Not quite, but I have been known to curse at computers or other devices that keep throwing nonsense or otherwise troublesome errors…

“Quit bitching at me motherfucker!”

The final solution was often locating and replacing a faulty capacitor or 5…

Dickprint, obviously.

^ This is the answer!

Thank you fellow Lemming, I tried and tested AndBible last night, and that’s exactly what my mom is looking for 👍

Oh, it was sometime mid last week that I had to remove about a dozen obviously (to me anyways) fake antivirus, cleaner, and PDF reader apps from her phone. They were spamming her phone left and right saying her phone was full of viruses (of course the malware itself) and saying she was out of storage space (in fact she’s only got 32% space used).

Then of course Samsung, in their infinite wisdom, had to default the power button action to Bixby, which she don’t even use, so I had to go search through the settings to figure out how to configure the power button with the typical sane power/restart menu.

After all that, her phone seemed to work basically perfectly, so I told her to keep me updated on how it works out in the long run, while also respecting her wishes regarding the bible apps, although I was already a bit suspicious of those too.

Yesterday she said she’s getting almost no spam crap like that anymore. Almost? Means there’s still something going on, and I have that sneaky suspicion that the whole avalanche of malware she ended up with started from a random seemingly innocent daily notification from one of those bible reader apps.

You know what’s the worst part about all this? Mama gets all her apps from the Google Play Store…

Yeah, sounds like a good idea, but mama wants the phone to audibly read it out to her when she goes to sleep…

Any suggestions for an open source app that can read it out loud?

My mom likes to hear the phone speak passages out randomly when she goes to sleep.

I’ve found eSpeak and The Light Bible apps on F-Droid, both look like good legit apps, but they don’t work together…

Well, the hypothetical idea isn’t that there’s one person or source of data that AI trains from, so hypothetically it’s supposed to learn from massive amounts of data coming from every source they can scrape.

While in the real world, the data that AI scrapes, often has stupid trolling comments.

My mom is a muffler while your dad blew a Smurf.

WTF you think AI will do when it realizes it’s mom might also be a muffler? Or a Smurf?

I could be a little out of the loop here, but I’ve never heard of him either having a wife, nor have I ever heard of him going to Epstein Island…

If I’m wrong on either of these things, please feel free to correct me, preferably with reference links…

Not necessarily a proper answer, but…

Captain Ketamine is supposedly worth over $2 trillion…

Entropy. Noise in the system. Chaos.

Grouping 8 bits (or other grouping of bits) out of an endless sequence of truly random 50/50 bits will show a bias towards chaos, not solid patterns like 00000000 or 11111111.

I mean yeah it’ll happen occasionally, but I think it’s way less likely than pure noise, where half the bits are zero and half the bits are one…

Allow me to take a different, simpler perspective on this subject of randomness…

I just tried a simple experiment, simply flipping a coin 8 times. The results should give me a random byte, right?

Not particularly. My coin flips gave me ‘Heads, Tails, Heads, Tails, Tails, Tails, Heads, Tails’

That gives me the binary sequence of ‘10100010’

Now, it would seem this should be fairly random, but one byte of information should have an equal randomness of the numbers from 0 trough 255. Should…

But it almost certainly will not. It’ll produce something closer, if not basically identical, to the Bell Curve in statistics. You’re almost guaranteed the lowest chances of generating ‘00000000’ or ‘11111111’ using such a simple binary coin flip for each bit. Not to say it won’t happen, it’s just less likely in the long run experiment.

As I conclude this comment, I flipped it once more. Heads.

Yes, the United States. I work for cash only, helping family, friends and neighbors with vehicle maintenance, carrying furniture, taking the trash out, helping configure smartphones and programming contact data for elderly/disabled people…

Plus some extra arts and crafts stuff at times…

Interesting. Sadly makes sense in this day and age though…

I’m a weird moving target though, I have different devices configured for specific purposes. GB doesn’t have a phone number for me, as I’m almost exclusively WiFi and have no SIM card in my tablet. I haven’t even been logged into GB for over 3 years, I just figured I’d give their app a spin a few times to see what they’re all about.

My tablet stays home, period. It’s never been logged into Google nor GB, I sideload all my apps, I have Google Play Store + Services disabled. Also Location Services have never been enabled. Sure they can do loose location tracking, but the tablet stays home, so they literally never get any of my travel GPS data.

My current phone does have a SIM card, but isn’t logged into Google nor GB.

GB just does have my email address, and it’s the first time (to my knowledge) that they’ve even bothered to email me.

I think they’re just trying to bait me into logging back in and giving them more of that sweet sexy useless data, I ain’t even had a bank account in over a decade…

This is very interesting.

Random relevant story time…

When I was 10 years old, in 4th grade English class, we were reading some silly short book where everything in the world basically worked backwards. Of course we all understood it was all silly nonsense, but it was fun for us around that age and kept the students attention.

Well, part of it regarded the alphabet being backwards. Now of course the teacher didn’t expect us to remember that, nor did she grade us on that, but she took a moment in class to make it random fun, and asked the class if any of us could even try to say our ABC’s backwards…

Around 5 o 6 students raised their hand and tried, but the best they got was about 5 letters in. What was I doing the whole time? Memorizing, in a compartmental sort of mode.

So, after about 5 minutes, the teacher was ready to move on. But then I raised my hand…

Straight from my fresh memory banks, no looking at the page or anything else:

ZYX WVUTSR QPONM LKJIH GFEDCBA

Everyone was astounded, even me LOL! I learned it backwards in all of about 5 minutes!

Now I’m 43, going on 44. I still remember it to this day, guess I burned it into my long term memory.

Let me finish by saying this much, please please do NOT try to do this, it’ll fuck up your entire concept of sorting words alphabetically! I mean yeah I’m good with language, spelling, letters, grammar, etc, but if you give me a list of 10+ words to sort alphabetically, without a computer of course, it’ll end up taking me like 3 times longer to sort out, as I have to remind myself which order the alphabet actually goes.

Meh, we just went ahead and got a pair of 8" hard rubber tires from Harbor Freight. It would have been nice if they had the original ~8.5" size we wanted, as we only needed one tire.

I thought about upgrading to 10" tires to help make it somewhat easier to roll up and down stairs, but hell if these new tires ain’t already heavy enough…

Did you even read their comment?

https://lemmy.world/comment/24532177

No, but the fallacy is in thinking the new species appears when the egg hatches, rather than when it’s fertilized. The egg is already the new offspring.

This is completely incorrect. Only a fertilized egg can create offspring. But that is not what they said.

Okay, let’s back it up a bit…

Unfertilized eggs do not create offspring. They either create menstrual blood/waste, or breakfast food, depending on the type of creature, mammal or non-mammal.

Yeah, they don’t have to be an exact match, as long as the axle hole is 1cm.

I’ll definitely check Harbor Freight soon, with old part in hand…

What’s your point? Literal, and wrong, quote from you…

The [unfertilized] egg is already the new offspring.

I ate two fried unfertilized eggs just a few hours ago.

Unfertilized eggs literally never create offspring.

Maybe take a sex-ed class?