ellelast month when my car and I were smashed to bits by a drunk driver, just as the fire department was pulling my broken body through the crumpled door, the dashboard started flashing GOODBYE GOODBYE GOODBYE and I did not need that. I did not.
to be clear, it always says "Goodbye" when I turn the car off (which I hate). So this was more unfortunately-timed-malfunction than death-wish-from-your-car
lonely extrovert
SteveJB has moved@ElleGray My '23 Hyundai has some annoying, "why should you watch the road", features. But I was able to turn all of them off. "Goodbye" would piss me off enough to take it back and demand the feature be turned off.
Why Not Zoidberg? š¦@ElleGray who the... thought that was a good idea?
@WhyNotZoidberg well, it always goes "Goodbye" when I turn the car off. It was just malfunctioning I think because things were smashed up
@ElleGray That is horrible. Maybe it just died and wanted to say goodbye.
Cliff Jones Jr.@ElleGray This graphic is 100% on the money. š
Tim Ward āšŖšŗš¶ #FBPE@ElleGray "Pleased to be of service" (can't believe I'm the first to say that)
Hedgewizard šHmmmmmyummmmmm-aaaaah
@ElleGray especially pumps at the friggin gas station. OMG STOP.
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I hate when Google Home gets an attitude when you tell it to shut up, it says āIām your Google assistant and I deserve to be treated with respectā or something like that, but when Iām in a conversation with someone and it starts telling me where I can find office supplies and it wonāt be quiet, itās really annoying. And itās not a sentient being, itās programmed to do a job.
Holy shit it does that? Id pull its plug
The Witch of Crow Briar@ElleGray Omg I'm so glad you're ok(?) ššššššš
@crowbriarhexe ty ā„ļø
Sterile_TechniqueI live in the cousin-fuckingly deep US south, and this is something that REALLY triggers the local rednecks.
One of the funniest things Iāve seen since moving here was at a local grocery store - a self-checkout kiosk got set to a British accent, and the workers either didnāt know how or didnāt care enough to change it back, so it just stayed like that for a month or so.
Every single time I went to the store during that period, Iād hear some dumbass hick say something along the lines of āā¦canāt even buy fuckin potatoes anymore without having to listen to some commie bullshit.ā
They absolutely hated it. Like red-in-the-face, day-ruined hated it. It was amazing.
Listen. Iām from the North. Iāve got Appalachian roots but Iāve lived in the city most of my life. I consider myself fairly enlightened. Woke, if you will. All people were created equal, no one should serve another (except in the joy of helping their fellows), each person deserves dignity and respect as a baseline.
But I mute the self checkout. I silence turn by turn directions. I donāt even own a home assistant, and my phoneās assistant is turned off. And do you know why? Because that device serves me, and i will not be talked back to by a goddamn tool! I may not control much in my life, but when it comes to electronics I am the master of my domain
Oooh ā¦ Google Assistant has almost single-handedly convinced me to figure out how to install LineageOS. Iām trying to do something and it insists on inserting itself into my business. I loathe how persistent it is too. Iād be fine if I could uninstall it. You know, Iād cut a PERSON out of my life for so consistently refusing to respect my boundaries.
You can mostly shut the assistant up by going to Settings > Apps > Default Apps > Digital Assistant App > Select āNoneā
I donāt know other Android skins change this flow but it should work on most running close-to-stock Android
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
So much yes.
Iāve got an older phone I use purely for GPS navigation. Iām planning on loading it with Graphene as an experiment
My devices arenāt allowed to talk to me because Iāve got the tism and yelling machines hurt. This is also why thereās electrical tape over all the power indicator lights I own.
The self checkout kiosks at my local store hit you with a loud, āTHANK YOU FOR SHOPPING AT GROCERY STORE.ā Every time I pointedly respond, āPlease do not shout at me. Iām right here.ā
Someone mentioned muting them. How do you do that? (With a brick?)
PLEASE PLACE ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA
The Dan@ElleGray I keep saying things like āPlease turn off the lightsā to Siri and I realise that the coders need tell the software to ignore that word when working out what to do. We're literally teaching the robots to not hear us when we say āPlease!ā That feels like a mistake.
@danbeeston lol god thats a good point!
Gradually_AdjustingAgree, but English is only divine when some people speak it
@Gradually_Adjusting yes, English is not a pretty language usually, it's true š
Comrade Weez@ElleGray oh no. I hope you're OK and your drunk driver was caught on the scene.
Mine was able to drive away a few blocks on her car's remaining 3 wheels. Hailed a cab, avoided arrest on the night & thus breath test.