Former Redditor. Nerd, Geek, Musician.
I’ve always been a fan of Motorola - my current phone is the Edge plus and is 3 years old. Had to replace the battery but otherwise a solid phone. My phone budget has been as high as $500 but will never exceed that. 2k for a phone in this economy is beyond unacceptable. Its moronic. Still a phone and nothing special - just incremental improvements. I dont see this selling.
Man, I used to love using Googles ecosystem but recently on Chromecast YouTube they started pushing non skippable politics adds at me like gangbusters… That was the last straw. Finally got all ads out of YT and stopped using Gboard and went back to FF. Getting out of Gmail next. Enough is enough.
To be fair I have heard this same pitch 4 different times since the 1980s and it hasn’t come to pass. We users just get around things by being clever and resourceful. Trust me when the big AI bubble either pops or deflates - they will be right back selling ram and drives for cheap. Someone will for sure make an adapter for all the extra data center ram or something.
This is my take as well.
The Atari 400 and 800 used a modified cassette player to store and load. It was tremendously buggy with the sync tone that started transfer.
Gen X here - we had a good quiet 20 years and then everything went entirely to hell.
I said the same thing then took the plunge a year or so ago. Now the people that I used to keep up with on FB text and interact directly with me more often even than FB and I enjoy it more… Also don’t have to incidentally see all the assholes in the process.
I don’t agree with this study and I am not a fan of AI. Replace the AI tool that they used with a calculator. You’d get the same results. Here you are legally cheating on some task because you were told to do it - breezing right along thinking of something cool you are gonna do later and then … WHAM ! Cheaty tool gets yoinked. Now fuck - I have to think ? I’d probably think fuck it, I’ll give it a half asssed shot because fuck them for making it not fun.
I second this - it’s a whole world of better … install with a few anti telemetry and anti-crap scripts.
Add Archer / TP link to that list.
I always thought the same. Odd phrase.