I mean, he may have got JFKed but at least we would know.

Meanwhile, I’m streaming HD video from a 1tb SD card (pre crisis price <$80) over WiFi to a TV. The bottle neck is not the SD card for media. Even emulators don’t need higher speed.

I can’t help it if people have not yet realized the huge cost of memory is a major factor in phone price increases, and that SD cards are a great way to have your full media library on your phone without being beholden to “the cloud”.

So your power/data USB C port can snap off?

How about we have the boys in engineering work up a more durable dedicated audio port for something that will be plugged in when on the go?

We can give it:

A solid, round metal plug for infinite 360-degree rotation, neutralizing cable-twist strain that would otherwise warp a rigid USB-C port.

A hollow-tunnel design with out the fragile internal circuit “tongue” found in USB-C, making it nearly impossible to snap or bend through accidental force.

And as a bonus, heavy-duty internal spring contacts that tolerate dirt and high insertion counts, and linear release mechanism so the cable will pop out cleanly during a violent tug instead of tearing up the phone’s internal electronics.

We can call this MIRACLE as the 3.5mm headphone jack. The kids will love it!

They will agree, after much donation, that regulation is needed.

The regulation will protect current asset holders and IP rights, while limiting its utility to the individual and creating moats to competitors. They will do this by fear mongering buzz words like “national security” and “think of the children”.

Meanwhile the wealthy already have the hardware and open models to run whatever shady BS they want, while the consumer will get to rent the highly regulated corporate controlled versions that harvest your data and tell you what they want you to know.

We won’t get to forget.

He’s not alone.

The only thing protecting us before was “who has the time to analyze all the data we gather about you?”.

Without analysis how could they tell that you consistency take an extra 1.45 minutes to clock back in from lunch when you eat Taco Bell. Schedule a colon cancer screening, while also increasing your health insurance premium along with your estimated new risk level due to your sub optimal life choices? This is all needed to insure you last meat bags with jobs perform to shareholder expectations.

Well guess what LLMs are really good at?

Fine should be the cost to repair the damage plus a percentage of net worth as a penalty.

Now we open the can of worms to calculate damage for environmental and medical expenses against the propaganda, lobbying, legal and “expert” opinion of giant corporate groups having legal funds larger than some national budgets, and more “speech” aka money that you. But it is a start I guess.

Don’t forget that selective regulation can be worse than none.

The stage is already set to use regulatory capture to protect tech monopolies in the name of security and safety.

Can’t have these useful tools in the hands of citizens who are not engaged in maximizing shareholder value.

It’s been a heavy rainy season here, lots of wind, power and net issues.

Meanwhile, the LAN works on a UPS, solar, and no Internet.

(Sure is nice being able to put on a movie or music playlist, and work on documents, or sort though old vacationphotos when it’s a rainy day with out a cloud failure blocking it.)

Pulling up the stolen ladder before anyone can steal it to use to steal more stuff while it’s still enforceable to do so.

Mabey just make all ladders illegal, unless you have a government contracted monopoly.

The entire idea of copyright is going to be tested at many levels, and most people don’t even understand why yet.

Interesting times.

Something something, national security, builds a regulatory moat.

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Also, I want most of the services they want to move to the cloud to still work when the net is down.

I may want to use a computer to watch my media library or play a game that I already own with out an active internet connection and ID card. Or, just use a word processor or tax program, or image editor.

Sorry, please provide your ID to log in to the cloud to do basic daily tasks, citizens. This is for your own good, trust us.

But, what if someone used the calories provided by your soup to commit a crime in another jurisdiction? What if they throw your soup on a politicalaly oppressed group?

You could be held responsible!

Apparently…

Well, I expect their games on PC, just not ported by Sony.

“Deserve” doesn’t enter into the conversation when someone is an obviously violent and dangerous person with no remorse. Repeal the death penalty, sure… But release the prisoner? No.

Revenge was most likely the motive for her trying to kill (only failed due to lack of time) the other death row inmate.

Committing premeditated revenge murder for making rude comments and possibly other actions is not simply “OK” because you had a rough time in the past. Other victims don’t get to just murder everyone they don’t like because they had a bad time. Hell, most rapists were probably raped them selves, not an excuse, considering other victims aren’t out there doing it.

If you define any desire to kill as mental illness…

well good luck with your utopia of happy sociopaths pretending to be mentally ill and getting re-released to murder again.

The olde money / smart ones stay under the radar, but there are not that many of them and technology is making it hard to stay anonymous.

Sure would be a shame if a bunch of poor people with nothing to lose started looking into those facts more deeply. You know, instead of burning down their own stuff and fighting militarized local law enforcement, go to the source.

Work smarter not harder.

Hey, how are they going to guarantee a natural gas crisis and ramp up of demand (aka, profit for the oil Barrons) without this demand bubble making it to all the political donor classes assets?