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Germany: ~15%

France: ~6–8%

Netherlands: ~5–7%

USA: <1%

You need district heating for this to work. Not every place has that, so it’s costly to install in places. You could use it to generate electricity, but then there are losses in the conversion.

I didn’t really care about the look. Then I saw one in the flesh in a car show. The thing just looked strange up close. It was cordoned off too unlike the hundreds of other cars there. I guess they didn’t want people touching it because lots of greasy fingers and stainless steel body don’t mix well.

The tech bros aim for neo feudalism with AI surveillance control.

We’ll reach new heights in astrology and horoscopes. Tea leaves will hold no more secrets and we’ll become a major exporter in rabbit feet! /s

You’re still liable, Sam. “AI did it” has no legal value. Especially as both the developer and user of the software.

politics it really doesn’t seem all that difficul

You have to come up with semi believable nonsense on the spot, with a straight face, while having some sort of charm and playing the crowds, and do it for enough people are willing to give you money. It’s a skill if not a talent. Most people freak with giving a PowerPoint presentation. Of course that skill has absolutely nothing to do with good governance.

After the merger with xAI, that’s about 22% of their business. The rest is AI. The brochure will tell you about reaching for the stars and living on Mars, but the main product is actually Grok.

Embrace, Extended, Exploit.

It’s more a question what’ll happen to the other AI companies. Investors have now seen the first of the big ones tank. They’ll wonder if the same will happen with OpenAI, Antrophic and other AI adjacent like Microsoft, Nvidia. For a bunch of companies living of venture capital, that’s deadly.

Nah, you’ve gotta put a voice stress analyser on the table to check what the recruiter is saying and seeing them freak out over it. Or just in meetings with someone from sales or HR. They’re going to lose their shit over this.

What I remember from the movies is that the rebel alliance is being hunted to extinction unless they get lucky and one shot the bad guy.

Not directly, but it’ll give a sense of cheapness and sameness to their product.

Some folks were dreaming of the Dark Enlightenment for some time, and along came the McGuffin they could use for this.

And that was supposed to be the backbone of the space based data center

Even if prices fall, the economic damage will be severe and nobody will be in the mood for spending much on components. Folks have already probems and jobs are cut at the height of the bubble so that’s not going to end well.

No, these are things tested on gaming and phones. If it works and there isn’t much resistance it’ll come to regular computers too. First you had Steam for games, then came the iphone with an app store and then it became a thing in general computing. That’s how things go.

Age verification, id verification, mandatory DRM, only allow certified apps from official app stores, block systems not on the approved list from login onto sites, issues using school and government sites. Then payment processors get involved to refuse cash to those not following the program.

It’s a slow squeeze instead of outright ban that leaves Big Tech boxes and Dark Web boxes.

Lemmy: Arrrr!

Big Tech: take away their PC and give them some completely locked down box fully under our control, to protect the children of course. And no more physical media!

The only answer to that is probably board games and books.

And had no more ideas to steal and badly implement