From my experience, yes.

I used it back when it crashed every other click too, I’ve not had one in the last year or two (I don’t video edit much)

sighs

Yes…

In the age of techno-fascism, the people willingly pay to install the listening devices into their own homes.

While your distinctions are correct in the academic way of referring to things, you are not considering the marketing way of referring to things. Behold, the AI powered rice cooker, powered by a magnet and heat, like every other rice cooker ever (because it works really well)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_HOrMmWoMA

Marketing has decided that anything that does anything is “AI” now. Which is why people are insanely disenchanted with it.

TIL: Mercury is salty about its environment.

No.

Surely nothing will go wrong with THIS corporate owned walled garden.

Yes, yes fucking exactly, how is it not an automatic gold mine!? This vexes me as well.

Well, while I do agree that it sucks that some jobs may get replaced history has shown that it always leads to creating more jobs in place. The weavers lost their jobs when the loom came about, but far more jobs were created because of it, same with the printing press and every other advancement, the nature of advancing technology is to replace the old with the new.

Ugh, the robot phone calls are going to get a hundred times worse, that one is true, I’m not sure if it’ll make the standard corporate phone maze better or worse, maybe better because at least you can screw with the robot while you wait instead of having the same 30 seconds of highly compressed garbage elevator music blasted into your ear on repeat.

Can I ask why you feel that way?