We can grow potatoes from turd and then make turd from those potatoes on Mars. They showed that in the movies.

Buyers beware. Nvidia chips are spyware enabled which record your every move and transmit it to Big Bro.

Inflation is a bogus number, used by the govt. to fool the public. If you take the inflation series over the last 20 years and multiply it all up, it simply does not reflect the ground reality of the prices I paid for most things 20 years ago vs today. Things are way more expensive than what inflation wants us to believe.

They simply ask you to login to add stuff to the cart. Once you login, they know you.

Exactly what I was thinking about US capitalism.

If there is any "personalized pricing", I would tend to believe that I am always being ripped.

We need an app that aggregates prices across different users at different times and displays a [Min Max] price history for each item over a period of time, like a month or so. That way you know if you are being ripped or not.

Online things are nice ways to apply all sorts of algorithms to ultimately rip customers.

I second that. My corporate laptop's fan started screaming ever since it moved from windows 10 to windows 11. Don't know about battery usage, since I always keep it hooked to the power outlet.

That company that makes printers and low-quality laptops? But those are made in China. Presumably using cheap contract labor. Probably 400 people do actual printer R&D. Adding the bureaucratic layers, that would make it 4000 people in their printer R&D center. Similarly, some 2000 might be doing actual logistics, operations, marketing etc. for the laptops. Adding the bureaucratic layers, that would make it 20,000 people. What are the rest of these 34,000 global employees doing?

Same for companies using Scrum and Agile, focusing on burndown rates.

Wall street? I think all the lead con artists are located in the Bay Area now.

I am just waiting for the day when I will be able to buy high end hardware for a dollar or two, coming out of their AI data centers. Not far.

That's what the engineers meant, when they said, "the cameras are very sensitive". They really meant, "Aldol is very sensitive."

Well, they said that about Putin too. That he isn't walking well, he is twitching while seated and what not. But he has been doing fine all along. Aldol will be fine too, unless it and its creators fall out of a window next.

Oh, he meant the cameras are emotionally sensitive. it's the fear of the dark that got them.

That would require that either you or some LLM helps you to embed MCP in your UI tool. That would then enable an AI to exercise your tool and discover real or made-up bugs in your tool. It might even have the capability to inject bugs into your tool's code, which you can then have a rival AI discover and fix.

The title of the story should have been:
"New Design Trend: People Upgrading from 'Smart' Homes to Analog 'Dumb' Homes, Some with Landlines and Offline Appliances"