Winer buys a WiiM Amp

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The godfather of blogging, podcasting and RSS has bought himself a WiiM Amp through a ChatGPT recommendation. Good to have him onboard! :)

Looking forward to his updates as he starts to use it.

Scripting News: Thursday, July 17, 2025

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
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But last night I was roaming around on my iPad while watching the news, and thought to ask this: "I have two good speakers, need a modern amplifier that takes HDMI eArc input and powers the speakers. I want something simple and small." Well yes, turns out such products do exist. And from the initial list provided by Gemini, I ended up buying the first one they recommended, though I was tempted by the second. Then I thought to ask about the speakers, I bought them for $3K when I moved to Berkeley in 2006. I took a picture of the bar code sticker on the back of one of the speakers and gave it to Gemini, and it told me all about it. It was more information than I had when I bought them. It was worth $300 to see if the speakers were worth keeping. They've done a fair amount of traveling from California to NYC then to the mountains. I love the idea of the WiiM product. I also loved the Denon, but the WiiM fit the bill and was less than 1/2 the price.
 
hoohoohoo said:
@WiiM Team @RyanWithWiiM
The godfather of blogging, podcasting and RSS has bought himself a WiiM Amp through a ChatGPT recommendation. Good to have him onboard! :)

Looking forward to his updates as he starts to use it.

Scripting News: Thursday, July 17, 2025

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
scripting.com
But last night I was roaming around on my iPad while watching the news, and thought to ask this: "I have two good speakers, need a modern amplifier that takes HDMI eArc input and powers the speakers. I want something simple and small." Well yes, turns out such products do exist. And from the initial list provided by Gemini, I ended up buying the first one they recommended, though I was tempted by the second. Then I thought to ask about the speakers, I bought them for $3K when I moved to Berkeley in 2006. I took a picture of the bar code sticker on the back of one of the speakers and gave it to Gemini, and it told me all about it. It was more information than I had when I bought them. It was worth $300 to see if the speakers were worth keeping. They've done a fair amount of traveling from California to NYC then to the mountains. I love the idea of the WiiM product. I also loved the Denon, but the WiiM fit the bill and was less than 1/2 the price.
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Typical AI. He asked for an HDMI eArc input and was recommended a WiiM Amp 🤣
 
Burnside said:
Yeah, I don’t trust AI to tell me the time..
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Trouble is, in the not so distant future you won't be able to tell if Alexa is using AI or an algorithmic approach to answer your requests ... 😬

And this is just one example.
 
EddNog said:
The last time this was maybe actually possible was probably back around the time MS Office Pro came on 55 3.5" floppy disks, or when Windows 98 came on 39 3.5" floppies.
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Even back then the amount of porn pics available on the Internet would have busted the storage capacity of every single machine on the planet. :P
 
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