That Sony OLED was released in 2007, not 2004... sorry, not like it was 20 years ago or anything.

Sony XEL-1

I remember back in 2004, the Sony Store had a "demo" OLED screen that was about 10 inches (could have been slightly smaller or bigger, can't remember) and it was available for purchase for something like $25 000 (Canadian $).

Around this time I bought a Sony 16:9 32" 1080i CRT.... looked incredible... weighted about 150 pounds. Got it for about $1000. At the time I was the only one I knew who had a HD TV... all sporting events were watched at my place! I only got rid of the grey beast because I didn't want to move it anymore (I was in my early 20's and moved frequently) and LCD's had dropped significantly, by 2009 I had replaced it as my main TV for a Samsung 46" 1080p LCD.

Is this a problem with the AI or with morally corrupt humans who spent hours to break the system for personal gain? It seems to me that the AI would have worked if humans just played along instead of trying to convince the AI that it was really in Communist Russia and everything should be free like the article indicates. I think this is comparable to the saying "As easy as stealing Candy from a baby." Is the Baby wrong for being naive and giving their candy to the older person who is taking advantage of their lack of life experience? Or do we look at the adult and say; "shame on you for being a piece of shit human stealing candy from a 1 year old." I think all this article shows is that many humans are shitheads who shouldn't be trusted. Sure, the AI could be better trained to not budge on set rules... but that will come in time. I look at the current state of AI as comparable to a 5 year old child. That child one day could be a doctor, but not today... they still have a lot to learn. AI could be great one day, but like trusting a 5 year old to do critical business tasks at this stage of the game is just stupid.

This is a story about nothing really. If you have paid for the software this doesn't effect you in anyway. I bought a lifetime Plex pass 5 years ago for under $100. So at time of writing it has cost me $20 a year and will continue to get cheaper the longer I use it. This is a story to rage bait cheap bastards who feel they are entitled to free everything. If you use Plex and enjoy what it offers, pay them a few dollars and be done with it. I can't blame Plex for wanting to get rid of people who host servers like a god damn public movieplex as a side hustle.

What did you expect with a bunch of diversity hires?

Current LLM's are like chatting with a chronic liar. Once you learn everything they say is just randomly spewed nonsense, you eventually stop talking to them or disregard anything they say as a lie. That is AI in it's current form. It's not useful when you have to spend more time fact checking answers, then if you were to just do the damn thing yourself in the first place. That's why it is underwhelming.

30 years ago? Roger Waters warned people about Record Companies 50 years ago. Check out the lyrics from "Have A Cigar" where Waters writes the song about a Record Company Exec talking to the band:

"Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar
You're gonna go far, you're gonna fly high
You're never gonna die
You're gonna make it if you try
They're gonna love you

Well, I've always had a deep respect
And I mean that most sincerely
The band is just fantastic
That is really what I think
Oh by the way, which one's Pink?

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it Riding the Gravy Train

We're just knocked out
We heard about the sell-out
You gotta get an album out
You owe it to the people
We're so happy we can hardly count

Everybody else is just green
Have you seen the chart?
It's a hell of a start
It could be made into a monster
If we all pull together as a team

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it Riding the Gravy Train"

AI still has a long way to go before it is a reliable source of solutions, especially in the business world. Just the other day one of our developers was having drive space issues on his Linux box. Our management has been pushing AI hard, so he consulted with Gemini on how he could free up space on his machine. The AI recommended he use:

rm -rf /

The AI was happy to recommend this as a valid solution to the disk space problems. Lucky this dev has a shred of common sense and decided not to go through with the "solution".

It's all about 6 - 7 now man... get with the times.

I don't think people are necessarily against online devices, they are more opposed to how these devices have been deployed by their manufacturer. These companies have turned usable products into invasive spying tools or cash grabs. If these devices only went online for their intended purpose people would be fine with them, but instead corporations make them always listening, always harvesting, always abusing for the company's gain, not for user benefit. Take a digital picture frame that could show pictures from a online location such as Google Drive, or a NAS. That would be great, but some genius thought wouldn't it be great if it were to show ad's on the frame as well, or charge a subscription fee to use a frame you already paid for. Or by bricking old devices when they roll out a newer version that milks the user for more money thereby making the old device "obsolete". People are tired of this shit. Enshitification ruined these devices, not the online portion. Online connections can be very useful... but once they start adding "features" that really have no benefit for the end user, people would rather just say "no thanks."

I'm one of those monsters. I've never used a phone case and this may be shocking to some, I have also never cracked/broken any of them. In my experience, people who put their phones in cases are more likely to be careless with their devices as a case brings a false sense of security. My naked phone looks new and shiny like the day it was purchased, compared that to the many otterbox encased phones with spiderweb cracked glass... The device isn't the problem, the problem is the users who are not mindful of what they are doing when handling the device.

So pretty much every single company's road warrior sales rep...who's jobs when it comes to their computer is pretty much reply to emails, talk on the phone and give PowerPoint presentations. That seems to me like there is a market. Maybe it just wasn't advertised very well...

Why not do something like having a MacOS hypervisor running in the background, that would activate when the phone was docked? Thereby giving the user a desktop experience on their phone and would revert back to iOS when in mobile mode....

And you seem to be completely out of touch with the problem of environmental e-waste. Many devices could have their usable life extended by multiple years if these corporations made devices that were sustainable and not designed to be replaced. Which is easily achievable by implementing simple things that these devices used to have such as user upgradable RAM slots and replaceable batteries for starters. It's especially sad when these very same corporations greenwash the shit out of everything to make it sound like they give a shit about the planet.

It's not just Netflix that struggles to make good movies. 99% of all movies released in the last decade haven't been worth the time it takes to watch them. They have become so poor, that I have just stopped watching new movies. I still enjoy watching older movies because the focus was to make a movie that lets the viewer escape from reality for a couple hours, tells a good story and has relatable, likable characters. It seems most movies today focus on representation, being unoffensive, CGI overkill and pushing the political agenda flavor of the month. A great recipe to make a movie nobody wants to watch.