Also, have you considered the Framework Desktop?

https://frame.work/desktop

It’s in your budget, and has 128GB of unified memory (shared between the CPU and GPU).

It doesn’t seem like a very “walled” garden if they were able to migrate all their data including issues and comments

Pretty sure they can. Or at least, they can deny you entry into the country if you decline to unlock it for them.

It’s never too late:

https://g.co/finance/TSLQ:NASDAQ

You don’t need to buy options. Someone did all that and made an ETF out of it for you.

https://www.wunderground.com/pws/buying-guide

I think it might take a lot longer than 20 years for plastic to fully die down

https://newsasfacts.com/

You can turn it into an RSS feed using https://kill-the-newsletter.com/

Actually, star trek might be. In their lore, things got a lot worse before they got better.

Nah CEOs will mandate RTO for workers while they themselves stay remote.

Ka…booom!

You can use yelp for reviews. IIRC Apple maps reviews go to Yelp by default so there’s a decent amount of reviews for most places.

Because chrome doesn’t make any money

A long time ago he did useful things before the brain rot set in.

Just because someone is a twat now doesn’t mean we should erase all their past achievements.

Some stores require you to use the app for order pickup.

Sounds like a store to avoid like the plague.

I think 20 years ago they said it’s set to heal by 2050…

Woah… in Sri Lanka we pronounced it as “Eee-Ah Eee-Ah Oh”.

Went straight over my head. Could someone please dumb it down for me?

So, before the invention of the camera, the most valuable and most popular creative skill was replicating people on canvas as realistically as possible. Yes, we remember famous exceptions like Picasso, but by sheer number of paintings the most common were portraits of rich people.

After the cameras took that job away, prevailing art changed to become more abstract and “creative”. But that still pissed off a lot of people that had spent a very long time honing a skill that was now no longer in demand.

What we’re seeing is a similar shift. I think future generations of artists will value color theory, composition, etc. over specific brush stroke techniques. AI will make art much more accessible once enough time has passed for AI assisted art to be considered art. Make no mistake: it will always be people that actually create the art - AI will just reduce/remove the grunt work so they can focus more on creativity.

Now, whether billion dollar corporations deserve to exploit the labor of millions of people is a whole separate conversation, but tl;dr: they don’t, but they’re going to anyway because there is little to stop them in correct economic/governance models.

False.

I work for Microsoft and I can assure you that any effort I make to increase code quality or reduce jank (or pretty much anything other than shoving more AI in our products) will not positively impact my bonus next year.

IIRC it wasn’t legal action from Nvidia, but rather AMD pulling the funding that killed ZLUDA.