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Google constant failure astonish me. How a company with so much money, so many wonderful engineers can't produce a source of income other than the search engine? I kept reading news about Google's AI programs, how the hell was Microsoft with OpenAI that came up with the biggest hit in AI?

Also, how does Google want people to use their new services if they keep closing them down after their "failure" (a.k.a Google completely forgeting about them and proceeding to close them down).

It’s funny the more time goes by the more censorship I see happening in these “traditional” platforms.

Yeah truth be told I consider that Apple should've waited atleast another year for the M2 Max. Maybe improve it a little further since even the M1 Max it's way ahead of anything in the laptop market right now.

Generally Apple users don't update their computers too often, and when they released the M1 models a lot of people had models pre-2016 that needed upgrading (since pos-2016 models sucked balls).

So, part of that unusual demand was also customers finally upgrading their old MacBooks.

Clearly they're winning the war

/s

If you do something useful it will probably attract criminals, nothing we can do about it.

At this point I’m astonished people still trust in Google services. The fact that this targets even paid users…

From my experience cryptocurrencies are helping countries overcome that. But still, money wouldn't be a solution for this issue.

Regulation it's always destructive. It's always meant to forbid/enforce some actions. Some light regulations can be bad for climate but good for companies and economy and vice-versa, it's up to the politician to find the balance.

European politicans can't do that since they're busier trying to win next elections.

Yeah Europe it's facing an excessive taxation plus excessive regulation. Regulation it's good but it should be small and precise. The excess of regulation in Europe it's only being benefitial to huge corps, that have money to either pay the small fines, or an army of lawyers to either comply or circumvent regulations.

For example, they forced brands to switch to Type-C, everyone here cheered up the EU. This will come back to bite us in the a*. EU's actions were excessive and in the future will hurt innovation since brands will now have to ask permission to EU to come up with new standards if needed.

And somehow they wil still find a way of blaming NATO on their actions, and some people eat that crap.

Again, you're calling me "crypto-absolutist" shows your clear hate for the technology only for the sake of it.

This would also make very easy to prove ownership. You have access to the address that owns said property, it's yours. It's as simple as that.

The database you'd need locally would be pretty much to store useful information and to track data on the blockchain.

I don't see any country using this anytime soon, or at all, but it is possible.

PS: I do understand you hate NFTs representing pictures of monkeys being worth millions of $, I also find it stupid, that doesn't give me the right to hate the entire technology that makes it possible.

Sorry, don't mean to be rude but this is the most useless discussion I've seen here.

I think it's fairly easy to understand (but you clearly hate the technology for some reason). The proof of ownership would be in the blockchain. NFT X represents X property, the address owning that NFT would technically own that NFT.

Also NFTs may also have descriptive data on them, so technically you could have a description marking that NFT as X property.

It's very much feasable, but from what I'm reading from you, you just hate the technology for the sake of it. Reminds me of Apple haters.

This is some boomer level commentary right here.

Shows complete lack of understanding of what you're talking about.

Man I switched from Windows and Android to all Apple recently and it’s a pretty good improvements overall. Competition isn’t caught up, they’re falling behind.

One thing though, software quality has been falling down a lot, including Apple’s

Curious to know, which competition caught up Apple on software?

You do have a point, it's a safer alternative...

They could take a few pointers from Google for sure. When I open bing.com I cringe hard from the amount of redundant crap, specially if you just want to make a quick search.

They have News, Microsoft Rewards and all other BS that doesn't need to be shown there imo. Sure can be useful for some folks and you have a setting to remove them. Would be nice if the setting actually worked.

For example, the setting to hide the news actually hides him from your sight but doesn't stop loading them at all, so if you scroll the page you still have them there. Hate it (not even considering that their news are garbage, I already downvoted a ton of celebrety news and they still show me the same amount of them).

So yeah, I guess I'd be more excited about AI search if wasn't Microsoft doing it. They are very poor designers and Windows 11 is the greatest example, with a lot of redundancy and elements that clearly don't fit in their new design language.

And a cleaner UI.

Bing is a mess right now...

Vice should ask ChatGPT to write their articles, maybe it's journalism will be decent.

Companies with investors hungry for profits always speeding up what can’t be speed up it’s the major reason the software is turning into crap. A prime example was Cyberpunk.

I'd imagine making something worthy of replacing Linux Kernel isn't easy, even for a big corporation with the size of Google.

I mean, even if cheaper you will always be giving away certain securities and perks that you have in a hotel.

Not even considering the amount of horror stories I usually hear about related to Airbnbs.

It's algorithm is really dumb. That's why these companies need to stop with these so called "algorithms", we should only select the genres of music we like and our front page should be a reflection of it.

I still remember when my girlfriend searched for a fart noise podcast as a joke and then I kept getting suggestions based on it for weeks.

Probably other portuguese are going to hate me for saying this but... you have Spain. Their cost of living is a bit higher but their wages are higher as well and in some key stuff they have cheaper stuff than us. I went to Barcelona last year and I actually purchased there stuff to bring to Portugal because it was cheaper.

Also, I get why people get the idea that Portugal is "cheaper". Most come here in a trip, eat at a restaurant and pay a lot less than they're used to and they think the country is cheap. Well, that only happens because the wages are very low (our minimum wage for 2023 is 740€ and even though it raised a bit, the remaining wages aren't raising accordingly).

The cost of living is not low at all. Don't know where you got that idea from.

Wages are very low considering the cost of life here. Rents in the main cities of the country are going through the roof and there's little to no choice (if you're a digital nomad you can always choose to live in other areas, since it's clear you don't need to live close to where you work, but the issue there isn't much better).

About 26% people are living abroad (emigrated) and many of the ones who are staying in the country end up working for portuguese companies who mostly also work abroad.

So, if those people fled a country with such great good, weather and specially their families, it should ring some red flags no?

And if you come living here with a foreign wage, sure makes sense to me. But if you have a "native wage", it's a no go.

As a portuguese it blows my mind that "digital nomads" are choosing the country to live in. Surely the country has great weather, food and you get an hefty tax discount that the natives can only dream about (20% of income tax is wayyy lower than a living wage in this country pays). But if you investigated a bit more you would see that the emigration rates of the country are going through the roof.

It should be a huge red flag that one "nice" country has more than 20% of it's population living abroad: https://poligrafo.sapo.pt/fact-check/cotrim-de-figueiredo-po... (you might want to use Google Translate on this one).

I also saw some comments blaming the tourism for this "bubble" bursting. The portuguese can't complain about tourism since it's a huge part of our PIB.

Dunno how we got to a point where sexuality is such a taboo that is better having violence in movies than sex.