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My understand is the 1.5 degree figure isn't grounded in data anyway, it actually stems from a political angle.
I'm excited to see what innovations, and new personal control over devices will be driven by the community out of this bad decision by Google.
Re:AIs don't do what you want. This is bad on Friday July 24, 2026 @08:44PM (#49043397)
Can you expand on this for someone that is a dummy and new to using LLM's properly?
Because shush, that's why!
This doesn't ring true coming from the UK. I like in the US now and the healthcare is not comparable.

The UK health care system is an absolute joke, it's a running joke among a lot of the population. It's not free for a start, the taxes the population have to pay are eye watering. You have to wait weeks, if not months for a specialist, hospital beds are few, there is no accountability for regular fuck ups (I've been on the bad end of a horrific one).

The US system from what I have seen so far is a dream. It's cheaper and the service is top notch.

For context I've moved from the Midlands in the UK to the Research Triangle in North Carolina.

Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos on Friday May 29, 2026 @07:15PM (#48330611)
This is awesome, does this mean I can filter it all out?
Re:Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:29PM (#48187307)
I'm no Trump fan, I have to say that many of these evidences have been debunked and quantifiably false. The raw and hours upon hours of Capitol Hill footage odeant show what the media historically lies about for example.
Out with the old, in with the Goverment appointed Stooges. That will fix it!

Notice there is no mechanism for the citezens to vote on who goes in. This won't go well.

I thought the same.

Have you thought that there was a massive physical infrastructure left behind by the original railroad builders, all compatible with future vehicles? Other companies were able to buy the railroads for low prices and use.

Large Language Models change their power consumption requirements monthly, the hardware required to run them is replaced at a rapid rate too. If it were to stop tomorrow, what would you be left with? Out of date hardware, massively wasted power, and a gigantic hole in your wallet.

You could argue you have the blueprints for LLM building, known solutions, and it could all be rebuilt. The thing is, would you want to rebuild, and invest so much again for arguably little actual, tangible output? There isn't anything you can reuse, like others that came after could reuse the railroads.

Re:Privacy and control. My tech setup on Thursday January 01, 2026 @09:22AM (#46454348)
I've been using GrapheneOS for years, I can't go back to another OS due to its ease of use, speed, and awesome features baked into my day to day use now.

There is one banking app that stopped working, and you know what? I dont use it now. I'm not about to let a bank dictate how I use my most personal device. I use a desktop if I need to access that info, and it forces me to be deliberate about it too.

We look forward to your redemption post next year. Sounds like you have a lot of unaddressed things you need to sort out. You know what to do.
Re:Unofficial Microsoft Teams Client for Linux on Saturday November 15, 2025 @10:27AM (#45938039)
Works for me, using Fedora with Plasma. Just fire it up in Brave, and install it as a PWA.

The one thing that bothers me is it can't tell if I'm at my machine when I'm not actively using it. People keep thinging I've bugered off from my desk.

Re:1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @11:02AM (#45747738)
I'm not sure these are autonomous. I think these might be just remote puppets tied to a human operating them.
Interesting, I'd like to know more. What makes you say that?
Re:Sega AI on Thursday February 01, 2024 @01:47PM (#39219593)
I love this. The graphics on the box alone make me happy.
Re:Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches on Monday January 29, 2024 @01:48AM (#39173478)
What are the chances of Fossil making the software open source? How cool would that be?
Yes. You are what you eat.
Re:Super Mario 64 on the Web on Thursday January 11, 2024 @06:17AM (#38950724)
Absolutely amazing, worked straight off the bat, even works with my 8BitDo N64 controller with no config.

What an age we live in!

Re:Minimum Wage Clock on Friday January 05, 2024 @02:39AM (#38876698)
Mimium wages are a blight society. Anyone with an understanding of economics knows this. They harm employees and employers.

Government couldn't negotiate themselves out of a paper bag, why let them say what can be paid?

> Could this replace a media center like Kodi for playing music and movies or is it just for games?

I would like to know this too.

Re:Why Are Things Expensive? on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @08:58AM (#38695547)
Two words, Fiat Money.
So glad this won't cause cancer.
Forgive my ignorance, isn't this various prompts that OpenAi allow you to store, and quickly use?
Re:NewPipe – The lightweight YouTube experience for Android on Sunday November 05, 2023 @04:37AM (#38149621)
What do you guys think to GrayJay? Following the creators, not the platforms. I'm told sponser block is in the works too.

https://grayjay.app/

Re:US halts exports of most civilian firearms for 90 days on Saturday October 28, 2023 @09:56AM (#38049828)
What do you mean by that?
Is this "safe and effective", or does it work?
Re:Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale on Sunday October 22, 2023 @07:49AM (#37974564)
Money isn't finite, because someone has more than you doesn't mean they are taking from you. Envy isn't a virtue.

Focus on what you can change in your life to be better than the old you, don't compare yourself to others, it won't go well.

Good old, "Screw your freedom" Schwarzenegger. Love that guy.
Everyone that has ever that has done terrible things has likely asked themselves the same question. And that is a problem.

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