I agree with you, and my comment wasn't directed at you. I've seen so many people think that LLM's have some kind of intelligence (and therefore sentience) that I am actively fighting the use of anything that might suggest these programs are anything other than pattern matching algorithms.

LLM's don't hallucinate. They malfunction.

"Government, You've been suing us for decades(!). If you drop your cases against us, we'll lower our rates by 0.04% for three years before jacking the prices back up."

"Okay, it's a deal!" the government replied.

I like to think that Microsoft failed because people learned their ass-raping lessons from the desktop, and didn't want to repeat them on their mobile devices. But then I realized that's probably giving their customers too much credit for intelligence.

I'm going to refine my statement a bit. It's not that the SCOTUS itself ruled age verification to be unconstitutional, but that it refused to hear an appeal after a lower court ruled age verification to be unconstitutional. That does change the legal environment, so this is likely going to the SCOTUS again.

It's a proprietary company with the largest market share. There's the crystal ball technology. RMS foresaw it 40 years ago, before VMWare was even a fantasy, and formed the Free Software Foundation as a result.

RMS foresaw this happening 39 years ago, and established the Free Software Foundation to try countering it. Even though VMWare happens on a regular basis, people still insist on accepting proprietary software for business-critical functions, and then act surprised when the inevitable happens.

This crap already went to the US Supreme Court in the 90's and was ruled unconstitutional. These Texas legislators need to be impeached and removed from office for gross negligence. We shouldn't have to endure these assaults on our liberty over and over again.

A license tells recipients what their obligations are. It has no bearing whatsoever on what the copyright owner must do.

Appe's behavior is not excusable just because everyone else is just as bad. All that means is that we need more antitrust enforcement, not less.

The PinePhone is a fine little portable Linux computer. I hope that someday it will be able to make phone calls and take decent pictures. It has (had?) a catastrophic design flaw, though, being the lack of a feature to restore it to factory defaults. I lost my encryption code, and I was unable to continue using the default image. I could install a different OS image on an SD card, but the default installation was irretrievable.

I don't know about the FairPhone, so I won't comment on it.

We use Postgres for years with resounding success on some fairly large datasets, and it works great. I have many complex queries on multiple tables that each contain over 121M rows, and most of those queries run in a small handful of milliseconds. I have a few of those queries that take several minutes to run, but they are monthly or yearly reports. The day-to-day transactional queries are very fast.

I also rewrote the operational software for a small, multimillion dollar local company (they outgrew their old MS-DOS software) neary 20 years ago, and used Postgres for the backend (Qt for the front-end). Aside from the benefits of a real database allowing more than one person to manage the company's data, it was faster than the single-person system my software replaced.

I could go on, but this F1 team's database needs are trivially small for Postgres.

Next year's headlines will read: "Microsoft has fired Mustafa Suleyman and all of the staff from his Inflection AI startup."

The weight of the PSVR2 is completely irrelevant to its lack of appeal. No one in my familly even noticed it. Having bought the Quest 1, Quest 2, Quest 3, and PSVR2, the latter is, by far, the worst of the three on every metric except graphical fidelity. And graphic fidelity is the least important metric for VR.

1) It ties the user to a specific location. This sucks. Badly. Being able to freely move playing location is a must-have. After playing the Quests, the PSVR2 felt like a huge step backward.

2) It's expensive for no reason. The vast majority of the PSVR2 capabilities reside in the PS5, making the headset little more than a passthrough shell.

3) It has/had some significant quality control issues. I had to exchange two defective controllers alongside the headset itself. Each headset had one defective controller, requiring two different visits to Best Buy for the exchanges.

4) The VR library is skimpy compared to the Quests, and the few games that make use of the PS5's abilities were very few and very far between. There was very little to differentiate it from the Quests to justify the premium price. I wanted to return it (and the PS5's) very soon after buying it, as I expected it to sit unused as we played our Quests instead. I was proven correct.

5) Sony's game return policy is the worst in the industry. Once you download the first byte of a game, you can no longer return it. It doesn't matter if you haven't played it for even one second. Compare this to Facebook and Valve, where you have two hours of gameplay or two weeks of possession (whichever comes first) to return purchased games.

The bottom line is that the PSVR2 has failed because it's just a bad product all around.

It's illegal to have a bias that's not Government-approved. Having the proper bias is just fine. Having a bias without an appropriate level of government bribes is highly frowned upon.