Additionally, automating rapid iteration and investigation isn’t necessarily “smart” - it just let’s one try permutations more quickly with the parameters adjusting automatically. Handy, useful, but not this “magic” that tech bro billionaires keep fawning over.

The tl;dr is: Control. Vendors want it, making it easy to run open software would make that control harder to keep.

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Their deluded vision is that they think the traditional user interface is going away. Rather than interact with a machine, you’ll just be walking around, sipping coffee, having thoughtful conversations with a bot laughing along with your jokes as it writes your letter and does your taxes.

And GM was never one to understand electricity. They make the worst wiring harnesses, do stupid shit like mounting computer modules next to the HVAC core where large heat/cold changes happen leading to corrosion. They don’t use the right metals in even bulbs/sockets, so it looks like you have a burned out tail light and, lo and behold, it’s just galvanic corrosion.

It is amazing they managed to get an EV to leave the lab, let alone assembly line.

Most recent old ep I saw that I remember, there was a chloroform store with bottles of chloroform, up close, they each had a scribbled “chloroform” label on them, but they edited and lazily scribbled out the word on the bottles with a slightly different color at that, except for one angle when Homer’s holding a bottle and they didn’t scribble out the edge. Not the best example, just can’t recall others. Scenes are completely cut, edited, removed.

Other shows have similar, there was an American Dad ep from the early seasons on replay now, news headline in the intro credits said a pro-union joke and they just whiteboxed over the headline.

Not that it’s a new concept for them, apparently the original The Santa Clause movie had a 1-800-SPANK-ME joke I recall hearing as a young, that they edited out on the second VHS run of the movie and all subsequent runs.

They just dangle the AGI carrot to justify their wanton destruction of everything.

Bored tech bros are in a “war” building datacenters until someone “loses” and to the victors go the spoils.

Meanwhile, they’re shredding the rest of the economy so they will have no customers to buy their products when the “war” is over.

Really hope this bubble pops soon.

Disney constantly edits old TV shows. Episodes of the Simpsons are slowly being sanitized of “bad” things, for example.

iPhone user, so no long screenshot capability except in Safari. Among other issues…

A dying Egyptian Pharoah wanting to fill his tomb with baubles.

Bigger would be leveraging Android System SafetyCore or iOS mediaanalysisd to stalk-spy on the contents of everyone’s phones on-demand for the State. The software is already there, and on both platforms have deep entitlements…

Check too, to see if any of the tickets you use can just be presented as a QR code or e-mail. Requiring apps for simple things like that is so stupid, in general.

Allegedly. But they are also looking at a Qualcomm chipset too, allegedly. Qualcomm is a US military contractor.

Gamification of reviews is one of the biggest reasons for CI/CD existing. Releasing pointless version bumps with no code changes on most apps. The whole update psychology needs to change, in general.

I’ll go a step further, they don’t even want “civilians” to have access to any kind of general compute anymore. Just a speaker/microphone, maybe a display that you talk at. No traditional UI, no ability to own or save documents, or even have any concept of where these files live.

Now seems the perfect time to shed the cloud from one’s daily life and do the exact opposite. If one wants or needs compute, it lives in their home. Offsite backup at a friend’s or family’s home. There is not particularly a “need” for all these centralized datacenters for any human other than those that want control of everything.

The only downside is Pixel 10 support is coming via alternative methods from standard, as Google stopped shipping the binary blobs to run the hardware. Pixel 9 series may be the last to have truly native Graphene support. Graphene is looking into long-term solutions though, although last I heard they were looking at Qualcomm-based chipsets which is bad news on some level, as they’re a US military contractor.

Yeah, you can directly download their APK and it has its own alternative push service that doesn’t require Play Services. This version also has its own internal update mechanism to keep the app current, or you can use Obtainium. Best to get it closest to the source, especially these days.

Remember, Stephen Miller directly and Peter Thiel less directly are likely driving this. Mango is just their senile puppet/mouthpiece/fall guy. Not that it makes it any less serious.

So, NVIDIA CEO, shut it all down for a month and see what happens. I bet nobody will care.

I have to use a lot of LLM tech daily and wouldn’t miss it a bit, myself. Would even sleep better at night knowing all that energy use isn’t destroying the planet’s habitability.

I actually heard from an acquaintance that their employer is forcing employees to burn at least $100 of tokens a day “or else” - like, what??

Such a bubble. Can’t wait for it to pop.

Actually…your info may be false.

https://www.motor1.com/news/707996/vehicles-larger-than-ever-usa-europe/

Average vehicle width in the US increased from 73.4 inches in 2003 to 77.1 inches in 2023.

Ford Explorer: The 2005 model had front/rear track widths of 60.9/61.3 inches while the 2025 model has 66.9 inches for both front and rear track width. An increase of about 6 inches front and 5.6 inches rear.

Chevrolet Tahoe: Overall vehicle width increased from 78.9 inches in 2005 to 81.0 inches in 2025 which suggests track width along with it, although not spending more time searching specs.