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.

Social media harms adults as much as it does kid. What defines social media anyway? A forum? An AOL chat room? Neocities? What is off limits now? Could a kid even make a Geocities or Tripod page today with these limits?

These types of laws go down the path where every website or app you produce will require registration to the government permanently tying what you put up to your identity. It has absolutely nothing to do with protecting children. That's the lie they sell. Facebook was literally started the day after DARPA shutdown Digital LifeLog, it was funded by Peter Thiel and it has direct ties to US intelligence agencies. It was always meant to control us, and I don't see how the EU really cares about meaningfully stopping that.

This is about control of adults. The OP's statement is not "objectively false." Its 100% true. This is the means by which you stop dissent, starting with kids.

Wow, that's a big change from their views back in 2014:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

Carpet factories use more water and dump more waste. The water is an issue, mainly because they're pulling aquifers in the desert and the "closed loop" systems still have evaporation. That water leaves the watershed and travels hundreds of miles. Sure you can't destroy water, but drinking water is rare and difficult. Still, the water issues are not what people should be focusing on. A lot of that is not the core issue.

The core issues include electricity, building resources and noise. The low frequency sounds from the new generation of data centers is absolutely terrible, and they're building them just miles from where people live. There are countless videos were you can clearly hear them. I live near an airport, but airport sounds stop at some point, and people know what they're getting into when they buy. I hope these people recoup massive money from lawsuits, because there's no way they'll be able to sell their homes.

It's not just the surveillance state and the coding/image generations. I think there's something way more sinister we're not being told. There's no reason for this much capacity otherwise.