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Actually, with resources getting scarce, we should already get comfortable with the idea that a phone should be expensive, and be repairable enough to last for many years!

• Oneplus One: mine lasted 11years, I had passed it down to my kid. I changed the charging connector once.
• Oneplus 5T: lasted 6 years
• Now Pixel 8a: currently one year, but I already had to get the battery replaced after 6 months :/

Based on my understanding, yes. There will be more affordable models later, they’re supposed to have a full line-up.

But for now, the affordable GOS phone is still a Pixel.

I didn’t write it was enshittified. I’m saying it bears just as much risk of enshittification as BW clients, even worse here since you can’t fork it.

We’re here discussing the possibility that BW enshittifies, and you suggest an alternative that has everything ready from its day1 to enshittify. Just saying.

Make your own opinion on how he intends his developers product managers to use AI
https://twitter.com/LayoffAI/status/2115871654366642624

Because execs have no clue what users want and live in a parallel world in which people want what execs wish people wanted.

Then they’ll be baffled by the low take on their offer and their next step will be to force-enroll existing users on a free trial that won’t stop by itself, hoping some of them will just let it run and get milked.

They currently dodge taxes by transferring all benefits to the country with the lowest tax rate within the EU: Ireland. It’s easy, you just have the Irish branch charging bullshit fees to other entities that match their revenues.

Besides that

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/11/france-passes-digital-tax-on-us-tech-firms-despite-trade-threat.html

But this previous tax was largely criticized for being ineffective against big tech also. Given it didn’t work that well, this one is the next attempt.

One day, one can hope, they’ll ask a tax expert instead of their guts… or asses…

Err… no to destroy anyone’s dream, but these EV exist only because of politics: the country has heavily subsidized the EV sector, at national level, provincial level and ciy level. It was considered stmategic and they poured as much money on it as they could.

10–12k USD EV are the result of politics!

Multiple companies have that approach, I’m not denying there ARE companies doing things right (or at least better).

I work in a company using multiple agents. One of them is supposed to be off Internet, and even with that one we’re not to share sensitive IP.

But Proton is not an isolated case. I bet some execs have invested and promised so much they need to report some good numbers on usage, and you can’t make up productivity improvement if there are people left getting as much done without AI.

AI policies are so dumb. You don’t evaluate people’s perfs on how much they use a tool. So what’s the damn end goal of such evaluation??

"Hey! I did nothing useful this year, but all with AI! -You’re promoted!!

I fixed hundreds of bugs and developed 3 new features all cheered by users! -With AI? -Err… not much -You’re fired!!"

Again: it’s not for him. He’s a piece of shit beyond any possible redemption.

It’s for the victims. They deserve that.

I suspect he meant to write “God, he is going to invade Canada”. Would make more sense.

No. For the sake of all his rapes survivors, he should be prosecuted for each and every assault he committed.

Let him be ashamed again and again, let the world knnw he’s punished for each of them.

Don’t let any of his victims believe they are insignificant. None of them is.

Actually that’s a quite typical time for tech start-up to break even. The whole time they’re funded by business angels.

But for some cases, the loss can be considerable, and still the “start-up” keeps finding investors. Ex: Uber, lost 30 G$ on over 14years before turning around. Or just look at all the AI pure-players companies right now.

This would be so dumb… and at the same time so possible!

Execs totally disconnected from the players base having no damn clue how they’re going to react.

Players are going to be so pissed they’re much less likely to buy anything through MS ever again, but that won’t compute in an exec’s mind.

That still creates a procedural precedence. That means small orgs can get paralyzed from any US whim if they don’t have the means to quickly transfer their servers.

Now the US can ramp up the effort, asking for another server, and another, hey, here’s a list for now. The next one is coming in 3 days.

A decent amount of them are gays in denial. They can’t handle and take it out on the ones who can.

What an era we live in. Movie plot: Evil big pharma secretly unleashes lethal unstoppaple deadly virus and demands billions to search for a remedy. Everyone cheers when the evil CEO dies of a horrible death at the end.

Real life: AI companies openly claim to have rogue agents breaching databases and now developing computers viruses, say they need billions to develop way to control them. Medias treat them as geniuses who will make the world a better place.

Just a genius doing genius things…