The folded size needed to be small, like the 12 mini.

Just look into qualified immunity and civil asset forfeiture. The police think they can get away with this kind of thing, because they can get away with this kind of thing in a police state.

They're looking for cash withdrawals and gold purchases. This is related to civil asset forfeiture and they're looking to improve their profit margins. The argument will be that they suspect people who carry large stores of physical value are involved in trading drugs, guns, tax evasion or terrorism. Won't you all think of the children?

It's not just phones. I recently switched back to FF from Vivaldi on my desktop with the death of Manifest V2, and in one day of use, It'll hit 3 GB of ram of more with 1 active tab. It's gotten very annoying

The experiment's subjects are not the drivers, it's the people who live on once quiet streets that aren't equipped for excessive traffic. It's families who's children can no longer toss a baseball, football, skateboard or learn to ride a bike on their once quiet street.

While this does utilize existing roads, this terrorizes neighborhoods. Quiet streets where children play become highways. Cities avoid improving infrastructure, like public transportation, for longer. People will buy additional cars instead of using public transportation. Overall, while this is a technocratic dream, it abuses the public in unintentional ways while sounding very smart.

Theyâ(TM)re literally breaking their product and then ransoming it back to you for a monthly protection fee.

Enshitification is too kind of a word

You have no foundational knowledge in actual history. Try studying the history of China and the USSR from both capitalist and non-capitalist sources, then make an assessment which narrative fits reality better.

What do you call it when Tesla sells cars at a loss for almost a decade and only makes money through subsidies?

I still only have 8Gb vram on my system with 128Gb of Ram. I still think I'd need more vram.

Agreed. But, I don't have 128Gb of vram or unified memory. I wish I had the insight to buy it before the shortage

With DeepSeek you'll hit 80M tokens for $25 prepaid. It kinda sucks, but depending on what you're try to do it's a fantastic deal.

I started using QWen 3.8 27B locally. It meets my needs and beats DeepSeek V4. Not totally free(I pay for energy and it's slow), but I get to keep my ideas to myself.

What studies?

Ancient Rome made amazing aqueducts. One day they had built all the ones they really needed and with no new projects for a new generation to learn from, they quickly just forgot how to make aqueducts.

"Big Tech" is now entering this phase. In a generation all innovation will be gone.