Oh man... are you going to have your mind blown trying to separate AI and Trump when you visit https://www.ai.gov/

So do I. I've used Surface devices since the Pro 3 precisely because I don't use it enough as a laptop to justifying needing a "work station" laptop, and I don't want to carry around a separate tablet. It's sort of an ideal portable formfactor for those who use an actual normal computer to do their heavy lifting.

I do like it a lot more than 2-in-1 formfactors (where the screen folds back on itself) because they are bloody heavy and make pretty poor tablets.

How? Okay no I'm not that helpless. I know how to look for things. Let Me Google That For Myself.... oh look.

AI Overview
Stopping AI usage requires a conscious, phased approach: delete apps, utilize browser extensions to block AI, and return to manual methods for writing, research, and design. Actively choose human alternatives, such as using traditional search engines, sketching on paper, or brainstorming with colleagues to break reliance, suggests Charity Digital.

I'm only being partially facetious here. We are all using AI in some capacity, even when we don't want to or don't know we are. We can't Google search without and AI agent kicking in. You can't check in code on Github without some AI agent kicking in. That Teams meeting which was recorded? Well AI helpfully generated a summary for you without even asking. I took a photo on my phone today, Samsung somewhere is training their AI algorithm to colour correct it and make it pop. Anyway fuck all this, I'm going to do some completely offline gaming. Time to fire up ${game_of_choice} oh look it has integration with DLSS4.1 which NVIDIA burnt countless kilowatts to train AI models for.

It's a bit like not buying stuff from China, you can't do that. AI like China is part of our modern life supply chain now.

Shit you can't step into the London underground without some of your funds from your trip going towards Transport for London paying an AI company to help improve platform safety.

No that was their lobbying expense for that piece of legislation. It has nothing to do with their exemption right now which would not be disclosed the same way.

You don't understand what is being said here, that's $60k of lobbying on a single issue. That's actually fairly standard on a per issue basis. The difference is how frequently companies raise issues. E.g. Microsoft (quite an infamous lobbyist) spends around $30k-60k on each issue as well. They do however disclose on a quarterly basis $2.5m which bulk all the other non-previously disclosed issues.

Netgear disclose some $300k/year on lobbying the US government, not out of the ordinary for a company that size with that product portfolio.

Why can't both be true?

Yeah I remember those days. Remember we had "offline" TVs and then went out of our way to attach computers to them to make them "online" because we craved the added functionality such a thing provided?

Decades old does not mean good or better. If you think it does ask your employer if they'll provide horse parking and a trough to keep it hydrated when you ride to work. After all it worked for your great grandaddy.

Look can you give you dad his Slashdot account back? While you do ask him what a floppy disc is and its relation to the save icon, how to tune a carburetor, and what the term Over The Air meant before the days of mobile internet.

What customers? Sony sold the Bravia brand to TCL. If anything Sony is pissing off someone else's customers.

You completely misinterpreted what is happening here. These *ARE* recent models. Sony sold their Bravia brand to TCL. They are literally getting out of the business and don't want to support TVs period. There is no recent model you will be able to buy with this functionality.

I love how much I get to live in your head rent free. :-)

Argue? I'm not arguing, I'm genuinely concerned about someone who is afraid to "take it up the arse" for medical reasons. Prostate cancer is a killer of men.

Precisely zero people buy Surface devices because they are low cost or high performance. They have always positioned themselves on their unique formfactor. In fact they make a pretty damn shitty general purpose laptop. The Surface Laptop is the only WTF in their lineup that truly has never offered any compelling reason to buy - if you were after a normal laptop it was one of the worst value for money devices out there. At least their other devices were unique.

Apple does not have a "slate" formfactor device in its line-up. The comparison is silly. And Lenovo and Dell seem to not have a comparable formfactor under $2k, while hp abandoned it outright.

Name some. As you do think about how that use case is impacted by an ever changing content display, inability to search, being temporarily unstable and being generally uncountable, unprintable, unsavable, having no clearly defined count to the end showing no indication of progress within the content. etc.

I'm genuinely curious as to what you think is a good use-case for this, because I'm struggling to name even one.

Look your UID is low so I can't stress this enough, talk to your doctor about a prostate exam. I can only conclude that you haven't been checked considering you're criticising people who "take it up the arse" for the purposes of medical great examples like "covid". Go see someone about using a gloved finger in there, it could save your life.