which will also have the opposite of their intended effect and create more crime via black markets, trafficking etc.

everyone’s pro-environment when it’s their own back yard getting converted to concrete.

3.1 million dollars.

who’s running the FAA now Dr Evil?

which is just a waste when it’s trivial to plug your phone in at bed time.

~16 hours is all most people need 99% of the time.

the other 1% of the time you can connect a battery pack. you can’t do the opposite with a thick phone, you’re just carrying a bigger battery all the time for no reason.

ESotSM is one of my favorite films and also made me realize that trailers ruin the fun of watching a movie for the first time. I knew nothing about it other than a few of the actors and it ended up blowing my mind. You can re-watch movies as many times as you want, but you can only see a movie for the first time once. Unless mind erasers become a real thing i guess.

he’s more than anti vax. he’s an anti-science conspiracy monger, one step short of alex jones.

seems to make sense on the surface. inactive users are kind of a useless metric.

“up to”

some carriers do have deals like that but usually you have to commit to a higher tier service plan for X years where they make up the cost. it’s just a new form of carrier-subsidized phones from the 00s and early 10s.

for example, this is from verizon last year:

https://www.verizon.com/about/news/apple-iphone-16-pro-verizon-deals

Guaranteed trade in: New and existing Verizon customers can trade in any phone, in any condition and get iPhone 16 Pro on us, or up to $1,000 off the new iPhone 16 lineup with Unlimited Ultimate. If you choose our Unlimited Plus or Unlimited Welcome plans, you can get $830 off or up to $415 off the new iPhone 16 lineup with trade-in, respectively ³.

3 $999.99 purchase w/new or upgrade smartphone line on Unlimited Ultimate plan (min. $90/mo w/Auto Pay (+taxes/fees) for 36 mos) req’d. Less $1,000 trade-in/promo credit applied over 36 mos.; promo credit ends if eligibility req’s are no longer met; 0% APR.

so they give you a bigger discount if you go with the more expensive plans, and you have to commit to 3 years. if you want to opt out you have to pay back what you saved.

I’m interested. Thinness isn’t as much of a draw as weight to me. I have a 16 Pro now and am kinda tired of how heavy it is. As long as the battery gets me through a 16 hour day that’s all i need.

Also if I need extra battery life, they brought back the magsafe battery which i can keep in a backpack. Best of both worlds.

Also brought back bumper cases which I loved.

fuck plex for plenty of other reasons, but you can disable authentication on your local network.

15-20 years is silly. Intel was the clear leader for a long time before Ryzen in 2017, and arguably a few years after that too.

yeah quicksync is the only reason i put an intel in my NAS.

there need to be dedicated 3rd party age verification services separate from the site. the people with my identity info don’t need to see what i’m doing on the site, and the site doesn’t need to know my identity any more than a general age group.

i doubt microsoft cares. they’re going to be competing in the space wherever openAI is hosted, might as well be making money from azure while doing it. Azure probably hosts many companies that compete with microsoft in some way.

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I would have recommended consulting traditional sources.

jfc you people are so eager to shit on anything even remotely positive of AI.

Firstly, the entire point of this comment chain is that if “consulting traditional sources” was the only option, I wouldn’t have done anything. My back yard would still be a barren mulch pit. AI lowered the effort-barrier of entry, which really helps me as someone with ADHD and severe motivation deficit.

Secondly, what makes you think i didn’t? Just because I didn’t explicitly say so? yes, i know not to take an LLM’s word as gospel. i verified everything and bought the plants from a local nursery that only sells native plants. There was one suggestion out of 8 or so that was not native (which I caught before even going shopping). Even with that overhead of verifying information, it still eliminated a lot of busywork searching and collating.

sad that people knee jerk downvote you, but i agree. i think there is definitely a productive use case for AI if it helps you get started learning new things.

It helped me a ton this summer learn gardening basics and pick out local plants which are now feeding local pollinators. That is something i never had the motivation to tackle from scratch even though i knew i should.

the point is, the cost/benefit calculation will change over time as the price of everything goes down. It’s not a forever “no point”.

it’s not exactly “there is no point”. It’s more like “the incremental benefit of filming and broadcasting in 8k does jot justify the large cost difference”.