As a white person, I can absolutely say that every invasion we’ve done has royally fucked up the ones we’ve invaded.

I might not be the target audience though.

Waiing for Waze to add a button to self report “lake of fire” and “lava” so I can get automatically updated routes to work.

Yeah, my time is worth more than that savings.

And it works for Windows, too! Yay Linux daily driving!

Nature, uuh, finds a way.

I use a Mac at work and don’t have this problem. It’s mostly been my parent’s fairly new Windows 11 laptops. I can’t stand it and feel like Windows does nothing but get in the way of productivity in a work setting. Since at least Windows 7.

Sadly, the number of times I’ve had to reboot windows two or three times to fix an issue lately has been increasing. I’m so glad I’m not in IT trying to support windows 11.

Depends on how much money or oil changed hands.

Might also be non-AI consumers reassessing their storage needs. If SSD’s are expensive and you don’t necessarily NEED the faster speed, you’ll hop to the cheaper choice.

Nah, for me, this has absolutely nothing to do with AI. I don’t use my phone for nav and can easily leave it at home. This is 100% about security and reducing tracking and PII. Not to mention, not putting all the pieces together in one handy, easily leakable database.

Okay, from a naive POV, if this was only used for that purpose, sure it’s too bad. But there’s logging, theres extra info gathered here.

Scanning a plate instantly enters at a minimum, into a DB:

• car info
• location
• timestamp
• speed
• owner

Do that a multiple times to the same car across the area, every day, now you can extrapolate where they go, when they go, predict what they’re doing in the future, the route they take the likely speed they’ll go and all sorts of other privacy invading info.

This data could be used to accuse you of a crime, of cheating on your spouse, of speeding without a speed camera based on distance between scans, doing nefarious in their eyes things, etc.

Edit: and just imagine if this data leaked, which it likely would. Stalkers would love it, among theives and all sorts of other people.

Its such an insignificant amount of money to fund PBS. It’s mostly paid by donations and sponsors anyway. If they really wanted to save taxpayers money they should look elsewhere first… but thats a harder question that might rustle a few of their own feathers. Not only do they try to take the easiest route that doesn’t involve their side, but they want to make people think it’s a win. PBS isnt greasing their palms, so out it goes.

AM lasts longer but the quality just isn’t the same.

On one hand, I LOVE crossing things off my list.

But God Damn does this ice cream taste fucking awesome.

(Adds “finish quart of ice cream” to list and proceeds to cross it off)

Its been less and less useful over the last few years anyway. Time to just bust out that eyepatch.

If they also view this as a bubble, they have to weigh how long the bubble will last, and what happens to the investment in equipment required after the bubble pops. It may not be worth the investment if they think it’ll only last 1-2 yrs and it takes them 1-1.5 to spin that up.

Not to mention all the extra costs in raw materials/logistics of getting more materials into the factory and more chips out. You start shifting to “can the local infrastructure handle that?” Or is it near capacity and will either need improvements as well or if they’d be better off building a new facility elsewhere and everything associated with that.

It’s a complicated mess, and again, might just be a bubble.

The OP basically is saying: Monthly health insurance premiums == monthly subscription fees.

A schooner is a sailboat, stupid head.

I hear chicks dig dudes with money… well, maybe not all chicks, but the kinds that’d double up on a dude like him, at least.

You had me until the last paragraph… The Orange man and MAGA in general don’t care about communism anymore. The government owns part of Intel now, his best friends are Putin and Xi, he’s pushing changes like the government controls all the means of production. Communism is hip now it seems.

Maybe if you call them socialists? But only because their base doesn’t really understand what it means, they just hate it but secretly want it when it benefits them.