This is AI related, and a very disturbing to me post. I bought a Chrome book that had mostly good reviews. It was on sale for $129. This thing is the worst thing I have ever had. It was loaded full of AI but I only got it to play frequencies for sleep. It was sort of ok at first, then it got worse until I was watching a video and it just shut down. I would click on something it would send me somewhere else. Even if it was the volume button it just sent me where it wanted, this site included. Today it shut down and would not turn back on. Then I found it shut off all my computers, and I could not turn any of them. It took me forever to get them come back on. There are videos on you tube that show how to remove AI from your computer. I am going there next, as these are making it wore every time. The AI uploads in secret, and ignores the no update for 5 weeks command. It is making my computer hard to use.
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Do some research, fren: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/
Yank ChromeOS and install Linux.
What one man can do, another can do - with desire and determination.
Came here to say this.
https://www.linuxmint.com/
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Then, if you are feeling like a real boss, install KDE Plasma as a replacement desktop environment over the default Cinnamon for Mint.
https://youtu.be/RMXViPlehAo?t=20
https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-kde-plasma-on-linux-mint/
It is the same with EVERYTHING now: phones, computers, etc. They update themselves and do what THEY "decide to do" whether I want to or not!!
I started with DOS on a TRS-80 at home, and punch card programs in FORTRAN and COBOL and SPSS at work. Believe me, back then, the computer did what I TOLD it to do!! No more, no less.
As a trained systems analyst, my job was to implement the user requirements. NOW the user is manipulated in ways we can no longer even understand.
I just want these tools to serve ME, as the USER! Do my calculations, my communications, but please STOP with all the forced agendas.
Plus 1 for the trs-80, have one in the garage but have not booted it up in a long time.
My first computer was a Timex-Sinclair, which used the Z80 chip, same as the TRS-80 Model I. I bought a machine language book at Radio Shack so I could do some more complicated programming.
I built my current desktop computer about 13 years ago. It does only what I want it to do. It was state of the art when I built it, so it still handles everything well today. I can have dozens of browser windows open and simultaneously be downloading files from Usenet, listening to music, and writing in WordPerfect without a problem. I just have 8GB of memory, but it takes an awful lot to gag that memory.
My computer doesn't update squat unless I want it to, which I haven't in years. The main update I've done is replace the hard drive with an SSD. The old drive was starting to make noises several years ago, so I cloned it to the new SSD. I swapped the drive out, and the computer started the same as it did before. I don't upgrade software unless a new version comes out with really desirable new features. For example, my current version of WordPerfect (X9) was released in 2018. I don't see a good reason to upgrade on it and pay more money.
awesome!
We had cards, paper tape, and 9" mag tapes at work.
mine goes haywire if it gets warm. I do wonder if AI is fucking with our shit
Yes, AI is fucking with our shit. It is listening on every device, unless you have painstakingly gone through every app after every update and shut that feature off. It spies on what you search and shows you ads that are related to your searches.
Exactly why I go through Every app after Every update and SHUT THAT FEATURE OFF.
So what was it called when it did this very thing 15 years ago?
IDK, I wasn’t paying close enough attention like I should have.
The key with ai is we know about it and can weaponize it back.
They've been stealing our info and tracking us everywhere for decades, but now it's out in the open and everyone can use it.
good point
My computer never did any of that. Of course I built my own desktop from scratch. I went to the big city computer store, got a shopping cart, and told the head geek to help me pick the best parts and the biggest case they had. This was about 13 years ago.
Your computer did exactly that.
You building it (like I have done for 30 years) doesn't protect you. You bought off the shelf. You're at the mercy of hardware which enhances the software
There is no software on my computer that I don't want on it. I have stripped Windows of anything I don't require. I have gotten zero "updates" to Windows since I built the computer.
Unfortunately that doesn't matter.
That's in essence giving you the illusion of choice. You don't have one. You have been tracked and recorded since at least the mid 80s.
So a Timex-Sinclair (1982) with 16KB of memory that never touched anything online was somehow "tracked"? I don't think so. Neither was any of my Radio Shack Color Computers. There were no surveillance cameras, GPS, or anything else way back then. I was studying computers and programming starting in the mid-1970s.
but is it AI making things go haywire? simultaneously driving you insane. as if it's malicious in a way?
Wish I knew.
Excuse my ignorance, but what feature should I be turning off after updates? Mac user here.
Not sure about Mac, I can tell you about iphone though and maybe that will help you find it on mac. I go to general settings, find Apps, and go through each app to check it’s accessibility to my camera, photos, and microphone, contacts, and whatever else it can possibly have access to.
My hard drive died about 2 hours after a forced update
Windows is generally safe if you have PCMatic and Brave, and remove Edge's permissions via console. VPN helps too. Brave blocks ads, uses its own AI that you can turn completely off, and blocks over 99.5% of trackers. And it has its own built in anti-malware service.
I use a Chromebook at work. I would NEVER. EVER. own one myself. I work in AI and I can tell you it's bad. It's not safe. It's not ready for public use. It's not intelligent. It only barely understands logic.
I would love to have Linux but I prefer having the OS actually work over needing to manually build half of it. Tried it, didn't like it. I don't like Windows either, but it's more reliable. Hopefully someone makes an alt tech OS that's actually meaningful.
I am printing this page, so much great information,!!!!!
No wonder it was on sale for so low.
When did you have to build half of it? I know I had to when I started using it in 1992. You had to build X, the Kernel, and a bunch of libraries or programs. It got better. Most people get by without having to manually build anything unless they have a special requirement. The exceptions of course are Arch and Gentoo. However that is a choice to run them.
When chrome got malware from a captcha, trying to fix it revealed how crappy chrome really is. I do not have any trust in it. Switched to firefox.
Brave is a better browser. It has a private window feature and has TOR built in. It also blocks ads, including all YouTube videos, even the full movies with ads. I haven't seen an ad of any kind in years. If a site blocks you because of your location, just open the site in a TOR window.
Wow. NICE!