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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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We mostly watch news and sports in my house. So unfortunately, live TV. Occasionally we watch other things. I mute the commercials and browse my phone when they're on.

But I would love a TV that is smart enough to auto hide & mute every kind of ad. Even little logos on the athletes' uniforms. Hide the ads on the pitcher's mound. Hide the billboards and signs in the stadium. Show some cool little generic animation, music video, or slide show during commercial breaks. Hide the damned popup window ads and scrolling ads that some channels do. Remove product placements from movies and shows. Basically make all ads completely vanish.

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[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You could always just buy any TV with an an analog tuner and watch whatever's on the air these days.

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You aren’t allowed the use AI that’s anti-capitalist in America

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Or perhaps an AI that blocks ads and then gives you buying recommendations based on products from their competitors.

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

A pet pieve of mine is people randomly sticking the term "AI" into a description of some particular tech solution.

You want ad blocking. (Which is based.) But you don't want "AI". If this can be done in a way that doesn't qualify as "AI", that would satisfy you, yes?

And using the term "AI" that way makes it clear you haven't really thought through what you really even want in that feature. (Not that there's anything particularly wrong with that, especially in a showerthoughts community, but it's still kindof a "slaps me in the face" kind of thing.)

And the term "AI" is so imprecise anyway.

And particular kinds of "AI" are such a bubble right now. And that's why everybody is sticking the word "AI" into random contexts for no fucking reason. But it's also just a gimmick at best and a huge scam at worst.

And "AI" is inevitably bad about false positives and such.

I'd really rather see the word "magic" than "AI" in this context. Because at least that admits that this is an idle wish and not something you think actual real-world adult humans should be seeking venture capital to attempt.

I'm sorry for taking this out on you specifically. You're definitely not the first person I've seen do this.

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