Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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    6 months ago

    coming soon: mousegpt?

    unfortunately, logitech’s ahead of you on that one, and of course it’s the type of lazy shit you could design in an afternoon, so that means they’re gonna sell you a $50 AI Edition mouse:

    Logitech Signature AI Edition mouse: $49 @ Logitech

    This is a new version of the Logitech M750 wireless mouse that comes with a new teal button on top specifically intended to be used for the AI Prompt Builder. Of course, you could likely remap it using Logitech’s software to do whatever you want.

    and I realize the article I linked is essentially a paid undisclosed advertisement, but holy fuck:

    I just tested Logitech’s new shortcut to ChatGPT — and it’s a big time-saver

    Get ready to summon ChatGPT with the press of a button

    it’s a fucking macro key that opens a popover that pastes text into ChatGPT running in a browser get the fuck over yourself

    fuck me this is why I make peripherals from components these days instead of buying keyboards and mice fucking laden with this bullshit. when my current (no-name) vertical mouse kicks the bucket I’m gonna have to see what repairable mouse kits are available to replace it

    • Mii@awful.systemsEnglish
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      6 months ago

      when my current (no-name) vertical mouse kicks the bucket I’m gonna have to see what repairable mouse kits are available to replace it

      If you like trackballs, Ploopy is great. They’re open source all the way down, mostly 3D-printable, and actually better than most commercially available trackballs.

      They also have a mouse kit, but I can’t speak for that.

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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        6 months ago

        they’ve been high on my list to check out! last I checked I don’t think they have a pure kit version, but if the quality’s good then I don’t mind paying for a built version as long as I can replace most of its parts when the time comes

    • 200fifty@awful.systemsEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Thank god I can have a button on my mouse to open ChatGPT in Windows. It was so hard to open it with only the button in the taskbar, the start menu entry, the toolbar button in every piece of Microsoft software, the auto-completion in browser text fields, the website, the mobile app, the chatbot in Microsoft’s search engine, the chatbot in Microsoft’s chat software, and the button on the keyboard.