useful implementation of AI silo’d to the applicable function.
some examples:
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“rename these images with X pattern, add their description to the meta data”
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“correctly capitalize all the names in my address book and tag them by how i know them”
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“show me how much i spent on fast food last month”
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actually good and useful autocorrect / spell check
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find all the emails about Jane’s wedding next year and let me know where we are with the planning
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find me an app for windows desktop that does XYZ
edit to clarify: I know there are algos and LLMs that do this, but I don’t want a “machine” that does all of them, I want a machine that only does each one really well.
LLMs would do all of those incorrectly with 100% confidence.
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Nice try but I’m keeping my even more instant instant noodles to myself.
I’ll give you a hint though, the secret is in being ok with pumping boiling water into your stomach.
Drunk mode for phone. It holds all purchases in a limbo state and pops up with a list to approve or deny at noon the next day.
It also redirects any communication with your ex to an AI bot for the evening.
You could probably setup a “drunk mode” on Android to do all that.
That one thing, with the whatchamacallit that does that super useful thing…
You know…
They are delicious
Five minute abs
Strong Bad was ahead of his time when he made the Ab-Abber 2000. Abs in minutes - nay, seconds!
If your ABS takes 5 minutes to react there may be an issue with your car.
No! 7’s the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 dwarves. 7, man, that’s the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin’ on a branch, eatin’ lots of sunflowers on my uncle’s ranch. You know that old children’s tale from the sea. It’s like you’re dreamin’ about Gorgonzola cheese when it’s clearly Brie time, baby.
Step into my office.
Draino for gutters!
A bicycle that is as reliable as a car.
I bought a top of the line cargo ebike from a German manufacturer that cost half as much as a cheap new car. It needs scheduled maintenance every 2000km. After 5000km the entire drivetrain needed to be replaced, the front brake completely failed when temperatures dropped below freezing, the motor sometimes cut out due to a firmware bug in the controller and the suspension seatpost broke when I rode down a curb.
Imagine any car having safety-critical faults like that after 5000km.Due to the nature of bikes there’s probably a ton of weight saving that’s going on, which is why stuff breaks so easy. With cars they’re so over engineered that they weigh a (few) ton(s) and are generally over built for their expected stress levels.
Because bikes are so small they’re harder to add in that element of over building.
Oh, and the manufacturers are greedy and want the largest profit margin
For normal bikes I agree. Ebikes and especially cargo Ebikes suffer from lack of specialized parts. All the parts are the same as on a 10kg mountainbike. My bike with me and a load on it weighs 170kg. Make it 3kg heavier, triple the beefiness of all components.
And I don’t need 11 sprockets that are millimeter-thin when I only use 3 gears (for flat ground, uphill, and an emergency bailout for when the battery dies).
My e-bike (Onyx RCR, basically a motorcycle) hasn’t needed anything of the sort. So it might be either a specific manufacturer thing and/or a cargo bike thing. I can imagine them using regular bike parts even though it’s taking way more weight/stress.
For pedal bikes, they can be that reliable if you want to pay for it:
- hub gearbox (a rohloff gets 100,000km minimum)
- decent belt drive (30,000km)
- solid tires get 5,000km. Not as good as car tires but there’s a reason; any additional durability will add noticeable drag/weight. Super thick e-bike tires could probably get 70,000km like a car
Batteries inside of stove/microwave/coffee machine/etc. with the sole purpose of keeping the time from resetting when it loses power.
You don’t even need that. My microwave is wifi connected but still can’t keep time. Instead of using NTP like any appliances or industrial control system in the last decade+, it syncs to your phone time though an app.
Wtf.
RCC has been available since the 80s. Much of the wold has been covered by radio time broadcasts that would be used by devices to set their own time but somehow it didn’t start to become really commonplace until wifi allowed for 2-way communications 🤔
Fuck IoT
All my homies hate IoT
If you have wifi you need to store it’s credentials somewhere, and you run into same issue.
Actually automatic way would be to just take GPS signals clock time.
my microwave doesnt need wifi its a fucking microwave
“Smart” microwave might be generally helpful, but a lot of them aren’t for some reason, they went the first step of connecting to wifi and stopped there. Getting notification when ready or setting specific time and program via google voice instead of fiddling with controls is genuinely useful stuff that I would love to have
A rather neat feature is scanning the barcode of an item with the phone app and the heating program is set automatically.
But setting the time automatically using ntp would have been enough for me.
I’m guessing that the way it works is it’s sending the barcode number to the microwave supplier, the supplier sends it to 5738 vendors who have legitimate interest in updating the profile they already have on you, then the heating programme is sent back to you. The same heating programme is described on the package you already hold in your hands. Fingers crossed that your microwave is getting security updates, if not, someone could be downloading all data from your laptop because they got into your network using a microwave. That is the reality of IoT.
I just wish my microwave could have a Facebook login.
How many screen taps does it take to scan your food and send it to the microwave vs typing in the time like normal?
Even just a capacitor to keep the time for 10 minutes or so. That would cover 99% of the power outages in my home
Just connect an overpriced UPS to every device ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As a bonus, you can still make coffee in a power cut.
At this point I believe there is a conspiracy behind it
I’ve conditioned myself fully by this point to only use the clock on the stove as an indicator of whether my power has or has not gone out
How often does your power go out? Why can’t you be bothered to set the time every ~10 years that probably happens?
I guess you haven’t cleaned your microwave in 10 years or had to do any electrical maintenance in the kitchen.
My microwave does not have a digital timer. And yes, over the ~9 years I am living in my current flat, I did not have to do any electrical maintenance. Do you have to do that regularly?
Personally, where I live now, my power has gone out in the last five years more often than the rest of my life combined. I’m in my mid 30s.
That’s crazy! Where do you live?
I live in a rented house, it’s a double bungalow style with a lovely family attached. During COVID our power was out for three days straight. It was wild. Luckily I have a car that I can waste tons of gas to charge my things with (also luckily it has like seven USB ports), and also some battery packs that can charge things.
Went out and got tons of ice to put in the refrigerator and freezer and cooler.
Set up our iPad connected to our phone as a hot spot and watched YMS play Jump King for all three days. It was wonderful. I miss being NEETs.
Computers have CMOS batteries. They are pretty cheap. I don’t know why they haven’t been added yet.
That’s most likely what they’re referring to: batteries for the RTC.
Phone assistants responding to you in the same volume of voice you used to address them.
This would require a way of judging the distance you’re speaking from. Calling out from another room might get a whispered response, and vice versa.
This seems solvable. There are differences in pitch between a nearby whisper and a distant shout.
I agree, but I wouldn’t call it a “no-brainer.”
Maybe not. I’ve heard of apps that can detect mood and I imagine being able to tell that someone is sad from the tone of their voice should be more challenging than picking up the relative difference in inflection, quality of overtone saturation, application of the built in compressor, etc.
I thought a very low and compact version of a bench to do floor presses would exist but I have never found one, maybe I’m not using the right keywords. Just a short, narrow sturdy piece of equipment to lay on to get my back off the floor just enough to get some range of motion.
Like one of those things that people work under vehicles with? https://www.harborfreight.com/300-lb-capacity-low-profile-creeper-gray-63371.html
They have wheels, but it kinda fits your description.
I was in the middle of replying how that would be perfect “if only it were more narrow like a balance beam.” Looked up floor balance beams and they exist. Thanks for the assist.
I love floor presses. Never saw some sort of Bench for it. The only way i do them is in a Rack. I guess you to
not using the right keywords
Have you tried Kagi search? Millions of “sEO eXPeRtS” have totally fucked Google and made it almost useless
Why the fuck don’t receipts just show up in my bank / credit card statements?
Do you want your bank to see everything you’ve purchased?
Umm… If you’re using their cars they definitely do… That’s how this works…
I guess you mean their cards.
And they should only see the amount and counterparty, not your entire invoice.
buys a single item from Bad Dragon
They know where I spent how much money; probably wouldn’t take much to figure out what I could have bought in a situation like that where every individual product is slightly cheaper or more expensive than the last.
They’d have to want to do that math, though.
Apart from David’s paws they also have sweaters and shirts
Even banks don’t want to see everything you’ve purchased. That opens them up to a whole new avenue of subpoenas from police trying to prove crimes. They already have entire legal compliance departments dedicated to fulfilling subpoenas for financial crimes. They don’t want even more responsibility.
No, but I want to see what I’ve purchased T_T. While we’re at it I’d like public key cryptography to see more use, haha.
Being able to get pinged for a new message in a group chat bit mute the consecutive messages from that chat until you check it.
I like to be part of multiple chats like for my game server if there is an issue I want to be alerted from my guardians. Usually the channel is quite for days and days until someone says something then it’s pings after pings as people reply while I’m commuting home and it interrupts my music
Discord only does 3, then stops for a while.
I want an app that echos the pings back to the sender. Teach those cunts that use “send” as a full stop a lesson
I don’t need six notifications for one paragraph, Jonny
Add a bot to your server that reacts to every single message on a ~10 minute delay. Long enough for them to close the app and forget about the messages, then the reactions start rolling in. And the reaction notifications only get sent to the original sender.
You have to.
None of those apps allow you to properly use new lines for basic readability.
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A friendly meep meep and a hoooooonk would be nice.
Flash of high beams do work in some cases, but require that they are in front of you
Ah so we need rear high beams
Few taps on break lights is actually similar signal backwards than high beams forward.
I have like a Pavlovian response to immediately feather my own breaks and check my rearview if I see any red in front of me though lol
I’ve always wanted car to car commutation not through horns but radios or loudspeakers.
You thought internet trolls were a nuance… Just wait till they can bother you while driving.
This. I’d only accept this if everyone, and then I mean EVERYONE on the road has the patience of a saint and the radio discipline of an airline pilot at all times. I’d be fine if the most threatening you could ever expect is a “four six golf victor delta niner, your blinker is still live and your tail light is out, be advised, over” but you just KNOW there’s gonna be someone who’ll go “HEY YOU removed IN A WHITE VAN! STAY OUT OF MY FUCKING LANE OR I’LL END YOU AND YOUR MOTHER!”
I remember reading on that other site at some point about airline pilots and the ‘guard’ channel which is supposedly used for shitposts. Any pilot on here that can confirm? This about the discipline of airline pilots.
Thank you Lemmy for censoring my comment. And I guess we lost exactly zero energy with the profanity removed 😅
Just to add a bit: in my country blinking your emergency lights (when all of your turn signals are going) for 2-3 times as a thank you is very common. It’s even considered rude not to use them e.g. after you were let in.
I don’t know if that is something in other countries. I live in Hungary.
We do that in the UK. I wouldn’t say it’s universal but it’s pretty common.
blinking your emergency lights
In the US, truck drivers sometimes do this as a “thank you” if you flash your brights to them to let them know they can safely change lanes to the right after they’ve passed you (which is a nice thing to do for them since they can’t really see shit behind on their right).
As a truck driver, it pisses me off when truckers don’t gimme the blinkies.
I learned that this is a common practice in Japan, from a Youtube video I watched years ago. I adopted it after watching it. I live in the US.
It’s not exactly universal. In Germany, this can be interpreted as you warning of a pending emergency and trigger slowdown; they’d do thanks by signalling left-right-left-right rapidly.
Wtf this is like dark souls pantomime shit. You drivers really need a better way to communicate
Like a simple
Maybe like a kazoo
Oh, yeah, we use that too. It’s absolutely contextual, on the highway we use it for what you described.
I do it on occasion, I’m in the US.
I found the drivers in Hungary very considerate and polite in general.
City buses in my town have specific horns for pedestrians, much quieter than those for cars
More complicated extension to this. I want a collection of standard of messages that I can send to other drivers while driving (like 6 buttons max). Some standard low distance wireless (probably based on or just Bluetooth)
Like:
- “Hey check your car its got something wrong with it”
- “Hey you’re in my lane”
- “Hey slow down it’s dangerous here”
- “Hey watch out road hazard ahead”
- “Go ahead”
- “I’m going now”
- etc
Just flashing lights, horns, hand gestures, and yelling out my window is a freaking game of charades man!
Basically, I like the idea of a quieter horn, and a regular horn. But we need like driving emotes, rather than the tea bagging hello equivalent
Like the Chevy Volt? (No, not my video. I don’t condone the filming while driving but it’s the best demo I could find.)
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It’s been almost 27 years since the first Austin Powers movie and the world still doesn’t have any sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.
This
Would you settle for ill tempered sea bass?
Sure we do, they had them in the third movie.
Frick! You’re right!
A better voicemail.
I just re-watched the introduction of the first iPhone, and one thing that stood out to me was this “visual voicemail” thing they showed. To this day I still just get an SMS if someone leaves a message, and then have to call my voicemail and listen to recordings one by one. That’s still the norm for standard phone contracts here afaik, it’s ridiculous!
I generally love T-Mobile, but it’s obnoxious that they charge an extra monthly fee if you want visual voicemail.
Wait what, when did that happen
I’ve had them for years and it’s always been that way
I didn’t know that was even still a thing. For years now on my iPhone I’ve just looked at the text transcriptions of my voicemail in my phone app.
Google Voice has had this for 10+ years too
I set mine up in 2009 and it is shocking to me how this is not the standard
I’m sure it could be comfortable in an English speaking country.
Now my iPhone, actually transcribes my voicemail live and gives me the opportunity to pick up during them leaving the voicemail. Like old-school answering machines used to do.
I’ve had my google voice account handle voicemails for like 15 years and it did that for me. Well, now I don’t have to, but it’s been great.
Huh on iPhone in the UK. I get a transcript of any left messages.
That’s odd, Android transcribes my messages by default
How do you make it do that mine’s not doing that. And I’m on the latest version of Android.
Using the Google phone app, one of the tabs is voicemail and it automatically converts it to text.
Mine also allows you to see each voicemail in your acct inbox and play/delete/call back each one like a song on a media player.
There’s still the cell providers limit on how many voicemails are allowed though. Better to use Google voice and have unlimited voice mail
Seems to heavily depend on your provider. Some work with the standard phone apps, some have their own apps, but most don’t seem to offer it at all here in Germany. One even sends you an audio MMS instead and just calls that “Visual Mailbox”. It’s crazy to me that such a basic and useful feature still isn’t just a standard thing on all phones.
It depends on your service provider. In Canada they charge for it. Last time I checked it was around $7/month.
