Why bother worrying about the downturn if the world bends over backwards to stop you hitting the ground?

It is basically impossible for Visa to go bankrupt, for example. The moment the threat looms, governments are going to leap in and save them. They’re too big to fail.

Another victim of the high blood pressure epidemic 😔

He should’ve tried eating less salt.

I thought they got put together like a tapestry?

That’s why they have looms or something to knit them up.

People are just like that in academic spaces.

Just rock up to any Edgar Allan Poe discussion forum and ask about the Orangutan.

At the same time, the lack of virality may hurt it since it feels much more like a burgeoning project. One of the draws for someone coming off of Twitter would be feature parity, and Mastodon feeling less complete and much smaller wouldn’t help.

Even if I had wanted to upgrade, I wouldn’t be able to, since Microsoft needs hardware mg computer doesn’t have. I can’t imagine most people would care enough to even think about that. They’d just keep using the computer until it no longer worked, and in the modern day, that will take a lot longer than it would have a decade or two ago.

There’s a fair bit of nuance around the topic of whether honey should be vegan or not, since honeybees also overproduce, and that is its own problem. Like with sheep’s wool.

Although crude oil has the additional complication where it’s an incidental post-death product, like fertiliser, and from that viewpoint, it would be about as ethical.

And now that we’re getting into Agentic models, which can click on websites for you, it’s probably going to worsen the Spam issue.

What could possibly go wrong with entrusting most of the working parts of your company and its secrets completely to another company?

Especially since discoverability has pretty much gone down the toilet, between SEO and spam sites.

You’re not going to as easily find a new and interesting website, when the first few results are just computer generated regurgitated text, stuffed with ads by the gill.

Complexity? You either need a drain, or a supply of water, that can’t be easy to work with, and unlike with a refrigerant loop, you can’t just reverse it to dry/wet things.

Could you not just get an eGPU dock, and do it that way?

Its like the problems around the ozone hole, or acid rain.

A lot of people scrambled and worked very hard to find an alternative that didn’t cause problems, and now it’s almost like they never existed, and people think it was much ado over nothing.

I don’t think it will. It hasn’t so far, despite there having been linux phones in the past, and it’s got the Windows Phone/Symbian problem where users don’t go to it because it lacks support for the apps they use, and developers don’t support it because it doesn’t have much by way of users.

If you have a chronic health condition, are particularly ill, or have a disability, good luck. You’ll need it.

Or give an option to toggle. Surely letting people turn it off would save them even more resources, if they don’t have to bother with upscaling the video in the first place.

The characters not being conventionally attractive and “gender non-conforming” weren’t problems.

Just take Overwatch as an example. People aren’t exactly ranting about how Winston (a Gorilla) isn’t sexually attractive, and therefore represents the moral downfall of society and that. He’s just there.

Honestly, that should have been for the better. If it’s meant to be a tool, I would much rather it behave like a tool, rather than trying to be my best friend, or an evil vizier trying to give me advice.

The fact that people got so attached to what is essentially a text generation algorithm that they were mourning its “death” is worrying, especially when it’s one that OpenAI has proven themselves to be more than able to modify as they wish.

Just as concerning is OpenAI rolling back the update to make their model “friendlier”, or that people were clamouring hand over fist to throw money at the company in the hopes of getting their “friend” back.

That can’t possibly be good news, especially when the shareholders find out that they have an iron grip over a portion of their users.

The worst part is that they backstepped a bit and made it “friendlier”.

Basically undoing that part.

Maladvertising and scams just make that a surefire thing, especially since there’s a chance that just loading an ad could infect your machine.

And for less tech-savvy family members, it cuts down on the risk of them falling for scams or suchlike.