Notices by Richard J. Anderson ✅ 🥔 (sanspoint@mastodon.social), page 19

Alexa is laughing at people, and now all the Oculus Rift headsets are broken because a certificate expired.

I'm moving from smug to outright pointing-and-laughing now.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/07/all-of-oculuss-rift-headsets-have-stopped-working-due-to-an-expired-certificate/?ncid=rss

@extinctsnakes omg

> Everyone who’s on the “No way am I putting one of these listening devices in my house” side of the fence is nodding their head with a smug look on their face right now.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/03/07/alexa-laughing

Yup. So smug.

Now, look, I'm no fan of cryptocurrency, and think many of the people involved are utter fucking douchebags, but dosing someone's food with weed is a dick move no matter who they are.

https://www.wired.com/story/at-this-crypto-event-the-attendees-really-were-high/?mbid=synd_digg

Amazon Echos are randomly laughing at people.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/7/17092334/amazon-alexa-devices-strange-laughter

Nope. No metaphor here.

Aw, dang, I missed the thundersnow 'cause I was eating lunch in the cafeteria downstairs.

Well, it’s right proper coming down now. Damn snow.

@even_more_damned_muteKi BALLS ARE STORED IN THE BALLS.

BALLCEPTION

@jk It's not weird, but you shouldn't have to.

Ooh, the new Deadpool trailer is cool. (CW: It's a super-hero movie trailer, and it has all that sort of stuff in it. Plus naughty words, 'cuz, y'know, Deadpool.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDe2PO262pA

Snow? S-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@swizzard @KitRedgrave It had issues posting photos for me.

Uh, so Elon's car is just gonna be in orbit? Is it a stable orbit?

If the car's orbit decays, is it going to burn up in the atmosphere? Is it in an orbit that's not going, say, crash into a GPS satellite, or something?

@Cocoron Did you hurt Jack's fee-fees?

@KitRedgrave Yeah, that's my biggest issue with it. I should switch back to Amaroq...

@baldur I'll also never forget the iBook G4 I got, which ran like a tank, even after the fan died.

Or, for that matter, my first PC (a 486Dx with DOS 5 and Windows 3.1), or even the 15" MacBook Pro I use now.

But fundamentally, they're tools that I want to be tools first. The emotional attachment comes from the using, not from the UX.

I actually wrote about something similar with regards to Smartphones a while back: https://www.sanspoint.com/archives/2016/09/10/well-worn-iphones-upgrade-cycles/

@baldur Well, I don't mean to say that I don't have any emotional connection to my computing devices. I'm never going to forget the day I switched from Linux to my first Mac (G4 mini).

Getting photos off my digital camera in Linux was a huge pain in the ass. On the Mac, I plugged in the camera, iPhoto opened, and it asked if I wanted to import photos. I almost cried. (Mostly thinking of all the time I wasted...)