That's a big red flag. They aren't going to offer that service for free. AI uses a lot of power. So either it's there in the hope of all upsell, or they intend to harvest your data, or both.

Need more details.

Also please improve Firefox for Android. Thanks.

I recently bought a Fitbit, and one of the best features is the smart alarm clock. Instead of just going off at a particular time, it waits until you are naturally awake in the half hour leading up to the designated time. Much gentler and I greatly prefer it.

So there is a reason to pay more for a simple alarm clock, but mine does not require a subscription. If they start requiring one, I'll return it immediately.

Nio has been doing it for years in Europe and China, and it doesn't seem to be a problem. Their cars aren't heavier than other similar ones, and the robots are reliable. The look like a car wash, and it takes about 3 minutes to do the swap. Don't even need to get out of your car.

No need to imagine, you have been able to do that for years. Nio has had battery swap stations running for some time in Europe, and they are great.

Faster than pumping dino juice, and the battery get is guaranteed to meet a minimum, high specification. Never heard of any problems, but if there were you would just swap it out again for a few Euros.

You have infinite battery warranty too because if you did ever manage to put enough miles on yours to wear it out, just get it swapped.

You don't rely on their generosity for the warranty, you rely on the law.

I'm the UK it says that things must last a "reasonable length of time". For a thermostat you would be looking at at least 10 years, arguably more due to the high cost.

It's about lowering the skill ceiling so that they can pay substantially less. If there are productivity gains that's just a bonus.

The goal here for AI is to eliminate wages. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Remember good enough is always good enough especially when monopolies exist and we refuse to vote for politicians that will enforce antitrust law because we're busy freaking out about whatever Petty moral panic or culture War bullshit the boob tube tells us to today

And Donald Trump keeps fucking kids but hey what are you going to do right?

What did you think I was actually going to treat a comment is stupid as yours with the slightest bit of respect?

If you are too soul searingly stupid to use Google long enough to find the damage billionaires are doing to your life then frankly I do not know how it is that you've gotten this far without being eaten alive by puppies.

The words you are typing? You literally wrote go on amazon. Read that again. Slowly. Go. On. Amazon.

Just the fact that I need to explain to you that Amazon has a practical Monopoly on online shopping and online marketplaces...

And they didn't get there by accident. They went around buying up potential competitors.

Just because somebody in China can dump their goods on Amazon after giving Amazon a large cut of their profits doesn't mean you have competition and I cannot believe I have to explain this.

Christ it's no wonder we elected a pedophile rapist felon to be president. Twice..

You're replying to an llm. It's just somebody training a chatbot off my comments. Also Trump fucks kids. I say that with full understanding that the llm has already picked up on the fact that Trump fucks kids and has been repeating it which is fucking hilarious.

Dude once the report was made you didn't need flock to track them regular police work could easily do that.

It doesn't even make it easier it's not hard at all for the cops to find somebody without a 24/7 surveillance state.

So you need to ask yourself why they have you ready to give up your rights and your privacy without a second thought because if you even gave it a second thought you'd have realized regular police work could have found the guy with ease.

They got you. You need to take a step back and figure out how they got you.

The shooting suspect was found because someone reported them. If you just have the slightest touch point with news you know that but here they are just fucking lying to me.

Short-term if you want to shut down flock in your area do a bunch of freedom of information requests for the information. After about a year when it becomes clear that you can get information about the coming and goings of your local politicians and in particular which Republicans are frequency the gay bars (it's all of them but they don't like it when there's proof) then your city will cancel all the contracts.

Eventually they will find a way around that.

I keep saying this but if privacy and rights and freedom have any importance to you whatsoever you need to take the culture War bullshit that you've been trading your rights for and let it Go. This does mean you need to learn the difference between culture War bullshit and actual civil rights.

Otherwise every time an election comes around a bunch of propaganda will get blasted into your eyeballs and you will be so freaked out by whatever the hell the news media is telling you to be freaked out about that you will race to vote for people that will put flock cameras everywhere and monitor everything you do say or think...

Ordinarily competition would prevent this kind of nasty rent seeking because there would be competitors that would sell viable products without the nastiness

Billionaires have dominated our economy and they do not like capitalism. They do not like it one bit.

So you have a lot of trust and duopolis and monopolies. You have six or seven companies that make basically everything you buy except a handful of silly artisanal crap.

Under Joe Biden in America Lina Khan was working on multiple antitrust cases and we would have seen some of the effects in biden's second term if he got one. Same if Harris had won.

Capitalism like any game requires a referee and we let Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump convince us to fire the referee.

Pretty sure I tried that but failed. I actually suspect it is some kind of manual problem related to minimizing FP abuse?

In my list of dimensions of evaluating generating AIs, I forgot three of the most negative ones. Criminal profitability is pretty obvious, though the crooks don't show their profits so you'd have to steer backwards by assessing their efforts, presumably correlated with the most profitable scams. Another negative dimension is related to "best for generating AI slop". The third that comes to mind is "best support for self harm". And I'll probably think of a couple more as soon as I click the Submit button...

I think you mean "effective opposition", but that's along story.

In solution terms, perhaps each YOB supporter should be obliged to talk to a couple of "nice" foreigners long enough to learn how much disgust the YOB is producing everywhere in the world. I think three minutes should suffice.

And in the process of feeding a troll and propagating a vacuous Subject, too.

Funny story time. I knew one of the seminal trolls many years ago. Perhaps he thought he was a flame warrior? When I first encountered him he was actually a master's student in the same department where I got my CS degree. He just loved being a nasty offensive and trollish person, apparently for the sake of being nasty.

Later on I heard that he was working in a fast food place, perhaps flipping burgers. Hard to imagine a person with his personality at the counter. Later I heard he had died. At that time I actually wanted to discuss his history in terms of "lessons to be learned", but the reaction was "We mustn't speak ill of the dead." (Which may remind you of one of the YOB's latest gaffes.)