How many apples has Gemini held and analyzed the surface of through vision? Because I don't even like fruit and I must be up to 100 or so in my life now. Along with 50 oranges, 100 bananas, 10 pears, 10 cantaloupes, 10 pineapples. Imagine the data I have collected with my hands, which is basically a 3d digital scan of the fruit. Now multiply that by everything else I have seen/smelled/felt with my hands. Doesn't come close to the density of data fed into AI. AI only senses words.

They bundle everything together in Teams 365 Copilot Office Windows Edge that cannot be unbundled. It includes a toaster and a toothbrush too.

It's the cannonball run of the assholes competing to kill all trees and remove all oxygen from the atmosphere first while accumulating the most Nixonbucks.

First thing is, we got to stop with the 0.5% and 2% one-time peppercorn gratuity donation taxes and take it all but $100M, and put progressive taxes up to 99% on excessive corporate, personal, investment, and interest income. Becoming too rich buys too much corrupt influence that society cannot survive.

Slightly better odds than proving Zuck is human. Zuck moves like a fucking robot who just landed on Earth last week.

Agreed. 90% tax at $25M, 99% at $100M. And we need to collect $79 trillion from the uber rich that stole from ordinary people in the last 40 years. Billionaires and trillionaires do not create any value themselves and take 100% of value from others that they turn around and use against us to favor themselves in every possible way.

Maybe we should stop giving lots of money to assholes.

Would it be useful to think of submarines and airplanes as alive? Because that's basically what people are doing with AI.

It's good to be an optimist. Just know that you will be disappointed.

Thank you for identifying yourself as a right wing extremist. Making statements and then not being able to give one example to prove your point. Maybe what you perceive as hate is just the difference between what you understand and what the real world is. And no, asking people to back up what they say is not "hate". Even if you are wrong and lose.

Not all reactions to external stimuli are feelings.

My suspicion is that they're sending a message. Trump has been busy pissing away strategic alliances while he pisses off the rest of the world with his arrogance, presumptuousness, and American exceptionalism. Tech companies are collateral damage; except they're not really "collateral" when you consider their knee-bending, ring-kissing, and sometimes out-and-out support for Trump.

Just as Austria recently sent up fighter jets to "escort" unauthorized American military planes out of their airspace, the rest of the world is distancing and decoupling itself from the US. Big Tech was already suffering from a lack of trust; now America's other transgressions on the world stage have rendered everything American toxic. That's especially true of companies such as Microsoft that hold the keys to the information kingdom.

Other countries have had enough, and are actively seeking and/or building alternatives to companies and institutions which support American hegemony. Expect lots more news like this in the coming months and years.

Qualcomm on their latest phones makes really high quality modems that have much better connectivity.

If you buy one of the cheaper mediatek phones, some of which get up to about $500, they have good performance on the soc but the modems suck and they don't maintain connectivity.

The Google modems stunk too, I've heard some people say the very latest ones are better but I haven't tried them. If I'm going to drop $700 on a modem I can just pick up a OnePlus 15r with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and an x85 modem to go with it.

That's for Android. For iOS The actual Apple modems when they use their own really suck. Although I think they still use Qualcomm modems in a lot of their hardware. You do have to pay attention though.

For years I'd connectivity problems and my kid on iOS didn't and it was the modem more than anything else. Finally switching to a Qualcomm based chipset and modem solved to those connectivity problems. The downside is you really want at least the x75 modem just because one of the other problems is 5G was rolled out in completely and a lot of early 5G phone modems really suck and are missing tons of important features.

My grades 3-5 next door neighbor long ago in Southern California was a toll call. My grandfather had given me a couple of wooden box crank ringer phones left from rural East Texas modernization. My friend and I ran speaker wire between the two houses and used two of these relics for utility and prank calls.

Gemini tells me that as long as the guy doesn't spend any of the bitcoins since this was a transfer only at this time, there's nothing to report to the IRS. He didn't buy any bitcoins or sell any bitcoins. wallet transfers are not counted by the IRS as a transaction. No past taxes or back reporting is necessary. When he does finally sell these bitcoins, he'll have to pay capital gains on 100% of their current value since his starting value ("purchase" if you will) was zero presumably. He'll want to make sure he has established a virtual paper trail now for any future time that he finds himself needing to pay taxes on this.

Interesting stuff. Wish I had some bitcoins to find on my hard drive.