If your waistline is high enough these words automatically enter into your vocabulary.

Not trying to get into a poverty contest with you. You mistook me clarifying what I said as a challenge against your life experiences.

To reiterate: don’t stress about things you have no control over. Stressing about it won’t change anything. That time and energy is better spent stressing about the things you do have control over.

Huh? Where and what you eat is absolutely something you have control over. A war in Iran raising prices on food is not something you have control over.

What lawyerspeak TOS bullshit are they going to cite as a way to avoid refunds and lawsuits?

“Avoid stress” is code for don’t worry about things you have no control over.

This would never happen in the Midwest.

I dunno, man. I’ve blown $200 on worse things.

So, what scams are happening? Is this a “do not redeem” type of thing?

Visa is gonna hand over my bank details to a chatbot, but if I want to buy a game with anime tits Visa flips the fuck out and starts threatening platforms.

You gotta have a legitimate British theater actor in your space wizard movie to sprinkle in a touch of authenticity.

Don’t companies usually wait until after their IPO to enshittify their products?

The browser wars have been kind of strange from the perspective of someone who’s been using Firefox for well over a decade. It’s a bit like hearing about the Civil War while living in Oregon.

All they needed to do was not be so scummy with people’s data and I think most would have been okay with the tradeoff. I would have bought one of their VR headsets if I didn’t think they were gonna scrape every aspect of its use and sell my gooning habits to advertisers.

I’m guessing it’s to eliminate the issue of a site not getting clicks because the article you were about to read is already summarized for you. It also opens the door for revenue negotiations for allowing their content to be scraped for that purpose, as the scraper bots would now be identified.

You’re right if we’re talking about the entire population of Earth. With these local models though, other people have already done all the hard stuff. Anyone with an RTX card and just a minimum level of patience can get going.

Would be nice to see that used hardware for sale rather than it being junked as a writeoff.

I can’t imagine paying for AI when the open source tools have made it so easy to set up a model locally.

Meant it as a joke, but this is still helpful information.

Gonna need a VPN to connect to your VPN.

What’s the saying? “Ownership is 90% posession.”

Like with the stuff going on at the East Wing or the Kennedy Center, some people just move forward even if they’re not allowed to because chances are they won’t be stopped or penalized.