Reminds me of iOS users (who tend to be financially better off) getting charged more than Android users. Random recent-ish examples, but this goes way back:

https://timelinedaily.com/technology/ride-hailing-apps-charge-iphone-users-more-than-android-users-report

https://mashable.com/article/doordash-iphone-android-class-action-lawsuit

https://www.msn.com/en-in/technology/tech-companies/ios-users-are-being-forced-to-pay-more-than-android-owners-for-the-same-products-on-zepto/ar-BB1rpWpY

A couple of years ago, I hooked up my laptop to a monitor and to watch a movie from a streaming service. Since the monitor (a budget AOC model) didn’t support HDCP, it didn’t play.

Here’s the amazingly sophisticated hack I used to get it working: Instead of using the monitor as an additional display, I mirrored the laptop screen to it. Millions of dollars developing DRM defeated by a single key stroke.

Sure, but what play is being performed here? These men are more than powerful enough to go against Trump, yet every single one of them is playing the part of the obedient subject to the mighty king. The message of this bizarre play is that Trump is in charge, that he demands, in return of leaving you and your business alone, acts of what can only be described as public debasement.

That’s unsettling for a long list of reasons.

It can mean that, but it’s also possible that he already had psychological issues. While the entire thing stinks and my first instinct is to assume foul play as well, it’s still important not to jump to conclusions. The reason is simple: If there’s a real case of corporate murder, then people will take it less seriously due to past conspiracy theories.

Yup. One of several reasons why the Shield TV Pro is still the best streaming box. Using a smart TV after having gotten used to this device is painful.

What you’re asking for is a monitor, not a TV. The last TV I’ve seen that is this limited still had a picture tube - and it wasn’t even the last CRT TV I’ve used (we actually had a very late one with HDMI). Regardless of how silly AI features are, there’s a middle ground.

This model would not exist without the work done by OpenAI though, given that the Chinese company secretly used ChatGPT to train it.

Not really, given the media frenzy surrounding this model.

I was looking at 4 and 8TB Seagate drives at various German online retailers a few months ago and there were indeed a few suspiciously cheap ones that could have only been disguised used drives. It irritated me so much, it made me postpone a server expansion.

Because it’s designed by a genocidal imperialist regime and intended to increase its global influence. It’s a heavily censored model that spreads Chinese government propaganda and distorts the truth.

I can’t be the only one who wants to see both of them losing this fight.

A couple of times. It depends on the printer, the filament and the user. While the cleaning filament is a consumable, it’ll probably outlast my printer, since you only need to use a few centimeters per cleaning.

let’s all stop thinking about anything

You’re way ahead of us on that front.

Haven’t you heard? The truth is sinophobic. Obligatory:

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Saying that “everyone is doing it” is called hypernormalization and a common propaganda technique used by autocratic regimes like Russia and China. It’s meant to instill feelings of hopelessness and indifference. It is also usually extremely dishonest, since it relies on false equivalencies (like in this case) and/or comparing current state crimes with past state crimes of others.

Happy to help. Feel free to message me if you have any more questions later on.

I haven’t had my printer clog up completely anymore since I started using it. That’s the advantage I’m seeing.

If anything, this is just the start of an arms race. Do you really expect the Western competition to just stop what they are doing, because a single Chinese model performs well in a handful of synthetic tests that it was probably optimized to score well in?

I’m not a fan of AI slop either, on the contrary, but let’s be realistic here.

Don’t distract. I knew where exactly in the Chinese capital this square is when I was six years old. Your accusation that I must be some ignorant American who can’t find anything on a world map is wrong on both accounts.

Once again: What happened there? I want an honest answer from you.

At least China is honest about what they’re doing.

Peak comedy right there. You’re proudly defending an imperialist regime that is engaged in multiple genocides right now and has the worst body count in all of human history - but as long as it’s under the red banner, that’s fine by you. How shallow can you be? Are you willfully ignorant of all of these past and current crimes against humanity or does the goal of a Communist utopia (as if hyper-capitalist China would ever get there) justify it all?