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The vendors like you to buy a new phone every year so that they can get more money from you.
When they advertise that “only our latest product has smart thingy, or picture erase, or circle to search”, they’re really telling you that they are trying to find a reason for you to throw perfectly good hardware away so that you can spend more money.
If the software lasts that long, and it’s doing what you need, there’s no reason you have to buy a new phone each year.
Every time you keep your phone a bit longer instead of buying a new one, you’re reducing the waste that goes to landfill (let’s be honest, most people throw their obsolete electronics literally in the trash rather than direct them to approved recycling and disposal).
Is “AI” (ie, large language modeling, also known as enhanced word prediction; and with no logical reasoning ability) really so important that this infrastructure needs to be built?
For the love of the gods, let this bubble burst already!
More than Google does
No words
… goes on to write article
I recognise that reference!
It will be interesting to find out if these words will come back and haunt them.
- “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers”.
- “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
I’ve been running Linux on all my computers for literally decades. But I’ve just started an online course and the college requires Edge — not Chromium, must be Edge. Yes, I’ve changed useragent, only Edge will work. Grrrr.
Maybe a $10 Uber Eats gift card?
No, have you?
Just give them a $10 Uber Eats card!
Not allowed to call them “females” any more.
Because they’re not Google.
Essentially John Oliver’s episode on Boeing.