And MS should be forced to allow activation of XP. If I have a legal copy then I should be able to install it. Microsoft is the one that coded up the hoops we had to jump through, so they ought to be liable for supporting that process indefinitely or remove that activation behavior.

It's also toxic if you ingest or inhale or touch it. People are used to the risks of gasoline, or complacent. Nice thing about lithium batteries is that you won't have to inhale the fumes every morning while stuck in traffic. (Only solution to traffic jams is bikes, buses, and trains. EVs won't solve that quality of life issue)

My tablet is an N350 (Star Labs StarLite), roughly in the same ballpark as N100 and N150. It's enough to play on dndbeyond. But whatever you considered "very capable" does not align what I consider barely capable.

I stand by my OP that it's a piece of crap. And that it's not about AI but about getting compromised hardware into your home.

Not just not accurate but wrong.

That's like saying the price of the battery in an electric car is that car's price minus the price of a comparable ICE car. No, it isn't. There are more differences than just the battery.

And yes, of course they recoup their development costs. But that doesn't mean that the OP is right in this context.

Except it's too low spec to play games or do any heavy browsing. So it becomes a foot-in-the-door for an AI agent to snoop your home networks and copy your personal information. For the low low price of $399. Plus whatever you will need to pay to Anthropic, OpenAI, etc to actually have access to their APIs when free tiers disappear next year.

errr... Apple doesn't charge for its operating system. macOS literally doesn't have a price.

— Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Dane-geld, Stanzas 5-6

There is a good reason that law "law enforcement agencies around the world" advise again paying cyber criminals. And it isn't because law enforcement is dumb, or that they like seeing you getting your data stolen.

I remember perhaps 20 years ago, some futurists were predicting that most of the time we'd interact with agents. That we'd each have our own personal assistant to curate and present us the information we need. This particular interview (sorry, I don't remember who it was) used the example that an agent would put together your daily newspaper specifically for you from multiple sources. I thought it seemed like kind of a stupid idea...

What Digg and others don't realize is that websites will be dead in 10 years. At least sites that people regularly visit for content. Nobody will visit them directly. Everything will be curated behind app stores and AI will present summaries. Even YouTube isn't safe.

Between microphones and acoustic fiber optics, it's getting so that concerned citizens can no longer talk about their concerns.

I would like my new Trump Phone before the economy crashes. But luckily we have more than six weeks before we have to worry about any serious issues with our economy.

Yes, but now you have it too complicated for 95% of the vibe coders. So they simply won't do it. Because skipping all of those steps still results in something that compiles.

They fuck up spreadsheets as well. A truckload of business-critical spreadsheets have errors in them that often go undetected for years.

It's hard enough to get actual developers to properly consider security. Not surprised at all that vibe coders don't.

Plus, of course, most of the training data is insecure to begin with.

But let them learn by fire that there's a reason actual programmers take time to ship a product, and it's not that the AI can type faster.

Macroeconomic theory was surprisingly deficient in the mid-century Soviet Union, or rather someone there took Marx's surplus value theory to the logical extreme, while ignoring all other research on the subject. But hey, not the first time people slavishly follow a single source material to their detriment. (most religions are the same way)