I spent too muchtime trying to figure out why they would do casting (like in casting actors for their shows) from a phone.

MDM and support costs.

Is the housing market in Sweden less crazy than other places?

It took me almost 10 years to save for my home and I had to move out of my city (Barcelona) to a small town since there was no way I could afford anything decent, even with a good Senior Software Engineer salary.

I f you believe AI companies should NOT be allowed to train AI with copyrighted works you should stop using Internet search engines. Because the same rules that allow Google to train their search with everyone’s copyrighted websites are what allow the AI companies to train their models.

sorry but no. most search bots have been for years quite reasonable in following instructions from the sites on what to scrap and what not. AI scrappers have shown they are willing to go to great lenghts to scrap content against the wishes of the website owners.

Additionally this scrapping has shown to put a tremendous amount of problems into some sites and platforms, open source projects, for example.

Last, search engines are a win-win. They get to show ads and then redirect traffic to the source. LLMs for the most part steal that traffic, by regurgitating the same content they stole in the first place.

This analogy is absolutely bonkers. the VCR is not made out of copyrighted material. If the VCR does not spit bunch of copyrighted material on demand because the makers put it there. AI Image generation models cannot be created without copyrighted material. That is not even a controversial take.

I think resolution is just a tiny part of why newer TVs are so much better than a 10yo TV. there is better contrast, HDR, more brightness, angle of vision, etc.

1080p content will look better in a good 4k TV and not just because the resolution.

It’s impressive how they have changed the expectations around their pro it as time goes by:

-Our AI could become sentient and destroy humanity to become sole ruler of the world

-Our AI will discover the cure for cancer and so many other illnesses

-Our AIl will soon have PHd level intelligence

…

-You can sext with our AI

While their arguments are absolutely ridiculous, I don’t think they are ‘demanding’. The EU specifically asked for feedback on the DMA and they provided theirs https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/consultation-first-review-digital-markets-act_en

honestly so don’t get them anymore. th fist ones were great for projects of people getting into pseudo-embedded stuff. they were cheap an use little energy.

but since the rpi4 and 5, the power to energy ratios is just not worth it.and when you add case, storage and power supply you are paying more than a second hand hp mini.

yes, but that part is even dumber and didn’t wan to talk much of it.

so they sell like 5 different iphones and one of them is marketed as the thinnest. it is apple trying to widen their almost saturated market, not a conspiracy.

People who dislike their phones so much should stop using them. I’m very happy with mine.

once you get out of social media you realize the problem are those , no the phones.

I love being able to talk good quality pictures of my kids without having to even think about it or sharing them with their grandmother.

I enjoy when my home screen presents me with a nice portrait taken years ago that I have forgotten about. live photos are an amazing detail that often without any intention capture a funny or cute scene.

The phones is boring but thy are also a canvas. look the kind of covers that teenage girls use.

the problems with phones are not the phones. it’s companies taking advantage of them to steal every second of attention from us

I don’t see how it would be fake. people have cropped photos to change framing for a long time and no one called it fake.

I’m sure most people expectation are the standard aspect ratios. But probably there will be some third party camera app that will allow this (like they allow raw)

yes. it is a square sensor that the phone crops automatically to be a a rectangle. so it can take photos on landscape or portrait no matter if the phone physically vertical or horizontal.

the free coffee for employees, probably.

Im surprised this is cheaper (barely) than the Fiat 500e. is it because tariffs or something? the fiat is cheaper in Europe (around 24k€)

can anyone ELI5 why music streaming never fragmented like TV streaming did?

An album being exclusive to a particular platform seem to be incredible rare. TV platform continuously remove things from the catalog to reduce costs but that does not seem to happen often in music.

I don’t think so. Most people I know keep their phones from 3 to 5 years, sometimes more.

they are also confusing the software with the firefox brand.

I guess is people were using the oracle VM without license and were caught. Oracle makes it very easy to not notice that the Java distribution you download requires payment.