They are so poor and so small that they can’t curate the content and ads, it’s just too much with only billions of dollars of profit to work with.

VPN plus cheap YouTube is probably less than YouTube. And VPN is useful for more than just YouTube.

The Wizard of Oz while listening to Dark Side of the Moon.

If that doesn’t work then reverse the polarity.

Yep if US automakers won’t offer affordable EVs then others will.

Corporations are so large now they can do outrageous things like this and they will still have millions or billions of users who don’t care. Plus they have learned that bad press is free advertising.

The world would look a lot better today if this wasn’t so prevalent.

Starfield has a lot of good aspects, but also some bone-headed gameplay and content decisions. I had a lot of fun with it for a few weeks and will come back to it if/when it gets to a better state.

Same. With my driving needs I get fuel about every 2 weeks so it’s not a big burden. And I go on several long road trips each year and charging stations are not something I need to deal with.

Not only that but they can identify you by your cell phone and see if you are a high income person or big spender, and change the prices as you walk down the aisles.

Yeah and it sucks. Biden to me is ok, but this single issue could really hurt him.

Yeah the hallucinations could be very useful for art and creative stepping stones. But not as much for factual information.

The online requirements are unnerving to me. I feel like Microsoft wants my personal files. I don’t think it’s to outright steal or scam, but there is something in everyone’s data they want. Maybe AI training. Anyway I’m not giving it up willingly.

They should also remove the letters T, W, I, E, and R just so no trace of Twitter remains.

Yeah it’s the old garbage in, garbage out problem, the AI algorithms don’t really understand what they are outputting.

I think at this point voice recognition and text generation AI would be more useful as something like a phone assistant. You could tell it complex things like “Mute my phone for the next 2 hours” or “Notify me if I receive an email from John Smith.” Those sort of things could be easily done by AI algorithms that A) Understand your voice and B) Are programmed to know all the features of the OS. Hopefully with a known dataset like a phone OS there shouldn’t be hallucination problems, the AI could just act as an OS concierge.

Be very sure you understand the fees on eBay. They are considerable and they also take a percentage of whatever shipping you charge so if you sell something for $5 with $20 shipping you are paying fees on $25.

Thanks. I’ve never tried VR before so I might not know what I’m missing.

We need to be informed, and unfortunately a lot of things like orange man and Gaza are depressing. But I try to just get the important details and not dwell on things that I can’t change.

There are a lot of people writing articles and a whole lot more people commenting, but that doesn’t mean I need to read even 1% of it.

A Star Wars game that is a mix of Minecraft, Elite Dangerous, and X4. Elite Dangerous flight model and galaxy. X4 fleet management and modability. Minecraft type planets but with buildable vehicles. And a dynamic event, economy, and faction system. A big galaxy size sandbox with 4X elements.

I know, these corporations got rich selling software but it’s not enough any more. Even with more users than ever.