SanctimoniousApe

joined 11 months ago
[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 2 minutes ago

Meh. I'd say it's more variance in method than an actual disparity in quality. Humans are basically the same everywhere you go: some small percentage are truly great, a similar (but seemingly larger) percentage are the truly evil, and the rest are varying degrees in between. The differences are mostly cultural in nature.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

Also I wonder if you're so deeply insecure that you spend your time trying to find ways to look down upon others to momentarily make yourself feel smug and superior. The problem with that approach is that it's like being addicted to drugs: the effect doesn't last, and becomes weaker every time - so you wind up doing it more and more in a pointless effort to regain the same high as the first time you did it, which only serves to make you seem like more and more of an asshole.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 24 minutes ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago)

Oh, get over yourself. It was in no way an insult unless you're looking for it to be one. We all have our challenges - some more significant than others, of course - which makes being able to laugh at ourselves an important means of relieving the stress of those challenges.

I have ADD, depression, & some other mental challenges of my own. My spouse has several physical health issues (which cause additional mental health issues). Nobody understands or cares & we just have to deal with it.

I get the sensitivity to an extent, but you need to learn to distinguish between malicious intent versus those just trying not to take things too seriously (or in this case, trying to encourage someone else not to). None of us are perfect, and that includes you.

The important thing is that we try our best to not only get through this crappy excuse for a life ourselves, but also to help others do so when we can. My attempt to inject some mild humor into a situation where someone was being a bit overly condescending, while also having fun with the accidental double-post of a comment was just that - some light-heated poking of fun at something being taken too seriously.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 4 points 41 minutes ago (1 children)

But then it loses the magic...

[–] SanctimoniousApe 3 points 58 minutes ago (2 children)

America showed them how.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 2 points 59 minutes ago

I cannot for the life of me fathom how people think this sort of extreme role-playing is going to work out for them in the long run. I kinda get the escapism aspect, but to carry on with it for this long and think you won't get caught seems quite absurd to me.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 13 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Just make sure your fire extinguisher is nearby & is rated for lithium fires.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Ahh - the ever ambiguous "they."

/s

[–] SanctimoniousApe 2 points 1 hour ago

Likely expensive AF once you get all the needed accessories. I wonder if they have a minimal onboard battery, or allow hibernating so you can swap batteries and keep going.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

As a person, it's hard to beat Wash. That said, only Han Solo can turn a unit of distance (parsec) into a unit of time, so the answer to the OP question seems obvious.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 3 points 2 hours ago

Up-voted primarily for the use of something from Firefly (although the fact it's Wash also helps).

[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 2 hours ago

Well, at least that's a better method than just dropping trou...

 

Sorry these guys have to put off their retirement, but thank goodness they're willing to.

 

IMHO, the only "hypocrisy" is with the conservative-owned press holding Biden to standards LONG since tossed aside for Trump. The people have made it clear they only respect a government who fights dirty, and WAY effing past time they get what they asked for. In the scheme of things, this is positively mundane - but they'll try to attack anything that Dems do that they'd gleefully make excuses for Trump doing since that pisses off Dems. I congratulate Biden for finally saying "fuck it," and doing the same thing they would do.

 

It blows my mind that there are no legal blocks in place to prevent this (yeah, I know it's because this shit was so unthinkable that nobody prepared for it). This yahoo is on a mission to destroy EVERYTHING America was supposed to stand for. SOMETHING has to be done to stop this shit!

 

Republicans: the party of freedom, my farking ass.

 

Frankly, I hope Elon wins this one. His handling of Twitter demonstrates his incompetence, and his inability to keep his mouth shut will be helpful in preparing to fight whatever BS they're up to next. The other guy might be too smart and sneaky considering his involvement in the fake elector scheme.

 

Google's "Voice Access" is decent for controlling the device through verbal commands, but you have to be looking at the screen to get results - it won't read anything back to you.

Google's "TalkBack" will read things on screen to you, but you have to interact with the screen physically (never mind the significant change in how interactions work - which I understand the need for - but it's still a serious mental PITA to switch between the two interaction methodologies frequently).

Is there no way to just interact with it entirely verbally? A (very) simple example of what I'm looking for:

  1. "What are the current Google News headlines?"
  2. Starts reading each one aloud, along with the names of the sources.
  3. "Read the article about Trump caught making out with Elon from AP News."
  4. Proceeds to load the article & read it aloud.

(Yeah, I know there are podcasts for this - it's meant to illustrate the basic idea of completely verbal interaction with the device, not be an actual problem I'm looking for someone to provide a solution to.)

It just seems to me that we should be able to do this by now - especially with all the AI blow-up over the past couple of years. Can anybody point me to a usable solution to accomplish this?

TIA.

EDIT: I thought of a better example (I think), because it occurred to me that the above one could (sort of) be done with a Google Home speaker. I'm looking to be able to interact with Android apps verbally wherever possible, so my better example is "What are the latest posts made to the 'No Stupid Questions' community on Lemmy?" So far as I know, Google Home is not able to do such a thing. I'd like to tell Android to open my Lemmy client and start reading post headlines until it hit one I wanted to have it open & read to me.

I'm basically looking to use apps verbally to fill in gaps that Google Home/Assistant don't cover.

EDIT 2: Here's an even better, more universally applicable description of what I'm after - copied from a response I gave to another comment:

Imagine someone doing some relatively mindless menial job such as working an assembly line, janitorial work, chauffer - something where your mind is relatively unoccupied, but you're not free to look at and/or touch your device (whether it be due to practicality, or job rules). While doing that job, I want to be able to have the device read and interact with something of interest to me at that moment (ADHD is a fickle mistress), rather than just relying on podcasts with predefined content. Kind of like having someone next to me doing all the interfacing between me and the device.

EDIT 3: I added a comment with some news on options that may come close enough to doing the job which I've come across since posting.

 

I've often assumed Harris didn't want to insult her boss by going against him, because I got the impression she was planning to give Netanyahu what for once she took over - especially with him escalating things further and further. Did anyone else get that vibe, or was it just wishful thinking on my part?

 

People are calling for violence against FEMA on TikTok and X, new reports say.

I seriously don't understand why these people aren't immediately tracked down and arrested for terroristic threats. This BS is way beyond any reasonable "free speech" limit.

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