The market can remain irrational for far longer than you can remain solvent

Although it’s ambiguous how much of this is due to AI data centres and how much is the natural ramp-down of DDR4 production.

DDR3 also increased substantially in price a few years after DDR4 became available.

Nice addition!

Some extensions have a verified/recommended by Mozilla seal of approval, so these extensions would be checked by a human to see that they comply.

Obviously they can’t check every update of every extension in existence, but even just the above is an improvement and certainly not useless.

I don’t think this could be enforced by the API without also seriously limiting what extensions can do, which people would go crazy about if they did.

No, but Amazon’s are very often the cheapest by far, easiest to find used (since more are sold in the first place). On Prime days they’re often very cheap.

I imagine most of the profit comes from buying/renting the books.

Open source is the exception, and it’s important to note that.

Now you may be thinking “well duh”, but I’ve seen plenty of people, even fairly techy people, refuse to use good FOSS software because they think they’re being monetised somehow and that because there’s no ads, it must be from secret data theft.

Adding an optional extra search engine isn’t the end of the world.

They also have Google and Bing, which aren’t nice either, yet nobody was doing this performative outrage over optional search engine inclusions before.

Don’t forget about his views on sex with animals!

Unless he’s championing paedophilia and bestiality, which he has done on a number of occasions. Or being an absolute creep with women, which he’s also done.

Tesla were advertising long before then, just not in the traditional sense.

They let YouTubers and influencers borrow their cars, and gave them a commission on every car they helped sell.

They purposefully stirred up controversy to get news article clicks.

They had a very outspoken CEO making outlandish claims and cosplaying as the saviour of humanity, bringing lots of attention to Tesla.

They launched a Tesla into space.

That stuff doesn’t show up on Tesla’s books as marketing, but it absolutely is marketing.

Go Pro used influencers and content marketing by their customers, the Dollar Shave Club made it to fame through viral videos.

All of that is marketing.

Windows is far more jank than a lot of Linux distros/desktop environments.

Like…

• Multiple different right click menus?
• No consistent and cohesive design language even throughout system or first party apps?
• Having to search online for an exe download page, download, open downloads folder, double click, click next through an installer? Then each app having to have its own update process, often that always runs in the background to check (or none at all)?
• Updates that happen when you don’t want them to, take forever, and break things?
• Fucking ads everywhere?
• Web results in your start menu before actual stuff on your system
• Multiple settings apps?
• Sleep that doesn’t work?
• Convoluted process for setting things as the default app?
• Dark mode that’s only functional for some apps?

It’s actually incredible how much money Microsoft has, and how much more they spend than probably all Linux DEs combined, but they’ve still yet to fix so much low hanging fruit.

The difference is that Google decided this was a task best suited for their LLM.

If someone seeked out an LLM specifically for this question, and Google didn’t market their LLM as an assistant that you can ask questions, you’d have a point.

But that’s not the case, so alas, you do not have a point.

Yes, it. It’s not a person. Were you expecting me to call it anything else?

The only reason they are doing it is to blow up their numbers.

Ding ding ding.

It’s so they can have impressive metrics for shareholders.

“Our AI had n interactions this quarter! Look at that engagement!”, with no thought put into what user problems it actually solves.

It’s the same as web results in the Windows start menu. “Hey shareholders, Bing received n interactions through the start menu, isn’t that great? Look at that engagement!”, completely obfuscating that most of the people who clicked are probably confused elderly users who clicked on a web result without realising.

Line on chart must go up!

You aren’t wrong about why it happens, but that’s irrelevant to the end user.

The result is that it can give some hilariously incorrect responses at times, and therefore it’s not a reliable means of information.

The only reason I’m still on Spotify is that I can pay like £2.20 to be in someone’s family.

But the incessant push towards podcasts bugs me. When I’m driving, I shouldn’t have to scroll through 5+ pages to finally get to the music section. That shit is dangerous.

As soon as Spotify inevitably enforces that families have to be the same household, as so many other streaming services have done before it, I’m gone.

Already watched it when it came out, I guess I’ll play it in the background while I work, muted, to help the algorithm.

I enjoy using Jellyfin and hope it continues to improve, but it has some problematic security of its own.

This feels more like politics news than technology news. Sure it’s done over social media/messaging apps, but so are plenty of things that I wouldn’t really call technology news.

I’m somewhat surprised that boys are at a much greater risk of online sexual exploitation than girls, though.