When you see Georgia maga minions accusing a Hyundai battery plant of using up all the Georgia farmers' water, but welcoming data centers, you question if they are on the correct medications.

If you've never had the experience of having to close and reopen the door while you're putting a huge load of groceries away, then your refrigerator is an antique! (I'm still not clear why "fridge" has a "d" in it, but "refrigerator" does not. No, I'm not saying I want the D!)

Obvious post was karma-whoring for a "Score:5, Insightful". Obviously!

I am trying to set up Matter in my home (Google Nest speaker(s) in every room.) My oven is on WiFi (useless feature), but not my fridge, it only has a beeper. The oven/stove talks Bluetooth to the over stove microwave/light/vent fan; that actually is a useful feature. The WiFi Kohler Faucet is also a useless feature, other than that is should eventually turn the faucet off if someone leaves it one. Which of course begs the question: why not build refrigerators that can close their own doors?

My GE Cafe fridge does have a beeper. That only works if I am withing earshot of it.

How do I train an LLM on Feng Shui?

I think we should focus more on garden bots that kills both pests and weeds. They already have a commercial farm robot that destroys weeds with frickin' laser beams! It uses AI to identify the weeds, and "learns" by compiling pictures of weeds.

AI

They don't. LG TVs have an absolutely trash interface. I have a 43UT8000 and it is the laggiest fucking thing ever made. I even have it set to never sleep for efficiency and it still occasionally tells me to wait while it gets its shit together before I'm allowed to change inputs.

If a color change would qualify for a refund then going from no ads to ads certainly should. The ads don't go with my kitchen.

Buy they can make an 11-inch ipad and sell it for $350. Are you really suggesting that they can't put that into a clamshell form factor for $600?

I live in semi-rural eastern Tennessee and our schools have 1:1 laptop policies with district provided and managed equipment. What school district out there is requiring parents to buy devices like that in this day and age?

I mean, Thunderbolt in phones isn't a thing, but the rest? iPhone 17's SSD is 256GB which is the same size as our standard corporate laptops (and without the 100GB of Windows bloat) so claiming "SSD is too small" is an odd claim to make. If you're docked to external peripherals, "screen too small, shitty on screen keyboard" is similarly a strange complaint. "Wrong OS" is only applicable if you have some specific application stack you need to run. If it's just "I sent email and push spreadsheets around" then ios and android are totally fine.

There is a very large swath of office type workers who "dock your phone" would work fine for.

I *was* in the high 700s, I had a 790. I got there by just getting one card and keeping it paid off.

Then I got some more loans and paid them off and now my score is *lower*

You keep telling me things about how you think it work which are obviously incorrect and then you want to tell me more things and expect me to believe them. That's literally insane.

AMD has superior power management in their chip, in terms of being able to shut down functional units when not in use, so now that they are on the same or superior process technology they have an efficiency edge over Intel. Intel was only ahead of AMD in mobile because they had superior process tech. That is now over and there are no signs it's coming back (Intel having failed at getting acceptable yields with two process shrinks in a row now) so AMD has the clear edge for the time being.