"Hey kids! Look at the world we are building for you!". Great, I hope those people aren't expecting their graves to remain human urine free.

"new generation of E-waste"

Fixed that for you.

Nobody who had a dial up terminal at home and had to rent time on a mainframe cried when the modern personal computer became available to consumers in the late 1970s.

In their world, networks never go down and it's 100% uptime for everything, all the time. They also commute to work riding over the rainbow on a unicorn.

The people taking this to it's extreme want it so you don't even own the clothes on your back.

This has been babbled about since the mid 1990s but they just keep on trying. If they couldn't grasp by now why nobody wants this, then I don't know what to say. Try high end gaming on a "thin client". HAR HAR HAR!

" I was a pre-ipad kid and remember being bored silly but it also encouraged me to try to get involved in the adults conversation."

And if they are the type to say "Go sit in the corner and keep your mouth closed. The grownups are talking."? :-/

If find it mildly amusing that *books* were apparently the brain rot and the way to hell, ect ect... during the era of Mark Twain.

"Home users can only get a one-year stay of execution for Windows 10,"

Yes, because Micro$soft is a government and police force, and you are a criminal for not wanting to upgrade.

Words are power and you are giving the wrong people that power.

Theft. Go to jail now, Smarthome. And not Norwegian prison (I heard about those), I mean scary American prison. America, where even a city jail is far scarier than anything up in Norway. This kind of shit sounds very American, so Smarthome should be forced to do American time

When ever I get a traffic captcha, I always include at least one wrong square. And I'll do this several times until I get through, even if it's making me wait a bit longer to get into the site. If they want to farm work out of me like this to train their AI, they are going get poisoned data in return.

The loud annoying clown circus keeps getting even louder and annoying. I think people need to tell all of those people to shut the fuck up. AI evangelist s, politicians, all of the others who are part of this increasingly garish and nightmarish shitshow. Maybe they all need to be thrown into straitjackets and locked away forever out of sight, for the good of the many.

I don't care how this gets modded, I'm sick and tired of the whole lot

"This is useful if I'm living where the government is unstable and there's a risk of a regime change followed by house-to-house raids looking for people loyal to the previous regime"

*coughwheezeMRCIA*cough::gag*clears throat*

Sorry, that was a really bad one. The thing that always worries about this whole data collection economy is that it runs on the *assumption that the government is rock solid, that there wouldn't be any regime change where the new regime would use all of this data to arrest people, or carry out state sponsored murder on them.

*likely they knew damn well that this was possible, but they just didn't care and this was compounded with "that possibility is so remote" thinking

Now if these reps would out this kind of energy into fixing their power grid which as of December 2024 (last I heard about it) still wasn't fixed.

The pubic school kids will likely be learning about the 10 commandments by flashlight and in freezing classrooms come winter.

Imagine looking at a still picture that from your perspective does not seem to change at all. Except over a very long time you start to notice that things seem to look a bit different and the picture seems to have gotten a bit bigger than it was a long time ago, or maybe it's just your imagination. And this is assuming the photon can see distant things in realtime without delay. I imagine this would be pure hell for this hypothetical sentient photon, like being locked into solitary confinement and having nothing but a piece of art on the wall that you can't tell if it's actually animating or if you are simply going mad.