Oh, I’ve seen that. I’ve had assistant turned off for like 2 years now. It became a security hazard when they took away the sound indicator that it was listening.

Source please

google is forcing Gemini into everything and you can’t turn it off,

You can still shut off Gemini as of right now. I don’t know what it’ll be like in the future though.

Don’t forget Event Horizon…

Yeah, you get a look at his imdb page and its mind blowing how nany different roles he’s taken on. Hell, he played 4 or 5 different major characters in Hercules/Xena back in the day.

It honestly took me a second to recognize Sam Neil, he looks so different from the last time I saw him in anything (which is ironic cause I recognized his voice instantly in the Rick and Morty episode he was in).

Yeah there’s a reason why Austria buddied up with Germany very quickly after they went fasch.

It has to run your actions by the AI to be sure they are properly recorded and sent to Microsoft.

Win 11 wasn’t even the primary choice among Windows users.

It doesn’t seem that way. After reading through the article a couple of times, it looks like the “no” they are referring to is regarding data recording of one’s actual use of the assistant. And since I don’t use the assistant and have completely disabled it, the shouldn’t be any data to record.

Though I do have to admit that I may be completely off base in my interpretation.

And how does this effect those of us that have completely disabled Gemini Assistant?

…it’s a Windows workstation!

Real talk here, Eurotrip was a leagues better internet relationship story than Ready Player One could ever hope to be.

Have you seen the movie “Her”?

Let me spell it out for you. Trump has removed our cyber defenses and now he’s defunding FOSS projects like Tor and Let’s Encrypt!…

Now Trump wouldn’t know a FOSS project from a hole in the ground but do you know who does? What world leader who has an entire cyber attack force on his payroll and wants to remove any barriers in finding dissidents who are probably using Tor to coordinate and hide from them?

Do the math. If the government funding of these projects is allowed to be removed it’s gonna be a whole new ballgame on the internet and the only ones to reap the benefits are the dictators.

You will never approach the amount they receive from government funding. That is the point.

Didn’t that pay off so well. How many American soldiers were killed, injured, or traumatized? How many innocent Afghani and Iraqi civilians were murdered? And for what? ISIS and the Taliban now have complete control over that entire region.

And to the people saying how much better Bush was than Trump as well as the dumb as fuck democrats embracing that fucking war criminal Cheney, I say you all need to get your god damned head examined. Trump’s election denialism was born out of the Brooks Bros riot in Florida during the 2000 election and Trump is absolutely hoping for some terrorists to kill Americans so he can declare martial law and suspend elections in order to remain president indefinitely. Bush and Cheney lead to this. This was every republican’s goal.

By all means everyone should take breaks from the media and not doomscroll constantly. But if you disengage completely you will have given the people making the world like this everything they want. They want you to be apathetic and disengaged. They want you to stay home on every election day. They want you to ignore everything they are doing, because criminals can work better when there’s no one watching what they are doing.

So, for your mental well being please do take regular time off from the 24hr news cycle but also, look into how you can help to turn back the tide. See where you can volunteer if you have the time, join your PTA and keep an eye on your local library (these have been major targets of right wing nut jobs looking to undermine progress), or if you are too busy then just simply repost the positive messaging from those few in our government who are doing all they can to hold the line against this regime. Challenge the thoughts of those you know who are either giving in to apathy or voted for Trump but are even slightly doubting his actions. Every crack can be a door. And, most importantly, VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION.

There is also a cyber war that has been going on for the last 2 decades. And Trump just recently lowered all of our defenses.