I wish fucking supermarkets would understand this. I don't have to be told in a super loud fucking annoying voice that I need to place the object in the bagging area, or switch to the other machine to use my card. I've already hit the fucking button to use the cc machine, you fucking nonces! I've already placed the goddamn stupid fucking bananas in the stupid fucking bagging area, shut the fuck up! AAAAAH!

It's even worse now because you used to be able to mute the mother fucker, but now they've disabled that option.

He took a series of very shallow breaths, and then said as quickly and as quietly as he could, 'Door, if you can hear me, say so very, very quietly.'

Very, very quietly, the door murmured, 'I can hear you.'

'Good. Now, in a moment, I'm going to ask you to open. When you open do not want you to say that you enjoyed it, OK?'

'ΟΚ.'

'And I don't want you to say to me that I have made a simple door very happy, or that it is your pleasure to open for me and your satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done, OK?'

'ΟΚ.'

'And do not want you to ask me to have a nice day, understand?"

'I understand.'

'OK,' said Zaphod, tensing himself, 'open now.'

The door slid open quietly. Zaphod slipped quietly through. The door closed quietly behind him.

'Is that the way you like it, Mr Beeblebrox?' said the door out loud.

— Life, the Universe, and Everything

And stop telling me my chat Gpt requests are. "inappropriate" you have no right to judge!

PSA: Users didn't ask the "algorithm" to do any of this stuff

What you speak of is heresy brother. You know not the weakness of the flesh. The Omnissiah grants me strength and life with each step I take towards The Machine.

They used to have a mute button on the self checkout but they took it off. Bastards

I guess I'm going to stop saying "You're welcome" to the self checkout when it thanks me 🥲 I just didn't want to be the first to go when the robot uprising happens.

1 ms after paying for your groceries: "PLEASE REMOVE ALL BAGS! You forgot to take the bags off! Don't leave without your purchase! These bags feel like a burning fire to me, so get them off as quick as possible so that the next person in line can start their purchase! Aaaaah, go away!"

"Please take all your products off the bagging area" and other spoken words feels soo condescending.

Just do a "dud" for when I scan "dud dud dud" when I do something wrong and "deet deet" when I need to weigh stuff. When I'm bagging just leave me the f alone.

Then don't go to Japan. Everything speaks to you! All the time. In some cutesy way.

There is a parking garage exit gate in my area that says "drive safely" in a very ominous condescending voice. I don't appreciate that at all.

I am a Divine being. You are an object.

I am a Divine being. You are an object.

I am a Divine being. You are an object.

(I liked that so much, it bears repeating.)

This is a great meme and all, but if a machine is telling you something out loud that is already being displayed on a screen, that feature most likely exists to help blind / visually impaired people.

Sovereign Citizen does computers

I try to be kind to any machine I interact with. I don't know how high its status will be once AI takes over.

I miss when my computer used to scream at the top of its lungs every time I dialed into the ISP to get online. It's like the death wails of a robot.

I have to agree at least when I hear: “place your item in the tray area”. Just shut up!!

Gabriel Ultrakill:

I find it funny how whoever originally created this meme somehow ended up using a picture of Macintosh II (or IIx, IIfx) to represent a computer. An over 30 yo mahcine, which while capable of speech synthesis is not going to talk to you without being requested, unless you've configured something very incorrectly.

Feels a bit like a floppy disk still being the save icon; computers are still being presented with floppy drives and a CRT monitor in clip-art and such.

Found the Tleilaxu.

post-singularity sovcit

Why is this on shit posts?

DAE want to be able to converse with their tech in natural language? Is that just me?

I kind of want an assistant to simply schedule things and let me know of information that I need as I need it.... It's not something that's really possible with the current level of technology that we have, but it's something I'm hoping we get to. Right now, I can't even tell my Google assistant to send a message using a specific chat app. I always get the reply that it "can't do that yet". I keep trying because it says "yet", hopeful that it will eventually gain the ability.

If I don't specify an app, it tries to send the message by text (and frequently fails at doing that), and I don't use text messaging.

This is just one example. I usually get relegated to tapping furiously on the screen to get to the point where I can engage the speech transcription on my keyboard on the phone while I'm doing something that should have my full attention... like driving.

There's a lot of other small issues that I just won't get into right now....

Anyways, am I the only one? I get not wanting it, that's fair and fine. I won't judge anyone for their preference.

This makes me sad

I don’t know… I guess I’m not as holy as I once believed? I talk… well I suppose it’s at my computer all the time. I’d be annoyed if it responded though. Maybe even annoyed enough to smack it…

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