Sometimes, when Google's Gemini tries to keep me engaged after answering my initial prompt, I ask: "Are you sure you want to waste water and generate additional CO just to fulfill your programmed engagement instructions?". AI overhead is a thing.

So... we built AI to read the internet, learn from its collective knowledge, and automate tasks for us. Now we're taking the sources offline because the AI is reading them too aggressively. We wanted machines that could consume the world's knowledge, but apparently forgot to consider what happens when they actually do.

Our 400-year-old group explicitly prohibits the use of any open-source software across the entire organization, from corporate IT environments to production facilities. Guess they like to support the market.

People are trained for Office. This is like the "typewriter course" from the 70s. It even shows up in job requirements. No company will invest in training for a new text-typing tool. Either the tool is exactly like office (not superior, not stabler) or it won't stick.

There is no tool that fully replaces MS Office in standards and features. Lose your time with Collabora, Libreoffice, whatever, it doesn't matter: In a few weeks you will be punching the walls and will return to Office.

Hahahaha, I second this. A Muppet with googly eyes.

I kept imagining why launch Mini Hammonds into space. Music in space?

In my country, thankfully, DST was abolished for good in 2019. The benefits were too low to justify its use. Of course, bars and restaurants weren’t too happy about it, but the hassle of adjusting to that one-hour shift twice a year was awful for most people. No more DST around here.

I always thought mathematical problems were meant to be solved because their solutions could somehow improve our understanding of the world and, ultimately, the human condition, not merely because someone could be the first to publish them.

Apparently, anything that challenges US "dominance" is bad for the world. In Brazil, the "Chinese dominance" has done the terrible job of pushing new-car prices down by roughly **5–15%** over the last 6 months. Used cars in competing segments are also starting to drop by around **1–5%**. Truly catastrophic for consumers.

Let's hope it does not keep justifying itself with empty promises every time it does a mistake, like Gemini does.

Weird. Linux IS successful. Did you mean "leader in desktop PCs"? Stop daydreaming.

Time to have names for these "unknown".

"Tcheeena". Nice.

Good. I don't use Chrome since 2018. Cheers.