“Experiencing interruptions? Find out why” - Naah I’m fine dude, just take your time.

I use the TVTime app. It’s a bit shit (mainly the atrocious loading times), but it works.

That Wizard of Oz movie is really weird. They put the original movie into a tiny area and generated a whole load of surroundings with AI.

The original framing and artistic intent get totally lost, it’s a novel idea but a shit product as a movie. “Be Kind Rewind” watched it live and made a lengthy review about that slopfest on YouTube.

Singapore put one of the first full AI movies into cinemas last year: “Madam Zheng”. It is absolute garbage, got a 1.6/10 on IMDB and barely anyone watched it. I didn’t find any news articles about it at the time, but the YouTuber Pinely made a video about it with some details and horrible shots.

Yes, by being able to feel the controls so can focus your eyes on the road in front of you.

I thought we would finally have haptic touchscreens in our devices. There were some experiments in the past, but it never happened outside of niche industry applications.

Makes me a little bit sad, because being able to feel elements is really useful - I can type blind on my Titan 2 phone (which has a real keyboard) and in cars, it would really improve safety.

He only lost the first of his 99 lives.

I’m currently playing all of the Ratchet & Clank games in rpcs3, upscaled to 4k resolution. They look and play great! 😍

After that, it’s gonna be time for the Jak & Daxter series in the OpenGoal engine.

Funfact: Morrowind has a pretty nice Star-Wars total conversion mod:

Starwind.

It’s a bit buggy, weird, extremely ambitious and a lot of fun. They even managed to put in janky space flights and combat. 😄

I just put them on my head and it made “crack”. You have to slightly flex the headband every time when putting the headphones on your ears, and I guess doing this for a few hundred times weakens the plastic to the point where it just gives up.

250€ 🫠

Absolutely. Added to that, they seem to be actively ruining their headphones with software updates as well. My XM5’s randomly turned off every few hours and thanks to a Chinese hacker I was able to downgrade the software - guess what, the problem went away.

They’re either doing this deliberately so you buy the latest model or their development team is utterly incompetent.

On their older models, they had a different design and you could fold the earcups inwards. It was a really useful feature, they easily fit into a small bag. The newer ones can’t do that anymore and come with an extremely large carrying case. Sony has really lost the plot, but they still have excellent noise cancelling (the main reason for me buying them).

But that’s gonna be my last model now.

Not sure what OP is doing.

Nothing special, I just wear them every day and I have a regular-sized head. I also have XM2’s which still work, they have a more sturdy hinge design. Sony cost-optimized their latest models too much, the headband is much thinner than on the XM2’s as well, which puts more pressure on my head and makes them slightly more uncomfortable. I can only suspect they did that so they have to mold less plastic and save a few cents on each model…

This is the second time these broke on my WH1000-XM5’s. At least they’re easily replacable by just removing a few screws and dropping in a new one.

Compared to that, this bad boy is over 30 years old and never broke once - thanks to a headband which is made out of metal. Despite that, it’s even more comfortable than Sony’s modern one:

I have stopped using it, because the skill atrophy kicked in and I don’t want to turn into someone chatting with a bot every day.

To quote myself:

I work as a software developer and over the last months, I slipped into a habit of letting ChatGPT write more and more code for me. It’s just so easy to do! Write a function here, do some documentation there, do all of the boilerplate for me, set up some pre-commit hooks, …

Two weeks ago I deleted my OpenAI account and forced myself to write all code without LLMs, just as I did before. Because there is one very real problem of excessive AI useage in software development: Skill atrophy.

I was actively losing knowledge. Sometimes I had to look up the easiest things (like builtin Javascript functions) I was definitely able to work with off the top of my head just a year ago. I turned away from being an actual developer to someone chatting with a machine. I slowly lost the fun in coding, because I outsourced the problem solving aspects that gave me a dopamine boost to the AI. I basically became a glorified copypaster.

I really hope so, but for that to happen, hardware prices have to go down again and that might take a while.

The skill erosion is real, and I could see it on myself just after a week of trying out Claude

While it took me a few months to really notice it, that still shocked me. Using AI extensively makes you depend on it - and that’s exactly what the big players want. A customer paying a recurring subscription just to do their job.

Since I am not forced to use it, I deleted my OpenAI account and started to code without LLM assistance again. It’s much more fun to solve problems by myself (and get a dopamine kick out of that) anyway - and when the bubble inevitably pops, I can still go on as I did before.

Unless, perhaps, AI five years from now understands that too.

LLMs have already hit a ceiling, the improvements between new model releases are pretty much negligible. They had to come up with very expensive agents checking the output to reduce hallucinations. The best example for that is GPT-5 from OpenAI, which was extremely underwhelming.

I have a job and no one forces me to use AI. Feels like an absolute dream right now.