OMG!!! Ponies!!!

apparently, Samsung's foldables (at least not the first gen) do not wear over time at the folding point. I was surprised, but a friend of mine has been using one for over three years now.

And.... look what pile of crap they scraped, distilled, and the output will be... crap.

Sure, this is about income, but little of this stuff works, even now.

Despite exhortations that New Advances Are Made Every Day and Look AI Employment Is Actually Up!, it's still highly-paid marketing people babbling BS about the power and integrity of their advancements.

Let the Chinese scrape! More is better! Why? It's like the old game of Telephone. The further away from cogent source material, the worse it will inevitably be. Rinse, repeat, and you'll need to rinse a LOT.

Must be amazing living in a place where unexpected traffic accidents never cause delays.

My mother's basement gets pr0nHub at 1080p minimum, you insensitive clod!

And they sneak in and swap out a memory card when you're not home?

"Usury" relates to interest or fees for borrowed money, not high prices.

Thank you. The summary completely failed to support what the headline claimed.

>payments to OpenAI, with the Republican National Committee ranking as the company's largest political spender at roughly $9,700, the analysis found.

For some reason, I don't think $10K is going to be much help in paying for the billions being spent on AI data centers.

Most full-service restaurants will have things on the menu which are just there as an option for an audience who doesn't want their core offerings. The Sysco truck makes this very easy- take a recipe (from Sysco) and they will bring the ingredients right to you. I wouldn't expect Joes Crab Shack to have great pasta, some menu items are just minimal effort to satisfy picky eaters in a party of people coming for your specialty options.

GFCI outlets, which are required outdoors and in garages in most places, often have issues with backfeeding. Mine won't handle it and I had to install a different outlet.

Cars last longer because of engineering competition to drive quality in vehicle design and assembly.

The ODB2 standard congealed a lot of emissions hassle, and ultimately forced prolonging service life in many product lines.

Although many shade tree mechanics of an older era are gone, there are many new ones that mod their cars, or simply repair them without the need of expensive dealer service costs; this is also part of the Right To Repair movement, where secret sauces hidden in the CANBUS. connected, multi-system firmware present in most cars.

Hackers have figured out what's what for many models.

And while convenience features are nice, any engineer will tell you that more features means more things that can go wrong. Owning some vehicles is like death-by-a-thousand-cuts as desired features slowly decay. Common parts become rarer and rarer.

The no-button approach also means a single point of failure-- the all-important console.Features become combines, all in a race to the bottom.

Increasing compliance costs and the need for profitability push car makers to make unwise choices. Button-based vehicles required ten seconds of familiarity to drive safely. Console-based devices require far more, and also cause visual distractions instead of intuitive look-and-feel controls.

It's just not as simple as you describe. Worse, international-market focused vehicle makers, especially the Europeans, make a center console because they must adapt to a left of right side steering basis-- it's cheaper just to build holes in the chassis and move the steering column left or right, thus not having two different dashboards and assemblies.

Consumers will choose among the offerings that suit them. The auto industry used to use specs to drive vehicle sales. Now, the motives and marketing are lifestyle-appeals.

And... so.... why the need for extra memory, rumored GPU support, and etc.?

Um, no, the whole model isn't on the phone. I didn't suggest that. Instead, each app will grow into blimp-sized monstrosities, load phones down with MCP traffic, and drag phone performance to a crawl, all while increasing net traffic meteorically.

Prove me wrong.

Even if Windows was open sourced tomorrow, stem to stern, who would even want it? It's full of immensely cobbled code, patched 200x, and still barely works.

You can't see the code today. Open source at least give you that. You can only poke an amorphous code base, or alternately, pray.

Prayer never helped me much.

Visible code did.