Jan 1st 2026…To continue to enjoy our AI free experience it will now come will Ads…or pay us 9.99 for an Ad free AI experience.

Love from Samsung

I’d be happy to keep the ones that say:

“we notice you are in europe and we can’t use our cookies to track you so you can’t come to our website”

It’s good to know sites with policies like that to ensure I never visit them.

I recently started getting ads on my discover feed, it was the last Google thing to be ad free, it used to be a good selection of my interests and local news, I’ve turned it off now as it’s full of irrelevant crap and adverts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3_Lee

The design was unusual because the main weapon – a larger caliber, medium-velocity 75 mm gun – was in an offset sponson mounted in the hull with limited traverse. The sponson mount was necessary because, at the time, American tank plants did not have the design experience necessary to make a gun turret capable of holding a 75 mm weapon.

There’s 7 spaces in the baking tray, there’s 8 brownies! What is the 8th brownie op!

We had all this back in the 1970s with “Robots and Computers will take all our jobs” scaremongering.

As factories & production lines started to use robots and CNC machines, CAD and digital imaging appeared, accounting software etc etc we were all going to lose our jobs and live a life of unemployed leisure.

Never happened.

I’m sure AI will play an important role in the future but like so many new fads it will settle into its niche and we will all be okay.

When I started my career as a telecoms data engineer back in thr '80s the we used QBF to test modems on dial up data connections…the tester had a QBF button that would sent the text to a tester at the other end or it could even test round a loop back to itself.

You could inject errors with a button and these errors would count up on a basic 8 segment red led display to prove everything was working okay…happy days

The Insider blocked Lemmy user’s from reading this article unless they pony up to get through their paywall

We’ll never know, the article is behind a paywall

The closing sentence of the article…

“as Apple customers, we shouldn’t stand for it”

Apple customers…

“Here’s my $200”

Thanks for the tip, I’ll look into these

I got Shokz open run, they hook over your ear and the left and right conductors are connected by a thin band that goes round your neck. They do take a while to get used to but if you can then all the problems of ear buds & tiny ear canals are gone

Bone conducting earphones, my stupid tiny ear canals mean I can’t get any ear buds, to stay in my ears, the bone conducters have changed my life…

• my custom made silicon ear plugs are a close second, sweet sleep when I’m on night shifts

Many years ago, my 2 kids an me playing multiplayer COD 2, I had 3 networked PCs we went in the map and worked together, I was in the first floor laying down with my sniper rifle, the kids were covering the stairs behind me, we owned that map, working together it was an amazing and thrilling experience for all of us, we talked about it for ages afterwards and was the started of many great COD multiplayer sessions for us.

Google recently announced that it’s podcast service is shutting down and moving to YouTube music, I don’t want or need YouTube music so I’ve already moved to Podcast Republic, it has a few ads but they can be removed with a small one off payment. Google just wants to shove all it’s users into YouTube and YouTube music for maximum ads and data harvesting.

The thing is, no matter how many times big tech companies are caught out and facing inquiries and legal judgements for bending and breaking the rules, lying, doing illegal things, targeting kids, misinformation, election fixing etc etc NOTHING EVER CHANGES