Most blatantly with his rambling about ‘Americans have to flush 3 times, 5 times’. I thought what the hell is wrong with the water pressure where he lives?

Then I read that he likely flushed evidence down the toilet. Of course. HE has a problem with destroying evidence in his toilet, so ‘Americans’ have problems with their toilet. I’m not even sure if he has the ability to differentiate between his problems and anybody elses.

I normally have GPS and Bluetooth disabled, so my position would have to be guessed based on cell towers. We were not even on the same WLAN (because the WLAN was down in the vacation home, much to our dissatisfaction).

While I can’t rule out somebody in our group stealthily googling the tablets, phones while playing is generally frowned upon.

So yeah, being on the same cell tower as someone I know who might have searched for it might be the only other explanation.

The adventure itself didn’t have anything to do with the tablets, that was just our group doing strange stuff, like always.

No, I am not a AI fanboy. I just compared bad to worse.

Of course users get something from their smartphones, but not from the spyware on it. The spyware is not an integral function of a smartphone.

Just think about the scale of the surveillance: every smartphone user is being monitored 24/7 in hope to find something to sell them.

If you hate AI because it wastes so much energy, think about the cost for the this: Energy, water, battery life, bandwidth, … And in contrast to AI the ‘users’ don’t get anything in return.

Okay, so here is my story:

I was on holiday with my friends and we were playing a TTRPG. In the RPG our group needed charol tablets. I have never in my life googled or needed something like that.

After the session, I opened up Amazon to buy something I forget to pack and voilà: Amazon suggested me to buy charol tablets.

My smartphone must have listened in and given that data to Amazon.

No Alexa or similar products were in the vacation home.

The problem here is - in my opinion - caused by:

• the need to chase unlimited growth (by definition impossible)
• lacking regulations
• monopolies and such
• price fixing
• weak worker rights

The right always chasing “deregulation”? Well, here is the result. High profits, high prices, shitty products and services.

And the people suffer.

I’m not suprised. Germany, for example, has a right wing party at the helm. And even if that were not the case, all the old politicians still have the mindset of vassal states deeply ingrained.

My car doesn’t even have a USB port. Old but reliable.

The worst part is that the evidence exists. It’s just that the US is doing nothing with it. The best anyone can do is sieve through the breadcrumbs they gave us and do the most we can with it.

Well…

No, when he said you ‘weren’t wanted’ he didn’t mean it legally.

These AI PCs/Notebooks aren’t even able to run the really big models. For those you’d need a 5000$ card. And for the smaller models a good graphics card is often enough.

For a real AI PC we would need new technology or graphics cards with more ram (the last one would suprise me with current ram prices)

Oh, the US is doing a war crime again? Must be a day that ends on ‘y’

There are two bubbles. One is the bubble made by every company under the sun trying to shove AI into their product without any sense of why or how. And wallstreet is buying it up.

Then there is the second bubble. That is the big AI players trying to get AI ready to replace large parts of the workforce. It’s still unclear if that is possible with our current techniques or if we need a scientific breakthrough that might be years or decades away. Still, the tech companies spend money as if that is just around the corner.

Who knowes if these bubbles burst at the same time?

The Evil Ampire gets bought by an evil empire. Huh.

Ah yes! One step closer to servitors. Praise the Omnissiah!

How the fuck is there no fallback in case of an outage?

Passion, wanting more money, actually liking the job you do, being recognized for your work, helping people

The main one probably is still “wanting more money”. UBI doesn’t stop you from working and earning money: it just doesn’t force you to do it.

And who decides what “good” art is? That’s completely subjective!

Also basic income should be universal, instead of restricting it more.

If someone wants to live as a failed artist on basic income: let them. Perhaps they even find an art form that they like if they have enough time to figure it out.

I think Trump would love to start a war: distraction from the Epstein files, a nice scapegoat for economic hardship, the possibility to grab even more power under the guise of wartime emergencies, …

Hell, if it takes long enough he could postpone the next election.