Sure, that’s true, though if you allow streams on Bandcamp, those pay $0, so in terms of “try before you buy”, any streaming service is better. It’s only if you actually sell an album on band camp (or AmpWall, a smaller indie service that does a lot of the same stuff) that you’d get paid, as an artist.

I say this as a musician who has put out several albums both independently and with a label.

Tidal pays more than 3x what Spotify pays. Qobuz pays like 5-6x.

… OK? Is the implication that you make informed decisions despite that, or are you just volunteering info?

Some people are just raised to make informed choices, y’know. Doesn’t mean they’ve got a diagnosable condition, they just aren’t part of the “default settings” tribe.

Like you know allistic nerds exist, right?

It could be seen as “forward thinking” in the sense of being open to and accepting of technological progress.

Personally, I think it’s just trend chasing. AI might become deeply useful for many applications someday, but it’s only actually useful for a fraction of what people use it for at the moment.

It’s a meme

Better dunk the whole shebang in raw sewage just to be safe.

Like the old coin operated sandwich shops

A bunch of the earlier ones had their batteries replaced under warranty and are effectively only a couple years old. They’re also dirt cheap and undervalued at the moment.

You could always pick up a 9-year-old Bolt

Yeah, jwz is no joke.

Yes

Yeah, Final Fantasy 1 and 8, I think

Bigger clients negotiate bulk discounts, basically. But the other factor at play here is supply and demand. The higher the demand, the higher the price for the supply. Household demand has remained more or less the same, but because data center demand has shot up, prices have too.

OpenRGB: “Am I a joke to you?”

What’s different is that most people will see it as “tech stuff” and mentally file it in a drawer with spare extension cords and adapters. They don’t care to deeply study or catalog things. Nerds care about that, and most people here, including me, are nerds, but most people are not nerds and consider learning to be a form of torture.

People writ-large don’t care about proper genre labels either, they just kinda pick a vibe and guess off of it. Look at all the -core suffixed aesthetic names that cropped up in the last decade.

Agreed. But most people have neither the time nor capacity to track all of these specifics, so popular discussions of AI-related technologies inevitably break down into a mud pit of people talking past each other about various different topics.

Which, if you think about it, is true of most public discussions about any complex topic. It almost invariably devolves into a miscommunication or a discussion about semantics.

It’s also the other way around. What was called AI in the past is now called bots. Simple algorithms that approximate the appearance of intelligence like even the earliest chess engines, for instance, were also called AI.

The 2024 democratic primary was effectively nonexistent because Biden was running for re-election. Don’t be ridiculous.

The unified RAM is not one of the parts unique to Apple. They just market it as if it is.