Removing all the emotion from this, the specific problem with these AI overviews is how Google presents them to you.

Everybody with some sense knows AI’s can excrete total hogwash and it’s answers need to be fact checked down to the most minute detail. Some people take what they get from AI’s as gospel anyway, but that is a them problem.

But Google a: calls these summaries, and b: presents them as the top search result. Both of these things come with a greater than normal degree of implied factuality.

Someone techincally minded will know it’s still AI an subject to the same scrutiny but the population at large simply does not, because they entered a search query in a google search box and aren’t willingly and deliberately talking to an AI.

Yeah, thanks for the tip. I’m at least in passing aware of these solutions, but my problems aren’t just concentrated around not owning a roof.

I also have detached garden house in my yard that I could technically quite easily have 4 or 6 solar panels on, but the problem I have at yard level is that I only have sun to where that garden house is till maybe 3pm on ideal days before it disappears behind the apartment building I live in. Any balcony attached panels would stop receiving direct sun after 1pm or so.

And even the sun we do have is greatly handicapped by copious amounts of surrounding vegetation. To the point I can’t even really get my lawn to grow properly.

It’s a lovely yard because it’s kind of like having private park in the middle of a big (for my country’s standards) city and because we are surrounded by big buildings it’s basicly also very quiet, but that does ofcourse come with it’s limitations.

All that logic is still a choice though. You could also just instruct the user to not press the button unless they’re inhaling and just actually have it be an on and of button. That’s how vapes used to work. Worst thing that could happen there is that you burn the wick, which is only a problem because it’s not serviceable.

What happened to vaping?

I specifically remember refillable vaping was exactly what you had when you vaped. You had the battery unit or a “mod” as it was called, on top of that you screwed a tank that had the coils, cotton and liquid, all that shit could be individually replaced and everybody had their own frankensteins combination of mod tank and other peripherals they liked to use.

Why did that stop being a thing in favor of these absurdly wasteful disposable pens?

There also has already been someone that made a home battery from batteries harvested from disposable vapes.

It is absolutely insane that these “disposable” vapes are legal.

It is wild to me that this wasen’t handled elsewhere to begin with. There is no way to at least somewhat guarantee a fair process with this massive potential for conflict of interest.

A road in of itself is definitely a public interest…

Where they should and should not be built is another discussion.

Serving the public interest is not already a prerequisite? Surely gov’t cannot arbitratily pull this card?

I might be talking out of my ass but i’m pretty sure using imminent domain is not only needed for matters of public interest but specifically needs to be backed by it when you want to use it.

Based on what? Spotify took what, 16 years to turn a profit?

Money stopped working like you expect it to a long time ago.

What mostly makes this problematic is that there still aren’t enough public charging spots out in the wild to counter this handicap, people occupy those that are available for way too long and they charge quite a bit more for the kwh then you’d have to fork over at home. Especially when you can smart charge with variable rates and/or leverage solar panels.

I live in vertically built op neighbourhood from the 1950’s so charging on my own meter, much like having things like solar panels, won’t ever be a thing.

I do not believe this makes owning electric cars impossible persé, but the the public infrastructure is also lacking, and they won’t expand this without people buying more electric cars. But people aren’t buying electric cars because they can’t charge. Nobody here can charge at home, even if we do have plenty of people that have the income bracket to drive electric, so it has to come from public availablity.

Progress has been extremely slow. Don’t let my origional comment take away from the fact i’m 100 percent pro electric, I think it’s cool as hell, but there’s still plenty of situations where they are more than a little inconvenient. Having long range models here would at least reduce the frequency at which you’d need to charge.

That is what i need to do a return trip on the longest distance I do on a fairly regular basis and what the car would be mostly used for. (I have moved away from most of my family.)

I can’t trust public chargers to be available at the destination. People still have a tendency to not move their car after charging and there’s still a general shortage of them.

I have no doubts about electric cars being nice or “the future”, but the price of these things is still a problem.

A (reasonably) new one with the range I need (~400km+) costs way more than I care to spend. That is partly because batteries still cost too much, but also very much because they still have a tendancy to gatekeep larger range figures for use in luxury cars.

And getting older second hand is still too much a questionmark in terms of how much of a chance there be you’ll end up having to fork over big for a new battery or motor and/or write it off prematurely.

Another problem is that I also have no way to charge it at home and would be fully at the mercy of public charging infrastructure. And generally speaking as a taller man, I feel some of them can also be quite lacking in terms of interior space.

It is like a camera hidden in a shirt button and that’s exactly the problem.

I understand how creepy this is but why is this any different than the 1000s of cameras on poles literally everywhere these days. Neither of these should be acceptable

Camera’s on poles are obvious, they are mostly immobile apart from some pan tilt zoom, they are subject to privacy and data retention laws, they are announced with signage, they serve a specific public or private interest (like security), they are some auditable entity’s respontibility and they don’t have anywhere near the resolution you can get on the ground with a camera strapped to your face.

The guy with the meta glasses is a huge questionmark on all of that, including intentions and when they are actually recording.

People could do lots of things, but it really isn’t as trivial to secretly get eye level footage of what you’re looking at with a smartphone, as you’re making it out to be.

Things like phones peeking out of breastpockets with their camera stick out like a sore thumb and aren’t nearly as easily directed at whatever you intend to record without people realizing you’re recording something.

And the open prescence of a phone always has some implication of a possibility of recording. Glasses do (or rather did) not.

Also, this specific device is a Meta product. And those, by definition, deserve all the hate they can get on the count of them being a gigantic privacy problem due to the nature of the business Meta is ultimately in.

In my world there is a non-trivial difference between pointing your phone in someone’s general direction and just having inconspicuous looking glasses film everything implicitly.

Do none of these horrible cunts that yearn for that dystopia ever read history books?

It’s the whole entire point of these glasses so this surely cannot be a surprise.

I’m just waiting for bans on these glasses now, because that is inevitably where this is headed as the public at large simply cannot be trusted to handle this kind of technology responsibly.

And the harder these glasses become to spot, the broader the bans will be, undoubtedly right up the point where they’ll just straight up refuse anybody with any kind of thick framed glasses.

AI’s against AI’s. Apps against apps. I want to get off this planet at the next stop.

No no. We don’t do obvious solutions.