Nah. It probably found instances of modern women talking about how their abortion allowed them to secure wealth and a nice career for themselves, and then correlated that with ancient practices of sacrificing children before demon-gods for wealth, power, and a good harvest, and then generated the image.

I wonder if the most influential data sources can be extracted from the system. I'll have to ask later.
Anyway, I recall that research has shown that if you limit AI to giving answers that only confirm with a particular worldview, the quality and accuracy of results goes down dramatically.

Follow citations from any article about "baby talk", "motherese", or "caregiver language". Start with this list of references.

Bingo. Netflix and Disney pay TV makers kickbacks to preinstall their apps in expectation of future subscription revenue. Another kickback is the requirement that subscription apps process payments through the Internet-connected TV OS publisher's payment processor, at a substantially higher rake than the 3% of PayPal or Stripe. A third is the requirement that subscription apps provide some percent of ad inventory on ad-supported apps to the OS publisher at no charge, which I'm pretty sure is why the ad-supported tier of Disney+ is unavailable on Roku TV.

In cases I've seen, the larger TV replaced a smaller TV below a wall of framed photos of family members.

So what size screen should people be buying instead? Should people choose their furniture by how easy it is to move across the floor to reconfigure a room between normal use and movie night?

That was never my intent. My intent was that even if I personally am not an Apple user, I have a good reason to cater to the needs of Apple users, in particular because they make up much of my audience.

What display would be connected to the system receiving the screencast? Remember that we seek to avoid Internet-connected displays, such as Roku TV, because of arbitration clauses and other shenanigans that the publishers of operating systems of Internet-connected displays are pulling.

Last I checked, only Finder and iTunes software could take a backup from an iPhone or iPad, and Finder was exclusive to macOS and iTunes to Windows. This means backing up an iPhone to anything but a MacBook requires rebooting into Windows and waiting for Windows to complete its own updates. Is that still the case in 2024?

Other than the 1000 AUD for buying the Mac in the first place.

I just checked apple.com, and the nearest Apple Store is 90.9 miles away. Not only is this much too far for a bicycle trip, but it'd also be a crime to use a bicycle on an interstate highway. Is there some sort of franchised Appls store, and if so, what is it called so I can use DuckDuckGo to find it?

Others on Slashdot have told me that one such feature that iMessage has and MMS lacks is adequate resolution for photos and videos. Another is being able to enter the chat in the first place to request that it be switched to MMS.

And breathe exhaust from the cars on the highway you walk along for 4 km (2 and a half miles) each way to and from the store. And risk getting hit by a car on the way there or back because sidewalks are inadequate. And risk your frozen veggies and chicken thawing.

I agree with this angle. However, I haven't been able to find living-room-sized dumb displays in stores anymore. It's either a desktop-sized computer monitor or a living-room-sized Internet-connected TV.

My point appears to have missed you; sorry. Once I have given up Google and Apple products, I may no longer buy an Android-powered phone or an iPhone.

It's never been explained to me the difference between the alleged "deep state" and the federal civil service. The Pendleton Act of 1883 shifted the civil service from a "spoils system," where the incoming administration conventionally fires everyone appointed by the opposite party, to one based on merit. This caused the civil service to gain the same sort of institutional memory as any other group of people that survives changes in leadership. Is that all "deep state" means, or is there more than that?

Last I checked, all TVs in living room sizes (as opposed to desktop computer monitors) came with streaming capability. They do this because the kickbacks to preinstall the apps of major subscription video on demand providers outweigh the extra cost of streaming hardware to the point where the manufacturer can actually reduce the sticker price. What name brand dumb TVs are you buying that don't have Roku, Amazon, Google, or some other streaming OS? (Location: USA)

I find many of the steps you list to be much easier said than done.

Once I have placed all major publishers of operating systems for Internet-connected TVs "into a personal perpetual denylist", then from whom should I buy a display sized for a living room? And once I have put both Google and Apple "into a personal perpetual denylist" over Google TV and Apple TV, then from whom should I buy a personal mobile phone?

How does one select a full factory reset without clicking through the full-screen prompt to waive access to the court system?

I thought this was exactly what we were trying to avoid.

I kept the box. My roommate threw it out and compared my objection to those of the characters on A&E's reality TV series Hoarders. How would I go about convincing my roommate not to throw out the box next time?

I tried to sign up to use ChatGPT, and the sign-up process halted on a demand for an SMS number. OpenAI's help page specifically states that landlines and VoIP are ineligible to activate a new account.

Unless you live alone, what would you use to display the output of this cheap eBay laptop? You can't easily fit multiple people around a laptop's built-in monitor, and materially all living-room-sized displays sold in major retailers include Roku or another Internet-connected TV operating system. I'm aware that digital signage displays exist, at a severe price premium compared to Internet-connected TVs of the same size. How would I go about convincing others that forgoing Internet connection is a feature worth the extra cost?