PieFedDevils Panties 05/06/2025
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I hate how there is so much technology I dreamed of as a child that is so dystopic. The tinfoil hat folks of my youth warned about secret government listening devices hidden away in all electronics but it turns out the listening devices are overt and corporate and require a monthly fee.
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I had this "problem" with Spotify, I fixed it by putting my daughter's music in its own playlist which I configured to "Exclude from my taste profile". Maybe something similar exists for Siri/Apple music?
Maven (famous)Holy shit when was this added!? I've been needing this for so long!
I also really badly want a way to delete a song from my history as well since my bf likes to send me shit music to annoy me (I love him) and sometimes it fucks with my recommendations
You can configure an individual song to be excluded from your taste profile, it'll be like you never played it.
cm0002Doubtful, the "Exclude from taste profile" thing is actually rather new, it wasn't there before because I've looked for something like it before.
I have a playlist dedicated to archiving the "Discover Weekly" for when I get around to it and it always screwed with the "taste profile" until recently when I noticed there was now that exclude option. Though I don't know when it actually rolled out lol
Yeah I think it's recent and I'm really grateful because my Discover Weekly would be 90% my vibe and then randomly a cheery broadway musical would play lol. Nothing wrong with that genre, but after a calm instrumental song it's a bit jarring haha.
I donβt understand how algorithms work so I will blame men
Yes thatβll fix it
I love this comic strip as a whole, but yeah. Gender is not the anvil upon which to pound this.
π½πππππππππI was going to say that I'm a bit surprised that the characters use Apple products, given their (the characters') politics.
I'm not the biggest fan of Google, but I still have a Pixel and use Google Maps. It's not always easy (enough) to shape your purchases to your preferences exactly.
There is no ethical consumption under Capitalism anyway, so it's all shades of grey.
Well, I don't use G either. Or Microsoft. I did used to have a Home back when they first came out, but Google started being obvious about being evil around that time and I gave it to my MIL.
Echo, Siri, Google - they're all bad, and even less necessary than smart phones. You can make a decent, quantifiable argument about the quality-of-life differences a smart phone, wisely used, can make. There are few, mostly accessability related, arguments for the whole-home surveillance devices. They're absolutely a boon for accessability, and I wouldn't take that away, but otherwise it's a minor convenience most of the world manages to live without.
spittingimageDamning the man is one thing, giving up a convenience is another.
And that's all it is: a capitalist, predatory, minor convenience. Again, I'm surprised these characters use them.
Agreed. Siri (and auto-generated playlists in general) sucks for a lot of reasons, and gender almost certainly in there, but I doubt it is the primary driver.
I very frequently have problems where I ask Siri βHey Siri, play X from the album Y by Zβ, and Siri goes βOk! Playing A by B!β
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samus12345Siri is Apple. Different evil company.
Talking to robots is always lame, and denigrating to the human being who speaks to the inanimate.
Nothing has changed from reddit. Y'all can't take the slightest joke about guys without melting down.
There are two whole comments that even mention it, and neither of them is close to "melting down". Are you sure you don't just want that to be the case?
They're the only comments in the thread with double digit upvotes. Seems to have touched a nerve. Admittedly a rather tame example given most of the other gender discussions I've seen on this site.
And as the cartoon invokes, technology has become so evil and clever in certain areas, but where it should count the most, like instant perception of people, of policies, disaster warning etc, so dumb. Of course, the technology is not the problem, but a clear reflection of where we let the resources to go into the most. Wildfire-Fighting Fleet in the US... there goes, 40 airplanes (half of them non-operative)... military ones 13,000 and lets not even try to compare prices and maintenance costs.
Somehow this is both misandry and misogyny.
... misogamy? Hatred for marriage?
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