Welcome to 2025. Happy New Year.

Equally? None of them to Trump’s degree, by my assessment.

But then, we’re quibbling over degree of terribleness here. I’m not exactly a fan of most politicians or how they have been governing for the last 30 years, so I’m not at all saying things are rosy on the other side.

Could probably count on one or two hands the number congresspeople that can’t be bought.

Absolutely.

I don’t think they’re making that claim, just that Trump is easy to manipulate and buy off for anyone with the means. Everything is negotiable with him.

My own thought is that the wealthy corpos absolutely can and do purchase US politicians, but some of them have some philosophical guardrails that preclude stepping over certain issues. That number, however, seems to be shrinking the longer we have politicians who are allowed to get fat off of the people.

Oh yeah. They’re still in stock, but there was an article not that long ago that said LG was the last in a line of name brands that have stopped producing them. So what stock is left is the last of it.

That doesn’t sound like physical media. Still sounds like streaming, so isn’t it still beholden to the same problematic VBR issues as other platforms?

This is a genuine question but—what physical media? Blu-ray players are no longer being produced by name brands, and DVDs certainly aren’t capable of storing the data.

It’s liquid helium for me. I won’t settle for less.

I wouldn’t personally buy one, but provided the spacebar was big enough, it probably wouldn’t be terrible to use. Not so long ago, mouse touchpads weren’t that big, so it could potentially work.

But for someone who cared about such a compact thing, I have to wonder if they would prefer a mouse nipple over a spacebar-mouse.

However, United said access would be free only for MileagePlus members, revising an earlier plan to offer free Wi-Fi to all passengers.

That doesn’t sound free. That sounds like a subscription. But I would expect nothing less than blatant lies from a company that partners with a Neonazi fascist.

Cachy is Arch. They use automated build processes to optimize everything from the kernel to packages.

I’ve looked at Archcraft (not any of the others), and the only thing that seems unique about it is that it’s riced (themed) out of the box and offers several DE options. Otherwise, there’s not really anything that sets it apart from, say, EndeavorOS (which has a handful of DEs and a great install process) or CachyOS (which has a nice install process, an optimized kernel and packages, and as many or more DE options as Archcraft).

The other thing that gives me pause with Archcraft is the fact that it’s maintained by only one person. What happens if/when they get burned out?

The LLM didn’t “try to do bad things.” It did exactly as it was told, and it was told, “Achieve your long-term goal at all costs.” They then gave it access to a shell and connected it to other unsecured network drives.

This wasn’t a surprise, like a prison break. This was a computer being given a vague task, selecting a novel solution to the problem, and following directions to the letter using the tools at its disposal.

I’ma push back on that and say that our laziness in shortcutting our explanations is only muddying the general public’s understanding of generative models, and it only serves the interests of the venture capitalists hoping to pump up the AI hype bubble and cash out before it pops.

So while I agree that we have been doing that as a species since forever, it’s not a particularly good trait we possess, and it’s led to some gross misunderstandings and even bad actors weaponizing that trait to equivocate and push an agenda.

Deus Ex, here we come.

Hopefully there’s a JC Denton or Adam Jensen in the future, too.

And because of that lack of dev support, it can do less than a MacBook

Until Apple makes a device that’s as capable as the Vision but as unobtrusive as a pair of glasses, it’s going to remain a niche item. The Apple Watch, as you mentioned, has the benefit of being the same general form factor as a watch. iPads are just fancy notebooks.

As much as he wishes it was true, Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs or Jony Ive.

(For reference, both devices you mentioned, as well as all of Apple’s successful devices since the first iPod, were products of their marketing genius.)

Consider reporting it to the admins of the instance.

I’ve done that same thing with a similar sort of instance, and mods banned the community and the moderator from their instance.

Reporting works.