I mean, I suppose I could be more like you and get my laughs trying to stick square pegs into round holes.

Your logic is fundamentally flawed.
It presumes a 1:1 ratio between an item of cheap junk, and a bad outcome.
You can, in fact, have a giant tsunami of cheap junk, and a small increase in choked children, etc.

I am always amazed by just how unintelligent you are.

Indeed. But I can't help to think that fuckstains who think like this dipshit dream of that being the end result.

Because it costs me nothing.
As I said, if it did- I'd have other feelings about it.

That's a big red flag. They aren't going to offer that service for free. AI uses a lot of power. So either it's there in the hope of all upsell, or they intend to harvest your data, or both.

Need more details.

Also please improve Firefox for Android. Thanks.

I recently bought a Fitbit, and one of the best features is the smart alarm clock. Instead of just going off at a particular time, it waits until you are naturally awake in the half hour leading up to the designated time. Much gentler and I greatly prefer it.

So there is a reason to pay more for a simple alarm clock, but mine does not require a subscription. If they start requiring one, I'll return it immediately.

Nio has been doing it for years in Europe and China, and it doesn't seem to be a problem. Their cars aren't heavier than other similar ones, and the robots are reliable. The look like a car wash, and it takes about 3 minutes to do the swap. Don't even need to get out of your car.

No need to imagine, you have been able to do that for years. Nio has had battery swap stations running for some time in Europe, and they are great.

Faster than pumping dino juice, and the battery get is guaranteed to meet a minimum, high specification. Never heard of any problems, but if there were you would just swap it out again for a few Euros.

You have infinite battery warranty too because if you did ever manage to put enough miles on yours to wear it out, just get it swapped.

You don't rely on their generosity for the warranty, you rely on the law.

I'm the UK it says that things must last a "reasonable length of time". For a thermostat you would be looking at at least 10 years, arguably more due to the high cost.

A fork is not a time capsule.
MATE has had plenty of development in the 15 years that it has been in existence.

It started life as a direct fork, and quickly became its own thing.

I think the bigger complaint was the loss of functionality. Simply... gone.
In the intervening time, the GNOME shell plugin ecosystem has effectively filled the gap, and more.
GNOME 3 was pretty fucking terrible at first, which is why I moved to MATE.

I'll never understand you XFCE fuckers ;)

Side job meaning "occupying one of my side monitors", not "side income"

I do this frequently, with both packaged agents and my modifications to them, just to see what comes out the other side.
Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's pretty bad.
I do it as a side job, not my regular work, so the consequences of the failure are minimal- I just throw it away and try again with another modification.
If it were my actual main workflow... I think that would stress me the fuck out- each failure being significant wasted time and money.

Only second decade, here.

I find them comparable, unfortunately. But my new hires may not be as good as yours.

I call it the coding LLM Doom Loop.
A good bit of my effort with using LLMs has been in trying to avoid and correct it.
I've found it gets easier when you start to treat the LLM and its entire context window as a single unit rather than thinking about prompts.
Coding agents are variably successful at this.

For my own agentic tests, I've had good results "context engineering" the LLM to solve tasks reliably that it previously couldn't.
In the end- I'm not sure it's worth the effort, but hey, it keeps me entertained.

Any kind of mass surveillance system? Absolutely. Any "brand of camera"? Of course not. The mass surveillance system is what did the work, not some random camera.

The effectiveness of a solution does not justify its existence. Nor should we have to weave an alternate reality to come to that conclusion.