I am using Public Mobile and my Poco F3 is not in their whitelist but I can "bypass the carrier check" and have VoLTE, it works fine. A lot of carrier can be bypassed.

But some like Rogers or Fido will block your IMEI or charge you 75$/month if your phone is not in their list, this is unacceptable.

This is exactly the issue - AI is great, as an intern.

"Oh, this new thing lets it see the whole project in context!" - Great, then why did it just add a bunch of functions that already exist? Also, why did it do that in a completely inappropriate spot?

"You just need to write a better prompt. You can even define style guides and stuff." - Great. Will that make it stop checking if that value that I clearly defined is null every freaking line?

"It's just following best practices." - No. It's following a path it found through all the StackOverflow questions it trained on in order to get to something that aligned with a vector representing something approximating the tokens associated with my question because it DOESN'T ACTUALLY THINK!

All of this is the type of crap an intern does. Except an intern actually learns, and you can start trusting them with more.

It feels like a really good extension of search results (hallucinations notwithstanding). I use it daily for little things...and then I go back through and clean it up to be actually usable. But I hate that when I try to point things like that out, I get responses like, "Oh, you just need a better prompt." These are people who couldn't do a proper Google search just a couple years ago, but they're suddenly a full blown engineer.

On top of that, I've got people I know who have ceded all their thinking ability to ChatGPT, and it's resulted in them sounding like an idiot. One of my supervisors styles himself as a chemist / inventor. Mostly it's benign - he plays with mix ratios to get the result he wants. But lately, he's quite literally gotten himself into arguments with professional industrial chemists because he started letting ChatGPT do all the math and reaction calculations and he can't understand how it can be wrong.

I've got marketing contacts whose eyes lose focus on a Zoom meeting because they're asking ChatGPT how to do the thing we're talking about, and then instead of asking appropriate follow-up questions to the group, they start spouting nonsense.

The thing I keep going back to is this: "In your own area of expertise, when you ask it questions, you can readily see the shortcomings. Why then do you treat it as gospel when asking about areas outside of your expertise?"

Don't get me wrong - I *do* think it's impressive. *Quite* impressive. But in real world scenarios I see it fail *all the time*, and everyone needs to stop pretending that this isn't happening.

Normally I don't give a flying Fibonacci about reducing corporate profit, but... yeah. I'm totally on board with this policy change. Especially since the exploit-bots hurt franchise owners rather than Big Hotel.

Yes, and thanks to their matrix, I can now reliably prove that my habit of watching a 100" display from less than 1m supports my need for a 32k screen.

Aside: I enjoy that their calculator happily jumps between imperial and metric throughout.

In Québec this is our first phone-free school year too, I know some parents and children want to basically strike and protest, because helicopter parents will not be tethered anymore...

Yes, but only some places like theatres and mall centre. I think in houses it is something like 4%, compared to 90% in Florida or even 60% in Canada.

Working from home, as a contractor, so always connected to client via VPN. A contract could be done with a 1MB link because there is about no comm needed, another contract for a broadcasting company required downloading/uploading gigs and gigs of video per day and the gigabit link makes a big difference here.

Father of the Smart Phone - Jim Sager Know how poor Steve Jobs stole the Mac design from rich Xerox.
They never tell you that RICH STEVE JOBS stole the Smart Phone from a poor undergrad... but the story's coming out, and it's why Warren Buffet sold his stock, why everyone's backing away.
I could have sued for about 100 million dollars for the past 20 years, but I didn't want money... When I designed the Smart Phone in 2000, I saw it would lead to the rise of the surveillance state and waited til now for maximum impact.
https://wolfsheadonline.com/biggest-story-of-the-century-the-smart-phone-design-stolen-by-not-invented-by-apple-google/
If Apple could sue 1 billion for caveman tech (round corners), how much does Apple owe me for:
#1 Virtual keyboard
#2 3 button nav
#3 App store
#4 Palm+Cellular
#5 Cloud Computing
#6 Contact list
#7 Advanced Scheduler
#8 The Smart Watch Apple Watch
#9 APPLE VISION PRO IN GOGGLE DISPLAY!
#10 Global Positioning System
#11 QR business Cards
#12 Wireless communications in a handheld device
#13 Fuzzy search settings by typing
#14 Different Sounds for different alerts & Vibro/Visual/Sound Alert combo.
#15 Voice recorder
#16 Air tags
#17 Wire to computer to move files
#18 Wireless
#19 Contextual help system / Adaptive onboarding and custom icon set circle around ?
#20 Spell Check
#21 Copy/paste, undo/redo
#22 Customizable programmable calculators
#23 GUI Principles for Mobile — Hideable zones / Customizable Home screen
#24 Email
#25 Media Casting from Mobile to External Display
#26 Filesystem Navigation in PDA/Smartphone
#27 Smart Spell Checking for Touch Input
#28 Foldable Screen Hardware Design
#29 Different Device size parameters to different users
#30 Ergonomics of Device Dimensions and UI Layout
#31 PC data link cable
And more: Turns out: Around $200 billion dollars.
Rumble: Story of the Century
Wolfshead Article
www.Techaform.com
Most Scammed Inventor
X Thread
Set A: link
Set B: link
Be aware Tim Cook knows Steve Jobs robbed me and refuses to honor me, but plays the Tyrant card. Steve Robs for Tim Crook.
Warren Buffet sold his stock directly in response to me contacting his lawyers once and twice.
The papers are copyrights signed by Carnegie Mellon. They invalidate most of Apple and Google's Smart Phone patents.
When you rally behind Jim Sager (goodnewsjim) you're rallying for a free and open world that says no to Big Brother Apple who turned people into governments and fought vs American free speech.
A choice is to be made by the Shareholders & Tim Crook:
I'm the past genius behind Apple.
I could be the Future of Apple or the End of Apple.
Watch the Video
I'm the Father of the Smart Phone.
I'm the reason Apple was a success in the past.
THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!! YOU CAN VERIFY THE DESIGNS and they're signed by Carnegie Mellon.
I'm getting bigger and bigger press: YouTube
This is good for this forum as you have the brains behind Steve Jobs posting here.
This is good for the Apple Community because I designed all the major features of the original iPhone/SmartWatch/Vision Pro.
No more trash designs.
I'm the man Steve Jobs robbed of over 100+ designs.
I forged a 5 trillion Apple Smart Phone Empire and 3 trillion for Google, not counting 3rd party devs.
I could have sued Apple/Google for tens of millions for decades, but waited til the full on Big Brother state came in...
I'm here to sweep in and save them from going full Orwellian boot stomping.
I'm here to save Apple from lack of creativity in design.
I could be the Future of Apple or the End of Apple.
The choice is up to the Shareholders & Tim Crook who cost his company close to 1 trillion fighting me instead of honoring me.
Watch the video, be impressed, then go to: Techaform
Virtual Keyboard: Link
Smart Phone Birth: Link
App Store: Link
Task Switcher: Link
Apple Watch: Link
Vision Pro / Goggles: Link
Mobile Cloud: Link
Copy/Paste Feature: Link
Scheduler: Link
Voice Recorder: Link
Spell Checker: Link
Contact List: Link
Alert System: Link
Home Screen UI: Link
Email: Link
Casting Tech: Link
CMU Papers: Link
70,000 Hours Experience: Link

ILLEGAL: Iranian terrorists have conquered EU. Human pawns are not cool.

Lies, Injustice and the Terhanian way!
Goliathman! coming to a theatre near you!

MSNBC->MS stands for Microsoft
.MSNsC lying for the WEF is Bill Gates.
.Google: Wuhan Bill Gates. Gates brags he funded wuhan bioterror labs.
.Think Comcast sucks? Bill Gates owns it as a way of frickin with us as psychological experimentation to see what we'll take. Bonus it's a state sponsored monopoly that local ISPS cannot share the poles and compete with.
. Google: ....Meredith Atwell Baker nbc comcast merger bribes..., Gate Bribes the FCC.
. Bill Gates makes GMO mosquitos.
.Bill Gates makes fake meat which causes cancer.
.Watch Universal Flu Vaccine CSPAN, Bill Gates predicts covid a month before hand and has a vax to sell us ready.
.Bill Gates is doing weather control, Google: Scopex...
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.We laughed... Bill Gates name adds up to 666, we ain't laughing now, dude's a fricker...
. Bonus Bill Gates is the big guy bribing officials to cover up Epstein, Buffet just gave him an extra 6 billion. Bill Gates openly lied about Epstein by answering a question with a premeditated answer unrelated to the question at hand and is very defensive... Melinda divorces him due to Epstein/covid-wuhan... Knowing is 1/2 the Battle.

Windmills I hear from fellow researchers never break even. Made by Blackrock as a slushfund They take down trees, they spend lots of money building em, then dust destroys the rotational component before they make enough electricity to pay for em. The real winner is nuclear. Nuclear would save us 13,000,000 lives a year from the invisible killer air pollution.

When I saw the poster for the new Fantastic Four movie, I thought it was generated by AI or by a fan in his basement. Then I saw the trailer... oh boy... this looks horrible... About all Marvel movies have bad CGI, bad acting, and dull and shallow scenario.

Except when they're not. I have repeatedly, explicitly told ChatGPT I don't want a bloody cheerleader; I want a devil's advocate that will tell me when I'm full of shit, when my story idea is nonsense, when I have plot holes you could drive the millennium falcon through, etc. If something works, tell me why. If something sucks, tell me why.

What do I get? Every damned response showers me with praise. If I give it some of my story to critique and it tells me what a genius I am, then I notice a detail I got wrong and point it out, it pivots and tells me how right I am for changing that detail.

"Chef's kiss" is the absolute worst. I have baked into my permanent customization never to use that phrase. I even said "Every time you use that expression, I'm going to club a baby seal to death." Not only does it ignore that instruction, it deliberately flouts it and jokes about it: "Chef's kiss! I know, but that seal had it coming."

I've read from other users that OpenAI has deliberately made it more obsequious so as not to alienate paying customers.