It’s pretty disheartening to help someone find old media and they show a giant box of USB sticks and hard drives.

Equally disheartening is knowing that both of those have a shelf-life. Old USB flash drives are more durable than the TLC/QLC cells we use today, but 15 years sitting unpowered in a box doesn’t have very good prospects.

When it comes to compliance and regulations, anything with the literal blast radius of a nuclear reactor should not be trusted to LLM unless double or triple checked by another party familiar with said regulations. Regulations were written in blood, and an LLM hallucinating a safety procedure or operating protocol is a disaster waiting to happen.

I have less qualms about using it for menial paperwork, but if the LLM adds an extra round-trip to a form, it’s not just wasting the submitter’s time, but other people’s as well.

Does it also involve tattooing a registration number on your arm? It’s certainly going in that direction.

You’re not thinking enough like a capitalist.

The product is transformed enough to originate in some other country, but it costs about 15% of its unit price to go through that whole process. The tariffs would make it cost 145% more, so you raise the prices by 40% to get a nice increase to your profit margins using “increased manufacturing costs” as the justification. Consumers pay the price because all the other options are either still made in China or doing the exact same thing and increasing their profits just like you are.

It’s a win/win situation for you and your investors! /s but it will happen anyways

"If you feel like your government is not representing your needs as a citizen, your best course of action would be to vote for a different political party."

I should vote for Democrats?

I'm sorry, I misunderstood your question. If your government is not representing your needs as a citizen, you should contact your local representative. Here is the email address: representative@localhost

Look for used parts or machines recycled as part of a corporate hardware refresh. They won’t be top of the line, but it’s better than paying double the price for something that’s already expensive.

I wouldn’t put it past them to pull a move out of the authoritarian playbook and hire people to act as violent protesters just in case.

More importantly, with what money? Mega corporations can afford to draw out lawsuits until the end of time (or until the judge gets annoyed), but individuals can’t.

I’m sure they would be swallowing more than just his words if given the chance.

They’re affionados of /pol/itically incorrect views. I chose that specific board for a reason :)

They do have a sense of taste… it’s just overwhelmingly rancid.

It’s more like a donut. Not all 4chan posters are DOGE staff, but all DOGE staff are /pol/ afficionados.

School in a red state… isn’t that just home"school"ing? Picture still applies, though.

Someone should check the email and phone number of Adrian Dittman to see if they match Elon’s. Idiots can argue that it isn’t Elon despite speech pattern evidence, but it’s harder to argue when both of them share the same identifying info.

My money is on them suggesting people will get a bigger slice of the pie once the “fraud” is removed.

Have them think they’ll get their payments, but with interest and a thank you bonus if they just keep being patient. String them along until they either starve or get evicted, then they don’t have to pay them anymore.

We’re a crack house? Surrrrre.

Try crack house brothel of conservatism run by a megalomanical toddler, filled to the brim with weapons of mass destruction, and looking to expand into new territories. Then you’re right.

I absolutely believe at least half of them are just deplorable humans.

YouTube is a cesspool on a good day. If you know where to look (such as “anti-woke” “content” creators’ videos), you can easily find an overwhelming number of shitheads in the comments cheering for overt bigotry or violence against others. A recent news topic and barely-moderated videos of a non-white woman getting disappeared? They’re coming out of the woodwork for that, guaranteed.

You’re putting way too much faith in the typical consumer. Enshittifying Chrome even more would piss its users off, but inertia and its market dominance would keep most of them continuing to use it while complaining about how bad it is.

Remember: It took 8 years for Chrome to drag Internet Explorer to the point where less than 10% of people actually used it. And that’s with Firefox already being a competitor to it for years.

> FAA prevents SpaceX from launching more rockets
> Musk guts the FAA
> FAA no longer stopping rockets
> Musk decries nobody will stop other people’s rockets