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And how much of your cold hard cash would you be willing to lay down for the free basic AI chat, when they decide they actually want a return from their trillion dollar data center investments?

Surely if Copilot was so useful and great, it wouldn't be free and they wouldn't be trying to force it down unwilling people's throats at every opportunity.

I'm beginning to think this AI stuff isn't all it's cracked up to be...

I've done that with both LG OLEDs that I've had.

I have a projector that I never use because I don't like the fan noise.

They're great for sports though. Hard to beat an entire wall of screen.

I prefer OLED for TV and movies though.

I have an LG OLED and have never seen it go blank on any scene.

It just looks great all the time. Especially on scenes like you describe with a dark scene with bright highlights. Campfire scenes look great, space scenes look great. That's what OLED is best at.

If you're talking about ABL, I've only noticed the dimming on ads or powerpoint lectures that have fully white backgrounds, and I've been thankful for it at those times because I find all-white backgrounds too bright to watch anyway.

Gmail is the only thing I wouldn't be able to replace.

I've read it's almost impossible to run your own email server without getting blocked by all recipients in 2025.

Call me a dinosaur, but I don't consider a 154Gb download before I can start playing a good first impression.

In fact, I would seriously consider even buying a game that big if I knew beforehand. When a 500Gb SSD is $120 Aussie bucks, that's $37 of storage.

Reading a standards spec to understand what the device you paid for does?

Straight to jail!

Pirating the entire internet to train your AI?

That's fair use.

God, that's worrying.

I must live in a more rational bubble.

We have 8.3 billion examples of general intelligence alive on the planet right now.

Surely an artificial one in a data center, costing trillions and beholden to shareholders, will solve all society's issues!

...yet

I guess it's food and exercise.

Healthy food is expensive, do things to make that relatively cheaper and thus more appealing.

Exercise is expensive, do things to make that relatively cheaper and thus more appealing.

Walkable cities are another issue. People shouldn't have to get in their car to go anywhere.

Don't worry, nobody has any idea of how to build one, and LLMs aren't AGI.

They're just trying to replace workers with LLMs.

Anecdotally, I killed two out of two that I was hobby-mining on for a couple of years. They certainly didn't sound like they would work forever.

>"They're in charge, surely they must know what they're doing! They wouldn't lie to us!

Literally nobody thinks that.

Unfortunately most people don't have the time or energy to fight every emerging attack on freedom.

Everything is going to plan for the billionaire class.

Eventually everything will burn, only time will tell if it will be from global warming or food riots.

When I'm forced to use Windows, I now use Powertoys Run. So I press Alt-Space, then type the name of the app.

It works SO much better than the abomination that the Start Menu has become...

You can even type "%appname" to focus an already running app.

Does Google pay for your PC, power or internet connection?

I didn't look at the billboards when I was driving today.

Did I just pirate my drive to work?

Just because you say it's piracy doesn't mean it is.

When they provide all the equipment necessary to watch the content, and pay for the internet connection and power to my house, only then will they have a claim to what commands are run on my computer.

But my computer, that I paid for, using the power and bandwidth that I pay for, does not play ads.

If they don't like those terms, they can feel absolutely free to not send me any content they don't want me to watch.

>It was slightly weird that the old website didn't support https

It always did if you linked to https://reg.bom.gov.au , eg https://reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDN60801/IDN60801.94768.shtm... https://reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDR711.loop.shtml

You're right — I got that wrong. Ah, I misunderstood what you were asking. Good catch — I miscalculated there. You're right — the code I provided won’t run as written. I made an assumption that wasn’t supported by your question. My previous answer was incomplete. Thanks for the example — you’re correct. Yes, that was inconsistent. With that additional information, my earlier answer no longer applies. You're absolutely right to question that.

Lol!

Nothing to do with the actual story which was very interesting, but I just find it so absurd that in 2025 we're still splitting posts into paragraphs because of some weird historical character limit on tweets.

And some of those posts are way longer than tweets used to be, but we're still splitting them for no real reason than to make them tweets instead of blog posts?

Did I say they were all dummies?

You said there's nothing wrong with how Apple exploits their target market.

Scummy behavior being normalized is what's wrong with it.

I tried out zoxide and fzf ctrl-r history on linux (zsh) recently. Game changers.

Where is zoxide for my phone? Why is there so little innovation?

Trillion dollar companies can't come up with a single new thing. Or rather, won't come up with a single new thing because they're just useless rent seekers.

It's absolutely pathetic.

The problem is that because fleecing dummies is so profitable, it encourages the same scummy behavior by other companies.

There's teams of people having meetings about how they can degrade people's experience right now.

LLMs do not have the ability to make decisions and they don't even have any awareness of the veracity of the tokens they are responding with.

They are useful for certain tasks, but have no inherent intelligence.

There is also no guarantee that they will improve, as can be seen by ChatGPT5 doing worse than ChatGPT4 by some metrics.

Increasing an AI's training data and model size does not automatically eliminate hallucinations, and can sometimes worsen them, and can also make the errors and hallucinations it makes both more confident and more complex.

Overstating their abilities just continues the hype train.

"Bottom side must be done using a rework hot air gun, not possible with hotplate."

Basically you're hoping the bottom side doesn't get hot enough for everything to move or fall off.

I'm on HN because I don't want to do my job right now.

There's been quite a few videos on youtube about the creative accounting going on where Nvidia funds OpenAI to buy stuff from Nvidia, etc.

Like snakes eating their own tail. If you or I did it, we'd go to jail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBCujAQtdfQ

But the big end of town apparently thinks it's worth a government investment of a trillion dollars for all that repackaging of stolen content.

It'd be really interesting to see how the books actually look. I'm guessing it's not pretty.