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Excellent!

I've signed up and look forward to following your success.

Your mission is near and dear to my heart- I grew up on an US Air Force base that is a PFAS superfund site and didn't find out about it until much later in life. Recently I've jumped into research linking PFAS contamination in dog food to canine Addison's disease.

We've been pretty cavalier with PFAS and it's horrifying.

Who is "normal" in this context? Because people who support the EFF's mission are pretty clued into what is happening and do care.

Yes.

I applaud the move and only wish they would have done it sooner.

He banned me after I replied to his tweet with my display name set as "Elon's Musk".

I think I lasted <1 week after this takeover.

If it wasn’t for double standards they wouldn’t have any at all.

We’ve seen it every 4-8 years for decades.

Why?

I hit the Claude limit within an hour.

Most of my tokens are used arguing with the hallucinations.

I’ve given up on it.

That’s been my experience and has lead to hours of wasted time. It’s faster for me to read through docs and watch YouTube.

Even if I submit the documentation or reference links they are completely ignored.

Because I’m sick of paying $20 for an hour of claude before it throttles me.

I thought Bezos paid enough in bribes for it to not affect AWS/Amazon?

Sorry, donated.

I use that and Mr. Chilly.

Mr. Chilly is one of those niche apps that sparks joy and reminds me of the early app days.

My XPS never sat in the sun and none of my thinkpads or MacBooks have ever had issues like this. Much less multiple issues back to back.

More importantly they can all accept 3rd party batteries.

How is this not the top of the front page?

Are we just immune to these headlines now because we don’t expect anything different from Microslop? Just an assumption that they’ll have a catastrophic failure once a quarter or more.

I’m endlessly frustrated with the Microslop experience over the last 12 months.

What are my alternatives? We utilize the entire 365 suite and it feels daunting to migrate everything to individual services.

We are a small team and rely on outlook, 365, etc.

The last year has been miserable for outages.

What are the alternatives with better uptime?

In what world is meta strongly left-biased?

I tried to get Claude to build me a spreadsheet last night. I was explicit in that I wanted an excel file.

It’s made one in the past for me with some errors, but a framework I could work with.

It created an “interactive artifact” that wouldn’t work in the browser or their apps. Gaslit me for 3 revisions of me asking why it wasn’t working.

Created a text file that it wanted me to save as a .csv to import into excel that failed hilariously.

When I asked it to convert the csv to an excel file it apologized and told me it was ready. No file to download.

I asked where the file was and it apologized again and told me it couldn’t actually do spreadsheets and at that point I was out of paid credits for 4 more hours.

Good!

Mine is sitting on a shelf. I can’t even use it without the battery because it throttles when the only power source is the charger.

I keep it around to maybe scavenge the 4k touchscreen for a project or the ram for a family member’s under-specced laptop or maybe one day someone will crack the battery DRM…

My top of the line XPS battery swole so much it broke the keyboard.

Repaired under warranty.

Less than a year later that battery was swollen.

No warranty replacement. No OEM batteries available through Dell.

I buy 4 replacements from Amazon and none work. The XPS line has battery DRM.

I have an i7 with a discrete card, 64gb of ram, and a 4k screen that’s worthless.

Which is upsetting.

Cable breaks

New attack models are using shielded electronics that don't need GPS and are immune to traditional jamming. Relying on computer vision and old school navigation math.

Go ~X speed for Y distance(+/-) on Z heading until you reach A landmark and then start a new set of instructions.

Could be fanfic, but fees are 100% misleading.

This is such a bizarre page. Thanks for sharing!

Tell me more about the surplus value that Warren produced

I outfitted our 10 person team with the E16 g2 and it’s been great.

Two minor issues- it’s HEAVY compared to T models.

Because of the weight try not to walk around with the lid up and holding it from one of front corners. I’ve noticed one of them is kind of warped from walking around the office holding it that way.

There are videos.

He was driving recklessly.

This is a really neat tip! Thanks!

That doesn't surprise me at all.

Makes me furious, but it doesn't surprise me.

I absolutely loathe dealing with sales people.

I will pay a premium for an inferior product or service if it means I don't have to deal with sales people.