... switching the company to Linux.

Don't buy a new fridge. Find something nice made anywhere from the 90's to the early 2000's.

Bulletproof, easy to fix, parts everywhere, doesn't know what wifi or bluetooth is, but does have the basic conveniences like ice maker and water dispenser.

"new" is quickly losing its shine to me, the 'new shiny' is more like the "new.. ew... why?"

Enshittification in meatspace.

... slave labor?

I can't speak for PP, but in my state, one will recieve a failing grade for denegrating communism in a school writing class.

There's nothing wrong with that technology, per se. It's the training corpus that dictates sucess/failure. Was the plan to blindly crawl the cesspool that is the Internet for that raw data a bad business decision? Most decidedly so.

It turns out that the most expensive part of AI is training. Both in terms of resources (power and equipment) but also the labor involved with validating the inputs. I did some fiddling around with semantic nets a few decades ago. But I was restricted to a library of engineering documents (at Boeing) that had been vetted to some extent by groups of experts (for a rather loose definition of that term) before release. The results worked well, but had no hope of advancing to the status of AGI. And of course, the tools built had no hope of reaching outside markets due to the inclusion of company proprietary knowledge.

This last point raises another problem wiith today's AI. Why should I allow my expertise, which I depend upon for a competitive edge, to fall into the hands of my competition? The AI bots won't find much useful stuff on my public facing web site. And I'm not stupid enough to host on cloud services. Owned by outfits with interests in AI services.

Do you people really get fifty cents per post? Surely it's more than that by now.

Never seen such a panda hugger since someone pointed out that we should have responded to J6 like China did to 6/4at Tiananmen. It lacks the polish of using the A-10s to turn them into pink mist, but calling out the tanks to turn them into pink mash worked well. Just a remincer: when you want to overthrow the government, bring guns. Lots of guns.

So true.

That will require raising the cooking fumes to very high temps. And even then, ventless fireplaces work with a vary limited fuel source: Natural gas or propane. I don't even want to think about what bizarre compounds the catalyst will produce when processing the miscellaneous organics from cooking food.

IMO, it didn't deal with these very realistically. But if they are your pet issues, then everything is a foot in the door to discuss them.

"Breaking Bad" is issues of the day? IMO, that would be the news.

He's still here?

I'll believe that AI works when he's standing in front of a Home Depot.

Which is a good idea. But only for gas stoves? Have you ever seen the air inside an all electric kitchen when someone forgets to turn on the fan? Forget the relatively small amounts of CO2, CO, NO2 that come from a gas flame: Take a look at the stuff that comes off the food. An assortment of burned, partially burned or just vaporized organic molecules. It's doubtful that any of this stuff is healthy to inhale. And only the largest grease particles stand a chance of being trapped by a recirculating filter fan.

How are we going to replace the concepts of clockwise and counter-clockwise?

They need new words, kids can't read clocks. Heck, my freaking phone and watch both want to show me analong hands despite being digital. Just stop showing a leading 0 on the time, dammit! It's 2:30pm, not 02:30.

Thought he was going to ban wifey for a moment.

Little Ginny Weasley did it, poured her heart into this weird blank diary that would write back to her.

Fantasy then, reality now. And instead of a murderous megalomaniac with ambitions of eternal life, now we have Tom's Diary powered by automated avarice giving hurt, vulnerable people life advise.

It is folly to look for answers too deeply in this thing called The Internet. Most, if not all, are trying to lead you astray for their own reasons.