What are good places these days? I miss Fry's Electronics, CompUSA, Computer City, etc. :(

If Apple still sold newer small and light iPhones models like its minis and SE, then I would get the newer models. :(

The wealthy prefer a dystopian hell hole for 99.9% of the population and extraordinarily god-like opulence for themselves. They want to be able to control who lives and who dies on such a fundamental level that they are like the Pharaohs of old literally exalted to godhood.

You cannot as a regular person comprehend the kind of greed that a man like Elon Musk or Bill Gates experiences as their normal state of being. It is way past just wanting money or yachts or any of that and into the point where they want to be transhuman.

And you need to understand that they do not think of you as a human being. You are not at the same level organically or as a species in their eyes. You aren't even at the level that you for example perceive a chimpanzee as in their eyes. To a guy like Elon Musk you're more like a slime mold. An utterly alien existence that might occasionally be useful.

I mean you could stop voting for right-wing politicians because you don't like queer people or brown people or whoever the fuck it is you don't like (in Japan it's certain job descriptions because the Japanese can't tell each other apart well enough to create racism).

You could also get over that stupid 12-year-old feeling of it's not fair when you see somebody having food and shelter without being miserable 40 hours or more per week.

But you're not going to do that. Or if you do your friends and family aren't. So like crabs in a bucket we are going to destroy ourselves.

I'm not acting like there's anything that can be done about it I'm just venting. Flaws in human reasoning and emotions mean our species is doomed and it is incredibly frustrating that we're all going to die for such a stupid and idiotic reason.

Who knows maybe one of the other species will take over after we kill ourselves. Smart money is on raccoons. A few more mutations and they'll have opposable thumbs. Beavers are also in the running.

The population decline from low birth rates isn't drastic enough. You can look up how the math works out but there is a long tail of increased population growth before you see the crash. It has to do with how you already have all these people of childbearing age going through their lives.

So long before our population could adjust we're going to get hit with huge amounts of layoffs that will cause massive amounts of social strife. There's no getting away from it.

There won't be much of an experiment per se. In practice it will quickly devolve into a few big players that control platforms people use so that they can continuously access new training material.

So microsoft, Apple maybe and Facebook and possibly but probably not Twitter (since we just learned 80% of the accounts on Twitter are Russians and bangladeshies pretending to be American conservatives) will continue to thrive because they will be able to tell the difference between a bot and a human being thanks to their control of the platform.

Everyone else was just accessing free training data goes tits up soon. Some of them will be bought out.

In addition to devastating the job market and devouring electricity and water AI is also going to result in huge monopolies because it's a technology that lends itself to monopolies inherently.

It's supposed to be the answer to the question "if nobody buys the wealthy's products how are they going to stay rich?"

The goal here is to replace as many workers as possible and eliminate the dependency on consumers.

The ultra wealthy want to go back to being like kings. Basically feudalism.

They will have a very tiny number of guildsman and scribes and a handful of knights to keep them in line.

Everyone else has a lifestyle below that of a medieval peasant because you're not even needed to tend the land anymore, they will have machines for that.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people don't realize what's happening here. Even more so there are the people who realize it but just kind of put it out of their mind because the idea of the ultra wealthy dismantling capitalism is so far outside what people view as possible that they can't emotionally comprehend it even if they can understand it intellectually.

And of course there are the numb skulls who think that they are somehow going to profit from the collapse of modern civilization. It's a big club boys and you ain't in it.

Europe like America gives too much money to its 1%. The only way to maintain their economies is with cheap goods made by slave labor in China. That's the only way to offset increasingly large amounts of money being moved from the bottom to the top.

If you want to fix that you have to cut off the flow of money to the top and we're not going to do that. There's a variety of terrible reasons why that is the case but it just is.

I honestly do not know a solution to prevent human civilization from collapsing. I suspect that within 10 or 20 years we are going to hand nuclear launch codes over to religious lunatics and that's going to be gave over for humanity.

I definitely do not know how we avoid regressing back into feudalism even if we don't destroy our species. People just like worshiping rulers and kings and the ones that don't don't have the tendencies towards violence that the ones that do have. If it's one thing Afghanistan taught us it's that a very small number of idiots willing to use terrible violence can install a very very small number of people as absolute rulers.

We could counter this with education and critical thinking but even among people who should be well educated all I'm hearing is how we should all go into the trades and be plumbers or whatever. Anti-intellectualism and a hatred and disdain for experts dominates discourse now. That overpowering 12-year-old urge to not be told what to do has completely overwhelmed society and I do not know how you push back against that.

Basically don't tell me what to do.

Another massive round of layoffs.

It's okay gramps, we got you. Try these links:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
https://it.slashdot.org/story/...
https://entertainment.slashdot...
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
https://entertainment.slashdot...

I'd post more, but then we'd be in 2024 territory and that's starting to go too far into the past. FYI Slashdot has posted over 75 Plex related stories. Maybe read this site more often?

Cool server app, but doesn't have a TV client, so the end result is just as broken for the people this Roku change affects. More so actually since most people's TVs are in the same network as their Roku server and thus aren't impacted.

I wanted to like Jellyfin, but there are downsides.

Looks good, but I can't find the app in my TV's store so it's a complete non-starter. There's far more to Plex than just storing and serving media into a web browser. This story is about Plex enforcing something on TV apps. Promoting a service that doesn't also have a TV app is non-solution.

Like even more expensive power bills? Is that good?

Give it up. No nuclear plant will be built within the next 20 years in the UK as a result of this decision. Even the ones that are underway are horrendously resource constrained and literally none will meet time and budget.

In 25 years when the first reactor comes online. It takes a great deal of effort to plan so far ahead to miss a boat. This is why America is better. The Second Amendment allows people to shoot themselves in the foot without waiting 2 decades.

No. At an order of magnitude you're running into serious health risks. 1000ppm actively affects you. There are plenty of studies to back this up. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a... there, note the decline in cognitive performance at 945ppm. Here's another one looking at performance at 1000-1500ppm https://www.sciencedirect.com/... In fact a CDC study during COVID found a weak link between performance and CO2 in as little as 650ppm https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cd... So no, even the "we're not sure vaccines don't cause autism" idiots disagree that the 1000ppm number is off by an order of magnitude.

Here's a study saying 1000ppm CO2 levels impact your sleep: https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
The UK HSE actively recommend taking action if you exceed 1500ppm CO2 https://www.hse.gov.uk/ventila...
OSHA regulations say your 8 hour concentration in the workplace shall be below 5000ppm, and they generally aren't well known for good workplace health standards (the USA lags the EU, UK in this regard). By the way CCOHS recommends the STEL is only one order of magnitude higher recognising that even 15min at that exposure is extremely hazardous to your health and mandating that employers provide supplied air respiratory protection if you're in that order of magnitude. The Dutch RIVM mandate CO2 levels below 1200ppm in the workplace.

The idea that 10000ppm+ CO2 is required for any effect on people dates back to the 80s. Maybe update your knowledge to this side of the millennium bug.