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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • that’s sad. I hope this doesn’t come out as heresy to any Star Wars fans (I mean, I am one, but mostly for the games and the TV series) but I really wish they could redo at the least the prequels.

    Like, I don’t know, maybe redo Episode I,2,3 in the style of the Clone Wars show, give a season with 6 episodes for each movie and really expand the idea better on them. Maybe I am the only weirdo who would like that lol







  • don’t bother, people have been bashing Phil collins since the beggining of time and nobody understands why.

    Guy gets called annoying for releasing too many Top 10 hits during the 80s as if that was something bad, go figure how people’s heads work. Why wasn’t Kid rock put on this instead of Phil you ask? Your guess is as good as mine.



  • It runs fine on my Pixel 7a, I have an account with 2 Brazilian banks and they all work well.

    Some apps just don’t work though, but they are far and between, an example is Brazil’s gov.br, which is a website that is used for ID confirmation on everything that pertains to the government (tax revenue, your own business details,etc.). But then an old phone does that job for me at home.

    Speaking of Brazil, it is worth mentioning that Google Pixels are not officially sold here. The ones I did obtain I bought on a “Brazilian eBay” and there is no e-SIM support for it nor any warranty services. I had to do the battery replacement myself despite knowing that Google was offering to fix faulty Pixel 7a’s on NA/India/Europe/etc. I am only bringing this up because, coincidentally, 50% of Motorola’s smartphone sales are on LATAM. It’s a pretty smart move they are making if you ask me, they are aware they could explore this huge market it seems.



  • I don’t go out of my way to replace light bulbs with all these smartbulbs that have day/night cycles.

    That being said, if they go out, I normally pick a smartbulb because the price difference isn’t that much for all it offers in return.

    I’ve been working remotely from 3 to 10 PM and the gradual change in color temperature both from the smartbulb and my screen really helps me take it easy as my shift is ending.



  • I stick to ad-free platforms, either by paying it or using alternative ways, books, single player games, and Spotify without ads.

    We are in a shitty point of society and all we can do is brace ourselves and do conscious choices that pull us out of this algorithm riddled internet.

    It’s tough though. Lots of times I wake up and the first thing I do is open media to see if there are any tragedies or worldwide events going on, and then when I notice it… oops! There goes 30 minutes away of your life doomscrolling on Reddit/media… I just shut it all down when I notice it and go back to my routine. Trying to make a habit of it, but it is hard


  • I still remember a trip I took with my parents to Vancouver and Seattle. We are from Brazil.

    The difference was night and day, especially the infrastructure, landscape, and the appearance of the people who worked there. Seattle felt much more somber and gray.

    The only ones who seemed overtly happy were the waitresses, but since these jobs in the U.S. rely heavily on tips, it felt more like forced role-play to get extra money compared to the more down-to-earth Canadian customer service.




  • Well written response. There is an undeniable huge improvement to LLMs over the last few years, and that already has many applications in day to day life, workplace and whatnot.

    From writing complicated Excel formulas, proofreading, and providing me with quick, straightforward recipes based on what I have at hand, AI assistants are already sold on me.

    That being said, take a good look between the type of responses here -an open source space with barely any shills or astroturfers (or so I’d like to believe) - and compare them to the myriad of Reddit posts that questioned the same thing on subs like r/singularity and whatnot. It’s anecdotal evidence of course, but the amount of BS answers saying “AI IS GONNA DOMINATE SOON” ; “NEXT YEAR NOBODY WILL HAVE A JOB”, “THIS IS THE FUTURE” etc. is staggering. From doomsayers to people who are paid to disseminate this type of shit, this is ONE of the things that mainly leads me to think we are in a bubble. The same thing happened/ is happening to crypto over the last 10 years. Too much money being inserted by billionaire whales into a specific subject, and in years they are able to convince the general population that EVERYBODY and their mother is missing out a lot if they don’t start using “X”.