You seem to have misunderstood what I wrote so badly I'd believe it if you said you copied it into ChatGPT to summarize it for you.

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> So, do you use a dumb phone?

Wish I could, but unfortunately everything has become so shitty I'm effectively forced to use some app for even basic shit. I avoid using it for anything more than a clock most of the time and the majority of the features it has I will never use or have actively stripped out.

Hell I barely use it as a phone.

I've recently said under another /. story; Just because it's widely used doesn't mean it's popular. It could just mean there's little in the way of viable alternatives.

Enjoy your brain rot and enshittification.
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> I really dont see how people arenÃ(TM)t more productive with AI. You are using it wrong. Ignorance of how to prompt.

If you have to ask someone over and over, phrasing your question differently each time until you get the answer you want, that is not actually helpful or productive. That is just seeming self-affirmation, not seeking information. How's that saying go? if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

And when that chatbot is just flat out wrong like a third of the time, leaving you to guess and need to verify everything (assuming you have the self awareness to even question the pulped data it regurgitates) you are definitely not saving any time and probably would have actually retained some of that information had you skipped the AI assistant and just did your own research to begin with.

The stochastic parrot that feeds you platitudes and tells you you're a good boy and oh so smart has rotted your fucking brain and robbed you of the ability to think. Case in point:

> Guaranteed if you idiots lived in 10,000 BC you would be against farming or agriculture

Farming dates back much farther than that, and but when I type "when was agriculture invented" into Google the AI summary gives me exactly the same wrong answer you used. Yes sir, that definitely worked out for you.

Lastly, all the complaints and gripes in that old Slashdot thread you linked? Still valid, and in fact the future that actually came true is so much worse than they were worried about.
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Well that's patently false. It wasn't until Win10 was out that Microsoft decided it would not let you install Win7 on CPUs made after ~2017. No technical limitation for that by the way, because both official and unofficial patches existed that would allow it.

And this is not the same as the OS requiring new hardware. This is the OS deliberately rejecting newer hardware. So if you got new hardware, you did not have a choice but to upgrade Windows too.
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> It's just Windows 10 with a new number added.

I never said anything about Windows 10 though?

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Windows 11 would have virtually no users if it wasn't for Microsoft and hardware manufacturers colluding to force people into upgrades.

Wide adoption doesn't mean it's popular when it isn't voluntary.
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Some units including the ChargePoint (which I own one) rely on software to set the upper current limit. During installation you tell the unit what the breaker size is, and while you can use the user's app to change the max current at any time, it will not let you go above the breaker rating set during installation. Changing this requires using a special installer's app and connecting to the unit locally via bluetooth.

So if an attacker gains arbitrary code execution ability, I suppose it might be possible to set the max current above the breaker/circuit rating.

Assuming that, if a lot of things go wrong in very specific ways there is a chance of starting a house fire by overloading a circuit. A LOT of things would need to line up though, including the use of a plug and socket and/or faulty installation of the circuit, so that risk is incredibly low. I think the worst plausible damage would be constant nuisance tripping of the breaker.

I can also tell you that the Grizzl-E set their max current via DIP switches inside the unit. I suppose that doesn't make it impossible to change the firmware to ignore the switches, though.
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> EUR 3 per cubic meter sounds high. But is still significantly cheaper than the 100ds of dollars some posters here pay, or the article implies.

The article references a table on another website, and that table only lists averages of monthly utility costs by state and with a national average. Per the methodology on that site, the cost for water and sewage is based on an assumed 300 gallons (1.14 cubic meters) household per day and utility rates from *another* website that lists basically the same data.

So if we take the $49/month national average from that cited table (which is where the $1200/yr comes from), divide that by 30 we get $1.63 per day. Again adjusting everything for units, that's 1.22 Euro per cubic meter.

Now, the 300 gal/day average per household includes irrigation (watering lawns and other things) so the per-person water usage is about 60-70 gallons daily. A 15-minute shower would use about 20-30 gallons. Toilets another 10 gallons daily. 25-30 gallons per load of laundry but that's not every single day so... let's smooth that out to 10 gallons a day? (I do 2 small loads per week just for myself but I can see 2-3 larger loads per week). The rest is cooking and general washing/hygiene tasks.

From my *personal* experience 70gal/day is a lot but I can see it, especially if you like long showers or full baths (30-40 gallons).
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> Dude, in a civilized country, water costs close to nothing.

Looks like water costs about 3 Euro per cubic meter (varying wildly by city ofc)

In NYC, water costs about $5 per 100 cubic feet, or converting that into similar units, 1.51 Euro per cubic meter.

I guess most of Europe is less civilized than NYC!

(For the record, I live not far from NYC and I pay about $1.70/CCF or 0.85 Euro per cubic meter...)

> It makes no real sense to meter every household instead of the whole house.

The vast majority of households are the whole house. In the case of larger apartment buildings, there will be one meter for the building (or complex of buildings) and everyone pays a fixed fee for water. However, the majority of US homes are single family dwellings and each building has their own meter.

> I payed $60 per month for everything: taxes, garbage, sewage, fresh water and some other services.

It sounds like you live in an apartment, so not only are your costs for these things lower, they are distributed equally (rather that equitably based on actual usage) among all the other residents, and likely still subsidized on top of that. Congratulations I guess?
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> Is there nothing it can't do...

Turn a profit?

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> It does not. That is not how the drug works but is, instead, a common side effect.

That is literally how it works. It does it through a few mechanisms, but the entire reason it's used as a weight loss/control drug is because it suppresses appetite* (to correct my spelling from before heh).

Slowing gut movement and increasing satiety are the desired effects when used for weight management... can't really call it a side effect when it's the desired effect. If it only altered blood sugar levels, it would only be prescribed for diabetes management and we would not be having this discussion.
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No conspiracy needed.

The drug suppresses your apatite. It does not change the underlying habits or permanently alter your urges. So when you stop taking the drug, you end up right back on the road that got you there in the first place.

Frankly, a drug that DOES permanently alter your behavior would be far more troubling.
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The actual objection is the studies finding microplastics in human brain tissue are not well controlled. The objection comes from a collection of other researchers who, except for one, all have publishing histories of studying microplastics in the environment and creating lab protocols for creating, handling, and detecting plastic micro/nano particles.

They are NOT saying there are definitely no microplastics accumulating in human tissues.

They ARE saying the original research methods are severely lacking - a criticism they seem well qualified to make - and that the research should be verified much more carefully.

The only people suggesting that microplastics actually aren't a problem in human biology are the hack writers at the Guardian and the Dow Chemical shill they got a quote from.
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There are people who read satire blogs/"news" sites and are convinced that the stories are real, because even though the site plainly labels itself as satire these people are often only presented with a link directly to the article and they do not take the time to check the source of the material.

Yes, you are 100% giving people too much credit.
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> Data centers provide many jobs. Like I said, I operate 6 of them.

So what you're saying is there could be at least 5 more job openings...

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