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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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It's advertising. It's shoved in your face so you use Copilot instead of Google.
I setup a brother all in one printer for my mother in law and it wanted to install software that loads at startup that pops up constantly with their printer toner sales and marketing.
I learned a long time ago to never install manufacturer printer drivers. Or, at least, never install them from the provided
Setup.exe.They've always installed a bunch of bloatware (HP has always been the worst but other brands are just as bad).
If you look in the setup folder, there's usually the raw drivers you can install from Device Manager. If the driver package is just a single
.exefile, you can usually unpack it with 7zip and get at its inner contents.If that fails, the system-included HP LaserJet 4200 PCL driver is about as close to a universal print driver as you can find lol.
It is just advertising. The more I think about it the more I can't think of any practical use for generative AI that doesn't involve essentially spamming everyone.
It really does improve productivity. The problem is thinking a spell checker on steroids will do your job (the mistake both employees and employers make).
It doesn't really improve productivity much for me. And if you take into account the emails I receive from coworkers written with copilot then I'm actually doing more work to decipher what they are trying to say.
It’s also investor money talking. Looks like everyone with at least a few dollars to spare wants to get on the AI hype train. They have dumped an absurd amount of money on AI, and now they can’t wait to see those stock prices climb. These expectations put an immense amount of pressure on all AI companies to push their products anywhere and everywhere.
It also puts pressure on non-AI companies to integrate AI into their products, regardless of whether or not it improves the product. If you can say “look, we’ve got AI” then you’ll find it easier to attract new investors and keep your current ones happy. If you don’t have AI, then you risk looking behind the curve.
Can’t wait to see someone shove AI into egg times, flashlights and calculators. This kind of innovation just makes me sad.