I want to be able to say"Turn on Bluetooth and connect to DOSS SoundBox (or some nickname I've given it, like "Portable speaker") and then have the sound start playing from there. I want to hear Mastodon's sounds!

#Iwant
#PleaseHelpMe
#ItsAllSoHard
#CanILiveInTheJungle
#I'dMissMastodon
#DoHashtagsWorkWithPunctuation
#NoIDidntThinkSo

I have no idea what Mastodon sounds like, even though I have the sounds turned on. Better yet, I'd like to be able to just say or type "Play sound through portable speaker and computer's speakers" the places I want to hear it from instead of spending a freakin' hour trying to remember what thing I opened to turn the Bluetooth back on and get the computer to find the speaker that's waiting to be found, which then disables sound coming through the computer's speakers.

Why is this so fucking hard and complex? It's not rocket science! As rocket scientists will tell you, rocket science is much simpler!

#RocketScience
#Frustrated
#SatanicPlot
#Help'sNoHelp

I want "Help" to be local & actually relevant instead of launching a browser I don't want open & trying to connect to a server that there's no data allowance for & that gives me irrelevant information in any case. Cheese&Rice! Give me the good old days of MS-DOS & early Macs that had EVERYTHING right there!

@Euphoria ah yes, the "/h" or "-h" flags. or "man" command in unix. good memories euphoria! :joy:

@eric Really Eric. I forgot there was actually a time when I knew a couple of varieties of Unix. I also knew how to circumvent stuff in GUIs and just enter commands. Where is the AI I was promised that would help with all this stuff? Where are our flying cars? Where are the video phones that actually work properly all the time & make us look good to callers?

#Rhetorical
#DontAnswerThat
#LetsAskSiri
#MaybeAlexaKnows
#Nope,NoOneKnows

@Euphoria well, AI is a lie and we all still live in the CLI. / @eric

@janjoris @eric Oh, Jan, Jan, please don't tell me that. That'd mean giving up my dream of having a fulfilling, committed, long term romantic relationship with an android, like what happened in "Bicentennial Man". I figured if I couldn't find a decent /human/ mate at least I'd be able to buy an AI (or beta test one!) some day. Do you really want to dash my dreams that way?

What's the CLI?

@Euphoria the CLI is where computers and humans meet in an intimate, productive way. It's magic, and sometimes, if you're really careful, you even spot unicorns. / @eric
@janjoris @eric By "really careful" do you mean "ingest psychedelics"? :wink:
@Euphoria how...how did you know? / @eric
@janjoris :wink: I've been around.