Tried going through this with my grandma on video call. She asked: “why is there a police group in my computer?”

You stop wanting to participate in society the moment you realize most ‘normal’ people just say random words and avoid thinking about any of them like the plague.

The market will regulate itself and improve air quality

Of course they did. This is one of issues with our models of democracy, that may be quite difficult to solve.

Politicians and their parties have 4 or 5 years to introduce new and alter existing legislation, sign contracts with companies and agreements with other countries. If they don’t do anything for ‘now’, and focus on the future - people won’t vote for them anymore.

When one party promises improvements in 6 months, people will always choose it over a party that promises a stable and healthy environment in 50 years. Of course, the first one lies. But those lies work and get votes. So what do you do?

Thanks. This is going straight to my ‘cool info to never be used’ pile.

The leaders of the companies are not stupid. If they started seeing a net loss from their sales strategy, they’d change strategies.

Unless money is not the goal. Not the sole goal at least. As you said, they’re not stupid. It’s entirely within reason to assume they may be aiming for more than just money.

Who knows what they’re planning. Nothing good for us - that’s for sure.

Wait till you hear how much power over the entirety of South Korea Samsung had before this spike in profit…

Framework is great, but it’s just so insanely expensive.

I was buying a new laptop about 2 years ago. A framework one cost more than twice the price of a regular ultrabook with comparable (but better) specs.

Sure, you pay more for a Framework, and you can upgrade it later instead of buying a new laptop. Makes sense, but even then - a Framework one is more expensive than 2 laptops with similar specs. It only gets cheaper on the third upgrade. Which for me may be 10 years away.

Personally I’m not thrilled about investing in a laptop that will pay off in a decade. Who knows what laptops will be like by that time. Hell, it’s not unconceivable that devices like Framework will be outlawed. Or that Framework goes out of business.

It might make sense for people who upgrade often, but I don’t. Or for people who don’t, but are wealthy enough to pay the premium anyway. If anything, I feel like having a Framework would make me want to upgrade more often, which would be a waste of money.

I think you’re underestimating how clueless and braindead executives can be.

As if the UK isn’t implementing shit like this on its own, years before the EU does lol

Damn, my bad. I thought she had a darker skin. In my defense, it’s kind of hard to tell in a back alley with no lights. /s

In the European Union all ISPs market their connections based on maximum speed. However, the law requires them to meet at least 90% of that maximum advertised speed throughout the entire year (might slightly vary between countries), with some room for error. If they don’t - easy lawsuit.

Internet is also usually extremely cheap. In my country you can get it as cheap as $8/month, with very good (>=500Mb/s download) connections rarely exceeding $25 USD monthly. Hell, you can get an 8Gb/s download cable for just a little over $40/month.

The country that invented the internet… has the worst internet infrastructure in the developed world. Worse than some developing countries too. Astonishing.

I can also fit some of the largest LLMs on my phone. Where is all that AI investment going to???

‘Language restriction’. More like ability and/or willingness to learn restriction.

And of course a vibe coder can’t write proper sentences with punctuation. If this is what their AI coding chatbot sees, I almost pity it.

And we’ll probably have less cloud storage than we do now

It’s almost as if having a monopoly means you don’t have to ensure your services work properly.

A lot of, perhaps all of, those games are predatory money extractors that are deliberately designed to be as addictive as possible, just like a casino.

Sticking to Windows to play them is like saying you need a car, because there are no bus stops near the casino. True, but should you really be going there in the first place?

Windows losing noticeable numbers of users is a huge net gain for society. Hopefully it continues, regardless of Microslop’s actions.

Robin Hoods of AI?