Exactly. Especially as it seems that the AI companies are selling their tokens at below cost. Small-scale installations for local models may make sense for individuals who want to keep their data isolated, but they do not make economic sense for companies.

Well yeah, the astromech droids are all snitches.

... or do the orbital Flock cameras have some other kind of tracking technology? Imperial government contractors are highly sus since their systems accept older codes--especially when starships are being "flown casual".

Mr. Vader is right: the Empire needs better tracking technology to ensure order. It's for our own good!

Completely agree, this is a bullshit gotcha from people with deficient math and reasoning skills.

My Zoomer kids loathe their contemporaries for a reason.

DDR4 prices have gone up as well, over 400%. Even DDR3 prices have spiked. Same with storage, HDDs are up 200-250%. People who can't afford the latest hardware have already turned to older tech.

We might see some Chinese companies filling the gap. We can only hope.

It's a start, though I wasn't aware of the requirement to have the meter changed. It's not needed here, the inverter is supposed to handle the cut-off.

The benefits do go to the tenant, that's been the problem of getting this stuff financed. The landlord pays for better insulation, solar panels, heat pump and perhaps a battery, but it's the tenant who reaps the benefits in the form of a lower utility bill. In the Netherlands we can at least charge more for energy-efficient rent-controlled homes, but financially it is still rarely worth it... the housing market being what it is, you can charge €1000/month for a leaky bicycle shed. It seems that the Belgian solution is to simply force landlords to make the upgrades.

That's really terrible history, and judging by your UID you ought to be old enough to know better.

It amazes me that people forget Donald Trump was elected in 2016 with a huge assist from his Twitter following. Twitter was always a shitshow, and having personally dealt with one of the executives responsible back then, I am not surprised.

That climate existed long before Elon. The main difference now is that they have 85% fewer employees to schedule endless meetings with. The site runs as badly as it ever has, but not worse, contrary to the predictions here on Slashdot.

Online balkanization and extremism also goes back to forums like Facebook groups in the early 2010s. We once celebrated it: remember press coverage of the "Arab Spring"?

Occupy, BLM 1.0, Unite the Right, Standing Rock, and many others took shape in echo chamber internet groups. What they had in common is the loss of hope by many different groups of people in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the Obama administration's failure to hold anyone accountable. The electorate has been in rebellion ever since.

Show me the "force" in a forum posting.

You're one of the "words are violence" idiots, I take it?

Go smell your own farts somewhere else.

I guarantee that whichever chickenshit little country you live in, it's full of political nonsense just like everywhere else--unless you're in an even more fucked up place where real political talk will get you thrown in jail. By this I mean Myanmar, Russia ... and apparently Germany and the UK.

So ... according to the data ... the circle jerk intensified?

It's a fucking forum designed for people to post things, not your kitchen table.

Have you ever gone to a corner bar? Same freewheeling mix of opposing ideas happens there. Even the drunks mostly remain civil even so. I saw this five nights a week when I was a bartender.

Wait, you never leave you mom's basement so I picked a bad example.

Better than your aunt, who pretends to agree with you over the turkey and then goes home and tells everyone you're full of shit.

The fact that she's right doesn't make it any better.

"The fact that Grand Theft Auto VI will be a purely digital release has not caused its price point to budge."
Yeah, what did you think was going to happen?