This sounds like some marketing bullshit. It's not remotely verifiable.I have a lot of doubts about everything reported on this story.

> But honestly, why do we have accounts at all? 99% of the crap we do on our phone doesn't actually need it.

I don't. I haven't signed into a Google account on my phone in years. I run Lineage without Gapps or even microG stubs and just use F-droid.

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

..but I realize I'm an outlier. It use to not be that way. In the 90s/2000s every tech enthusiast would wipe a machine and reinstall Windows when they got it to get rid of the bloatware. Replacing a phone OS would not only be commonplace in that era, but be demanded by consumers. In the early days, I even knew non-technical people who jailbroke their eyePhones all the time. Hell even people with kids an "zero time" would still do this stuff for fun.

Consumer exploration and curiosity has been atrophied. People want stuff that "just works," ... even though none of it actually works and the Cloud Gods can wipe your entire account with thousands of dollars in purchases overnight if they want. It's all DRM and no physical floppy disks.

Both of my vehicles are still stick shifts, a 5spd WRX and a 6spd Tacoma. You'll take them from my cold dead hands!

You will own nothing AND be perpetually in debt while not owning it.

> I suppose TV manufacturers could make it impossible to use the smart TV if you never connect it to the Internet, but they'd probably see mass returns to the store if they tried that.

They're getting close. Wal-Mart's TV brands (Onn and they recently bought Vizio too) will not work without a Wal-mart account ... and people are still buying them. I thought it was required just to use them as TVs, but doing some more research, it seems you can still use HDMI without a Wal-mart account. But I bet in a year or two, they won't even let you do that.

Huh ... so your reply makes you sound like you have limited reading comprehension and critical analysis skills. Very interesting. I'm sorry you're retarded. I really am. Maybe you can work on that?

I've seen a lot of these residential proxy services. They are expensive! Now we know how they work! This is probably just going to make the cost of those services skyrocket.

> Now answer that same one for your orange hero trump

Ummm... why do you think my "hero" is the Orange Pedophile. Just because I think communists deserve free helicopter rides doesn't mean I support the man who's sucking Israel's dick.

TDS runs both directions: https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

If I lived in California, I'd be tempted to get a physical, copper landline to be one of those remaining 200,000, just to piss AT&T off.

These aren't image or multi-mode models are they? There are already tons of image models out there (SDXL, Illustrious, Pony, Flux, WAN-video, etc.) and most can easily load on local hardware. Image models are a lot easier to train than coding LLMs, and I don't see a lot of these big companies pouring that much more into them when they can just pull and merge checkpoints from Civitai by people who've done the heavy lifting. After all, OpenAI pulled their Sora product.

Sony Playstation uses the FreeBSD TCP/IP stack and some other bits and pieces of their kernel. I think Nintendo does too. You'll find the FreeBSD license mentioned in a lot of license disclosure screens buried in the settings of consoles. It's a very stable network stack.

Stripe has censored people in the past, just like every other payment provider. I once interviewed at Braintree (Paypay/Venmo) but didn't get the position. I've never had Venmo and I deleted my Paypal in 2022:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

Nah, I don't think that will help the acceleration. Building them out keeps the money shifting and prolongs the frauds. I don't know how we get ram relief at this point. The economy will collapse entirely before that's allowed to happen.

Despite electing a communist mayor in their largest city, it seems like the state government is making a solid good move here. We already have way more capacity than China. I high doubt any of the current model hosting providers are anywhere near capacity or have growth curves even approaching them. It's all investment fraud and NY is doing the right thing to put a hard break on the newest Tulip Mania

No, I think this guy's analysis is pretty sound:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I mean, you can hear how bad it is if you just look for local news clips of people complaining. I have a high school friend who is a logistics manager involve in plant construction and he's been contracted by his company to several of these data centers. He said the water stuff is overblown, but the noise, energy and general pollution are not; not to mention the scale and speed of the build-outs.

and just look at the citizen protests. They're very intense, and the local politicians (who are obviously bought and paid for by tech companies) and trying to act like the people protesting aren't even local:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I think it's worse than you realize.