While in general the hardware has been improving, manufacturers are experimenting more with deliberately making bad products at the lower end. I have a low-end Moto G Play, and the 2024 model's camera is a noticeable downgrade from the 2023 model. Presumably, they have to create some reason to get the pricier models.

But I would rather much be coerced into upgrading that way, compared to what Samsung does. They skimp their low-end phones so badly on storage that you only have 2 or 3 GB of space after their mandatory layer of crapware. It would cost them like $5 to add another 16 GB of storage and make the phone usable. They deliberately make the phone run out of space after you install a handful of apps.

The goal was to get me to move up to a higher-end phone, but I just went to Motorola. They still have an SD card, and the headphone jack.

I still use wired headphones. I have bluetooth earbuds I keep at work and other set I use for exercising, but at home, BT latency is unacceptable for videogames or making music. The absolute best set is always going to be wired and over-ear.

The horse is alive and kicking. I bought a new Motorola for $40 last year, would have been $120 unlocked. It's never failed to do anything I've asked of it. OLED screen is every bit as big and bright as whatever iPhone - I've used them all, working in tech support.

Samsung's main problem is they're emulating Apple.

People who aren't you, but who are near you. They also matter. We all know quite well you don't care about those people, as you've let us know on numerous occasions, but they do matter.

Most people get a new one annually and think of the price in terms of a monthly rate.

I've talked to people who really didn't comprehend that there are phones for less than $100, or phones that can be bought outright. He thought the prices on the tags were monthly rates, like for financing.

I have to question what these data centers would be used for. The guys at the controls don't seem to be angling to provide people healthcare, housing, jobs, or education in any capacity.

The same people who have been telling me my whole life that government can't do anything useful. Makes you wonder what they are doing with it, then.

Didn't Humane already produce and market an AI Lump? Do they think there's still room in the market after that amazing success?

I think the only ones waiting on "AI hardware" - in this context, seeming to mean a gadget saleable to consumers - were investors. Investors who believe that all OpenAI has to do is hire an Ive and they'll pop out an iRobot iPhone that people will want.

Their lack of understanding the technology doesn't surprise me. Their lack of understanding human needs and wants does a little, though.

Suck them both.

I wasn't thinking about academic integrity specifically. I was thinking of examples of both Sam's and his company's apparently flexible relationship with fact and truth.

"buildings won't be moved and created just because of your romantic notions. Juvenile delusions."

You just replied to a well known bot some clown has created by training a LLM on rsilvergun's posts. And you did it by saying something really stupid. Nice work there, sport.

I am not allowed to install software on my work machine and there's an approval process. IT can have a real text editor but I can't.

Granted this is partly a problem with my employer but it wasn't a problem until Microsoft ruined software I was using daily.

And why do they keep giving them?

At this point it's natural to conclude that B1zX is run by literal Nazis.

Some bitch came along and down modded my last three comments again. What a shock. It's too bad slashdot is now anti fact and anti science.

If I had seen your comment before I wrote my own, I would have simply modded your comment 'Insightful' instead. Or maybe 'Informative' - for me it's both.

It looks as though you may have been downmodded. Maybe what you wrote hit a little too close to home. Even I was - as you said - "inwardly impressed". And I think there's a good chance that he'll do well in life, at least in the financial sense. After all, the upper echelons of our society are full of smart people with flexible morals and the ability to lie convincingly.

Ironically, it might not be a death sentence when it comes to working for an AI company. The guy is obviously very bright, and he can tap-dance, and he's willing to have a "flexible" relationship with fact and truth. I imagine that if I was Sam Altman I'd be thinking "Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!"

The same Technology that made the "white man" more fit is also now destroying the environment and making us all unfit.