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Yeah I tried an @ and then some markdown and then just went hrrumphsend. Who'd have thought it's a bang?

Anyway now I know.

I'm going to pop into Boost's community and suggest they hardcode it in the edit-post modal or something for us lazy people. 🤣

Thanks. I tried to look up how to format it but failed. Will fix now.

Literally

I just read something the other day that a single query like this one burns enough electricity to charge an iPhone 100 times or whatever the hell. It sounds like hyperbole but I think that number is close.

This is how humankind ends. A guy asking a fucking computer to validate his insecurity infinite times. This is how ai ultimately destroys us.

jfc I just noticed the account name 🤦

!thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world

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Classy. It's funny they're trying to "reach AGI" with all this shit but they code the bots with the equivalent of Jordan Peterson's take on how emotionality is a sickness. Well plaid (SIC).

I've used wi-fi calling fairly extensively mostly because I've lived in areas where there was zero cell service but ready access to internet (via Starlink or other wireless forms of it). One thing I do know is that my phone co. requests that I fill out a form specifying where I am living currently (whilst using it) so that if I ever need to contact emergency services they'll have a better idea of where to route the call to. For instance my phone number originates from Western BC but I could potentially be using wi-fi calling from anywhere in the province. I mention this to say, it appears my telco doesn't have a way to triangulate me with this service.

I can further attest that wi-fi call & text reception still works fine when I have a VPN running on the router that my mobile device is connecting to. Make of that information what you wish.

Though that I have read that wi-fi calling is atrocious for privacy reasons that I have not followed up on. Given the above I'm not sure how or why that would be the case, but basically if I'm in an area with cell coverage I turn it off. I've always meant to look deeper into how or why it might be bad (or worse) in some way.

Localsend has a config named 'auto-accept' or whatever it's called, in advanced settings.

Jaimie Johnson who filmed the documentary Born Rich (and its sequel) pissed off enough of his family and peers that he was almost thrown out of high society for exposing its underbelly. He also lives a pretty normal life echewing his family fortune which is pretty dope. Might be along the lines of what you're looking for. Good films either way.

ETA check out The One Percent as well, his follow-up from the first film.

Are you talking about America lol

I also use adblocking at multiple levels so it wasn't a huge thing for me (been blocking Pocket and other bullshit for years at the dns and network levels) but I still feel like Mozilla witnessed Google going for broke with killing mv2 and inline ads on YouTube and decided wellll our existing users probably wouldn't notice or care if we slipped in an opt-out fuckery... But we did. Immediately.

For any browser trying to sell itself as "the only privacy browser on the market" this was a dumb fucking move by any metric. Like why not just openly admit we're going with the Brave browser model?