Kessler Syndrome. The worst part is that, at some point, the risk of collision becomes so great that the problem becomes self-perpetuating, further increasing the risk until we can’t leave Earth anymore.

Probably but also maybe not. They’re very much about owning the libs, so they’d deny entry to a broom closet if they felt like it would get them enough laugh reacts on Facebook.

They asked a Watsonian question to which you gave a Doylist answer and you know it.

That protection was secretly reenabled by a high-level Tal Shiar operation.

“Most people?” Sounds like you’ve gotten yourself into a filter bubble, my friend. Only two people I know use it regularly, but adjusting for my own filter bubble, I think most people have played with it a couple of times, found it wanting, and maybe use Gemini in the Google search results when it comes up.

If it doesn’t have wide adoption, it isn’t a boom. It’s just sparkling speculation.

I was 32 when my daughter was born. This makes me feel more than a little bit queasy.

I assume the latter.

Yep, I’ve done that. Hardware changes are more effective than software changes, though. Every time.

Well, it’s not an LLM, but “AI” doesn’t have a defined meaning, so from that perspective they kind of already did.

I mean, it’s probably fine. I’ve just had a Pixel for long enough that my standards are too high. I have kids, and we just moved across the world, so I take a lot of photos.

Yeah, that one too.

I hope the staff spat in their food

They probably didn’t, hoping to prevent exactly what happened.

According to Wikipedia, Russia has 143M and Ukraine has 33M. So not too far off!

I’m reading it as “A Linux driver for ThinkPads is ready to start reporting damaged devices on your system - starting with bad USB-C ports.”

Headlinese is kind of ruining this one.

Well, yeah. They’re burning money faster than any ten startups I’ve ever seen. Of course they’re at a last resort.

hmm. That’s true. And dangerous, lol.

I don’t really want that much control removed, though. I just want to have a little bit more friction between my serotonin-starved brain and the cortisol river on Facebook.

I think the main purpose is probably to provide a more-usable “dumbphone” experience. I know a lot of people (myself included) who would love to doomscroll less, but need a more full-fat version of Android for work or family. Using Digital Wellbeing and the like gets part of the way there, but not the whole way. With this, the weird aspect ratio means that pretty much all video is going to be letterboxed to a crazy extent, which could be enough to make bypassing those controls feel pointless. And then they used that extra space for a physical keyboard, which is genius. If this thing had a better camera, I’d be all in.

Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Mike Teevee, and Horace Slugworth combined and aged up 125 years