No, they have their own cloud, they don't use the consumer one

It'll be funny if genAI flops because no one can afford workstations and smart devices to use it anymore.

Will the manufacturers allow themselves to become uncompetitive on a world scale, though? Maybe the Chinese EVs will make it a moot point but lowering efficiency will be ceding market anywhere that keeps up their standards locally.

It's more a jab at how if you want a truck in the US (since they're a high selling segment, lots of folks want one) often you're stuck with oversized F150 monstrosities with terrible mileage due to an ancient tariff called the chicken tax, and some other economic factors. Likewise for reasons I've never delved into, towing capacity varies wildly between the US and EU for similar cars in ways that I'm not sure are engineered around, just tabulated differently, or if different rules about road grading come into play. So for a flexible vehicle you're incentivized to overbuy something that may or may not even fit in your garage.

Isn't this one of those stupid situations where the shareholders could sue if the company leadership did the 'less optimal' strategy of retaining low volume consumer customers?

I have an old desktop in the basement on Windows 10 because it can't be upgraded (I guess I could try the Rufus thing?), and it is only used by the kids using tinkercad or slicing print jobs for the 3d printer. I should probably switch it to Linux but it isn't really used for anything else so not really worth the effort. They're not using it on the open web downloading programs or ads with exploits, and it spends most of its time turned off. Certainly it isn't going to get replaced with a new Windows 11 machine.

Yeah it isn't really shocking that something your body doesn't destroy easily both persists and has an effect on the systems your body uses to clean up similar things. It is also not a surprise that metal and salt injections modulate immune response, these are called adjuvants when used on purpose. Still cool to have hard data on it.

Also true, i mean anyone licensing half a dozen fonts could in-house it for less on FTEs making fonts, a competitor licensing at a ten fold increase over the original price would remain a bargain and have plenty of market to capture.

Do you only know one language? Particularly for local content with local concepts it can be nontrivial to translate some ideas effectively in another language. I'm not even very good at another language and it is funny how often it is easier to read and understand than it is to translate. It (along with some 'control of the masses") is one of the reasons that various religions either proscribe or are hesitant to translate their core texts to other languages.

Increasing the price two orders of magnitude all at once does seem like it'll lead to a rush to get an LLM to crap out legally distinct generic equivalents to those in short order, even if it does a bad job.

Right but it isn't like a grant program where different companies are bidding to operate a national chip foundry like our contract research usually works or produce something for the government on spec like defense contracting usually works. This is all being done differently.

Having the hyper rich donate directly to various govt programs is often a sign of slipping into an oligarchy. Otherwise this isn't too terribly notable.

The camera bump is only noticeable on a Fold if you don't have a case on it, which you should have because they're less durable than slab phones, as you'd probably guess.

That's about the same as my Fold4. Which I will admit is a bit thicker than I'd like (had a MS Surface that was half as thick but even more fragile than this thing is, I think the latest Fold is half as thick but loses stylus support). I do like it opened up, particularly when using the stylus to take notes, but have been thinking I'd switch to the Ultra when it comes time for a new phone due to that this one has needed repaired once a year so far.

Those responsible may well be setting themselves up to be the ones to sell the state the crypto, then once they've drained the public coffers they have even more excuse to cut the public services they can no longer afford.