I had to chuckle in an exasperated way when I opened the Xbox app on my phone… and there’s a fucking Copilot tab in there as well.

I understand the use cases for AI, but Microsoft seems to be throwing the whole lot at the wall and seeing what sticks.

Out of curiosity, what is the second level upgrade or evolution?

asking for a friend

Really?

My seed ratio is going to be OVER 9000!!!11

Sorry friend.

If your data was occupationally-sensitive or renders you vulnerable to financial ruination, it’s time to move to a recovery phase and see if modern data recovery specialists can work their voodoo.

Remember: never run experimental commands (you or a GenAI) in a live environment. See how it breaks things in a test environment first - if it shits itself, you may even get to learn how to fix it before running the instruction on live data.

Anecdote time! A good friend of mine drove his car to a mutual colleague’s place once because the wipers were about as much use as two chicken breasts on metal poles. He says to our colleague “Hey Foxy, I hear you’re good with cars, can you fix these wipers for me? The rubber seems to be in good nick but it’s not clearing anything”.

“Sure thing,” Foxy proudly announces, “I’ll get to work”.

Foxy strips the wipers down, one component at a time, before dusting his hands off and walking away.

“What’s going on, Foxy? The thing’s still in bits!” my pal says.

“No idea,” says Foxy, “not a fucking Scooby mate” and goes back inside, leaving his wipers and actuating motor in about fourteen pieces on the roadside.

So much for being good with cars.

I remember getting my Nokia N95 nearly twenty years ago, and it was fucking awesome being able to reveal the four media control buttons, and blindly control music in my headphones from my pocket while walking to work or on the bus or train.

As other commenters have said - I look at my old Ixus camera or LG Soul MP3 player or Nokia 3330 with fond nostalgia memories… but thank fuck I’m not lugging all that about now.

Fuck yes.

I still use an inexpensive Contigo one I bought in the US for US$12 or something ten years ago. I don’t think it’s got much of the blue paint left on it now. Banging purchase.

UK squad: Oh hang on, looks like Asda do one similar over here for a tenner, just a tad smaller.

They can be bulky but it’s much better than actively buying disposable cups for use at home. Hell, I’ve even bought a takeaway coffee from a local chain in the afternoon, rinsed it out, and put my own coffee in it for that evening’s shift at work.

Reminds me of how service industry workers are so used to negativity now that it’s depressing

Nah I jest. Spidey bois are our friends, they’re unsung heroes of the pest-killing world.

I’m still not a fan though.

Absolutely.

You need a lighter in front of the nozzle first. This isn’t amateur hour.

Fucking hell, thank you. I thought I was going quite mad - I’d just taken a detour in solving it instead.

Cheers friend!

Alright, education time needed!

I’m a fair few years out from my entry level uni maths module, so:

In between the second and third step of the solution, why is 1a / 2√a = 6

not evaluating as

a/√a = 12 ?

Charizard origin story.

Both overrated. The good ones have a fairly low financial input on a monthly basis. The worst ones can set your house on fire.

Highly exciting.

haven’t got opposable thumbs, have they?

Could have really stirred the pot in 2011 with “u mad bro?”

Three word word of the year. Would have been a banger.

Wireback sounds like an AI cover of a Justin Timberlake single.

It’s a bit of a wank article to be honest - it doesn’t even go on to say if the SIM was delivered. Why not wait the extra day and publish the article after it was due to be delivered?

If it didn’t get delivered then it’s easy meat for Trump-kicking, and if it did get delivered then you’d get some sort of review from some other poor fucker daft enough to sign up to it.

Bit of a waste of time really.

Maybe spend more than twelve dollars and a pizza for the poor intern that writes the intro sequence next time too!

That’s very kind of you, thank you for the crash course - some great pointers!