We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong!

True except the 80% of people who will suffer further because of it, and the 20% that will gleefully be laughing to the bank and buy up everything at a discounted price. Few of us should be cheering for the failure or success of AI.

We don’t need companies taking risks for the sake of risks though. We need companies that actually have good ideas and can produce products. This isn’t much better than a Kickstarter. And you probably know incredibly well, no one is changing or going to succeed in the very bloated cell phone market.

Turns out that maybe a YouTuber gathering a bunch of old failed Commodore executives who don’t give two shits probably isn’t the best way to bring a failed company back online who’s sole purpose is to cash in on nostalgia from GenX’ers who is general give zero fucks about it.

Mullvad doesn’t work on Android though correct? And if privacytests.org/android is to be believed, seems like Brave currently is the best of the bunch, unless you have seen something better?

Anyway to set up Firefox on android to actually block tracking? Seems like it is just as leaky as Chrome, but maybe they have improved it.

I think you’d be surprised, there is always a connection. Oh some middle aged millennial waxing poetic about nostalgia? Wow, totally haven’t heard that before, and it’s certainly not the singular thing every company is capitalizing on in media currently. No, you are absolutely unique and Google is simply listening to every conversation about you.

People have already done that and shown that no the device isn’t listening to you 24/7 and sending all your data out. There are plenty of papers on the subject, and it makes sense. Why record, decode and analyze all audio when your digital footprint is so much easier to compile and analyze. People aren’t random, so it’s easy to put them into statistical buckets of how to target them. Here is one reference paper (of many): https://recon.meddle.mobi/papers/panoptispy18pets.pdf

It doesn’t need to, that’s the issue, there is so much other data you are generating that can be harvested. Nothing you talk about is completely random, so it’s incredibly easy to build profiles about you, without listening to a single word.

Probably something people aren’t thinking about. How would this even work in two party consent states/countries?

I am thinking about installing Graphene OS, any thoughts so far on how it work, or rather what hasn’t worked on it? I am already using Brave and Proton and trying my best to get out of the AI overlord mess that is Google.

I mean fast chargers already do this by default, especially Tesla Chargers with ‘surge’ pricing. Can’t wait until they figure out exactly how much you are ‘worth’ and can just set the exact pricing based on what you ‘can pay’.

It kind of did. They got a slap on the wrist and will still do it. It’s the 4th or 5th time they got busted for doing it.

Yeah, most of the analysis I have seen has shown job losses due to AI have amounted to less than 1% of job losses in the US. Most of the losses are because of… just look at the White House. Easier to blame AI than actually admit politics is causing some serious issues.

I mean, it’s not fiction if we all want things to change. I don’t think I will stop tipping those who can’t afford to not be tipped, but you do you. I’d say the better solution for someone like yourself is to stop going to those places to begin with if you are that against ‘tipping’.

I mean, Valve has been successful solely because they have cornered the game distribution market. Their hardware has done essentially zero for their bottom line. They could have simply never release this product (as they didn’t for the original Steam Machine) in a realistic sense, and been done with it.

Yeah, my first computer lab was similar, full of old Apple 2s, lot of Oregon Trail and Mavis Beacon teaches typing. Wild that kids don’t take or have typing classes any longer. I can’t say I miss it perse, but it was great to have access to a computer when we couldn’t afford one at home.

Two realistic options. One, depends if the devices are already manufactured. If yes, you sell them at the prices when you manufactured them. That shows good will for the community, and gets devices out and people wanting to buy in to a niche product.

If they haven’t manufactured the devices, then the answer is easy, you simply won’t be making them because they are too expensive to get a large run in until prices go down.

The bigger problem though is the old off the shelf hardware being used here is going to age out incredibly fast. So a third option would be what many of the minipc companies are doing, and give an option for barebones, and let you bring your own RAM and SSD. No option is perfect, but just raising prices higher than a PS5 Pro with no controller and worse performance, you aren’t winning over new customers, and you are pushing your old customers away.

That was a huge surprise the first time when I plugged in a PlayStation DualSense controller into my PC and the audio started coming out of the controller.

Early reviews are saying that the Steam Machine and PS5 perform similarly, with the PS5 being a smoother experience overall due to automatic framescaling. And that’s with something that’s 6+ years ago.