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  • Then they briefly acknowledge you before returning to whatever uninteresting topic they were already discussing and tighten the circle so that you could not join in even if you wanted to…

    You look around the room and everyone is in tight circles, making mostly small talk, with a few people in each circle dominating the conversations. At best, all you can do is stand outside a circle, essentially eavesdropping, but that’s creepy.

    So you just wander the room admiring the art and architecture, look out the windows, etc., before either finding a way to leave or finding a quiet corner and pulling out your phone.






  • I’m still hoping for good customer support AI. If I’m going to be connected to someone who barely speaks English and is required to follow a prewritten script, or worse plays prerecorded messages to fake being fluent, I might as well talk to an AI, especially if it means shorter hold times.

    AI is a bad replacement for good customer service, but it could be an improvement over bad customer service.










  • esc27@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldBe nice
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    4 months ago

    I used to be polite to these things. They used to work. Neither is true anymore.

    • Me: hey google play soft piano music
    • Google: spopht
    • Me:… hey google play soft piano music
    • Google: I’m sorry, who did you want to call?
    • Me: Cancel
    • Me: hey google pllaayy soft piano muusiicc
    • Google: playing piano music on youtube… sorry I cannot do that on this device
    • Me: hey google play soft piano music on spotify
    • Google: ok, playing the album chainsaw death by the murder orphans.
    • Me: cancel cancel cancel CANCEL

  • Given an infinite number of rooms and guests, it is highly likely both he and the boulder are already there. So he should go to the hotel where he already is and has a room

    Happy comes from hap, which is essentially luck. So happy can imply lucky or fortunate. If he gets to the hotel and finds he already is checked into his room in an otherwise full hotel, then he is indeed lucky and likely happy.




  • Yep. Trying to maintain a consistent startmenu for computer labs with Windows 11 is annoying.

    The layout is stored in an encrypted file that cannot be editted directly. You have to manually setup the start menu on one profile then copy the file to all the others. This works fine for intial deployments, but is a massive pain if you need to add any other apps later.

    The old powershell commandlet for importing layouts does not work in Win11. The old group policy settings don’t work either. The actual DLL calls used by the end user to manually configuring the start menu are deliberatly coded to prevent being called from a script.

    It is freaky how much work Microsoft has done to prevent scripting changes to the start menu.

    The only officially supported method for an IT department to manage the start menu is intune, but microsoft’s device licensing for intune is a mess out folks have yet to figure out.