Ulrich

It’s long past being meaningless at this point.

Same reason we have to care about literally anything Trump does or says: he’s influential. Just in this case, it’s a good influence.

Linux = Freedom, customizability MacOS = Usability Windows = ???

Sentiment analysis on the conversation you were having?

Among other things, sure. More simply, keyword analysis.

Remember semantically aware models are still fairly new and even they lack the context for a particular field of text.

All of these “models” are useless garbage but it doesn’t stop them from trying to absolutely cram them everywhere they can.

Unnecessary

None of what they do is “necessary”. They could just ask you what your relevant interests are and you could tell them, but they do it anyway. They go to great lengths for any seemingly insignificant amount of data they can get their hands on.

Both of these apps have device-level notifications to let you know when an app is listening. I promise they’re not. There was a service a while back that was claiming this in their advertising and it went public and their partners all scattered like flies. No one wants to be associated with that sort of thing. It’s unnecessary anyway.

you’d have to store and process hours and hours of audio data that didn’t tell us much

I mean that could be solved as simply as a local transcription service…

Screen recording site

Oh, good to know. I just use it because it looks like it wasn’t made in 2002 😂

That would probably not be a good feature on a PC.

It’s illegal if antitrust action is anticipated

That seems like something that would be difficult to prove.

I hardly think $27.5k could be considered “jacking up the price” but I also don’t appreciate advertising pricing that is dependent on a government incentive that may not even exist when the vehicles are actually delivered.

I’ve always wondered, is this illegal? Like obviously it is if they’ve already been subpoenaed or something.

Apple customers are shmucks

Not really a big deal. Card gets stolen, I report it, they refund the charges and send me a new card.

It’s really not. You can’t account for climate with a single number. That’s why standards exist.

My credit card works just fine 🤷

I mean why microfocus on Tesla when this impacts the entire industry?

a little under $27,500

Soooo $27,499?

No, there is no optional touch screen. The one featured in their media is a phone/iPad running the Slate app.

Point me to an electric sedan I can buy for $20k and I will.