It gives google access to all the traffic statistics for users of chrome, not just those going via google. That’s valuable marketing data. They also have made sure that nobody else can get that data - they have to buy it from google as they become the sole source of it.

That’s why they want to do it… nothing to do with ‘privacy’.

The last guy died after 2 months and didn’t show any signs of rejection either… I wouldn’t break out the party yet.

Wars are already simulated like crazy. AI battles will be going on right now working out if various ukraine battles are winnable, what will happen if Iran gets too riled up, etc.

The bit we currently do wrong is then verifying the results using real people…

It’ll happen in games first… nobody cares if ‘background NPC #15’ is generated by AI, and mostly they voice a few sentences at a time.

Suddenly, voices aren’t special… Voice actors have to have something else, like movie or book fame (Audible books seem to be mostly voiced by the authors, and I can’t see that going away). But only a few % really have that… I bet there are thousands of voice actors we wouldn’t even recognise the names of.

Get a Laser then… Inkjets dry out if not regularly used, which on the cheaper printer often means ‘throw it away and buy a new one’ because they don’t have replaceable heads. A laser will happily sit for months idle then spring into life.

Back in the day when I was briefly into bitcoin (for the mining, which was still possible back then using GPUs) the bitcoin.org forums were mostly populated by americans who were sticking it to ‘the fed’ and had a deep distrust of authority. Some of them were seriously unhinged… I didn’t hang around there for long - only so much crazy I can cope with.

When I saw the people in silly costumes storming the whitehouse on TV that’s exactly the kind of person I can imagine was posting on the bitcoin forums.

HP haven’t always been this bad, but they are this bad now, and nobody should be giving them money.

I don’t get why the service centre isn’t covering it in warranty, given the car should be able to handle rain (or even driving through floodwater) just fine and many Teslas do just that, including the many currently in Scotland. Clearly there was a fault that allowed water ingress to the battery… eventually it would have failed anyway, just in normal weather.

Some of the better replacement connectors have guides that you feed the cables through so you don’t get that issue.

It’s a good skill to have, making your own, but there’s no shame in going out and buying one & working out the details for next time without the pressure of ‘my internet doesn’t work’.

“As we deliver more value to our members, we occasionally ask them to pay a bit more,”

But you’re not doing the first half, so you can’t do the second half…

We had a guy at an old job who kept changing the permissions on his data to remove administrator access because he thought that would work. He wasn’t an idiot generally, he just didn’t understand how computers worked.

Preroll ads never made any sense… those first few seconds are when you’re deciding whether to watch that streamer or go elsewhere. An ad makes me go elsewhere without the streamer even getting a say.

Some streamers never use ads, but I think the bigger ones are contracted to do so.

All the higher ups at work used to run macbooks mostly because they were built well and looked good. But they ran windows because we don’t make any software for Mac. An M1 is useless to them (our software is not compatible with parallels as the 3d support just isn’t good enough)

It’s not even that unusual based on the support queries we get… still get the occasional salesman who has ‘upgraded’ to an M1 and has to be given the bad news.

It’s derived from the old shugart interfaces IIRC. But yes not IDE. I’m sure a converter is possible but USB makes more sense these days, or if you must an FDD controller card (assuming no motherboard support).

And $500 installation and $500 ‘activation’ (just call it $1000 installation FFS).

And a ‘modem fee’.

They’ll probably add a few more fees on top for the hell of it if you query that…

On the one hand I’d love a HUD which could, for example, remind me of the names of people I’d met before, or notes like ‘remember to talk to fred about his shrubbery’. Or tell me which shops I’m looking at are open, or give me directions to my destination… or random shit like the name of the plant I’m currently looking at. You can do some of this with a phone but in-vision is so much more useful IMO.

OTOH the people capable of creating such technology are meta, google… and I don’t trust them one bit.

Even sunglasses help… so I expect it would do that, but then you’d have to offset it by realizing you looked like a complete idiot.

Then if you try to provide a modern solution, get yelled at because ‘not everyone is using the latest version’ even though the modern solution works on everything newer than about 8 years.

That’s kind of used in apps everywhere… I can see why.

But not creating a symbolic link to ‘firefox’ when you install it, is a PITA. Apparently by design…

Off with this chatgpt generated nonsense.