In the meantime. This is a valid business model.

There’s a reason just in time manufacturing took over the world. Storage is expensive.

Until I read this comment I was 100% certain the post was about short Germans somehow preferring having their balconies occluded by taller-than-them solar panels.

Some people would not select google though. And google can’t afford people knowing that there’s competitors to Google! So better fuck everyone over by just disabling the integration.

Notice how you didn’t even consider the possiblity of just china and Taiwan being separate countries. Which is how many civil wars end (the US civil war is not the only civil war). It is also the ending that causes less harm overall. The taiwanese don’t die, and the Chinese don’t “give in to separatists”, because they are not separatists. You can’t separate from a state you never belonged to. The taiwanese were never part of communist china.

What the taiwanese want is sovereignty.

The threat of blowing up TSMC if invaded helps with their sovereignty because it both avoids the Chinese attacking them and helps the Americans defend them.

Don’t worry. This is just third party AIs. Google’s AIs will still be trained on them without your permission.

They should’ve looked at their star software product: Microsoft access.

Now presenting: Access Intelligence

I’ll train my AI on just the bee movie. Then I’m going to ask it “can you make me a movie about bees”? When it spits the whole movie, I can just watch it or sell it or whatever, it was a creation of my AI, which learned just like any human would! Of course I didn’t even pay for the original copy to train my AI, it’s for learning purposes, and learning should be a basic human right!

Don’t need to be abstract art, it manages to make many kinds of art.

The difference between art and coding is that if you pick a slightly different color or make a line with slightly the wrong angle, it doesn’t change much. In code, however, slight mistakes usually result in bugs.

If generative AI hasn’t replaced artists, it won’t replaced programmers.

Generative AI is much better at art than coding.

The coin itself is not a scam.

However, its main usage is to receive payments from scams or any other kind of computer-related crime really.

Making them more efficient makes energy usage lower, which means lower emissions.

Switching the power source doesn’t make them use less energy, they will use the exact same amount.

The energy power source they switched to could power other industries/homes instead.

Unless the mandate is “generate as much green energy as you’re consuming”. Which would probably mean they’d find some loophole like buying energy companies or something.

Let creators choose: normal ads or sponsors. Not both. YouTube getting part of the sponsorship deal.

If they choose ads, YouTube goes back to 1 shippable ad after 1 second.

OR

A subscription which is just “no ads”. No YouTube music, not Google drive, no nothing. Just a cheap “no ads” subscription.

That being said, even if option 1 happens, I’m probably not uninstalling ublock. Once YouTube forced me to install it, it’s impossible to use the internet without it. Actions have consequences.

With subscription you don’t own the product, but also you don’t pay up front.

With subscription, you should be able to buy as many months as you want. With extended warranty, I think companies usually only sell 1 extended warranty per item.

(I’m pulling the prices out of my ass, don’t try to calculate which one is more “worth it”.

Extended warranty:

30€ for the mouse (3 years warranty) 5€ 1 year extended warranty.

You are sure to have the item for at least 4 years. After that, you can use it until it breaks.

Subscription:

1€/month

You get to use the mouse for exactly the months you paid for. No more, no less

Also, with subscriptions you are likely to get a second hand item. But when you buy the item you are gonna get 1st hand unless you shop at Amazon.

I personally wouldn’t buy a subscription, I prefer to own it. However, I’ll admit that it’s not black and white, and subscriptions also have some benefits.

Another way instead of per time window is per use. For example, in the case of a mouse, per clicks.

So if you buy 1.000.000 clicks and rarely use the computer, you get to own the mouse for a very long time for very cheap, just in case you ever want to use it. This is basically today’s planned obsolescence, except the item doesn’t become trash, the company would just reset the counter and you or the next client can keep using it. If you use it a lot, it’s going to become real expensive real fast though.

They way I got introduced to hardware as a service is that it was a solution to planned obsolescence.

In theory, a hardware subscription means that if you pay for X months of that hardware, you gonna get it. Doesn’t matter if it breaks, it should be replaced while your subscription lasts.

So taking that into account, the less the hardware breaks, the more profit they have. So not only should it eliminate planned obsolescence, it would make engineering for durable products an actually very profitable business.

If governments could print infinite money they would just pay themselves an infinite salary.

Your fundamentals of economics is broken.

Way easier to compare 28MW to 1KW.

Banks are a bunch of dicks anyway. I recently received a ToS that forced me to have all my OSs on their latest update, and never install anything that doesn’t come from official stores.

Next day all of my money was in another bank.

Some people still do. Fuck Jhon Deere.