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  • The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.

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  • I work in procurement and the last week and a half at work has been hell. Buying anything that contains RAM, Hard drives or GPUs right now is a circus. Pricing changing after orders placed, 6+ month lead times, insanely expensive pricing and any other problem you can imagine. It's not just a problem for consumers, but businesses that need hardware refreshes, startups that are trying to launch, and replacements for defective units are all just really hard to get right now. I know this will pass eventually, but it's a tough time to be in procurement for IT hardware.

  • There are a lot of siblings that hate each other, simultaneously there are only children that feel lonely really want siblings to play with.

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  • My younger brother and I never really got along. My parents, but especially my mother, always treated him as if he could do no wrong. If we were both being loud, I got yelled at because I was the older sibling and should know better, if he broke something, I got yelled at because "why weren't you watching him", and just on and on. He knew he could get away with anything with them and used it as a weapon, purposely getting me in trouble. I have nothing but resentment for him. As an adult he's almost 38, still lives with my parents, has never had a full time job, has never had a license or a car (he's afraid to drive), and is effectively a leech on them. Over the years my parents have run into financial troubles a few times and my husband and I have bailed them out, all while watching my useless brother continue to be a drain.

    And the worst part? My mom constantly lectures me about not having a better relationship with my brother. She doesn't seem to understand the damage she did, and thinks blood is more important. I love her so I just nod along and try not to argue with her about it. After my parents pass I doubt I will have any contact with him. I expect him to be homeless and on the streets eventually, and honestly I don't have any sympathy for him. He could be using his time right now to make a life, but instead he's playing video games and shit-posting.

    I wish I had a sibling relationship like I see some of my friends and family have. I LOVE my sister in law, and I wish she lived closer. My brother and I are just never going to get along though. We might have gotten past it if he'd ever moved out and became a real adult, but at this point it's too late and I just don't care.

  • Does anyone else's cat play fetch?

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  • So cute! My Maine Coon played fetch too. He preferred the shiny little balls of tinsel, but would also play with toy mice. I never taught him, he just brought me a toy one day and stood on my chest so I threw it to get him off me (he was big) and he brought it back. After a few times doing this I realized I was playing fetch with him and we did it his whole life 😊

  • Gus Gus is ready.

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  • What a cutie!

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  • Public holidays are not mandatory time off let alone paid in the US. Many employers that give paid time off do include at least some holidays, but which ones and how many is variable between employers. Some will give every federal holiday and others will be only the really big ones like Christmas, thanksgiving, independence day, etc.

    One of the most exciting things about the job I currently have is that I get around 15 holiday days a year off, in addition to my normal vacation time. It's a rarity. My last two jobs only had 7 holiday days - that stretch from New years day to Memorial day (end of May) was always brutal.

  • Yep

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  • I think the assumption that you will be alone if you don't have kids is completely false. I have a very cohesive friend group composed of both people with and without kids, and the youngest person in the group is 30 - most of us are in our 40s with a few early 50s. We just make a point of spending time together and fostering these friendships. We have various annual gatherings throughout the year hosted by different people and we get together at least once a week in person and hang out, play games, chat and laugh and just have fun. We like to say that our group is the family we chose.

    Friendships don't just magically exist - you have to be an active participant and it takes real effort, but that's any relationship. Sometimes you have to go do things with/for friends even if you don't want to. If you want lasting meaningful friendships, you have to put in the effort.

  • What items do you have multiple of even though one would suffice?

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  • After thinking about this a bit and reading through this thread, I realized I might have a problem about always wanting spare things. I have more than one of a lot of things - lip balm, battery banks, phone & watch charging docks, dogs, headphones and earbuds (even two of the same kind), computers, pillows (I have spares of my main and body pillows), and the list goes on. I apparently need to re-evaluate my habits.

  • What items do you have multiple of even though one would suffice?

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  • Everywhere I sit for long periods I have a lip balm. I hate feeling like my lips are dry, makes me nutty

  • What items do you have multiple of even though one would suffice?

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  • I have a few different wireless earbuds for different uses and devices, and like 5 sets of headphones because they all have different sounds/uses as well. I definitely understand this ridiculous!

  • LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems

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  • I really don't understand the hate for the magic mouse cursor lol. I freakin love it!

  • LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems

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  • It may depend on the LG TV or maybe it's a setting. I just bought a new one and have a Google streamer on it and use it's remote to turn on the streamer, soundbar and TV with a single button. I never see the LG UI itself unless I need to change a setting, and I've disabled it's wifi entirely. I don't get any kind of popups from the TV, it just works cleanly with the streamer.

  • LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems

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  • That's not really true. B&H sells digital signage displays to consumers and you can buy some of them from Amazon and Best buy as well

  • LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems

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  • A 32" TV is not what most people are looking for. In fact I don't know anyone with a main TV that small these days. The problem is that 40"+ dumb TVs are hard to find. I'm not saying they don't exist, but very few manufacturers are making them, and the few that are have garbage screens in them.

  • LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems

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  • Unfortunately it's getting hard to find dumb TVs. The only real options are pro-AV or digital signage displays but even a lot of those are now moving to being smart. Our 15 year old bedroom TV finally died last month and we ended up having to replace it, and we ultimately went with an LG. I've disabled it's wifi though. It's a frustrating situation. I wish one of the manufacturers with good displays would just offer a dumb line of TVs. I imagine they would still have a market even if they were higher cost to make up for the lack of ad revenue, but maybe I'm underestimating that revenue. Either way, avoiding smart TVs is getting extremely difficult these days.

  • surely your hobby can't be that expensive

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  • My major hobby is like this mostly. Backpacking. Upfront cost for gear, but once you have it the only real recurring cost is food and gas to get to a spot. Sure sometimes you have to replace gear, but if you take care of it you can go for years with no gear costs except maybe shoes.

  • Dog people vs cat people

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  • I will never understand letting your pets dictate wakeup hours, except in the special circumstance that it's a puppy because they can't hold their bladder. My cats have never woken me up for food. In fact my cats and dogs have always known that if they annoy me, I will stay in bed longer out of spite. I will wake up and lay in bed until I am ready to get up, and no pet is going to annoy me into feeding them. The closest I've ever had to a pet waking me up is my current golden who doesn't wake me up for food, he wakes me up to cuddle, but is fine if I go back to sleep.

    It's not about what you feed them or when, it's about setting boundaries. We feed canned food morning and night. Our pets sleep on the bed, and know they will get their food when I'm ready to be awake.

  • I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐

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  • And the award for most depressing comment of the day goes to Jhex. Ugh. I hate how accurate that statement is.

  • I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐

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  • Just tossing this out here as a PSA, dogs can still get kennel cough even after being vaccinated. It's like the flu vaccine in humans - sometimes the strain that goes around isn't the one vaccinated for. I had two dogs end up with it and both were fully current on all vaccines. They got it from daycare where an outbreak occurred and our older dog brought it home to the puppy. All dogs there are required to show proof of current vaccines to go so it was just an unfortunate year for the vaccine. Fortunately my dogs got over it with meds and rest for a couple of weeks. Sorry about your sisters dog, that's heartbreaking.

  • I don't remember any technology being pushed as hard as AI

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  • I have very much adopted and invested in smart technology and even I am massively annoyed by the fact that EVERYTHING connects to WiFi these days. My dishwasher can supposedly download new wash cycles or some nonsense. It's obnoxious and it will never know wifi. I just like being able to automate things and make my life easier in simple ways. When I dismiss my alarm in the morning my kitchen lights turn on because the first thing I do is go feed the pets. It helps light up the house a bit during winter when I wake up and I love it. THAT is what smart home technology should be. Not a freakin toaster connecting to WiFi so it can alert you when your toast is done.

    On the topic of smart toothbrushes, I did get given one to test out and it was actually pretty cool. After you finished brushing it would send a map of your mouth and what you brushed in case you missed any spots. The app ended up being a bit buggy so I got rid of it, but I could see how that type of thing could be useful, especially for certain demographics like kids. They had a way to gamify brushing your teeth for kids as well, which is silly, but could also be effective especially for autistic kids.