Sorry. I meant half a decade. You are correct.

If you wait for a deal to January, you can probably get a Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus for under $700.

If you want to really save money, you can get an S24 and it will still have half a year of upgrades.

I’ll try this too. Thank you.

Will do. Thanks for the suggestion.

I’ve been having issues with NewPipe. After the second or third video YouTube stopped allowing my device from accessing YouTube through NewPipe. No RSS, no videos.

I don’t know how true this is but I read on reddit that when Russia’s internet went down, r/conservative activity decreased by 75%.

Is it possible to ban a user across all of Lemmy?

Evaluations of everything is crazy. Net worth of celebrities with make up lines in particular is crazy. Look how many celebs are worth a billion dollars. To be worth that much, they should be selling at least $50 millions a year of product with no prediction of winding down.

All those tech CEOs met up with Trump makes me think this is a major reason for pouring money in to this technology. Any time Trump says “fake news”, he can just say it is AI.

6 . Each username on here should be a person, not a brand or corporation - and that person must be you, no impersonation.

“I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!”

-Jay-Z regretting his words

Also if you are sending my family a copy, send it to my email address too. Thanks.

If this really about protecting kids, they could’ve done opt in blocking at the ISP level. Just a few new fields with ISPs and they have products that can take care of this already.

This is really about tracking every little thing you do online.

It should fall on the parents and ISPs should have an opt in option to block adult websites.

But we all know this is more about control and data harvesting than anything else.

Maybe the AI doomers are right.

From the article:

In fact, the company has just begun field testing one application at partner Mazda’s Hiroshima plant.

I wanted to see what their partnership was like so I checked on Wikipedia:

In the past and present, Mazda has been engaged in alliances with other automakers. From 1974 until the late 2000s, Ford was a major shareholder of Mazda. Other partnerships include Toyota, Nissan, Isuzu, Suzuki and Kia.

Source: Wikipedia: Mazda

Wow. I didn’t really expect Mazda to be involved with 6 other car manufacturers.

I delete my first comment because I specified what I meant in my reply.

If you don’t think doomers existed after the year 2000 then look up “2000 anxiety” and “2000 paranoia”.

But if I was really going to double down this would by my response:

Many countries invested little to no money in Y2K and they were fine.

Countries such as South Korea, Italy, and Russia invested little to nothing in Y2K remediation,yet had the same negligible Y2K problems as countries that spent enormous sums of money. Western countries anticipated such severe problems in Russia that many issued travel advisories and evacuated non-essential staff.

International Data Corporation estimated that the US might have wasted $40 billion.

Then I would ask you:

Since you are such an expert on Y2K, what would’ve happened if the US took the same approach? What exactly would have happened?

Thank you for the info. The 70’s is what I thought.

I should’ve specified. Even after there were a a ton of work put in, doomers existed to the last second. There were doomers who really thought the world was going to end without mentioning the technology aspect of it. These doomers, even after the date passed kept moving up the date and repeated this process.

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I envision social media where people’s cell phones are the servers so we don’t have to deal with corporate bullshit. If people want updates, request the RSS every 6 hour. No one needs to know what the hell I am doing every moment of my life.