Thanks! These are all great, the details, everything is very clear and crisp compared to before, hardly any garbledy goop, but I can’t shake the vertigo idk

Guess my next phone is coming from Oneplus or Fairphone.

bUt AnDrOiD!!!

...can be chained to its desk and limited, I agree.

Luckily, 90% of what Google goes all in on fails. I remember Stadia and Google Glass.

You are arguing for the sake of arguing...

TPM has nothing to do with any privacy invasion, AI, or anything bad really. It was conceived by a computer industry consortium called Trusted Computing Group (TCG). It evolved into TPM Main Specification Version 1.2 which was standardized by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

Advancement in technology will always happen, and if your prose is to stop progress, you are up by your own by your own choice. Your argument about TPM is moot.

Quite a lot if banking apps are compatible. If your banking app doesn't work, use the jail/sandbox compatible mode.

The fact that Linux has 2, 3, 4, 64467% has nothing to do with what is available at your disposal. Strawman fallacy here.

No one talked about hosting your own email server, there are alternative to the fucker-corps with privacy in mind.

You, my friend, are already defeated, but rest assured there are a ton of us still on our feet.

The rich are cashing in our tax dollars to try to automate their control of an enslaved human race.

They will do anything besides just pay taxes and contribute to society

We can, but part of it is accepting that our tech will be a decade or two behind. Its not the worst thing. Life is more convenient now, but all in all i think it was better before.

The masses will go for convenient, and thats ok. You have near total control of how you live your life; you just cant have your cake and eat it too is all

Since when does Oneplus support Calyx or Grapheme?

For search I'm really happy with Kagi

Lolwut? No it doesn't? Yeah it turns off TAA so it might look sharper at first, and if you turn off the ugly ass sharpening then it's playable but literally any other option looks better than TAA, including TXAA from early 2010s lol.

Do you maybe mean DLAA? I Have an RTX 3090 and a 9800X3D. It's ok. When the option exists I just crank up the res or turn on MSAA instead. Much better.

If you mean DLSS, my condolences. I'd rather play with FXAA most of the time.

The only game I'll use DLSS (on Transformer model+Quality) in is CP2077 with Path Tracing. With Ray Reconstruction it's almost worth the blurriness, especially because that game forces TAA unless you use DLAA/DLSS and I don't get a playable framerate without it, but also don't want to play without Path Tracing. Maybe one day I'll have the hardware needed to run it with PT and DLAA

I'm self-hosting my mails; no need for another third party that will decide whatever whenever. The major difficulty is the decades of things that are reliant on the old one.

And I just said that google works fine for search, despite people claiming it's on the decline, broken, unusable, etc. That's not to move toward qwant, who are no less shady, burn money (sometimes coming from public money…), and despite wonderful claim of an autonomous index, completely stop working when Bing is down. As far as recommendations for search engine goes, google (and Bing for that matter) are far less disingenuous.
All usable search engines these days are backed by the big ones anyway. Something like https://openwebsearch.eu/ would be a better alternative, assuming it follows on its promises.

What are you talking about “temporal+quality” for DLSS? That’s not a thing.

DLSS I’m talking about. There are many comparisons out there showing how amazing it is, often resulting in better IQ than native.

FXAA is not an AI upscaler, what are you talking about?

Need? None. There are certainly areas that "ai" tools excel at but what I saw was a company literally forcing it into every aspect of the system. Every single booth at the conference, regardless of the topic, made a point to talk about agentic AI. It was my first time there and I left feeling like I got screwed, because I missed out on quality content that I could use in lieu of AI that I'll never use.

If I were I prospective customer, I'd be looking at other solutions for sure.

I think the biggest problem, is anytime you try and create a universal, low/no-code platform that anyone can use, it results in a poorly optimized, sandboxed, half cocked product. Sure, you can do anything with the platform, but half the time it's like shoving a square peg in a round hole. I have had to write bad code and processes because that is the only way to get somethings done in the platform.

Also, if I go out and custom create an app, like say I create a fully loaded app for HR, and it's similar to a product they sell, they will charge you for that product.

I remember some people very vehemently telling me that I was dumb to be skeptical of Stadia, that it really was going to just take over the industry...

AI is not needed to automate the control of the human race. I feel like it's already essentially automated from the rich's perspective.

In that case, we should encourage google to go all-in on climate change, racism, and war; they should back the conservative party as well. Then 90% of those will fail.

I still don't understand how Stadia got out the door the way it did. It was the exact same business model Onlive tried back in the day. And it predictably failed the exact same way.

it is "automated" by some "peasants" they are already paying "too much". maybe they want to reduce those costs too.

also AI serverparks may consume so much power that they are more costly (for now?), but at least they don't question your commands. maybe that's how they see it.

True, in a broad sense. I am speaking moreso to enshittification and the degradation of both experience and control.

If this was just "now everything has Siri, it's private and it works 100x better than before" it would be amazing. That would be like cars vs horses. A change, but a perceived value and advantage.

But it's not. Not right now anyways. Right now it's like replacing a car with a pod that runs on direct wind. If there is any wind over say, 3mph it works, and steers 95% as well as existing cars. But 5% of the time it's uncontrollable and the steering or brakes won't respond. And when there is no wind over 3mph it just doesn't work.

In this hypothetical, the product is a clear innovation, offers potential benefits long term in terms of emissions and fuel, but it doesn't do the core task well, and sometimes it just fucks it up.

The television, cars, social media, all fulfilled a very real niche. But nearly everyone using AI, even those using it as a tool for coding (arguably its best use case) often don't want to use it in search or in many of these other "forced" applications because of how unreliable it is. Hence why companies have tried (and failed at great expense) to replace their customer service teams with LLMs.

This push is much more top down.

Now drink your New Coke and Crystal Pepsi.

That's absurd, the AI is not more costly than a human worker, it's just not as capable. The energy cost of a human alone is greater than that of any AI agent that would take its place. If you really think that AI costs that much energy, you just don't have a sense of scale. The server-farm costing a lot overall does not at all mean that an individual API call is expensive.