hallucinating" so frequently, now even if you could wade through the ads, the results it returns .. could be entirely nonexistent sites /content created out of thin air...

OK so probably not but honestly, I want an AI-Free option thanks - I already set up an searxng instance on a Raspberry PI in my house - but not maybe I'll just remove google from the engines I am pulling from ...

You're not a child though. The cure is aimed at people who haven't been used to this condition since 1984.

> My DAB radios and Freeview TV's set their clock from a broadcast time signal, that is more accurate considering the delays there, but as with the mobile phone (more below) you can only trust it to a point.

I feel it should be a crime to release any electronic device with a clock in it that doesn't do this. Admittedly that's a bit nuclear, but given the number of times I have to keep resetting my cooker and microwave clocks I feel it's justified. Long sentence, custodial only please.

I own one. Yes, you absolutely can. You're just at the abilities you had when you bought the car, so it will depend on what software revision you bought the car at.