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Funny you say this. I had my issues with Linux during the years but last 2-3 years I have been running it with no issues whatsoever on a Dell XPS 9xxx series. I recently got an M5 Max and it had more issues than the Linux/Dell duo.

The thing is, in order to get legitimate reviews, they have to pay money to AirBnb. The lengths scammers go through these days is astonishing.

To be honest/fair, this is an old issue. They now penalize landlords who do that, which means if your host did, they probably have a very good reason. Not saying there aren't a host of other issues with airbnbs and that for many situations having a hotel is a better deal.

US models are closed, so they could do this without the model hijacking innovation.

I don't think that counts as exports although they could be selling in the US and buying locally where traders move the gold (then it will be counted as exports).

My current pet-peeve with the top providers is that they all refuse a fully-airgapped solution. You have all these widgets and gadgets like it's a toy when you are planning to hold millions in there. Their apps are also a joke and polymarket-like these days.

At this point, the best is a 2-multi-sig solution where one is some hardware wallet and the second is an iPhone app wallet where the seed is stored digitally only. So even if your offline seed is compromised, you are still covered.

Conveniently, there is no KYC in acquiring a data-only eSIM. KYC is only enforced for the number which is not needed here.

It's stupidly easy to open the device. I opened mine last night with a knife and a hairdryer. I left no perceptible marks either. I watched a few videos where the device was opened without a hairdryer. Apparently, those who did the implant put more glue than Ledger itself.

Nope. Though I did leave a few hundreds just to see if it was compromised after all.

My thinking was it is safer to buy from an authorized reseller than just shipping it. Many people get to access your mail in transit. Granted the devices come in mail regardless for anyone but I thought maybe the authorized thing had some more due diligence or something.

It's the official Ledger reseller in that country.

I bought from this very reseller in the last 90 days and I just opened my Stax with a knife to find out it was implanted. It is a very good job too, if I didn't watch the Youtube video, I would think it's part of the original Ledger hardware.

I don't feel like going through the list but Uber definitively botched their IPO. If they are up 60% only since the IPO they are just matching inflation and pretty much below the index.

It is literally impossible to operate in any other way. We call them multinational but they just own the child company or the brand. If you operate at any country, your "parent" is irrelevant.

I don’t think this is possible under the latest rules, especially in the EU. But a small firm could easily get bad advice and think it’s outsmarting the system. Right now in the EU, it’s either pay or leave completely.

> How this company can proceed to exist is beyond me.

How can they not proceed. They are making money doing nothing and have no moral boundaries. And now we find out they have no legal boundaries either.

There should be a limit. You can’t expect me to keep a client’s records for two decades. For software development, I think 2 years is reasonable. Many industries already have proper (and mandatory) limits, usually somewhere in the 3-7 year range depending on the field (finance tends to be higher) and the country. Some countries, especially developing ones, have no bookkeeping rules at all.

But after 2 decades for a financial account, I'd assume any recovery as a gift rather than a right.

It's low entropy. The amount of entropy is prompt + model but now that you have seen the model various times, the entropy comes down back to the prompt only.

You'd not be amazed by seeing a 2 sentences prompt and thus you are not amazed by this work either.

Wallet/Qrcode payments in many countries are roughly free. Visa/MC/Banks charge roughly 3-5% when you account for all fees (ie: Stripe). The security angle is also BS because these costs are hidden from consumers as they are thrown on merchants who will average them out again on consumers.

They are draining/milking the cow. At some point, they had significant value in quick information transmission when the internet and smart phones weren't really a thing. But now the only advantage is chargebacks/refunds which coincidentally, the experience there is being made shittier.

Still, not worth the 3-5% premium. Glad many merchants are starting to charge for credit card use and push back.

Most people in gov./bureaucratic functions do little or nothing (though depending on country, they could be doing negative work or harming the process itself). Developers are not the worse out they represent a very small percentage of the human capital.

We have no idea how much compute or man hours Open AI is burning at this. It could be thousands/millions per problem. They are doing this specifically for PR and are ready to pay billions.

Are you saying Huawei will collapse if their Canadian R&D centers shutdown?

The stack is so complex now that the experience/bugs experienced are different to different users. Fun time to debug these bugs probably.

How many aliases do you have? If this is the only one, then I'll be more suspect this is a fail on your end or the guy you sent a message to.

Also, I don't see the connection to Germany?

There are no combinations. The aliases are make-do in fastmail backend. If you have a domain, you theoretically receive all emails sent to that domain (*@domain.com)

I opened my Google account to check the model and honestly have no idea how to access it, whether it exists or not, what is Google AI, what is Gemini, what models are available, where the chatbot is, where the API is, etc..

Honestly, who is in charge of this? How do people even subscribe and make sense of any of this?

> Datacenters have massive economies of scale.

Sure. Issue is, no one is providing on how much it actually costs to burn these tokens. And as we don't know, we can only speculate.

> Many say that, but I sincerely doubt they'd actually follow through.

I have a $100 open ai sub and I track my token usage. Last month I spent roughly $2.600 in equivalent API usage. There is no way am paying that. I let my $100 sub lapse if next month I'll be using it less.

Look, I am not saying that there isn't a potential value out there. But the cost has to be bounded. If your opportunity is $1.000 and AI costs $2.000 to execute it, then you don't have a business model here.

I think it's sinister, but not for the reasons you're thinking. I think they're just wildly unprofitable on subscriptions. The idea that most customers won't use their full quota is plain wrong: most people are maxing out their subs, or even reselling whatever quota they have left.

When you're running something at a loss, you can mistreat your customers and they'll still stick around (I'm an example). OpenAI and Anthropic are now cheaper than Chinese models on subscriptions, while being 6-10x more expensive on the API.

My guess is they need the user numbers for the IPO and are willing to take a temporary loss in the meantime. By the time they go public, they'll either drop the subscription model or it'll turn into what the Chinese providers already offer: basically just a cap on how much API you can consume. Same same.

It's not clear what API tokens actually cost them, but I looked into running a local model, and it's way outside the budget of an individual or even a small or medium business (hundreds of thousands of dollars). So my guess is that running these models economically isn't possible, even if they're delivering real business value (coding, research, etc.). In other words, at API prices I'd just stop using AI, and I suspect most other developers would too.

They would have recharged the reserves if that was really the reason and they would have readied themselves to the upcoming closure. They didn't expect the strait to be closed and got caught with their pants way down. Using the SPR is just another sign of how incompetent and out of options they are. It was already on a low level when the war started due to the previous withdrawals from the Russian war.

When Microsoft did that there wasn't really any competition and they were also the cheap option. I don't think they would survive if there was a sufficiently good chinese OS at the time.