Do they say that, though?

https://xkcd.com/1342/

A few days ago, me to Google home:

"Hey Google, turn on the light"

"Sorry, I can't control powered devices."

"Hey Google, turn on the light"

"Turning on the light."

I had a similar experience getting it to summarize my maps info, it would alternate between correct answers and claiming it had no access to the data.

That would be fantastic in Baby Steps. To be able to wipe out the last few minutes of failure.

Last weekend I made zero progress, but I did it much faster than the weekend before.

Almost all billboards in the Silicon Valley area are for AI and related services, it really does look like selling shovels to shovel sellers.

AI runs in the cloud because it needs a powerful server to run the biggest (i.e. "smartest") models.

The cloud servers are doing nothing special that another powerful enough computer could do, just a huge amount of data processing.

You can run an ai chat on a steam deck or directly on a phone, if it's not too demanding ("smarter" models are bigger data files, so won't fit in the memory of a small device).

Today, for instance, I had a phone call from "Spectrum Internet support" and part-way through the call my phone blared an alarm and said "possible scam" on screen.

The phone itself interpreted the conversation as sus.

https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/15654065?hl=en

For Pixel 9 and later devices: Scam Detection is powered by Gemini Nano on-device

Most smartwatch faces have hands, many of them as the primary time display (some are mixed analog/digital).

For Android, at least, which are usually round watches.

Baker's dozen.

This reminded me to check on what happened to IKEA Monkey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(monkey)

Turns out he went live on a farm!

Fun tip: if you’ve sorted the details list by cpu and the keep dancing around, hold down Ctrl to stop them from getting away while you kill them.

I once ran the windows Troubleshooter to get an old scanner working, and the final page told me to but a new scanner!

I plugged it in to a mini PC I use as a backup server and the scanner worked fine with Linux.

And another recommendation issue: I noticed that my Windows laptop has a "reduce your carbon footprint" settings section that tells me to reduce power settings, screen brightness etc. but it's completely lacking a "stop giving me AI search results in Bing" section.

That probably wasn't a virus.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2bs41z/til_that_if_your_bios_was_made_by_awardunicore/

Maybe the second "DNS" should be "VPN":

The DNS is free. They advise users of their paid VPN not to use this DNS service as it already uses it behind the scenes.