They started with the mobile division only, and eventually bought the whole company out.

Still wouldn’t trust them. They had installed a Microsoft-aligned CEO prior to their acquisition.

Doesn’t Microsoft (an American company) fully own Nokia now?

Gated communities and Homeowners Associations were originally invented to keep black and hispanic people out. Simple as that. They are still used as tools of segregation from a paranoid populace.

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You literally right click and remove AI in the context menu, what’s this bullshit on about “no gui to remove it”? More like pulse of clickbait.

Oh man, continuous 500hp, 1k short burst at each wheel. I think my car caught fire just thinking about it…

Every person is their own corner case. Cars solve those corner cases. And yes, droll. If all you do is work, home, work, home, work, home…that’s droll.

I can pay $3 to ride the train to midtown in ~40 minutes. Or I could drive, and deal with all the pain points of traffic and parking and take… ~40 minutes.

That’s great if your life is so droll that anything and everything you do fits within a 20sq mi radius.

You can’t take a train to go spelunking a mountain cave. Cars win in point-to-point flexibility, and freedom of travel on your schedule, not the trains.

If I want to go somewhere at 3am, I can hop in my car and go. It’s more common for trains to run from 5am to Midnight, and I’m a night owl.

Everyone who argues against cars always forgets that not everywhere is a densely packed city. Many of us like to travel much broader ranges. Sure, some NEET doesn’t care about that freedom, but plenty of us do. Many of us live in mountain ranges and trains aren’t exactly some great solution here.

Obviously the second half was being sarcastic.

I’d be okay with people being ticketed for driving trucks with only 1 passenger and not using them for hauling anything. I’d love to see smaller cars on the road that were designed to only hold a single person and be as efficient at that task as possible.

Trains, and busses, are a huge tradeoff in time savings. And have you seen the types of people who take trains/busses? No fucking thanks.

You can set them up so that they don’t do that. It’s just the companies running the chat bots set them up that way because that’s what people expect now.

The tradeoff is time waiting for the train, and destinations available to you. I hate people way more than I hate cars, so cars it is. Personally I drive 2 cars to work with my left butt cheek in one car, and my right butt cheek in the other car just to be extra inefficient.

Nothing says ‘I’m shitty’ more than naming yourself ‘Nothing’.

I mean…that’s an odd take. Don’t know how someone could be so upset over the name of a company, but hey let that anger out.

Oh, wait, using meta/facebook makes you even shittier.

No arguments there though.

So I’ve been holding onto my OnePlus 6T because it was the closest thing to a Nexus after they destroyed it and migrated it into the Pixel program.

I’ve been eyeballing Nothing for a while now, but it looks like before I could even get one, they’re already off the market for me.

There’s all sorts of reasons taxing all compute over a certain threshold is stupid. I ignored it because it’s ignorant of the facts at hand.

At one point or another, compute was scaling exponentially for customers - one day that might begin to happen again. Laws move slowly - and will stupidly end up at a point where the average joe has that level of compute in his phone. Congrats, now you’ve decided to tax everyone because of “compute over a certain threshold”.

Being written in C++ doesn’t keep it from being reverse engineered in exactly the same way. All code can be reversed. It’s a little easier with Java because java isn’t turned directly into machine-code at compile-time.

You have to tax something that they are doing that an individual is not. If you tax “all compute” then they’re just gonna pull the same shit they do with straws and blame the individual.

You have to tax the action that is replacing a human worker. If a human job is displaced, it gets taxed. Want to AI generate some massive image through prompts? How much would it take a human to complete the job? Take some % of that, and charge it. Play it somewhere along the lines of “Intelligence deserves pay”, and since it’s artificial intelligence - it doesn’t have rights to spend its own pay (or the need to) so put it into a universal income fund.

We’re reaching a post-scarcity society now. We should be making lives easier for everyone.

This is straight out of Russia’s playbook. Putin taught him this.

Imagine legitimately believing Bedrock is “ahead” of java in any way, lol - There are “features” that bedrock has, which are the REASON Java is better. None of the coins bullshit, better and more developed mod scene, none of the desyncing issues where you fall to your death on the server, but it looks like you’re standing on a pillar on your local client, etc.

In my opinion, every AI “worker”, should have to be paid …maybe half minimum wage, and that wage, goes into a universal income fund to be dispersed to the citizens directly. Adjust “half”, for how much pressure needs to be applied to corporations…

Maybe laws adjusted so the amount of work AI does would be on-par with how much a person could…and then billed as such.