Hold up what? Your ability to do work with the device after the OS has been updated a couple of times and performance degraded to avoid drawing too much current from an under-specified battery?

It would arguably be a better solution technically, but I suspect that most people want to use one app at a bigger size than two apps at once. And then you've either got content spread over two screens with stuff in the middle, or the app has to be designed around the screen layout. And that either won't be done or will be done poorly in the majority of cases.

Yep. If it supported modern standards I'd still be using mine, and then hotspotting for a device with more screen when I needed that. Carrying two devices is nonoptimal, but so is holding a brick up to my ear, and fixing that with a headset would ALSO require carrying two devices.

Modern leather isn't suitable for food, it's got too much plastic on it.

All ACs are the same LLM as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah, the company's interests are financial. That's what companies are for. The military's interests are also financial. People may think they're enlisting to serve their country, but they're really serving oligarchs. We have to blow up the middle east so we can rebuild it in our image — at great expense... and benefit to corporations like Halliburton who get awarded the no-bid contracts (sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively - I'm picking on Halliburton here not just because they deserve it in general, but because they were declared to be the only corporations capable of doing the job the last time around, short-circuiting the legally mandated bidding process.)

I thought it would be good to keep a running list of the Benefits to the Epstein-Iran War:

1. Iran gets control of the Strait of Hormuz
2. Iran gets its oil restrictions lifted by the U.S.
3. Russia gets its oil restrictions lifted by the U.S.
4. The Iranian regime gets stronger and can now spend more on the Basiji to keep control
5. The Iranian regime now gets to tax tankers going through the Strait.
6. American and world consumers get higher gas prices
7. American and world consumers get higher prices for everything as the higher oil prices filter through
8. NATO has been weakened due to la Presidenta’s hissy fits
9. The world has learned ways of disentangling themselves from the U.S. and its economy
10. Congress is even more diminished since they failed to step up and stop that dementia patient
11. Other nations no longer look to the U.S. for inspiration thus leaving the world at the mercy of China and Russia
12. Other nations can no longer trust the U.S. political system which has been show to be brittle and susceptible to authoritarian takeover
13. Other nations can no longer trust the American people who could just as easily elect another lunatic

"El presidente"? Please get the gender correct, it is "la Presidenta".

As much as I agree with your post, the JCPOA would be ending about now regardless because of it's sunset provisions, so we'd still have la Presidenta (known around the WH as Mr. Pee) destroying any chance for a new agreement.

Inflation is going to increase even without the increase in energy prices. It seems the American West and Mid-American West is desiccating due to lack of snow and rain this past winter. Farmers in Nebraska are out of water. The following U.S. Drought Map show just how bad, I like choose the menu item to compare two weeks: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu...

It is almost as though we have climate crisis. Too bad we couldn't switch to something that would help with the desiccation and the lack of oil. Maybe if we could have big projects on renewables. But where would we get such technology? Where?

One small way to go forward is to take all those useless golf courses and cover them with solar panels. Maybe put a giant beautiful windmill on every green. For golf courses on coastal regions, we could have large windmill farms just off-shore so the vapid golfers can go and watch the blades spinning. Should keep them occupied for hours.

Which it was.

Reputedly, but not by reputable sources, the model has been trained on Zuck's posts.

Yes, it should be. Although even with a law, RICO enforcement (for anything outside of political retribution) will have to wait until the U.S. gets a real Justice Dept. reconstituted to replace the current rump JD.

I've owned a lot of resistive touch devices. Zero of them were "very precise". Most of them had a lot of depth so you'd struggle to pick pixels even when they were big enough to easily count. Palm Pilots and Visors, Zoomer/GRiDPad 2390, an HTC phone, blah blah blah. Phones had plastic screens because gorilla glass hadn't been invented yet. Jobs was irritated by his scratched plastic screen at exactly the right time and yes, made the right call. Yes, a plastic stylus on a resistive screen is more precise than your finger, but it's also either irritatingly tiny or you are just having to carry around more shit.

In fact, the most precise non-wacom screen device I've ever used was the capacitive glass screen on the GRiDPad 1910... also a device where a well-sighted (or near-sighted) person can count pixels, but there you can also actually touch them. But then that's got a tethered pen. I have GEOS on mine, with Graffiti. That is precise... But still not as precise as my lady's Fujitsu tablet with Wacom. That's what you'd use now if you needed precision, a radio pen. There was a company which sold an IBM 486SLC-based portable called Dauphin which had one that ran on batteries, how tragic... but it was precise. Unfortunately it was also as thick as a pretty good-sized hardback book.

Can't have your security broken if there is no security. I like the cut of your jib.

Why don't you go read his response, Dildo Draggins?

Sure, after you set fire to my old device, you want me to buy another device you will originally set fire to. It's book burning by proxy.