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• In the past when I tried different engines, I’d eventually get frustrated with a specific queery and resort to google to get what I needed

  Lately, if duck duck fails me, if I bother trying google then the results are even worse. It feels like the end of an era

  on ‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• Yayyy noodles :3

  I’m doing well, it was cold yesterday so I made an enormous pot of stew and now dinner for the week is handled. I love summer but soup season reigns supreme

  on nice. DAY 74 [OC, brainmade] in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3d ago

• There are tons of stories from people who report the sleep tracking causes them unneeded stress and worsens their sleep. That’s if they realize it’s happening. Plenty more never make the connection.

  The watch has bed time reminders

  Your $1 casio also has the ability to set an alarm

  sleep apnea

  lets me know when there’s problems

  Anxiety based marketing. Yes, if you were previously not mindful of your health and the watch was the catylist that got you to seek treatment, that’s genuinely great.

  Everyone should however be familiarizing themselves with the symptoms of common preventible illnesses, including the vast majority of which the watch doesn’t track and has no way of alerting you to. Typically you want to pursue medical assistance when you encounter some type of problem, and not just spend oodles on consumer tech because a mega corporation realized they can rake in cash by larping as a preventative diagnostic.

  You’ve never seen tracking heart rate or exertion be useful while exercising?

  Correct. “Heart rate zone” is a fundamentally worthless metric. It was contrived as an excuse to sell trackers. Even if it were 100% accurate there is literally no benefit to knowing or considering that information during or after your workout. I mention accuracy because there are plenty of examples of people wearing two different brands during the exact same workout and getting wildly different results, just so you know.

  If you want to monitor your exertion you just use your breathing. Forced to slow down due to breathing = max, breathing challenged but sustanable (barely possible, but possible, to have a conversation) = mid, sustainable breathing and could easily have a conversation = min. Totally free and you can even do interval training with that same casio if you so desired

  on The new Apple Watch will use microphone and other sensors to generate AI recaps of your day - 9to5Mac in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026

• You and I both get excited about many things in our lives that are totally useless, or even activey detrimental to our goals. The watch probably makes your sleep worse in and of itself, for starters. And I’ve never seen anything helpful on the exercise tracking side, what do you use it for?

  on The new Apple Watch will use microphone and other sensors to generate AI recaps of your day - 9to5Mac in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026

• Hey if you simply enjoy it that’s awesome. My main problem is really just the marketing angle where people end up believing the watch has unlocked the ability for them to go for a walk around their neighborhood

  on The new Apple Watch will use microphone and other sensors to generate AI recaps of your day - 9to5Mac in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026

• I’ve never seen anyone come up with anything even slightly useful for any smart watch.

  $500 bucks to learn that your heart rate goes up when you exercise and to start each day being told your sleep wasn’t perfect. Wow what awesome actionable information thanks

  Oh you paid a thousand bucks for the one with the built in altimeter that gives you the exact same information printed on the trail map? So cool, wow so we really did go up the mountain and then back down, who could have known. Oh my god it even remembers where we parked the car?

  on The new Apple Watch will use microphone and other sensors to generate AI recaps of your day - 9to5Mac in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026

• Call me dictionary the way I get dicks-a-nary

  on cantaloupe rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 Sep 2026

• Yes it’s number 2 :3

  If you know someone’s username who uses the site, it’s similar to reddit, you type /u/username and you can browse everything they post. It looks like that page is also indexed by search engines so you can find them that way as well

  Personally I got into it because a particular artist I like posts in multiple places, but prefers you use that site and often links directly to it. And I kept noticing that lots of artists in my preferred style also use it. But yeah I don’t know how to actually directly browse the site itself for discovery purposes if I wanted to, from searching just now it looks like a second website exists for that express purpose but I haven’t used or vetted it so I’m not sure if it’s safe to use 3:

  But in general I really enjoy the audio experience, actually I’m surprised that it’s not more common. I find it very cozy :3 I like lots of longer tracks, like up to an hour. Get yourself wrapped up in some blankets, dim the lights, and relax. There are lots of talented artists who do really good voice work, and also get really creative with sound effects. Tons of variety in style and writing (a lot of times people in the community will submit scripts).

  It all also just feels very emotionally comfortable. From my experience most artists use an extensive tagging system, so you always know what you’re getting into. It’s also an artist sitting comfortably in their own space with a microphone on the other end. It feels nice to have pretty much zero possibility of being randomly exposed to upsetting exploitative content. I find it’s a lot easier to practice this type of self care if you don’t have to keep your guard up against stuff like that :3

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 Sep 2026

• It’s a particular website (soundgasm dot net) which is very popular among audio-only erotic content enthusiasts

  on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026

• Literally every single day of the week as I’m doing stuff in my mind I’m going

  I GOT LUCKY, I DO IT ALL THE TIME I DO IT CUZ I LIKE IT AND I LIKE IT CUZ IT’S MINE

  on femtanyl rule ฅ^>⩊<^ ฅ in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 Aug 2026

• Yes the number is large, but you must weigh the environmental cost against the many benefits we as a society have gained from teaching computers how to incorrectly summarize emails and somehow even simple excel spreadsheets

  on All AI Data Centers Under Construction Could Emit as Much CO₂ as 24 Million Cars in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• Yeah but how would you motivate people to keep their abusive underpaying jobs without the implicit threat of homelessness?

  on Anthropic expected to tell investors it sees over $30 trillion in potential revenue, WSJ reports in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026