The funny thing about qr codes for restaurant menus to me, as someone that studied menu design. Is that actual menus are designed specific ways make the restaurant more profit and make it easier for people to find what they want. Whereas qr codes often bring one to a hastily designed list of categories which are not only less intuitive but also less manipulative. So people will end up taking longer to order less profitable dishes.

If you don’t have a smart phone in the US, even temporally, your almost a second class citizen.

Then if you don’t install corporate apps on your phone, there are even more problems for you.

I certainly would rather focus on making money for myself then a company if those are my two choices during work hours.

But really, I’d rather be farming and playing with my daughter.

I can’t wait for the day that I can just send my ai digital twin to the meeting to talk to all the other ais and just focus on building my resume so I can jump to a better paying job where I don’t have to actually do anything because companies don’t need to make profit anymore just stock growth.

an American permutation of the CCP’s WeChat app model where the American government has final and singular authority to monitor and surveil all payments, domestic travel and communications of American citizens.

https://landfamilyhome.substack.com/p/a-household-guide-for-cyber-defense

It’s imperative the cylinder remains unharmed

And the CDC being ordered to not report any data on the avian flu via an executive order is also not the current administrations fault I guess?

I started with kiwami. There was a perceptible downgrade when I played the first non kiwami Yakuza 3 however

One thing I love about the series is how detailed they are with food and drinks.

I did this. Still playing through them all by release date

I’m in agreement. I think where our opinions differ is that I’m not worried about consumer electronics in this new economic and political reality. And the reason I’m not worried is that I know it’s fucked.

We will not see the type of economy that we have been used to for quite some time. And if the last democrat admin is anything to consider, then I doubt these insane new regulations will be repealed even if the Republicans lost power in 4 years.

I think there are much greater concerns than consumer electronics and now is the time to plan for them.

I think I might get the point…but I think we are past trying to build budget friendly PCs for gamers wanting to play the latest AAA titles.

As a gamer myself, it’s sad but I’m tightening up my belt and preparing for much worse economic consequences. Like what a 100% tariff on Taiwan made chips will mean for the US military budget and the national debt.

Honestly, I’m anticipating buying junk hardware for at least the next 4 years that’s being auctioned off by companies that are not able to deal with the new economic hardships that this and other decisions are going to create. I doubt I’m going to be able to play the latest games nor will I be able to afford them. Luckily I have a backlog of games and there are a lot of books I want to read too.

I think one of the bigger consequences of this in terms of pure compute is people not being able to self host open source LLMs and similar models offline. As I think this will soon become something that’s expected to have access to in the next couple of years.

I am for getting tech you need when you need it. I’m against buying tech you might want to have now just in case it cost more money in the future.

If you are really concerned about future costs of essential items that you will die without, then I suggest stocking up your pantry with shelf stable food as much as you can and researching what you can do to help your local community grow their own food.

You know what’s cheaper than a $2000 RTX 5090? Not spending money or upgrading unless you actually need to.

Large Language Models don’t reason either. The idea that Artificial General Intelligence will come from LLMs is pure fallacy to drive stock price. When it is eventually announced that some company claims to have achieved AGI via LLMs, it will just be another arbitrary milestone that moves the goalposts more.

I love freetube for my android and Linux PCs.

You know, you can be critical of a government without using racist slurs against the people from that country. Not everyone from China is part of the CCP.

I love kagi but I don’t think it actively filters out ai generated content.

I know when searching for pictures you can disable AI generated images.

I think the hard part for a search engine is that unless there is some kind of identifying mark on the content, how do they know that an ai didn’t write a top 10 list of pastebin alternatives?

Checkout Moon Hunters

Great list, I would just suggest to recognize all dark patterns. It’s not like only shopping sites use them.