There is just a lot of hate for AI, and Lemmy is big on anti-capitalism so when a company is dumping a bunch of money into AI for potential profits you get a lot of hate around here. There are a lot of free alternatives to AI, but you need heavy investments to push technology. That takes money.

Why the downvotes?

LibreWolf. Firefox with lots of extra privacy

Android does that too. At least the latest versions

Sam’s club has this and it is amazing

Depends on how much time was spent on R&D. You have to recover those costs. I know everyone wants everything for free but it takes a fuck ton of man hours and tons of investments to get to this point. You can’t just give it away unfortunately.

It protects your ip address, and your ISP from knowing what you’re doing. It also protects you on public wifi from nefarious actors. VPN’s aren’t meant to protect you from Google advertising while checking your Gmail account…

So when there’s not a lot of sun and wind? Nuclear HAS to be a big part of our energy future if people are actually serious about 100% fossil free energy

That’s where nuclear can shine as well, make hydrogen during off-peak hours

Right, because it’s not “free market” it’s all government controlled market. Like this comment from above.

Both parties in our country have decided that nothing should happen unless a person who is already rich gets richer. That Government should never take any action if it possibly reduces the chance that someone else would make profit off of a problem.

Yes, that’s not capitalism or free market. That’s government interference. Big difference. Like the whole too big to fail non-sense. No, government get out of the way and let them fail.

California and France aren’t that far off from total area from each other. Most of California’s population is in a hand full of counties. As an example, LA has a population density 3 times that of Paris.

A lot of the world had to rebuild after WW1and WW2 and that allowed for building around newer technologies. The US never had that. We’re expanding and you can’t just build in infrastructure like that.

“Build them for cars” cities aren’t built anymore. They were built a long time ago. Modifying existing cities for trains would be nearly impossible. Yes it’s a 4:1 ratio of urban to rural areas. But remember the majority of the population lives in like 4-5 counties in the US. That’s a lot of area that is empty.

Another vote for bitwarden, mobile apps are great as well. If you are so inclined, it can be self-hosted if you want to retain full control

He even wrote the precursor to the Patriot act which it was based off of and bragged about it.

Was AOL and MSN available on phones? I guess it was the first mainstream phone messaging app that I recall. They haven’t killed it off and allo was a seperate app. Hangouts is just called chats now. It is also available in Gmail. I’ve used it nonstop since it came out and it hasn’t changed all that much.

Google chat is just Google hangouts and was one of the first messengers out there I believe. My family still uses it to have chats between Android and iPhone users.

That’s why generating hydrogen during off-peak hours from a nuclear power plant will be very beneficial. It may be less efficient but way better for the environment then lithium

Why on earth would we want the government funding and running things, that would be a nightmare. Government is far too big as it is now.

Then there will be no new medicines, companies will not be able to afford to pay the scientists.