As someone who works on embedded devices: HDDs are used for media storage and can be easily replaced. Any NAND as a limited life span and good embedded software will try very hard to minimise writes. Though in my particular area, there’s additional security constraints on the OS, which preclude any removable flash storage from being used.

Some of the LLMs it ships with are very reasonably sized and still be impressive. I can run them on a laptop with 32GB of RAM.

Does GPT4all not allow that? Or do you have specific other models?

Washing cleans genitalia, not surgery.

It doesn’t harm your computer or add viruses. All of the things it does are fake and are meant only for fun!!

Steel production also needs to find alternatives.

At least one steel company is on it: https://www.ssab.com/en/fossil-free-steel

I brought game xyz to enjoy it, not to keep it forever.

If you can’t keep it forever, you didn’t buy it - as in take ownership of it - you just rented it.

Yes, they’ve created an BEV specific platform, which currently is used by the Toyota bZ4X/Subaru Solterra and Lexus RZ, with the Toyota bZ3 due in 2024.

Worth noting that “con man” is short for “confidence man”. Inflated egos help with the confidence needed to trick people out of money.

I switched to DDG recently after realising how much worse Google is for giving good results. After doing so on a trial basis, I’m now switching on all my devices as it’s just overall a better search experience for me. (Even if DDG is just Bing.)

LLM and AI gives regular people a lot of crazy power and creative ability that can challenge current power dynamics.

My view is opposite in that LLM and AI will further entrench the skewed power dynamics, as only really the big companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Google can fully exploit it, drive and and afford it. Sure I can run some LLMs on my computers at home, but you really need access to a lot of data and computing power to create the models in the first place.

The Dutch have had weight based roax tax for a long while: link in Dutch It just does not apply to EVs.

His right to have a whale of a time.

My biggest worry on this would be where you’d get them re-threaded.

Maybe smart phones are bad for our mental health, but I think reducing our entire experience with the world into mental health is the worst thing for our mental health.

In much the same way as individual people are blamed for CO² emissions and make you worry about your carbon footprint as a cynical ploy, it’s a type of shifting the blame from where it belongs.

The thought process behind this is: “your personal mental health being bad must be a personal failing rather than external factors, or else the system would need to be changed. And that simply would hurt profits.”

Yes, it’s pseudoephedrine that you want. Somewhat ironic that Sudafed got its brandname from it, but you can’t easily get the original version anymore.

Edited: corrected for availibility of the Sudafed - thanks Blue and Cubby.

deleted by creator

In very mild defence of their government, it’s not like many other countries do IT better at the national level.