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> old people that love siri

Why am I not surprised?

@cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber the thing to keep in mind is that while apple loves to LOOK futuristic, they actually care about other things.

Ya but thing about Siri is it doesn't actually like ... work. I use chatgpt all of the time, mainly as a more advanced version of search: I ask a question that you can get the answer by searching, but I don't want to read 10 pages of LLM slop to find my answer, so I let GPT do it.

BUT, Siri voice activation thing is just DOA.

@cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber brother, LLMs produce too much slop for me, so it's all relative.

I often have questions which the answer exists somewhere, but I'm not motivated to look it up.

> What's the Kwh per KG of energy in wheat straw?

> What's a good recipe for making a NYC style pizza dough?

> Can I get a credit card with a good interest rate if I have someone provide a guarantee on the debt?

(Those are questions I was asking today)

@cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber yeah, I will ask it "what is a good recipe for using X,Y,Z"

Oh yeaah, tell it what you have in your liquor cabinet and your fridge and it will tell you drinks.

Caution: Alcoholism

@cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber I mean, if you like to do that, just .. learn bartending (it's not hard!)

Guess I will eventually...

Oh and BTW "energy density of straw" => straw is 40% cheaper than firewood, so doing a woodgas generator / outdoor boiler that runs on round bails would be pretty rad

@cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber I wonder why straw is so much cheaper. trees in general take way less work to grow

Firewood almost by definition requires a certain amount of manual labor, but wheat planting & harvest is 100% automated, and #2 straw is basically a byproduct.

@cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber my good sir, you have not seen the automation they have in tree havesting.