The live and neutral ports commonly lack the shutter and the fuse is not always present (edit: on low power devices). Some devices for whatever reason also feature a plastic earth prong which serves only to release the shutters to allow a connection. And if the earth is not present or is broken then the plug will sit loose in the socket. Another “feature” of these plugs is that they lay flat on a surface and hurt to step on.
Otherwise they serve their purpose really well.
Fact: ~93% of all people who drank water have died. The 7% remain an anomaly, either immune to this curse or have not yet succumbed to the poison.
It looks AI generated
Money is so incredibly devoid of creativity it hurts. They see it as nothing more than an extension of the ever present algorithm. It’s so fucking sad. I get that a lot of money is spent on making these systems but why can’t it be for anything more than printing more money. (Yes capitalism, comrades, I get it)
I’m sleep deprived and have only thought about it for 10 minutes but here’s some ideas off the top of my head…
Use AI to assist in reporting the disgusting content that’s pumped out for kids on YouTube. You don’t want to pay people to review every video so at least get it to report suspicious content.
Train it to spot the signs of fraud to help prevent people falling for scams or identity theft
Specialise it rather than some generalised system that spurts out bullshit. Actually give it roles. A purpose to exist. ChatGPT is not a personal assistant, it wasn’t designed to be one. It cannot function reliably as one. If you want to sell it as that then make it do that reliably and nothing more.
Train AI to assist in accessibility broadly across the internet. A page doesn’t have TTS no problem our AI was made for this purpose. The images have no meta description? It’s all good our AI will interpret what it sees for you. Unable to pass this captcha because of impairment? no worries our AI will deal with it.
For fuck sake design it to want more than immediate satisfaction from the user. I don’t want a one stop solution to an issue I want to discuss it and figure it out. Let it think for more than one second. Let it contemplate over the broader discussion rather than just my last response. Let it speak not simply respond. Let it speak honestly when it does not know an answer or is uncertain. It is merely glorified I/O in its current form. Useless for anything more than asking it which side to butter my toast (and 50% of the time it’d confidently declare that I should butter the crust). If you must burn the climate and doom our children in order to operate a b-movie skynet then please at least let it have the decency and respect to tell me it’s as ignorant as the apes that funded its existence.
It sounds like it’s time to find out
Turns out I was wrong on that one. My bad. Some of them don’t really look like they have shutters but apparently they all do and it’s enforced too. I guess that makes even more sense why there are those plastic earth connectors on some plugs then.
Well it turns out I don’t know what I’m talking about at all despite using these sockets every day. They’re a lot more technical than I realised. Shows what we take for granted I guess.