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The Indian Govt is dictatorial and segregational. It is a valid concern. Freedom of speech and privacy are not something the government cares about upholding.

It is perfectly valid that this issue is polarizing. on the one hand we have blind cargo culters and on the other hand we have "luddites". Being in one or the other "tribe" is cause for getting insulted or called out. Because the cargo culters want everyone to do what they are doing, just like the RTO crowd. The skeptics want to take a more reasonable pace. One side is we are done this is the future and the other side doesn't see the same results happening to them but the cargo culters think in absolutes and 100% only. It is all or nothing. All these other posts waxing and waning and insulting the skeptics are frankly insulting

how privileged of you! thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve you while you centralize my brain power and start charging me a tax on thinking. GTH

sure. we believe you

Just claims with nothing to back it. Steal people's work of years, and turn around be like I make it "so much better". Support this compiler for 20 years then

Thank you!!! All these resources being spent on centralizing and claiming to outsource and reduce human thinking to nothing.

Humans can hack a compiler in much less. Stop reading this hype and focus on learning

Yup. All the tech hype bros are like "but my compiler"... Nobody was paying me to write a compiler, the meaning of "clean room" keeps changing, that they had to spend $20k (on the surface), not include the energy costs, the hardware costs, the time of assembly, etc. If you only paid that much money to a person and group of people. It is the hype bros wet dream to extract all value out of people and somehow get rich. Who cares if humanity suffers, look what I built for myself by enslaving people and wasting earth resources. Every single AI fetishist in this thread is responsible for it.

Japanese exclusion act was not that long ago and yet people act as if that didn't happen.

what japanese internment camps? /s

Exactly. This is just google building a "moat" around their shady business.

Yup exactly. Google must be the only one allowed to scrape the web. Google can't have any other competition. Calling it in "user's best interest" is just like their other marketing cons: "play integrity for user's security" etc

Have you tried using it logged out on a vpn? It is impossible.

Agreed. With things people paid for and using our wifi data to build their "positioning dbs" that you can't block or turn off on your phone, without "rooting" your own device.

This blog post from the company that used promise "don't be evil", one that steals water for data centers from vilages and towns via shady deals, whose whole premise it stealing other people's stuff and claiming it as their own and locking them out and selling their data.. Who made them the arbiter of the internet? No one!!!

They just stole this and get on their high horse to tell people how to use internet? You can eff right off Google.

and why do i care for the investor's perspective? they already made enough money to last them 100 lifetimes

head in sand take. stop listening to propaganda.

Sounds like you have never lived next to a datacenter where one was shoved in to your infra and jacking up your electricity cost and polluting your air and water.

What if some one put a running car with the exhaust pointed into your living area without your knowledge and with nothing you can do about it? That's what these datacenters are.

Might as well deal with that as the new normal and get along with the show.

The amount of delusion about "bigger problem" You won't be able to solve bigger problems if you don't understand the details and nuances of how things are made.

And yet people complain that management is out of touch, MBA driven businesses are out of touch, PE firms are out of touch, designers are out of touch with product, look at the touch screen cars (made by people who have never driven one) with reality. I can't even.

Exactly! ALL of the LLM companies are complicit in this bullying and theft and so are the AI grifters on LinkedIn.

You wish. These EV get charged $15k more compared what they used to be with their gas models with crap touch screens, stupid ass voice controls: things that when broken are hard to repair and costly, the battery, the range. Keep dreaming

Yup!

Thank you! Everytime you interact with government, it is politics. Filing taxes is politics. TurboTax lobbying against free self filing and government filing is politics and technology. It goes on and on. You cannot avoid politics because politics is about people.

That is a fair take. Everybody wants to say "it is just a tool" and get away with it

I was going to remove myself from this conversation, but then I had to shout it out, so.

Thank you all in this thread! I couldn't have put it better. I cannot stand "no politics rules". Politics divides and it is personal. But it shouldn't be either of those. We should be attacking policy and not people. No politics rules just deny reality because software doesn't exist in a vacuum without policy and money. Heck most people want to use software to get money which is a product of policy.

Are you running windows on this?

Eh. debatable. my work MBP frequently dies and the screen never turns on when i plug it in. I have to wait 15-20 minutes for it to turn on. My Linux laptop on the other hand, the screen turns immediately power or no power/just plugged in

FLStudio in Wine, Bitwig and Reaper work amazing on Linux, Mixxx for DJing works with Traktor keyboards.

I did the same for my media centers! Netflix and iQIYI refuse to work. I am cancelling Netflix. Been a member since 2010. I don't need 4k either. The 4k tax is losing ownership over your media. HDMI is closed source compared to display port.

My media center experience is so so much better. The apps on roku logout randomly, the nvidia shield remote craps out, windows firefox/chrome are slow and the logitech keyboard doesn't work. But the same keyboard and browser setup works like a charm on the same machine on linux.

Manufactured waste, fight against general purpose computing and ownership is what is at stake.