u/jellyspreader

Typing "u/(anyone) + "reddit" , and any other combination of word youre looking for like "profile overview" , "recent comments" , "affiliations" , etc. will give you quotes, links, and descriptions of whoever you've searched.

It works on users with their profiles hidden, because their posts and comments still exist on the rest of the site.

Try it out on yourself and see what comes up. Ask it to describe you based on your post and comment history. It provides an interesting objective perspective. It's like reddit wrapped, but it works better imo.

Of course Google and other AI have make mistakes. But changing the phrasing slightly and asking follow-up questions in AI Mode can improve results.

Other than self reflection, it's good for being nosey I guess? I just realized it worked awhile ago and wanted to tell somebody, but worried about the ethics of sharing this. Maybe it's obvious though? Either way, irrelevant in this sub.

Lmk what you think

Recently online, I'm constantly seeing art being wrongly accused of being AI.

At the same time, I get random autonomous robotics vids on my feed, being wrongfully accusing them of being remote-operated.

So people think only robots can make art, and only humans can be robots? This seems like part of a bigger societal issue related to trust or critical thinking, idk. Just seemed funny

I asked 3 different repair places to for a zflip 6 repair in Toronto. 1 Samsung certified repair shop, 1 actual Samsung repair centre, and the third party shop I bought the phone used from on sale abt 8 months ago.

I walked into the third party shop and the first thing he said was "those phones are garbage. You can buy a new one for the cost". He didnt remember me or selling it to me lmao. He called someone in a different language to get me quote of 495 for the parts.

The Samsung certified shop gave me the same advice, but more politely. They had a spreadsheet of prices and quoted 540 for the part. This is Canadian dollars.

The official Samsung repair centre was just a call to their store, same reaction. They couldn't give me a quote and told me to call some other company that supplies them for my area to get it.

The issue is my digitizer, they basically have to replace 90% of the phone so it would feel like new, but they'd also wipe the data. I can't access settings from the coverscreen to enable maintenance mode.

I dont have warranty on it so I'd just have to pay for it, which is acceptable, except I might as well get a new phone for the cost and trouble, because there's a chance it could happen again. I've had so many issues with lost packages in the past, so I'd like avoiding that too, let alone the time it takes vs buying a new phone.

I love the erganomics, creativity, and customization of the my flip but there's so many different phones out now. Reliability is important. I hate the waste of people, including myself, getting new devices every year. I thought I found my lifer phone with the zflip line, but the durability and overall value just isnt there yet for me.

Other phones:

I'm considering a Nothing or CMF. I dont know about reliability but I'm intrigued by their designs/fatures and I can get one for around the same price as the repair. I love the circle to search on android, but they'd seem to have a similar button for quick on screen tasks.

Motorola, pixels, iphones, are No-gos for various reasons. Same with fair phone and Chinese brands I'd probably have poor customer support even if I could get one in Canada.

I might just give up and get some random Samsung A series. The modern phone market seems so creatively dead and I'm worried it's just easier to except the slab life.

I expect flips/folds to become more common and popular over time, with repairs for them becoming cheaper and accesible too. But that's not the present day. What do yall think?