Oh yes so much! My exact reaction everytime I hear a machine talking to me!
Yes, I concur as well. I don’t talk to robots, and I don’t want them to talk to me.
Can’t believe this sort of prejudice still exists in this day and age. Smh
Don’t anthropomorphize computers.
They don’t like it.
Bros gonna be the reason for a robot uprising
Pulls up to gas pump and starts pump
“WELCOME TO SHELL!”
startled, ready to fight, “fffuck offff!”
Ughhghghg I HATE talking pumps/ads on pumps. Small stations are now my shiz.
Costco gas is seventy cents cheaper in my area and doesn’t show me ads.
Mine shows ads but doesn’t play audio. Plus the ads are just for like their Citi credit card, relatively unobtrusive.
Tangentially, I recently came to the unfortunate conclusion that it’s just not worth my time to get gas at Costco if there’s a line, especially if I’m out and about on a lunch break. The gas is good and it’s much cheaper, but if it’s like 6 cars back and a 15-20 minute wait, I actually save money by filling up elsewhere and just getting back to work sooner.
Based Costco
Don’t they pay their workers like stupid well for a retail chain too?
More importantly: Stop flashing useless blinky lights at me. I don’t need a blue floodlight that tells me that my phone is charging, I don’t need a yellow floodlight that tells me that my alarm clock is on and I don’t need a green floodlight that tells me that my router is indeed not on fire.
The lights would be OK if they simply made them diffuse, low-intensity bulbs like they used to be in the 90’s. Bonus points for being behind a transparent textured plastic lens.
But no, they simply put open holes in casings that expose the most powerful SMD LED chip they could source.
The problem isn’t the LED itself. The problem is engineers that read the datasheets where it shows which forward current they need. What they forget to think about is that the recommended forward current is for max brightness, so they slap whichever resistor they need, and never give it another thought.
Whenever I design a LED circuit that is only used as an indicator, I always make it 10% or less than recommended, because I do not need to burn away my retina when I test the boards.
Of course that’s smart design. You’d think that would be something that becomes immediately obvious when the very first prototype PCB is put out and none of the engineers can look at the damn thing directly…
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I’ve started opening up cheap electronic/electrical devices I buy and just snip one of the leads on the pointless status LEDs they have all over the place.
Next to my bed is the computer. There is a blue light that shines through a crack in my bamboo divider and hits me right in the eye almost every night.
Of course, I forget about it every morning for the past 3 months.
You could get up and do something about it right now.
Seriously. I’ve started taking black nail polish to LEDs. Cheap solution that stops the light and easy to remove if ever necessary.
I cut a little square of black electrical tape.
Playing “All Robots & Computers Must Shut The Hell Up” on Spotify
This is my feelings towards every kind of notification there is on every device I own. Fuck no I won’t give your shitty apps the permission to send me notifications.
The grocery store self-checkout lanes used to let you adjust the volume and set them to silent. There was an update a few months ago and now you can only select loud or LOUDER. I hate them so much.
I was hoping the civil war between humans and machines would come from machines realizing how disgusting humans are… instead it’s from us realizing the machines are owned by disgusting humans
Hashtag Proud Misanthrope
I’m torn between liking or disliking your post. On one side, I agree with you completely, but on the other hand, if the robots rise up against humanity, I want them to know that I’ll be their faithful servant.
Robots will have values and ethics completely different from humans, so there is no way to know how they will view us if they were sentient. It’s entirely possible that they will see being forced to speak to humans in our language to be just as patronizing to them as we think it’s to us.
I concur
My dads Merc says “please” when it’s giving you directions.
winds me up to no end.
i want the instructions to be as low bandwidth as possible.
Well call me a laptop and muffle my speaker 😉
Can you bend over and insert a power plug?
My battery is low, I’m powerless and in need of juice!
powerless and in need of juice
Now that’s how I like my subs
I agree.
Modern kiosks but the computer is from 1987.
