There has been a pretty consistent decline over the last year. Windows now updates multiple times a week, my work PC now randomly freezes for 10 to 30s multiple times a day, hardware that worked fine now has odd quirks like my headset now needing to have it's microphone switched to another source and back again every time I unmute in teams, there was a teams bug for a while where it would immediately kick me out of a meeting the first time I joined it, and another where my headset just wouldn't work when joining a meeting and would need to be shutdown and restarted to be used, my home dock that worked fine now won't connect properly when the machine resumes from sleep, needs to be physically disconnected and reconnected, I'm sure there are others. These are all issues that started since Microsoft demanded all employees start vibe coding in 2025 and were not problems previously. Hardware has not changed in that time.

Just say "haha nah, I'm fine, I didn't think I was making any face in particular, maybe I'm making a face subconsciously because deep down I'd rather be doing something else." Then as other posters have said, if he continues tell him you don't appreciate his constant commenting on the topic and would like him to stop. If he continues from there then tell HR he's harassing you.

I've been using Durgod keyboards for a while (my first is my daily driver at home and has had no issues since I bought it at least 8 years ago. I bought a second for work recently and quality is consistent with the first. Is Chinese company, not sure if they have an EU shop, not sure if they have a cherry MX blue option, you'd need to run through the full size units and see what they have in stock (they offer a lot of cherry MX options), no backlight, not sure if you can get blank keycaps, not sure what you mean about media keys, mine has some media options (stop play vol control etc) accessible via a FN key. Should be sub 200eur for the big ones, they are sub 200aud.

Oh I see what you're talking about, thats weird, also weird that its half in the tool bar rather than completely, I'll have to pay attention to my work machine next time I use it but i didnt think icons swiped up from from the bottom when they appeared ..

You click the snip notification when it pops up following the snip and it lets you at markups, been like that for like a decade at least.

Its more likely that it will hold on just long enough for the big players to offload their stakes to pension funds who will then cop the loss ..

The output technically belongs to the AI company, does the first amendment apply to non human entities? If it does I don't think anyone should be supporting that application ..

Not sure freedom to use apps is included in the US Constitution ..

Nice story, thanks!

AI can't replace lawyers and doctors, but they can automate their paperwork and free up time for them to do other things.

The problem with this statement is that lawyers and doctors have to be able to assure their work. If they are wrong then there are consequences. If you have to spend time reviewing everything an LLM writes, even just for paperwork, along with all its sources, then the benefit of using it tends to being on par with rather than a benefit. When you add in the issues with personal skill decline it becomes a detriment.

I also wonder about the statement on AI companies being profitable. There was a report recently talking about how very few companies were realising benefits from their AI spend, with many also finding they were spending a lot more on it than they had planned to not realise those benefits. Are those companies going to continue to spend, particularly when the article talks about AI companies needing to charge more.

I probably looked up some stuff on the web first, but then IRC, a lot of IRC..

Now do one for Schumer, also keep doing this one ..