The nicest solution is geothermal.

Right now I'm in Denmark where wood firing is fairly common.
The village of around 2200 is heated through a district heating system firing the straw from surrounding farms. In Denmark this is typical for villages of this size.
So the first question is, would this also emit lead?
Realize straw is a seasonal product, wood grows over many decades.

At night we love the nice radiation of our wood stove, here wood is bought by the m^3 and per year we use around 2.5 m^3 (Is around 0.7 cord and we pay around DKK 2200 for it (CND 460, USD 240).

So what about geothermal, wind and solar or even nuclear, fusion or fission?

Over the past years I've mainly used Zoom for video calls and was happy with it.
These days the company is more and more 'forcing' Teams for these calls (I work via the Brave browser on Linux).
The problem with Teams is I can't get the video on a separate window or screen, Zoom is by itself separate.
WebEx works for video but is hardly ever used.

It's not that. LLMs reproduce an output of consciousness, but they way they do so isn't fundamentally any different than a tape recorder or even a book. It's a deterministic process that we can fully reproduce by doing calculations on a piece of paper.

It's not that there's some "magic" in our brains, but there's obviously a very complex process at work that we don't understand. It's also true that the "neural networks" used to run LLMs have only the most superficial similarity to actual brains. Just because LLMs can produce similar reasoning it doesn't mean they're suddenly able to produce other second order effects.

Is it possible that LLMs reproduce this process? We can't authoritatively say no if we don't understand the process. But that's no different from saying a rock way also be conscious.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and Dawkins doesn't have any.

Nah, there's more than enough smoke to conclude that Altman's style rubs a lot of people the wrong way. Whether you think that's a problem or a virtue is another matter.

Early users testing the service have touted competitive perks, including 3% cash back on eligible purchases

That's about the same as merchant fees, meaning the transactions themselves are probably a loss leader once you factor in all the stuff like fraud and dispute resolution.

I'm guessing Musk sees the real value as the dataset of shopping behaviours. Either that or that cash back rate is going to plummet once the service gets established.

Not really, the tech companies have been doing this for years.

They hire a bunch of folks at high salaries, but not all of those work out, and managers hate laying folks off.

So they make big across-the-board cuts and now everybody from top to bottom is forced to make a bunch of tough decisions about who to cut.

You don't get rid of the worst 10% of your work force, but on average, the 10% you lose is less valuable than the 90% you keep.

And then you go hire some more.

If killing was the object Trump would have followed his handler and made the fall out of high windows.

Judging by you showing a gmail account you are not very old.

I would be dead before Microsoft fixes Windows so I run Linux on this Thinkpad X1.
The company I consult for is a Microsoft shop but Office 365 works fine in the Brave browser.
What we need is an authority splitting Microsoft in the OS and applications.

A selection of the 10 commandments would be a starting point.

What about suddenly thinking of Trump or MAGA when doing 'The Deed', that should give a limp willy...
Btw, what does going to church have to do with fertility?

DuckDuckGo on Android can/is blocking tracking by apps via a local VPN.
It is a quiet process, only the number of blocked attempt per app is shown.
I hope this is a nice option for Linux.

So they think this is cheaper?
And next day or another kind of fast delivery is not affected?