With proper instruction, you can learn touch typing in a week.

There are free apps and websites that work well.

No one supports Android phones the way Apple supports iPhones.

There is no "Genius Bar".

You're on your own. Got a problem with malware? Factory reset, or buy a new phone.

Because once their iPhones are infested with sideloaded malware, customers call Apple tech support and bring it to the "Genius Bar" at the Apple Store, and blame Apple for the problems.

Apple incurs costs and a hit to its image.

Apple can't just say, "You were stupid and now you've voided your warranty," because EU law doesn't let them say that.

Indeed. Intel's founders included many of the Traitorous Eight.

But they're not "starting over". They're using RISC-V, which is a mature instruction set with existing toolchains.

What monopoly?

Lately, Intel has been a crushee, not a crusher.

The revolutions that tried to eliminate greed created the worst dystopias.

Kurzweil is predicting a post-scarcity society, where greed is kinda pointless.

I also lean toward a preference for paradise.

The mechanization of agriculture happened in the 1800s, not the 1930s.

That's how Slashdot works.

You can either reply to a comment, or you can downvote, but you can't do both.

Because they'll soon find new jobs that are more productive and meaningful.

Regions with high levels of employment churn tend to be more productive and prosperous.

That is a quote from the fired copywriter, who has an obvious bias.

What matters is what the readers think. TFA doesn't mention that.

If readers don't like it, they'll cancel their subscriptions and/or stop going to the website. The magazine will respond by rehiring human copywriters.

The market will self-correct.

On the other hand, if readers are okay with the LLM output, the money formerly spent on the copywriter can be invested elsewhere.

Disclaimer: I am a gardener, but I don't read about gardening.

yeah you want to spend your time at gas stations and breathe in gas fumes and spend more money per mile to get where you are going.

Spending 10 minutes looking at a map app 1 time a year when I'm driving to the middle of nowhere is a worthy trade off. Hell the car will do it for you in most cases, I just like checking ahead when I'm planning a trip (which I do, unless I'm going someplace Ive been before, I tend to check a map and figure out how long the trip is very Gen X of me I suppose). If you ask your cars nav to get you someplace it will find the chargers for you based on your charge preferences and you can just blindly follow its instructions. Not my style but I'm confident a lot of people do that.

People are just so in their head about charging which is barely a concern for actual EV owners instead of looking at the annoyances and costs they have dealt with for their entire life. Once you don't deal with them anymore it's really quite nice and the quality of life improvement is completely worth it.

It's important to research that in your area, before I bought my ioniq I checked to see how common the fastest chargers were. Since I was going to have home charging I didnt care about local stuff (there are quite a few) but more about how common they are about 200 or so miles from my house. I then also looked at how common the slightly less fast chargers were and I decided that where I was that was going to take care of my needs for the kinds of places I was going to road trip to.

You should know if half your road trips won't be able to take advantage of that 18 minute charge and will take over 30 instead. That might not change your mind about a car depending on the frequency of those road trips, but it's a totally reasonable thing to research for the area you live in.