..buy an Apple TV latest gen. My otherwise great Sony TV begin to slow down being based on Android. I bought used AppleTV 4K Gen 3 and could not believe how fast, slick and easy to use it is. It's turned by TV into something way way better and up to date. And no pop ups or sluggish UX. Re fridges, don't buy one, and if they insert the ads AFTER you bought one, demand a refund! They will learn. If it's Opt In, then fair enough.

Not mentioned in the Slashdot text is the way the movie The Day After Tomorrow envisioned this, albeit in an exaggerated form. However, the science, explained by the English scientist in the movie, was pretty accurate. The movie was produced by FOX, and they are right wing. I read somewhere the movie was made to exaggerate the effects of climate change such that when the reality struck, it would not seem so bad. And therefore, we would not go after big oil! Crazy or what? This reply powered by my 1000 watt solar panels. Doing my bit.

Thank you for that perfect and accurate analysis. You are spot on. Not mentioned in the Slashdot text is the way the movie The Day After Tomorrow envisioned this, albeit in an exaggerated form. However, the science, explained by the English scientist in the movie, was pretty accurate. The movie was produced by FOX, and they are right wing. I read somewhere the movie was made to exaggerate the effects of climate change such that when the reality struck, it would not seem so bad. And therefore, we would not go after big oil! Crazy or what? This reply powered by my 1000 watt solar panels. Doing my bit.

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You are spot on. Greetings from England, where the collapse of empathic intelligence by our leaders, and even some of the jobsworth public, is worrying. Same in Canada too, where they have banned hiking in the interests of making people get fat so big diabetes can profit. I mean, due to fire risk. The West has collectively lost the plot. No wonder Trump is working with Putin. For all the flaws of Russia, the people, like Asians, are not so woke and stupid.

I'm a designer of 40+ years experience. I finally tried Figma the other day. 1. It was almost impossible to work out how to use it - oh the irony! 2. The masses of videos that they post are terribly produced and don't explain how Figma works, just features babbling talking heads and awful 1970s graphics patterns. 3. I expected to be launched into a nice intuitive canvas where I could drag and drop elements, enter text to caption them and so on. Nope! Awful UX. 4. Was obvious the app is owned by a huge over staffed corporation with no direction, just a desire to grow stock value through complex subscription models. More revenue for Adobe. I am closing our company account and going back to sketching UX concepts on my superb Amazon Scribe (Gen 1) and then creating proper mockups and such using Adobe Illustrator, draw.io and even the simple but useful to have it their, drawing app built into Google Docs. (Insert > Drawing > New) The latter two allow collaboration or sharing. What I really want when working remotely from my team is a huge eInk whiteboard for under £2000/$2000.

I have been reading (and loving) Slashdot for so long, I cannot remember. (When was it founded?) And other than The Register (whose previous editor I knew), Slashdot has remained outside the dumb creepy toxic hateful rude childish woke behaviour of The Verge, Reddit, WIRED and in particular, Gizmodo. But I am saddened to read the comments below this column on the Robotaxi trial. You may notice that a few days ago, Starship 10 exploded during fuelling for an engine test. Despite the huge fireball and such, not a singe person was injured, never mind killed. That's because SpaceX are very careful about safety. Likewise this small Robotaxi trial in Austin, Tesla were making sure that if something did go wrong, the chances of injury to pedestrians and/or passengers was remote. Nothing they did interfered with the ability of the software to control the vehicles autonomously. Now this has been achieved, with only one error (that did not result in any harm and the vehicle corrected itself), Tesla can move to the next level with more vehicles, less supervision etc in baby steps. Once they do that, we're talking Level 4 autonomy. Yes, they are late with FSD, but damn, it's taken no longer than the 10 years it took Sony, Philips, Toshiba, Matsushita etc to develop DVDs, a far less involved achievement. (I own a Model Y LR with FSD here in UK. Cannot use FSD yet, but I paid £6000 for it because I know it will eventually work, and as a software dev, understand some good things take time.)

He walked.

:) Slashdot wants me to type more here, so, la de dah, de dah, de lah. I do like a strong pick me up after a galactic snooze.

I love their stuff, just yesterday received a 140w GanPower charger with a little built in display. Anyway, thought they were founded by ex Google and Apple employees from USA.

Are you sure out crime rate is lower than Europe and USA? Keep an eye on X or some of our local newspapers that cover it better than the MSM. Two fatal stabbing within walking distance of my home in West Sussex on the seafront. But yes, you are spot on about our country frog boiling into an Orwellian state. British don't care and tend to say things like "If you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to worry about." Yet thought crime is now a thing.

But faster, and black.

With what is going on here in Total Surveillance & Arrested for Hurty Words Land, you can bet true state sanctioned mind reading will become a thing within 5 years here. They are already about to ban & monitor banter (in person chat) in our last bastions of social liberty, the pub. All to stop us taking the pee out of men who pretend to be women because narsassistic tendancies by misgendering them.

But it will happen covertly somewhere like designer babies that have been offered since the late 1990s to 'parents' willing to pay. Saw an ad in the Palo Alto Weekly in the 1990s that allowed 'parents' to select the characteristics of their 'child'. Ad was by a biomed company trailing the technique. The ethical factors here are off the scale.

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