Honestly that integrated gemini in android studio is not that good. But if you point antigravity to that directory it would implement what you described just fine. Basically all of these AI coding tools could do this for well over a year.

Google makes so much money, is it really that important for them to go back on their promises and screw over some individual with a free email address?

Nobody forced them to offer 'lifetime free' promises, you can afford to keep your promise, keep your promise.

Are you challenging my constitutional right to spew my nonsense online?

Sounds more like they are simply refusing to allow Nintendo products to be used for something that is illegal?

And I am guessing what you would consider 'unethical' by nintendo is also them refusing to allow Nintendo products to be used for something that's illegal?

Seems pretty consistent to me.

I feel like you might be confusing value and valuation. A valuation is what you believe a company would hypothetically sell for.
Selling a non-profit for ... profit... is kind of directly against the whole point of a non-profit.

So I would say thinking of the valuation for a non-profit is weird as hell.

Something like the Salvation Army has value of course. Sure, if you could buy the salvation army, there would be buyers lining up for this well known brand with cash in the bank and lots of donations (or revenue if you want). So technically you could be talking about a 'valuation'. But selling shares of it in the hopes of propping up value and selling it again... like that is just a for profit company.

If you let non-profits do that, that is basically just the end of real non-profits.

While paying to support a browser is not controversial, charging users specifically to remove features raises questions about whether those additions are seen as value or clutter.

Those features are largely either revenue generating or straight up advertisements. You essentially pay one time to remove ads which is a pretty common thing in apps.

It's always funny, any time you hear someone say that somebody else's job could easily be replaced with AI.
It's universally about a job they have never done a day in their lives. Programmers, Accountants, Customer Support staff, all supposedly very easy to replace by just plugging in ChatGPT according to 'experts'.

In reality this is just just a fundamental misunderstanding of what an accountant, CS staff or linguist does.

You could buy Hollywood movies on iTunes before Netflix streaming even launched, and iTunes wasn't first either. Movielink launched in 2002, and it was literally a joint venture of Paramount, Sony, MGM, Universal, and Warner Bros. The studios built their own digital delivery platform years before Netflix got into streaming. It flopped, but 'getting Hollywood on board' had already happened.

Netflix pioneered plenty of things. This wasn't one of them.

So any scammer will just use some stolen keys or id & creditcard info and gets easy access to your phone, and legit users will have to jump through stupid hoops including a 24 hour wait period.

They haven't added a single worthwhile feature to android in 5 years and yet their enshittification programme is working fine.

I would say the Neo looks great for this price range, I agree with that, but you are kind of underselling the PC a little.

N150 laptops are usually wayyy cheaper than that. At the 599 range there are decent options with Ryzen CPU's, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD and reasonable build quality. Especially HP and lenovo have some pretty decent build quality devices in this range.

And really with apple repair costs and quality issues you should include applecare+ for $140 as a necessary addition for any macbook.

In my experience it's really hard to review AI generated code though. The problem is that LLM's whole thing is that they generate tokens that 'look correct'.

If I see a junior's code with a ton of mistake I can spot that from a mile away. LLM generated code looks really good initially, then when you get into the nitty gritty you find out that it can be absolutely riddled with mistakes that are completely non-obvious.

Then the second issue is that it can generated absolutely enormous amounts of such 'visually good looking' code and it will make sure to pass any tests.

LLM's basically are writing review-resistant code and it requires extremely good knowledge of the codebase and company to properly review such code.

I find it really hard to understand how this is going to end well.

The ability of shitty engineers to generate enormous amounts of vibe coded lines vastly outstrips the ability of seniors to review it.

You will just end up tying up all of your senior's time if you want to review properly.

Trademarks are pretty much dead anyway. First hit on google is all that matters.

The thing is, if it ever comes out that there was any coordination on that based on police actions that's a crime for everyone involved. Potentially a very serious crime.

You are literally risking prison to prevent some fine on microsoft that has unlimited money, and prosecutors and judges are no idiots and it may very well end up working against your company.

This is not like the mafia either where microsoft will take care of you for life for taking the fall. Microsoft will just throw you under the bus and that is that.

Isn't that what got Travis Kalanick kicked out of uber? They had this global data kill switch that made french authorities angry and they put up two french Uber execs facing charges of up to 5 years in prison (not for obstruction but for a laundry list of things), after which suddenly Uber lawyers came up with the requested documents and Uber suddenly found itself able to comply. And they were saying it was just a temporary glitch and no files were ever deleted.

It would be a hilariously dumb strategy because microsoft japan is a japanese company. Imagine trying to argue in a US court as a multi-billion dollar US corporation that you have no access to your own email that you were happily using until a day earlier but suddenly since there is a subpoena you magically lost access. You'd be going to prison dude. Doesn't matter if you are 'following orders' if it's a criminal matter. These execs owe nothing to microsoft and are going to throw anyone at microsoft under the bus to prevent going to prison.