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Comment Re:What's the difference between tablet and phone? (Score 1) 115

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...

Comment Re:And (Score 1) 115

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.

Comment The film industry is dead (Score 3, Insightful) 77

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.

Comment No problem (Score 1) 245

Canada stopped producing the penny over a decade ago and life went on. By ditching the penny, it saved the government millions of dollars a year. If something is $3.99 and you pay via debit, you pay $3.99. If you pay with cash the price is rounded up to the nearest .05, so $4.00. If that price variation is rage inducing, you have bigger problems, for everybody else it was a non-event.

Comment Censored (Score 1) 52

This isn't a fair study for AI because it only looks at LLM's that have been neutered in order to have safe answers. LLM's will only be as creative as their training data and/or limitations put in place by the controlling company. When guardrails are put in place, the LLM will filter out any possible ideas considered radical or fringe. Some of the best ideas don't even get a spot at the starting line with current LLM's because they may be considered too "outside of the box". This isn't a problem with AI, but the people who are creating it.

Comment Re:Facebook is at best ... (Score 1) 54

If we would replace email, Usenet, IRC and a few others with a fresh unified protocol with full on Ident/Auth/Auth/Signature/Crypto and build useable clients for regular people for it, Facebooks business case would instantly vanish into thin air.

This already existed, it was called Google Wave.

Comment Re: Drinking is good for your health. (Score -1, Flamebait) 130

If that's what liberals do, why did you list off a bunch of communists? Liberalism and communism are NOT the same. I bet you consider fascism and the republican party to be one in the same as well.
Maybe try doing a search for "Political Spectrum chart". Or maybe just start here with good ol' Wikipedia and make use of that grey matter in your skull.

Comment Re:Drinking is good for your health. (Score 1) 130

It's like saying drinking bleach is good for the digestive track. Sure it will flush you out... but it will probably also kill you. Alcohol may thin the blood which can benefit those with high cholesterol from having a heart attack. But drink enough alcohol for a long enough period of time and it will wreak havoc on your liver, heart, kidneys, brain, throat, teeth, stomach, colon, or pretty much anything alcohol comes in contact with... but hey, it's helped with my cholesterol, that's a win right?

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