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What stupidly easy tech solution do people gloss over all of the time? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 4 months ago by Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me it's the paranoia surrounding webcams. People outright refuse to own one and I understand, until they go on and on about how they're being spied. Here's the secret - unplug the damn thing when you think you won't use it or haven't used it in a while.

They, whoever it is, can't really spy on you on something that's already off and unplugged!

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[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My colleague (we work in web dev) will literally sit there staring at an error message but apparently not reading it, and then he'll open ChatGPT and start asking it what to do. The fucker never even Googles error messages, it's an absolute nightmare.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

ChatGPT can be super useful, but I'm kind of worried about people learning to use it exclusively.

I tried helping a PhD student assemble a set up for measuring transistors. He used ChatGPT to do all the code for the software control (python), which is fine, even if he relied on it to fix every single part of his code when a quick trip to the reference manuals of the equipments would solve the problem instantly.

At a certain point I realized I maybe had misunderstood his set up design and asked him "wait, which device do you want to connect to your gate? Which terminal even is the gate?"

And I kid you not, the dude asked ChatGPT which terminal in his device was the gate

(he also reeked of weed so there's that)