Of all the ridiculous things in the world to be worried about, this is one of the very most ridiculous of all. The rate of fires is massively lower than for ICE cars. You have loads of lithium battery devices in your house already, and you don’t (presumably) shriek with fear each hour of each day as you contemplate the terrifying death traps they apparently represent, tucked away next to your combustible household goods. And of course, it’s also such an outdated fear, because LFP is already well established — about *40%* of the global EV battery market — and has a substantially lower risk of fire than NMC.

These are not meaningful risks to your health and safety. Fumes, noise and car-dependent urban design are meaningful risks to your health and safety.

Wow. Committed to close to the start of the previous administration. I wonder how it'll get spun differently.

>"I agree with everything in your post except for that. My search engine is startpage.com, which acts as a proxy between me and Google so that it has no way of knowing who made which query."

I use both DDG and StartPage. StartPage is a non-Google search page, even though it returns Google results. So you do actually agree with everything :)

"on Apple there are a large number of applications which only have phone layouts"

If you are saying that the iPad will begrudgingly run old iPhone-only apps, that's true. But describing it as a limiting factor is not reasonable. Of the dozens of iPad apps I use - and I do use quite a lot - not one is running in iPhone compatibility. No matter what your need is, there are iPad-native apps to meet it. Usually it's the same binary - a universal app.

Besides, it's like complaining that your Ubuntu desktop is lacking because it'll run a bunch of old terminal apps that don't make use of the gui. It's silly.

Only 50 billion? Meh... (/s)

Look, it did not fall. It just did a special operation.

>"It's probably not legal, but M$ has always thought they were above the law."

They *are* essentially above the law. As evidenced by an entire history in which nothing is really ever done to slap down their monopolistic anti-competitive behavior.

Google isn't far behind.

>"I simply refuse to use an OS that leans so hard on trying to modify my behavior."

Me too. Which is one of many reasons all my machines run Linux.

And I refuse to use a browser that allows Google more control over the way the web works, works against open standards, and creates a seriously dangerous monoculture. Which is why all my machines use Firefox.

And I don't want Google having complete control over search either. Which is why all my searching is done with non-Google search pages.

>"Sounds nice, is unworkable in practice."

Oh, I think it is workable. But I don't think the Times team will get what they want that way. :)

Of getting a battery for. You can get a cheaper off-brand Chinese one but good luck getting a replacement battery when the battery inevitably goes. You basically have a slab of ewaste at that point unless you're going to play around with the electronics of it and wire up your own power supply.

As far as the rest of it make sure you have at least 8 GB of RAM and they're all basically the same at that point. You might want to get a high density display which I think Samsung has a model for if you're going to do stuff like play vector games on it

>"How on earth can you "exhaustively" deidentify millions of chat logs that could contain literally any personal details"

Exactly. There is no way. Except....

Expose the logs to the Time's team, but with extreme control. Meaning the Times could have people go into a secure room of OpenAI, with no personal electronics of any kind allowed, and use a locked-down machine of OpenAI's to search and view logs and tag some of interest. The data never leaves OpenAI's machines. And OpenAI can look at the tagged ones and ensure they are suitably scrubbed before a copy of ONLY THOSE are transmitted to the Times or court.

I think Samsung might be the only one making great Android tablets. I have used several. The last two have been in the "S" line. Current one I use is Galaxy Tab S9. They are expensive, but freaking fantastic screen, great build, fast, lots of RAM, etc.

Even their lower-end models are nice. But the S has that kick-butt screen.

So it's not a thought terminating cliche numbskull.

A thought terminating cliche exists to end debate by dumping a simple and wrong statement.

You are already thinking about the implications of whether or not it's possible to be happy with a 40-hour work week. That's thinking you're doing is why it's not a thought terminating cliche. And if you had any self-awareness you would have figured that out all on your lonesome

Oddly enough at least last I heard Marvel rivals is fully supported. It can best be described as playable just because it's a relatively modern game and the steam deck is getting long in the tooth but the company does actually support it and when it's broken they've fixed it.

Um... People that want to play PC games in the living room that's who.

There are tons of games that never get released on console that people like to play or that have inferior versions on the console.

The biggest issue here I think is going to be that the console only has 16 gigs of main RAM and I think it has 8 GB of video RAM.

It is at least upgradable but I think you really want 32 GB of RAM.

The Xbox and the PS5 for example have several strategy games that basically grind to a halt 2/3 of the way into the game because it's just too much for the CPU and RAM on the Xbox or the PS5.

Also if you already have a large library of games this is a convenient device that may be affordable with the price of RAM and hard drive skyrocketing because of AI bullshit.