"more"

Yes. I put my lady on Linux and she had zero questions about changes. She's not a computer nerd, either. Everything works like she expects.

Almost everything has political ramifications.

Choosing to underpin your entire computing infrastructure with systems made by an untrustworthy foreign nation which are well known to be spyware, especially so.

Appeal to popularity is a logical fallacy

I'm on Linux. So, nope.

It's not about military. AI has the potential to replace trillions of dollars worth of white collar workers. If you pay attention you know we've already replaced trillions of dollars of blue collar workers with factory automation. AI is the next step in the glorious Leap Forward.

The best description of it I have ever seen is AI exists to allow wealth to access skill without allowing skill to access wealth.

Maybe it won't work but if it does it's worth trillions.

Heh, if their metric worked like that I don't think they'd make any matches.

Why? It's not like anyone's browser histories are being given to the public, nor is anyone forced to use this service. If you have privacy concerns then just dont do it.

./ makes up for it with high quality comments like this.

Economics is an excellent excuse machine to placate the masses when the rich extract wealth from the retirement accounts of the middle class.

Who would have thought that combining Capitalism and Imperialism would have been so successful. The approved history books in my charter school never mentioned this exciting innovation.

Non sequitur. One event does not relate to the other. There's a lot of bad shit in the world, it doesn't mean that we can ignore some of it by some arbitrary metric of harm. Nor did the poster try to argue that Pakastani terrorism is more serious than the Russian-Ukraine war, in fact the poster NEVER BROUGHT IT UP.

I honestly don't get the attitude that so many people have these days. It's like their brain is broken or something. Is there too much shit going on in the world to have a rational discussion anymore? Is everyone's brain broken by 24-hour news feeds? I don't know!

Just git clone it from here: https://android.googlesource.c...

It's got nothing to do with that, and everything to do with them not wanting anyone else to be able to monitor their Pixel hardware development without a costly (time/resources) reverse engineering effort.

If they cared about people replacing the OS they would just lock the bootloader or withdraw AOSP completely. It doesn't make sense to just bring Pixel phones down to the same level as every other phone, when they have the power to easily go further, if that is their goal.

The just announced it is pissing more money away on a new one called Sizewell C, and there is some free money for development of dead-end SMR technology as well.

This seems to be a response to AI. Hopefully that bubble bursts soon, or at least people figure out how to make it efficient.