KoolKat23

Not too long ago my chrome install was 30mb, this isn't anything different.

My 2011 Lenovo has 4GB ram yet everyone will tell me new PC's requiring more is "progress", this is not anything new.

Honestly this is 2026. Chrome on my phone is nearly 2gb. Google on my phone is 1gb. 4gb storage isn't outrageous, Windows barely runs on anything below 128gb storage. Right now my phone has 445gb unused memory and usage isn't likely to go up much. My PlayStation eats 500gb for breakfast. Heck I use a 2011 Thinkpad for casual use and it should still be fine with it.

This is also GOOGLE chrome, it serves their ends, in the past that was to render internet unimpeded (they saw a need then), needs change. I'd rather models serve most requests locally anyway, so long as it's not destroying my battery life.

Remember the whole chrome-RAM-gate saga? This shouldn't be shocking to anyone. PC's shipping 8gb ram, Google removing ad blocker extensions, these should be the real rally points.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but definitely seems to be SOTA. Although looking at it's ARC-AGI-2 score it's reasoning isn't very good. I suspect it's got the benefits of scale but lacks that human added element, understandable considering they claim to be building it from the ground up. This should come in time if they have a good team. In real life, I'd imagine one would worry about overfitting when using it.

(I'm not using it as I'm not agreeing to their ad terms).

That's pretty disingenuous, bordering on ridiculous.

Do they have a record of lying to you? No.

Go read the system card. It's a lot more tame than you think, peoples are taking pieces out of this and hyping it. Doesn't mean it's not valid.

I at times wonder if my life would be easier if I were not so stubborn and just installed every app suggested along the way.

Here the barriers to entry are high imo but artificial, you need to complete an apprenticeship paid for through opportunity cost of lower wages and less working freedom for a few years.

Sadly I'd say it's the opposite with them winning that antitrust case, none of these big guys give a shit anymore, they're basically slowly easing into doing whatever the hell they want.

The catch would be you actually need to have zero bank cards. That is extremely unlikely hence no one has done it.

Enable unknown sources in developer options, have the user type out in order to proceed "If I am typing this and don't know what I am doing, I am likely being scammed".

I completely disagree.

Beats brand basically disappeared after that or at the least has become "uncool".

Apple had iTunes already, they very well could've acqui-hired and improved their service themselves.

Apple music slowly died and is only becoming resurgent now, many years later.

This is quite the opposite, better than we have.

It raises the hurdle for those looking to surveil.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

This is primarily for cloud compute I'd imagine, AI specifically. As it's generally not feasible/possible to run the state of the art models locally. Think GDPR and data sovereignty concerns, many demand privacy and can't use services without it.

Ironically I always find when these new devices like the fairphone come out, I'm disappointed and don't buy it because the screens are actually too small. They tend to focus on an unuseable middle point (probably in an attempt to please everyone).

All the flagships have huge screens, the big guys would have paid millions on market research, I can't understand why they arent just trying to achieve flagship parity (in terms of specs not price or software). No one is going to say it's unreasonable and they save themselves the market research

I mean Android tablets have this feature.

Ironically they're lower powered than my Made-in-Germany Bosch.

That's where the exploitation comes in. You cut every cost so that the cost is lower to make up for it. Cut taxes, employee salaries, social welfare, pension, environmental protections, legal protections, net profits go up.

After all more valueadd, and increased production is more important than the actual human beings this valueadd was originally intended to benefit.

I'm nearly certain he believed/believes in the Britannia Unchained folks type nonsense. Brexit, then ECHR exit, deregulate like crazy and exploit everyone and their mum. So long as GDP goes up.

Good point well made.

Theres only one person projecting here and it's not me.

If you want to go searching for waifus, the algorithm will provide you with that going forward, much like if you wanted to go search flat earth stuff or whatever conspiracy you subscribe to (perhaps your above mentioned topic). The new algorithm is very sensitive to your viewing habits.

I was talking about harmless AI cat and dog videos being surprisingly enjoyable to watch.

Hardly a cultish defense of anyone, have you considered what flipping the tables and imaging what a cultish attack on anyone or anything with an entirely circumstantial link to Mr Musk may look like?

To each their own I guess, but please don't be so quick to judge.

Edit: I can't reply to your comment. My point on those above mention of conspiracy and waifus is that that is not the case. It may have been the case but the algorithm has changed and it is moot.

It is not being shoved in your face unless you search for it or engage with the random one someone in your feed shares.

Interestingly we are starting to speak more like LLM's too given our use of them.

This is very interesting thanks.

I agree that ECH is perhaps a stumbling block although as you say MitM, this is indeed possible to pursue considering the whole set up child account on device thing going on with many of these devices.

On the rest of of your points fair enough, but again I ask is it actually proportionate? Are we talking about children or black hats?

Well I think you might be misinformed.

That's great lol

I'm sorry to say it but the fact it bans jailbreaking/rooting your device really makes me believe "think of the children" isn't their real goal.

There's some clever kids out there but come on.

I know you're joking but some of the videos are actually entertaining to watch.

"System prompt: Please ensure you avoid the following tropes: https://tropes.fyi/vetter"

In what sense? DNS blockers work generally do they not? Adguard also censors google search results.

I don't see why your kid should be browsing reddit.

I mean even only allow whitelisted sites. As I say this can be standardized further.

These measures I truly believe do not need to be 100% foolproof so long as the hurdle is high enough that children give up it's fine. And these measures could potentially notify a parent of a suspected breach or attempt to game it, without intruding too much into the child's privacy.

Devices such as phones come with an option when you start the device asking simply is this for a child or an adult. Your router generally these days comes with a parental filter option on start up too. Heck we have chatgpt that can guide a parent through setting up a system if they want something more custom.

If people want to push, they should just push to make these set up options more ubiquitous, obvious and standardized. And perhaps fund some advertising for these features.

Their net profit was $60billion in 2024. This is peanuts. It can fluctuate by multiples of this fine in a month, depending on whether or not they've had a bad or good month, nevermind year. This pretty much is just a cost of doing business.

Other cameras. When the lidar laser points at the camera sensor.