When I upgraded my iPhone 11 to my current iPhone 15 it was an absolute doddle. Everything was transferred over automatically. All apps, data, all system settings, Apple Pay, eSIM, the lot. It was just there and ready for me to use straightaway. It was a surprise to me as the upgrade from my iPhone 6 to the 11 was not like that at all.

True but there will also be a lot of more advanced users guiding the AI to better answers over multiple interactions. Ingesting these will help imrpove the quality of the initial response to a 'typical dumb question'. That said, I will not be consenting to carte blanche data retention, I would recommend people keep it disabled and use the feedback buttons for individual chats if they want to help improve future versions of the model.

There's a bit of goal post moving here. I use Arch myself but the fundamental thing about Arch is that you either have the latest versions of everything or you stop updating altogether (or you build your own software, I suppose). If Windows worked like that there would be many tears. Distributions like Ubuntu are comparable to Windows where they release an edition, with a stable feature set and look and feel, and then maintain it for a number of years before dropping support. You then have to upgrade to the latest version which may bring significant changes some of which you may not like. Having to upgrade from 20.04, which has just been dropped from free support, to 22.04 or 24.04 is no different to having to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11. To my knowledge there is no Linux distribution that offers free support for a particular edition longer than 5 years. I could be wrong but I do believe Windows' 10 year free support is unmatched.

The Intel 11th gen minimum requirement is only for new PCs. You can still upgrade to Windows 11 with Intel 8th gen (2017) onwards. No I don't have metrics but I think the huge boost in Windows 11 market share as the end of support nears does suggest it.

Linux doesn't really solve the problem of wanting to use a 10 year old version of software AND have it supported. Long Term Support in the Linux world usually means 5 years tops then you either pay money or upgrade. You could make an argument about the TPM requirement but you have to go back nearly 8 years to find a CPU that doesn't have one built-in. The vast majority of people running Windows 10 today could upgrade to Windows 11 for free.

OpenAI were not lying. They were ordered by the judge to stop deleting them. It was big news at the time.

But the law is very limited. You have to be certified by two doctors as only having 6 months left to live. You then have to start to start a bureaucratic battle with the government to get their permission and that of a 'panel of experts' which knowing our government will takes months. You have then have to wait another month to make sure you don't change your mind. And then and only then will you be prescribed the medication which you have to be physcially capable of administering yourself. There will be many many cases of people wanting this who will not be able to get it, e.g. MND, or too weak to fight the system to obtain it. I see this as a start but access will need to broaden.

I'm sure it does something but the only difference I've noticed so far is the response "do you want me to use chat gpt to answer that?" which does sometimes answer that, sometimes satisfactorily.

Not globally just within the EU. In general, a business operating in one EU country is not allowed to refuse to serve customers from other EU countries or to sell to them on different terms. That is one of the chief principles of the single market.

Indeed, when I first took out YouTube Premium I cancelled Spotify at the same time, because obviously I no longer needed it, so in my mind I was really just paying £3 a month for no ads which IMO is great value. Nowadays the price difference between Spotify and YouTube is only £1 a month. If you don't want a music service the value proposition would be different. I do wish they would unbundle the music service form the ad-free service. If they sold ad-free for like £3 a month I'm sure they would attract many more subscribers and become less dependent on ad money which would be good for everybody.

They are talking about Apple Pay and other similar services. The business never gets your actual card number.. What Mastercard are talking about is rolling out the ability to pay via these methods to every website instead of largely just apps and contactless terminals as now. Visa made a similar announcement last month.

Yeah but for how long. Mozilla is 80% funded by Google. They could turn the screws if they wanted.

I can't find this interview anywhere but I'm nearly certain he refers to tokenised payments which significantly reduce the risk of fraud and therefore your payments are less likely to be declined and hence 'work better' - mainly a US problem, I think. There is no question data will be shared without your consent. For one it's totally illegal here (in the UK) and the rest of Europe and second the article states all consents can be managed and revoked from within your banking app.

The difficulty for services like Facebook for which you do not pay money is that paying by consenting to personalised ads is not allowed. Internet services are simply not allowed to offer you anything for consenting over and above that offered to those who do not consent, despite the consent having value to the company. Their current business model is not really viable. They will ultimately have to offer a very basic free service with low value unpersonalised ads and build a compelling premium service, probably with multiple tiers, for which you pay money. Obviously this model does already work very well for many smaller services but time will tell if this can actually be made to work at Facebook's scale and without regulatory intervention on social inclusion.

The most controversial risk will be that of minors accessing their websites at all. They will be required to prevent it. There is no particular mandate on how, and I expect it will be fought in court, but ultimately their sites will be blocked in the EU except to those willing to give up their anonymity (or use a VPN).