That's very nice of you to provide a demonstration on how to be an idiot. My key takeaway on your demonstration of "how to be an idiot" is to act super duper smart but be incapable of reading.

I'd say its absolutely useless for that job. SO you have something you don't know how to do, and don't know how to evaluate, and you have a program that sometimes kind of can do things, but its trained on random data with no actual understanding of what it's doing, and you're trusting it to work? I'll take the result of a google search over that any day of the week. At least then I'll get several options and can compare them to see what feels right. About the only people who could use this are so technically clueless that they can't od the job anyway, and trusting the AI is rolling the dice with a random answer that may or may not work. Or have massive security holes. Or even remotely solve the problem. At current level it's at best a mediocre replacement for a google search, and it won't be much better in our lifetimes.

Just get an older one (I'm sure Goodwills and eBay is swimming with them). The darned things never seem to break. My alarm clock was a free gift from the electric cooperative that my mom received in like the early 1990's. She gave it to me since she already had one - that thing went with me to college and back and is still waking me up every morning.

Yeah - I understand using your phone as an alarm when travelling and such, but if you normally sleep in the same place every night, it just makes sense to setup a fixed alarm clock there.

While I USUALLY have my phone in my bedroom, there's non-zero chance it might be downstairs or over in my home office. That fixed alarm will still wake me up though.

"Also - remote desktop software is the biggest kluge ever. That should have gone away with Windows 95."

Now there's a premium insight. This one really knows what he's talking about! I mean, X isn't Remote Desktop software, right?

"I don't know why people keep on with Wayland meaning the end of X."

Because zero-sum game is how tribalism works. Choice is only good for choosing to join the team.

It's virtual all the way down ...

Heck, I remember "allow 6-8 weeks for shipping."

They are, but the summary is also a bit misleading. The fact that they are adorned with RGB lighting is completely irrelevant to the story or why the FTC cares.

No need to even mention RGB. Just: Razer falsely advertises face masks as N95 and FTC is not pleased

I can attest to that. There's a decent amount of COBOL code in some of our local programs that is using 2 digits with the logic that 78 (when the system was first installed) is 20 + number and greater than 78 is 19 + number.

That was good enough for the "operations" fields (eg when something happened, or a bill date) but it was incredibly sloppy and would eventually break in 2078. I'm thinking we'll bee off that software by then and if not I don't particularly care myself.

A lot of people seem ok profiting off of deals with the CCP.

Many are so fixated on money as power and the means to convey value that they fail to see the manipulation.

China is using old colonial tactics against the US and Europe. Trade as a means of political control.

When you work in China the supply chain is under the control of the CCP. Who knows what components are being swapped out to spy on foreign militaries and their families.

Apple controls the hardware and software design. But China actually controls the hardware.