Grok was constantly say it was doing something that it had ZERO ability to, and I kept calling it out and it kept apologizing and then immediately doing it again.

As a guy who spend 5 figures a year on Ai, the last thing I want is that. I know Claude and ChatGPT also do it, but Grok was doing it CONSTANTLY.

does that mean they'll continue to manufacture the same old models for the US market, which will possibly become less secure over time due to advanced hacking techniques applied to the same old well known hardware? Will it then result in a net loss in security over time?

It might resemble Cuba with their 1950s automobiles, frozen in time. I do agree that there is concern about backdoors and surreptitious identifying data sent to servers under control of China. Would it be better to allow new models, but require them to be completely torn down and reverse engineered by teams inside the FCC, or for their firmware source code to be handed over for inspection? (there's still room for nefarious business....hand over one set of code and install a slightly different set, or install a backdoor with a firmware update....)

I feel there's a legitimate concern here, and there always has been. What's a better solution, if any? Or is this the right solution for digital sovereignty?

Since I'm still using windows 10, I can just lean back and chuckle. It's been a hell of a shit show to watch over the years. Glad I'm not in it.

...when they renamed the company to follow that weird bent. It was very easy very early on to see that none of this would ever be popular, people had a hard enough time getting interested in even wearing polarized glasses to view movies in 3D, that whole trend has crashed and burned. (I like stereo photography myself, but I understand the problem with mass appeal) But the fact that they expected people to run out and buy these super expensive VR headsets and do things with them is just laughable. I've watched that market try to take off since the 80s and there's just not a compelling use for it. I thought they were mad for going down that road yet again. Maybe that day will come, but it was super obvious from the start that Meta plowing billions of dollars into it and changing their company name wasn't going to make it happen. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall to hear the pitch about the metaverse inside Facebook. Techbros deluding themselves. I think they were just scrambling to place a bet on whatever the next hot thing would be after the initial round of social media companies and they lost horribly. In the mean time, their original product, despite being enshittified repeatedly, remains somewhat useful and popular. (just install SocialFixer and ad blockers before you touch it, don't use their app....)

A new technology doesn't take over overnight.

For new car purchases in europe as a whole 2024 was 15% EV, 2025 was 19% EV.
Pure ICE engines (diesel and petrol) fell from 47% to 37% in the same timeperiod.

This will not end well.

Why is this a problem?

I do not want my software censoring anything I make.

They mean Data Centre.

The advantage of at-scale lithium is the technology advances will trickle down to home users. I have a 30kWh home battery that was about $6k installed and retrofitted (AC coupled, ick I know) into my 12 kW solar system. This is battery slimline and about the size of two suitcases (it's two 15kWh stacks linked together). It charges in full by 12 noon on sunny days (with me then actively sending power back to the grid) and usually by end of day on overcast days.

If it was cheaper, but:
- required 2x as much charging (meaning i would rarely fill it, or needed double the solar)
- was several times as large

I would likely not consider it.

Any tech making home batteries cheaper/longer lifespan/denser is a win for people like me.

Is solar just not a big thing in the US? I'd guess 1/4 of houses around here have it. Closer to 1/2 depending on the exact neighbourhood. Checking google maps (which is a bit out of date) 15/40 houses on my "block" (suburban street loop) have it.

My car cost 48k AUD, which translates to 34k USD. So if I had 200k I could almost buy 6. I'm guessing they're provide a discount for a 6pack to make it under 200k.

That's without any sort of rebate/incentive/etc. It's not the cheapest car in the world, but not extravagant.

Neoliberalism and liberalism are two totally different things.

Of course, I'm still happily using Outlook 2019 on a bought and paid for standalone office license. I see no reason to 'upgrade'.