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oakey66@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Apple Watch Shipments’ Continuous DeclineEnglish41·15 days agoThat is absolutely a core feature of Garmin not just a perk. The fact that Apple didn’t include it while doing explicit commercials for biking, running, and swimming was definitely to make it seem like it’s direct competition.
oakey66@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Apple Watch Shipments’ Continuous DeclineEnglish72·15 days agoComparing to Garmin where I get daily workout recommendations based on your sleep and recovery. From what I’ve seen the workouts are behind the paywall.
oakey66@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Apple Watch Shipments’ Continuous DeclineEnglish61·15 days agoMost definitely.
oakey66@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Apple Watch Shipments’ Continuous DeclineEnglish119·15 days agoIt’s also likely driven down by non stop paywalling of features. Consumers like myself are just exhausted. I am only looking for non paywalls devices going forward and if those go away, then I’m going to be done with smart devices. I can’t keep paying hundreds to a thousand dollars for a device only to not be able to get the features of that device unless I keep throwing money at a company. I know they have costs to maintain software and add features but I can’t have perpetual costs on everything I buy.
oakey66@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•A 19-year-old girl just received the world’s first wireless bionic hands controlled by thoughtsEnglish5·30 days agoSince everything is software based, virtually all of it is proprietary, and requires updates; I’m now bearish on any technology that relies on companies continuing to operate and update their software.
Everything is so shitty that even miraculous tech like this could break down when a company goes under or decides to stop making software updates on a whim. I don’t think I’ve read a single dystopian scifi book that imagined corporate control of every minor/major innovation with paywalls and subscriptions that ultimately lead to the enshittification of every facet of our lives. It feels so much worse than we could have imagined.
oakey66@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why does it seem like so many (young) men these days flock over to types like Andrew Tate?1064·1 month agoA lot of young men frustrated with the lack of community, the fleeting chance of making good money, buying a home, etc. are looking for something/someone to blame. Misogyny and xenophobia are easy escape hatches for difficult times.
Just to add the difference. Managed solutions typically has the consulting firm managing the maintenance. In some cases, they take over an existing solution vs the consulting company building something.
We help them build solutions that they then maintain and own. I’m in analytics. So we’re doing data engineering, security, and delivery.
I’m in IT consulting. I have personally done some really cool shit for my clients. Things they didn’t have the talent to do themselves. Business management consulting and tax audit consulting is a completely different story. I don’t help automate away jobs. I’m not presenting decks to strip companies and governments for parts. Needless to say, not all consulting is created equally and my hope is that there comes a time where this bubble bursts this push for AI dies on the vine.
oakey66@lemmy.worldto Gaming@lemmy.ml•Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Being Cyberbullied by Gamers26·1 month agoI’ve read this with a smile on my face quite a few times.
My consulting company is literally talking about nothing else. It’s fucking awful.
Enshittification continues.
After the Ashkenazi data leak, I deleted my data with them. Never sharing that again.
oakey66@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every StoplightEnglish6·2 months agoSpeed run to bankruptcy.
oakey66@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgetsEnglish129·2 months agoI would argue that they moved to LLMs because they had run out of ideas on actually improving cellphones. It wasn’t that they were distracted by them. They are trying to distract us because they need to cell new phones every year and nothing they’ve come up with is really justifying shelling out $1200 for a phone that’s virtually the same as the previous 3-5 iterations.
oakey66@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.ml•Israeli Cabinet Minister: 'Only Solution for the Gaza Strip Is to Empty It of Gazans'141·2 months agoHasbarists are really the best at showing their asses without even knowing they’re doing it.
It’s not good because it has no context on what is correct or not. It’s constantly making up functions that don’t exist or attributing functions to packages that don’t exist. It’s often sloppy in its responses because the source code it parrots is some amalgamation of good coding and terrible coding. If you are using this for your production projects, you will likely not be knowledgeable when it breaks, it’ll likely have security flaws, and will likely have errors in it.