That's more of a software feature..

I'm finding it really hard to justify buying a new iPhone. They're so expensive these days for marginal improvements that seems if you're not an avid photo taker/media maker you don't get much back from.

It makes a lot more sense to purchase one if you consider their residual value when you sell it to upgrade later. A typical Android phone depreciates much more quickly than an iPhone. My three-year-old iPhone 15 Pro is still worth $500 or more on the open market--about half of what I spent. That's only $166/year.

The downside is that you need more money up front to purchase it.

TBH I don't think I've ever bought a new phone because there was something new and fancy that I could justify. Every phone I've bought has been because my previous phone stopped receiving software updates, or in the case of my Pixel 6a, had a hooped battery.

Then don't. Isn't the whole point of long support cycles that you can keep using your phone for 5 years +, if it serves you well? (typing this from an S22)

If you're an avid photo taker, you need to buy a Pixel Pro.

or a camera I daresay

The marginal improvements add up over time. Most people upgrade every few years, amortized over a 3 year upgrade cycle it's not really that expensive.

Don't then. Just wait until you actually need a new phone before buying a new one

Are you trying to tell me time is relative?

As understood by general relativity, it actually is. There is no absolute time.

You can say the age of the universe is 14 billion years, but that's in our reference frame.

In another reference frame it may be a different number.

I'm being flippant

This is not correct. The stated age of the universe is measured relative to the rest frame of the CMB, the standard preferred frame in cosmology.

People working at AI labs like yourself should figure out how to stop destroying science so there are still people who know enough to call you out when you spread misconceptions.

> measured relative to the rest frame of the CMB

> preferred

While these are meaningful conventions, they are being measured with respect to that rest frame.

The local group moves at some few hundred km/s velocity relative to the CMB, so the age of the universe in our reference frame will be slightly shorter than that preferred frame. Call it ~10^-7 shorter but still ever so slightly shorter. That was my point.

> Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote on Twitter last month. “I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust … I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over.”

They're so close to being self aware..

I don't believe they're even close to developing their own thoughts. I'm an ardent user. And every model had a mess up. It's just marketting paid for. Excuse my ignorance but what is here already is solid. I don't need AGI.

Define "developing own thoughts"? There's a lot of nuance here.

> Define "developing own thoughts"

I'm really not sure how I can define that further.

Well if you consider the outputs of an LLM "thoughts", then they literally already do that, auto-regressively.

If your argument is that they're not "their" thoughts, I would agree with that. But I'd also say that no one develops their own thoughts. We're all just developing thoughts from the knowledge bank we have from our experiences in the same way that AI is drawing from its weights.

So I have a tv of LG from the same period. I keep it dumb, not connected to the internet and just use an apple TV, so far it's a clean option. And it's always a good idea to have piHole up to, they usually have the block list updated with LG's and Samsungs urls.

The Gamers Nexus video explained that they will connect to nearby open SSID’s to send the data they have collected. So just not connecting it to your network may not be enough.

I hear this a lot as a rumour but has it actually ever been demonstrated in the wild?

Okay, that is nasty.

Fun fact: some (most?) Samsung TVs of the last ~6 years can't complete OOB setup if they're connected to a PiHoled network with the most vanilla PiHole filters

> E.g. As soon as someone proves LG, Samsung, etc. recorded and stored credit card details and knowingly have weak security this is going to be a massive business liability.

My tinfoil hat believes that they've already accounted for this as the price of doing business. They will have already budgeted for the fines that they might incur, pay them off and continue as normal while people become accustomed to it.

Hey, you can only commit crimes if you’re wealthy!

That's what the author is doing, optimising their household budget to train neurons on new multimedia content.

> They are willing to accept all the conditions of your apps, including sending you personal data, registering an account, etc.

I've had this exact problem this morning, I wanted to download the ASD-STE100 https://www.asd-ste100.org/STE_downloads.html#article02-2l and they use a request form to get the download.

Unfortunately the last question:

> Do you consent to us collecting your data? This form has the only purpose of requesting a copy of ASD-STE100. Details are for record and statistical purposes only and will not be used or disclosed in any form to anyone. You can find out more about STEMG privacy policy here.

Only has a "Yes" option, and so I couldn't submit the form.

Great success.

Don't you obviously consent if you're filling in data to a google form? Unless the form answers go nowhere then it's being collected.

I'm currently looking for work and not even 2 hours ago I wanted to look up a company on Glassdoor for the first time in a while. I forgot they were aquired by Indeed. My Indeed login worked, but then I was demanded to give them my phone number to continue. Enough random business have my number so, whatever, but I could not move forward unless I consented to them sending me stuff. Yes, I could use a masked email, apply filters so I never see the junk, etc, but something about that really rubbed me the wrong way so I bailed.

So you filled out a form with your personal data and were about to press the submit button to send it to them, but you don't consent to them knowing that data about you?

It seems the checkbox had its intended effect of serving as a double-check gate about whether you really want them to know that information.

Strange as it might seem, I just wanted to download a spec, not be added to any database. regardless of their uses. Is that too much to ask ?

Any anyway, my biggest gripe was the phrasing, don't say it as if I have a choice.

It's more important to have ownership into them, they're turning into powerfull tools that we have already seen cut off in the private sector on a whim. Having our own that is comparable (this is a nice first step) is better than Alibaba for example just not releasing the rest.

As with all of the EU's dependancies on Tech with the US, the idea of "I don't care where my DNS servers are" is starting to be an oversight.

But thanks for your opinion.