Are we going to post about every software bug here on Slashdot now? CEO says it's a bug and will be corrected. Where's the story? Bug causes unexpected behavior and will be corrected promptly. Slow news day?
That's not even remotely true. Even when laptops had upgradable RAM and hard drives, less than 1% ever did so. The reality is that most just buy a new machine. You're forgetting that you're not the average user.
Wander over to your HR department and ask everyone how much RAM their home computer has. Bet not a single one would even be able to tell you what RAM is and what its function is. Those are average users.
That'd never been the value proposition of a Mac. They already had longer lifespans than the average PC with no need to do such upgrade. Appe never touted such as a key buying feature in anything other than the pro desktops.
What phone has a Thunderbolt connection?
So? 99.9% of laptop users will never upgrade their RAM anyways. This is a budget laptop. It doesn't need to be upgraded. It's made to do the basics, like a Chromebook. For someone on a tech website, you're certainly completely out of touch with technology needs.
As of 2014, 2 million people still used AOL for dial up. We forget that some people live in remote areas or simply happy enough with the service to remain a paying customer.
Still use my AOL email for some things (through a normal mail client). It's now over 26 years old.
It's funny to think some believe advertising doesn't work on them because they're more of a critical thinker. Reality is that it works on everyone, when done properly, and we have piles of science to back that up.
Time and cost to create an investigative podcast is substantially more than just some idiot sitting around BSing about whatever pops into their mind. But as the listener numbers show, people love that stuff. While the true crime stuff did pull listeners, it's now been beaten to death and most of them don't offer much unique. With only so many ad dollars for those audiences, they spread things too thin.
It's almost like demand dictates supply and survival for podcasts. Weird.
Certainly most won't make it but the big AI companies, the ones using a lot of power and the ones being talked about, the ones people are using in their company workflows, they'll survive. OpenAI, Anthropic and others will most certainly be very profitable in the future.
That's a silly take. Same could have been said about Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, and many others at one point. Most startups don't make money right out the door. But believing they'll never do so is just stupid.
And what organization is basing their workflows on free tier AI? That's hilarious.
Bwahaha, that's literally what Reddit does. It steals content from every other source on the internet and profits from it.
Reddit literally sells their data to Google and others for scraping. What Reddit is saying here is that they're blocking The Internet Archive because they aren't paying to scrape that data. Google pays $60 million a year to scrape Reddit for AI data.
They're illegal in the US if they're automated. But if they're sent by a real person, they're legal. Problem is you can't tell if they are or aren't auto sent. But this feature will grab off all of them from unknown folks and keep them from being annoying.
You're citing US law. This didn't happen in the US.
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