Meanwhile the US is locking up foreign students simply for being vocal.

Yeah I cut way back on drinking and now I toke a little bit. Having a third thing to rotate in would be a blessing. I just need something at the end of the day to take the edge off about an hour before bed. That's the only time I do anything.

The only safe phone is a phone with a strong password thats in a powered down state. Otherwise there are tools to gain full access.

ha I'll do that on a very large app because it pays dividends, but small apps I go in the complete opposite direction.

I refuse to get solar on my house until I can store the energy myself, hopefully this will be available for that soon.

There will never be a way to know if it was written by AI but performed by a human, so I will just keep buying used CDs.

typershark if you can find it.

I stopped going when they let Trump campaign from there.

Can't, need the Marketplace, unfortunately.

If they were smart they would hedge and use AI but not call it AI. Actually build a product that leverages AI and give it an appropriate name.

For me it's not the direction tech is going but rather why it's going that way. Tech used to be about innovation and creating cool stuff. Nowadays it's more about turning a profit. Cloud was not new or innovative, it was just a more profitable way of doing things.

It's competition that is supposed to drive down prices. Doesn't work very well though when you have virtual monopolies and vertically integrated companies to the extent that america has, like Apple and Amazon.