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  • Ok, so, you responded with anecdotal evidence to someone who said they think tablets are a failure, which I replied to with my own anecdotal evidence. At no point did I say I agree with tablets being a failure. I was just countering your anecdote with my own. You came back at me in a condescending manner. I’m allowed to post my personal observations without being treated like a stone age moron who has never heard of a surface or tablets. So I replied in kind.

    You can argue all you want, but thats not going to change the statement, my initial statement “I dont know anyone with a tablet, except for one”, which is all I said.

    Personally I think laptops are great for work, programming dealing with 200 emails, having 45 tabs open, and all bloody office apps across two screens at same time, but tablets, great with a cat on the lap on the sofa. Original marketing hype was that anything you can do on desktop you will be able to do on tablet. It’s just not true. And reality. They just smartphones with bigger screens. So from a certain pov, they can be considered a failure. Which in my world, is true.






  • So I have a contentious one. Quantum computers. (I am actually a physicist, and specialised in qunatum back in uni days, but now work mainly in in medical and nuclear physics.)
    Most of the “working”: quantum computers are experiments where the outcome has already been decided and the factoring they do can be performed on 8 bit computers or even a dog.
    https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf “Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an
    8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog”
    This paper is a hilarious explanation of the tricks being pulled to get published. But then again, it is a nascent technology, and like fusion, I believe it will one day be a world changing technology, but in it’s current state is a failure on account of the bullshittery being published. Then again such publications are still useful in the grand scheme of developing the technology, hence why the article I cited is good humoured but still making the point that we need to improve our standards. Plus who doesnt like it when an article includes dogs.
    Anyway, my point is, some technologies will be constant failures, but that doesn’t mean we should stop.
    A cure for cancer is a perfect example. Research has been going on for a century and cumulatively amassed 100s of billions of dollars of funding. It has failed constantly to find a cure, but our understanding of the disease, treatment, how to conduct research, and prevention have all massively increased.





  • Yeah this is made by some american bootlicker. We are more united than ever so they can go sow division in their own shit hole country. You know what president Von Der Leyen didnt do this week - she didnt threaten to take control of elections, she didnt make a new website under her own name VonDerLeyenRx.com to sell slightly cheaper heavily overpriced drugs from political donors (because we already have cheap access to drugs and universal healthcare) and we didnt shoot any peaceful protestors, or detain any children. The big news is they want Grok to stop making child porn and chatgpt to stop telling children to kill themselves, and for tiktok to stop brainwashing our kids. All egregious horrible things to the US.