Right, the cost is pretty wild.

At $5 I guess with all those sales tags it may start to catch up after a year or two. At $20 that'll take years for sure.

While I'm not crazy about how much paper is used, there's also all the plastic and other minerals consumed for these.

Hey should just call up Elon Musk. Musk has the solution.

Right?

Right?

What are the downsides of these devices, from any in the know?

Are they rechargeable?

How long do they last?

How are they updated, are they wifi, or something else?

Can they be hacked? What's the plan if that happens and all the shelf labels are hacked to replaced prices with something awful like the text 'go eat a vegetable'?

Is there any push back on this?

I've actually labelled a few of the sites I run to indicate no "AI" used, and all human content.

I would guess there's gotta be a bit of a movement happening behind this, anyone seen anything?

Good think they're so focused on getting out all those immigrant labourers who are deeply compromising US security.

Um. It's not even actually "AI".

But go on.

I'm still learning stuff about dinosaurs, but it's just a little sad if you're actually watching and not on your phone.

I've watched the first episode, spot on with the description of looking like video game graphics...and the drama is quite manufactured.

I'll watch it for the occasional interesting tidbit, but agree other series are MUCH better.

She's gone from suck to blow!!

I think residents of Minneapolis and other cities may disagree with the 'warmonger' denial as well.

Why are you sending anything that should be 'secure' over TikTok PMs?

That seems foolish.

I'd rather people understand that none of these will ever likely be truly 'secure', and operate with that assumption.

It's not quite 'public', but honestly expecting 'real' privacy on someone else's platform is really a sign of low internet literacy.

There are only a few exceptions where I expect my conversations to be 'private'.

And even then, it's only ever as private as both parties decide, if you want to go down that hole as well.

I don't think it would hurt anyone to highlight this and be realistic about it.

Do all "PMs" have to be E2EE?

It's TikTok. It's basically a video game. The games I play don't have E2EE chats.

Makes sense with dedicated chat apps, but I dunno, maybe not everything needs to be encrypted. Just don't use this for anything sensitive. *shrug emoji*

Yup, I have a bunch of older devices that won't get updates, weird things like thermostats and even my 1st gen iPod Touch (which I use as an alarm clock, battery lasts almost a month just sitting there offline! Wake up to tunes..)

Newer devices will get updates, NBD, this isn't Y2K. I'd rather we move in this directions than moan about really old hardware.

"Israel, if you're listening, maybe you can find the Clinton email server."