808s and Heartbreak is the best album since Bing Crosby.

There is not going to be $2,000 worth of RAM in a new computer, get real. Tesla Y has 16GB RAM in the FSD/Autopilot and 8GB RAM in the infotainment computer.

This is just an excuse for people to whine about how all they want is a car without automatic window openers.

A snapdragon 7 based phone should be like $400. Paying $650 for one doesn't make any sense unless you're constantly breaking small components.

What is the article suggesting - books are sacrosanct, and must never be destroyed or thrown away? Millions are being published every year, millions have to be recycled, who cares.

I know, distrust the system, but the truth is our 98% disc free reality already has made games cheaper. Browse https://www.xbox.com/en-US/gam...">the XBox Store and there's always going to be AAA games from three years ago for under $10, or indie titles for $6.99, or shit like that. You'd never see deals like that back in the day when games were all on disks, even before accounting for inflation. Much cheaper than used disks from Gamestop, even.

Thanks for the advice on raising children, old guy with no kids.

Yes, while the article doesn't say I'll guess it's more like a lax, trivial hack. Like somebody breaking into your house when you forgot to lock the door.

But it's still something that AI shouldn't be doing in the first place, especially when it's just done incidentally, and suggests that this nascent technology is capable of worse.

The whole debate it kind of dead. You buy a Mac if you can afford it, they're the best. You get a PC if it's for work and the system administration sets that up for your organization, or because you're a gamer and want to use a $1500 computer to play games on like it's an XBox. Linux desktops are for old, contrarian nerds.

What an absurd question. Most of the prompt was about students, so I'll tell you how much time it costs: about three seconds for the students to see where on the boot up screen the web browser is. Then they click on the web browser, and that's it. From there it's all the same and they just go to google classroom or whatever. I speak empirically. I taught at a school that went from Windows to Chromebooks, and the students barely even noticed the transition.

Long time Slashdot reader theodp is remembering his own childhood where maybe people had to actively learn to use DOS, and then the Mac GUI was kind of a strange transition, and etc. Times have changed, grandpa!

Why would I even want to go in a T-Mobile store? Maybe before iPhones were a thing I would want to browse the phones that were there. Now you just get the newest iPhone or Samsung and you're good.

Like, is it expected I go there to pay my bills? Is this something people do?

I'm curious, but suspicious. Tesla Y is the top selling car model by a large margin inside China, and UK reviews I've read of Chinese EV imports has made them sound underwhelming. UK reviews make them sound nowhere near as good as a Tesla, although decently priced.

But if you could post what model you're talking about, and what the cost of that car is vs. a Model Y in your home market, that might be interesting!

Ultimately the Tesla 3 or Y cost less than median value new car, Nissan Leafs are cheaper than that, and compliance cars like the eGolf or the eFiat 500 were (once you consider the lower maintenance/fueling) the cheapest new cars you could buy.

Electric cars are the future, whether that happens in 5 years or 20. I think the subsidy helped get the industry started and smoothed the 1st stage of adoption, which was always going to be rocky. Despite my issues with Elon Musk, ultimately I think it's a good thing that the world's #1 largest car company by capitalization and world's top selling car (along with Rav4 and Corolla) is from an American company, and the subsides made it possible. But of course they were temporary, and while personally I think they should have been phased out, they were always going to be a temporary measure.

Before September 2025, the government was throwing in $7,500, and maybe your state government was kicking in a few thousand extra, and then the local utility maybe was subsidizing your charger. So your $45k Tesla was effectively selling for $35k. Of course nobody is going to buy a used Tesla for $33k when a new one is selling for $35k, but the depreciation was still being taken as if a $45k vehicle was selling for cheap. What we're seeing isn't as much a change in demand for EVs, as much as seeing that removing government subsidies has normalized the used car market.

I remember buying an egolf back in 2015, I paid like $21k after subsidies. This was a good price, but that basic value held true for a number of years. Used price was great, for many years I could have sold it for $15k+, and it even went over $21k during 2022 due to supply side issues. But articles talking about used value mentioned that the egolf used value had tanked, going for $37k to $18k. But really that was a 10% drop, because if it went down a normal 30% or whatever you'd literally be buying a used car for more than you would spend on a new one!

The numbers are often taken from sticker price (the article itself doesn't discuss how it got its numbers). But of course many cars sell for under sticker price...or in 2022, during supply chain shortages, were actually selling for $5,000 above sticker price. Now that we're mostly over the supply chain issues, these cars are going to see an additional $5,000 drop in used value. But it seems statistically unuseful to account for a one-time extraordinary industry issue.

It’s hard to imagine. Aside from being partially able to get around corporate censorship, local LLMs are incomparably shittier.

But a pair of sunglasses is a better form factor than bolting a camera to your helmet or t-shirt. It's not revolutionary, but it is better.