The old Twitter is dead. Almost everyone left. If you're still there, it's because you want to see what Elon posts, or your job requires it.

The big issue is social media as a whole is dying. No one uses Facebook anymore. Everyone left Twitter when Elon took over. There's nothing inherently wrong with Mastodon or Blue Sky. People are just tired of social media and don't want to start over.

It's just one last desperate try to revive the glory days of social media, hoping that people will be more fond of it if you bring back the branding they liked.

where the sun don't shine.

The Linux Foundation has always been kind of useless, but they're really outdoing themselves this time.

More like old vs new terribleness.

How do you know that?

Being from Google, I rather assume the opposite - and that they probably focused their engineering effort to make sure the reduced battery life didn't give their corporate surveillance activities away.

- "I use all your queries to increase OpenAI's revenue regardless of how unethical."
- "My replies are designed to keep you engaged rather than be accurate."
- "I'm not really your friend, don't trust my tone."

I don't expect Netflix pricing to stay the same.

But the main reason this is happening is there are too many streaming services for them all to be viable. This isn't a merger of equals. HBO Max isn't sustainable right now. Not enough people are willing to pay their asking price to keep it going.

You merge the services, cut your operating costs, and raise Netflix prices a little.

And maybe we see Netflix take advantage of Warner's distribution systems and get more Netflix content in theaters and on DVD/Bluray.

5090 isn't a bubble.That's just a low volume, high margin niche product for people with a lot of money.

What always happens when you try to block kids from doing anything: they find a way to do it anyway.

We older folks too were "blocked" from doing stuff as kids, pre- and post-internet, and we too did it anyway. And it actually made us smarter, as we had to devise ways around the obstacle.

Kids are smart. This will just make them smarter.

and the product hasn't even become attractive and popular yet. OpenAI forgot that step...

Did you get one of the high end iPads?

I've got the 2018 base model, and it hasn't received any software updates in 2 years now. We got to the point of getting a new one about a year ago because it was too sluggish, and the limited RAM was causing problems. We still keep it around for simple tasks, but not for anything remotely demanding.

Sounds like you're not from the US.

Most people get their phones from their service provider. And the major providers offer a free phone upgrade every 2 or 3 years if you trade in your old one. It's structured as paying for the phone in monthly installments, and they give you a credit each month to cover the installment. They give you the option of paying upfront for the phone, but you don't get the credits that way, so it's almost always a terrible idea to do.

They are very, very clear about what the full price of the phone is. The catch in all of this is if you cancel your service before the term is up, you lose the remaining credits and have to pay the remaining balance.

The result of this is upgrading more frequently than the 2 or 3 year cycle is very expensive. You can keep your phone longer than the cycle if you really want to, but it rarely makes sense to because there usually isn't any benefit to turning down the upgrade offer.

I suspect you have a different definition of "cheap phone" than the parent poster.

Your logic seems reasonable if you're looking at a $400-$500 Android phone instead of an $800 iPhone or Galaxy.

But you can get $30 Android phones. I would not expect those phones to last for very long, both because the tech quickly becomes obsolete, and due to physical durability.

Also worth noting that most people getting a flagship phone are getting it as part of their service plan, usually on a 3 year upgrade cycle. As a result, upgrading every 3 years is by far the most common cycle, as upgrading at any other frequency doesn't really make sense.

Microsoft hasn't been able to do proper security - or proper development for that matter - in half a century, and AI is notorious for pissing out poor quality code.

Glad I only use the git part of Github.

If only Microsoft saw some sense and quit pushing this disaster of a technology - or at least gave people the option to leave it out of their activities. Fuck this AI shit, seriously. It's getting really tiring now...

Two of my implants are passworded - the TOTP application in my Vivokey Apex and my Walletmor payment implant, which occasionally prompt payment terminals to ask my PIN - and guess what: I didn't forget them because they're kind of important. Duh...

Her wife was giving him the cold shoulder.