"For years people have been seeing us as a speaker company,"

Yes Brandon, this is the thing that people generally like. When the speakers work, they sound very good.

"What we actually are is an audio operating system." ...And this is the part that has been somewhere between tolerable and the biggest liability. Yes, when it works, it's great, but it's been so focused on being "automagic" that when there's a problem, it's like a Bugatti hitting a speed bump.

If Sonos wanted to claw back some good will, all they had to do was to implement a "generic Bluetooth mode" and an aux jack. This way, it ensures people can still use the speaker (the most liked and most reliable part) irrespective of whether the software is good or bad. ...But, since they'd rather cram AI into it, they'll likely continue to bleed users and installers, who will implement Bluesound or WiiM instead and become the Oracle of multi-room audio - obscenely priced, running on an increasingly niche user base, and circling the drain for a while longer than most, but ultimately fail as more and more people consider the Sonos "operating system" radioactive.

So it's already on by default? And they are enshittifying the non-AI part of the service to push you to leave it on... Sounds great.

The reality is that most of the auto manufacturers' design choices, whether it is the shape of the car, the trim, the gadgets or the controls, are driven by only a few things:
1) Regulatory requirements and fuel efficiency
2) Cost
3) The Chinese consumers.
The last one is a considerable factor.

In modern cars, real buttons and switches don't directly control the equipment they are for, they tie into a bus connected to a central controller that handles the car's functions. They can still add a subscription model on top of that.

Meta is a Nazi company that banned people for posting #NeverAgain and links to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (the British government's official Holocaust Memorial Day organizing office and remembrance agency).

It's absolutely no surprise that a Nazi company run by Nazi Zuck would do things like this article describes either.

Exactly. Especially as it seems that the AI companies are selling their tokens at below cost. Small-scale installations for local models may make sense for individuals who want to keep their data isolated, but they do not make economic sense for companies.

https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2025/0...

And DARPA has a whole program for it:

https://www.darpa.mil/research...

Your racism showed itself, KlanBitchDot. String yourself up with a rope you Nazi KlanBitchLyingWhoreshit.

Re: Anthony, I think the constitutional right to a fair trial should have been respected. That the numerous clear violations of process require a ruling of mistrial, removal of the prior judge, and a retrial.

That's not a "left" thing, that's a CONSTITUTIONAL thing. Don't you claim you love the Constitution? OH RIGHT... YOU RETARDICAN KLANWHOREFUCKS burn crosses because you're Constitution-hating Shit-eating Trailer Trash Klan Inbreds.

Re: Clancy, insane people may be supporting her and making wild claims but again, that's not "the left." In fact, most of her donations are coming from Right-Wing Antivaccination DumbShit Retardican groups.

What your rant has told us is that YOU are an insane KlanBitchWhore-bred DumbFuck Retardican with delusions of humanity.

You Klanfuckwit Inbredshitbitch Retardican GOP Trash need to stop lying. YOU are the Crossburning Fuckwit Inbred Shit Trash Criminals.

Legal challenges, run them out of money, BAN their tactics from the USA as unconstitutional. EVERYTHING needs to happen to make Flock cease to exist.

No, but CSAM can be on a phone. So can a list of assassination targets, an app that detonates an explosive, stolen classified data, Stuxnet-like malware...there are PLENTY of actually-problematic things that could be on a phone. ...for the record, that doesn't mean that this person had any of those things on his phone (and I'm inclined to believe that he didn't), just that digital contraband exists and it CAN exist on a phone.

Probably not - it depends on the data that's been ingested.

Odds are pretty good that they've got decades of information regarding flight information. While it's obvious that there are more flights during the holidays, others surrounding regional events may have some value. There may be some custom coded Excel macros that have some value if they still worked; the business logic may still be useful even if the literal programming language isn't. The frequency of words used - or not used - by an airline within internal emails may be helpful. How frequently supervisors catered to customer requests vs. denying them, especially if the outcome is also known, can be helpful in optimizing recommendations for customer interactions.

Even without being super insidious, the useful data to an AI model isn't "did the business succeed", it's "who said what, and who did what, when".

DDR4 prices have gone up as well, over 400%. Even DDR3 prices have spiked. Same with storage, HDDs are up 200-250%. People who can't afford the latest hardware have already turned to older tech.

We might see some Chinese companies filling the gap. We can only hope.