Of course you ordered the gold version of that phone. Don't deny it, you are amongst friends here...
I'll bet you will celebrate the arrival of that phone with a nice juicy Trump steak, while wearing your Trump sneakers. As you still don't have it yet, I'll expect that you have a Trump bible to keep you entertained in the off-hours from Trump Academy. Granted, the only book being taught there is 'The Art of the Deal', so Trump's bible will be a welcome distraction and keep you grounded.

Didn't it feel good to get that off your chest?

Grok is buying Cursor for 60 billion USD. At least, that is their intent. Once that happens, Cursor will immediately be enshittified.

Time to start looking for an alternative... Zed perhaps?

Yes, voting with their wallets...but not in the way they think. Assuming that users like the stance of Anthropic and hate the stance from OpenAI. Then uninstalling ChatGPT was the dumb thing to do. OpenAI os in a dire financial situation as their operational costs are so high. Showing ads is only a band aid for an open chest wound, so to say. People underestimate the operational costs associated with the hardware their software runs on. And how that is not going down.

Yet users uninstall and remove operational costs for OpenAI, doing OpenAI a major favor, as these users install Anthropic's software instead. Adding costs for the increase in operational costs, while Anthropic lost income.

Unless these 'swappers' subscribe and pay at least 20 USD monthly to Anthropic, they did the exact opposite of what they thought they were doing.

What you say. Unfortunately I do need WhatsApp, because of family, 2FA for security and my bank insists on having their app on my phone.

That and Wordament, a word game on Android, to entertain me while on the toilet. I could not care less about Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or any other of the socials. I removed these from my current phone.

Other than that, I use my phone as you seem to do. Dreadful interface and too small of a screen to be remotely useful, in my opinion. Especially when I have 2 desktops and a laptop 2x Linux, 1x Windows) to do things with on screens that are not actively hiding information from me.

Technically, a smartphone is a wonderful device with all the different technical capabilities built into them. Software-wise, both Android and iOS are very poorly implemented, each in their own ways.

And managed by corporations that do not have your best interests at heart. Each trying to screw you (the customer) over in their own ways as well. Society today demands you have a phone, but I couldn't care less if all the "socials" would be banned from smartphones tomorrow for everyone.

Any idea how much resources/effort go into creating the next edition of ChatGPT ? You would be amazed how many "hello" prompts it would take to match that amount of energy/effort. The "Hello" prompt being one of the most useless, yet very demanding for it's size.

It was a while back, but wasn't it HBO who remastered Babylon 5? The episodes I did see from that effort were indeed an improvement over the originals (when watched on a modern screen).

You do realize that the MAGA red is very much like the red in the flag of the CCP. And by extension, the same red as the ties from president Trump?

How should one understand those things? Coincidence? Aspiration?

At least China is consistent. They are not your friend. And never want to be either. China remains friendly enough if you prove to be useful for their plans. With those three things in mind, it is a workable situation. Trumps mood and plans change according to the direction of the wind, if the ascended moon is in retrograde (or whatever else those astrology weirdo's think up), whatever the Project 2025 cohort tells him to do or if he managed to take candy from a baby. Too chaotic of a situation to be truly workable.

Neither situation is great...for no-one actually. Most prefer the workable one though.

I went through the installation and configuration wizard from Moltbot today. The text on the website may say that there is support for local LLMs, but there is no such option during installation or configuration. Only options for 'copy your API key from Claude/OpenAI/Brave/OpenRouter/etc here'.

So it is nice and all that their website makes those claims, but the software sure doesn't. Now I'm quite sure that it is possible to use a local LLM, but I expect it to be much more of a hassle than it is worth.

My experience with that software today, made the decision: I gladly look for anything else than Clawdbot or Moltbot or however else it will be renamed to in the future.

Don't think I'm the only one, but I make a serious effort to not store my data in the cloud. As I am of the opinion that my data is my problem and doesn't need to become someone else's problem on their computer(s). You can put as much lipstick and jewelry on that proverbial pig, but the cloud is nothing else than someone else's computer.

Heard of it today. Tried it. It really is focused on using not local LLMs, that is for sure. Last week I started playing around properly with LM Studio and its MCP support. My local LLMs can now search the internet, can track time, access the file-system, access git and gitlab, write n8n + playwright + Terraform scripts, RDP and some other things I find handy.

And that works with any of the local LLMs with tool support. There is still a knowledge gap between local and cloud LLMs, but the local ones become a lot more useful once these can access the internet.

Clawd/Molt sounds great as a concept. In practice today, it was a 'meh'-experience at best.

There are alternatives to BitLocker and/or whole drive encryption (or partial drive encryption). VeraCrypt is one. Although I haven't checked up with that software for quite a while now.

Aren't the people behind Trump/Project 2025 not staunch evangelist and/or Christian? At least pretending to be? And of the belief that medicine is only for supporting their "class" of people and not the scum that dares to live in "their" nation?

It is kinda in the name of that magazine...

You almost were correct with the statement in your post. Of course Big pharma will cure anyone from ailments that kill you, especially in your earliest years. Because that means they have the rest of your lifetime to make much, much more from you and your much longer lasting and more severe ailments. Of course big pharma cures you from other ailments in your pre-teen and teenage years as well. Because that allows you to build up a life and a much larger income for longer, so you will actually have serious money and assets to spend on getting yourself or loved ones back to health.

Big pharma is really in it for the money. Wasn't there also a company that made an existing medicine, which is/was used by many people and reasonably priced, 1000% more expensive, because their CEO felt they had to? There was literally no other reason than that.

Whatever else big pharma is trying to peddle with their statements...they are only interested in they money they can take from you. At the end of a life-time, that is much more money than in the beginning.

Less robbery from individuals? Yes.
But now the robbers just demolish and plunder ATMs. Or steal cars for the purpose of ramming through walls of any financial institute, jewelry stores etc. and then take what there is to get.

In the end, individuals lost cars, store owners lose their inventory, lose a boatload of money repairing damages, everyone sees insurance premiums go up, prices going up to cover what insurance doesn't decide to pay out...so yeah, the robbery that is happening in this day and age is very different than it used to be. But if the current way is more beneficial for individuals? Forgive me, but I have some doubts there.