That’s the point of the agreement. It locks in that demand by contractually requiring the companies agreeing to it to buy a certain amount of product regardless of whether they actually want it.

Personally, I view this as a sign that Micron believes the AI bubble is going to burst within 5 years, so they’re locking people in at bubble prices now.

Geeze, I hope not. 2x8 is a huge difference from 1x16.

Looks like a custom GPU configuration based on AMD hardware to me. So not an iGPU, but also not a mainline card.

Right? Drives me crazy.

but using it as a tool as a professional can very much improve your work and how quickly you do things.

Maybe it’s just my 20 yoe, but that has so far not been my experience with it. It is improving, but definitely not there yet. Even standard boiler plate I can typically bang out faster than asking the AI to do it and then needing to double check it’s work because it somehow still manages to screw that up occasionally. Sometimes it does manage to be better than one of the juniors, but using it that way also cuts the legs out from under the career development pipeline which will result in an intermediate and senior dev drought down the road.

AI will make money, it’s currently in the make users happy stage which is the least profitable but most important lock in stage.

Stage two comes post IPO when they shift value from users to businesses. They will start printing lots of money at this point.

The problem is, they’re starting to run out of real money. They’re having to start jacking rates up already, before the IPO stage. They thought it would monetize more than it has, and they didn’t have enough runway to make it to stage 2 before they started enshittifying.

Swappable batteries would be cool, though it would be a significant redesign from our current EV designs. Not insurmountable though. Do it propane tank style maybe? Put your drained battery in a receptacle, pay, get charged battery, continue. That would definitely solve the main area where ICE currently can’t be beat by EVs.

Big issue with EVs as daily commuters are with apartment / condo dwellers. Typically there is little to no charging infrastructure available to them for overnight charging like a home owner can. Again though, not insurmountable, though I suspect harder to get uptake on comprehensively than the swappable batteries would be, and the swappable batteries would already solve the issue anyway.

But yeah, I’m a big supporter of public transit and alternative transport. Sucks that we spend so much time and money investing into car centric planning. Love the 15-minute city concept, with everything walkable within 15 minutes of a passenger rail stop where the train comes regularly and often. It’s more complex than that, but yeah.

I guess my point was, better for what?

Travelling? Definitely not. Hard to beat a minute or two to fill your tank and get back on the road.

Daily commuting? Probably, I’d say this is probably the sweet spot for EVs. Charge overnight and you’re good for your commute.

Fun? Definitely better options available, and even when sticking to cars while the EVs tend to have better acceleration, pumping fake engine noises through a speaker is just fucking weird lol.

I could see them taking the fun vehicle spot if people don’t care as much about the fake noises, but the long distance one is gonna be a tough nut to crack without significant increases in battery tech to either get to the point where charging is absurdly fast or battery capacity is capable of going 8+ hours along with much more widespread charger access.

Sure, but sometimes people will drive for pleasure, particularly in the summer with sports cars and the like. But typically those people have never ridden a horse or motorcycle, which are, imo, far better suited for pleasure riding.

Depends what you mean by “better” I suppose. Riding a horse is more enjoyable for me. Car is more efficient for long distance travel. I pretty much never drive a car for pleasure though.

I think it’s more that someone managed to explain to them in words they could understand how unenforceable it was, and having it be unenforceable for some weakens the law’s standing as a whole. Now it doesn’t because they aren’t required to try.

Imagine if that made MicroSlop and Apple open-source Windows and Mac OS. That would be a wild world.

Not to worry though! They’ll happily sell you an overpriced one for all that money they aren’t paying you.

Congrats on technically understanding how a VPN can work while completely misunderstanding how most public ones work in practice!

Like with phone carriers, ISPs can see the numbers (IPs) you are connecting to. If you use a VPN, you’re always connecting to the same IP, which is unusual from a regular user perspective and would tend to indicate VPN usage.

Sorry, I’ve had a lot of assholes telling people to use GrapheneOS like it’s super easy for most people to just go out and get a specific phone that is relatively low in market share (making them harder to find second hand too) like it’s as easy as running to the store for a loaf of bread and they get super aggressive when called out on it and it has, in turn, been pissing me off.

GrapheneOS is legitimately great IF you have a device that can run it, which most people don’t. A lot of it’s fans are raging assholes. Sorry for assuming you were one of them.

If you were already talking about limited storage on devices that typically can’t use SD cards, then yes, you’re a fucking idiot if you say “Just use an SD card to increase your storage! It’s EASY!” Which is what you’re doing when people are talking about Android issues and you say the same fucking thing about GrapheneOS.

TL;DR: There’s a moron here, but it isn’t me.

That’s not what scrolling means in this context. If you are intentionally seeking out specific information, you may need to scroll, but you aren’t “scrolling”.

It’s not an easy install if it literally can’t be fucking installed on most devices.

… what exactly do you think the phase “impossibly difficult” means? Because “impossible” is a level of difficulty ie. THEY ARE NOT DIFFERENT THINGS