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On a more serious note, all the quack health products are one of the more depressing parts of browsing AliExpress.

Regrow hair! Regrow teeth! Make your skin look 20 years younger! Make your tits, ass and cock huge!

Immediately after logging in I got hit by a Windows 11 pop-up telling me Windows 10 is dead and that I gotta "upgrade" or else. Guess I'm getting my mark of the beast now

I'm skipping through some of them from morbid curiosity, and there seem to be a few recurring themes:

• Dead celebrities doing whacky and outrageous things, mostly Stephen Hawking

• Cops stopping various pop culture characters for speeding

• 90s toy commercials featuring Jeffrey Epstein and Diddy toys

• Most depressingly, "funny" videos about ICE raids and Trump's military crackdowns. Example: body cam footage of a cop with an assault rifle chasing green alien dudes in a house or protestors being maced by troops

I'm so glad this technology exists, thank you techbros

I was browsing Youtube on my phone as one does when I landed on some random Japanese short. My ears are immediately assaulted by some robotic TTS voice speaking English and I start frantically tapping for an option to change the audio track, and of course there is none.

I run Youtube Vanced, and I have both "Force original audio" and the iOS TV spoofing options enabled which should get rid of autodubs on regular videos and shorts respectively, but apparently spoofing just doesn't work on some URLs.

I didn't even really care to see the video but I was so infuriated about having the shitty autodub foisted on me I copied the URL and opened it in Firefox (with Ublock installed, obviously). Turns out that the YT Shorts player does not have the option to change audio tracks, so I switched to the desktop version of the page, but no, it uses the same player.

I then installed Greasemonkey and a script that auto redirects Youtube Shorts URLs to use the regular player instead, and after one more change to the desktop version of the page, I could finally, after all that, switch the audio to the original Japanese and watch the stupid video I didn't even care about.

The best part was that since the video had hardcoded Japanese subtitles I could immediately tell the automated English translation sucked. There was also a song playing in the background that got butchered in the dubbed version after Youtube had done whatever it did to splice in the robot voice.

Words can't express how much I fucking hate Google for forcing this autodub shit on everyone. As an option, it'd be fine for foreign-language tutorials or whatever but to leave it as the default and actively hide the options to switch to the original audio makes me go

You will consume the AI slop and you will be happy

Between this and the AI chatbot shit they've added to desktop I'm a bit annoyed with Firefox lately

Like for over 50 years American right wingers have been fuming about the liberals having managed to turn one of "their" guys into an American icon and the conservatives have mostly had to at least pretend to respect him and his legacy in public and they've felt humiliated and emasculated about it the whole time

Now they want to make the liberals bend the knee and force them to slobber over one of their guys or risking getting fired

Love installing multiple gigabyte flatpaks of what would be 15mb exe files on Windows. I've enjoyed using Mint so far but there are definitely some things that suck, this is one of them

The early 2010s want their twee geek culture bullshit back. Also, who the fuck has ever gone to Reddit for empathy

BECOME A REDDITOR

Anybody else encounter these yet? Another way in which Google searches are becoming shittier

At first I was surprised when I started seeing posts in Finnish about the very specific computer issues I was looking up, then quickly realised it was another instance of Google shoving auto-translated garbage in your face based on your IP address.

Clicking on the posts will just show the original posts in English, presumably because I have an extension that auto-redirects to old.reddit. It still makes looking shit up more annoying and I hate having to parse the original meaning through the informal casual Finnish writing style the AI often goes for to determine if the result is even worth clicking on. Also sometimes the translated and original posts show up as separate results in the same search

I love how Google has decided that people from X country should only ever be served content in whatever language is dominant in said country. They already pull this shit with Youtube where the fucking auto-dubbing can be really annoying to turn off, especially on mobile. One time I wanted to watch a short with a Japanese pet crow speaking Japanese, except it was autodubbed.

I wanted to hear the cute crow say ohayou, not some emotionless robot going

Everybody's going bro this and bruh that, but you're not my brother, dude 😒

It's not like either word is new but I feel like "bro" and variations like bruh or brah have become way more commonly used in the last decade among younger people as a term of address in contexts where I would have just said dude

But they conveniently leave out that it costs money to do anything with AI. It's more like "open to anyone with a credit card." The vast majority of people don't have computers powerful enough to run generative AI models locally, and even then, server farms with a billion GPUs will always produce better results

This means that people have to rely on corporate platforms where you buy tokens that you use to get pulls at the various AI slop slot machines, hoping you get something decent. The mechanics more closely resemble a gacha game than any kind of artistic process

By contrast, learning how to draw, animate or make 3D models costs nothing. There's free tutorials and tools everywhere, and you can also just pirate commercial ones if you want

You're a fucking VOIP program*, why the fuck do you have "quests"

Also: "Journey to Quest home"

You mean click on the icon???? FUCK OFF