The same thing might have happened if she bought a Mac and needed some Windows only software.

Is it off, or is it an optional module that doesn’t have to be adding bloat to my system if I don’t want to use it?

LLMs can take up a pretty big storage footprint.

My biggest issue with that is the amount of bloat a full local LLM implementation would add.

But if it’s an optional module that you can choose to add (or choose not to add) after the fact, I have no complaint.

Or maybe the scam is “click here to claim…”

first they tried to argue the contract shouldn’t have been written that way so I still had to pay.

“So what? You’re the ones who wrote the contract. It’s your fuckup, you pay for that not me…”

provided the manufacturers don’t all start requiring internet to ‘set up’ a tv

That’s an important caveat. And it appears that increasingly manufacturers are adding that requirement.

Apparently LG has extra features it only wants hotels to be able to use.

It’s more that hotels will buy in bulk if a TV has the features they want - and those “hotel mode” controls being hidden from typical hotel guests is one of those features.

Except some models won’t let you do anything until you “activate” your smart TV, which requires an internet connection.

Thw 100k word part is relatively easy.

The coherent story part is not possible with today’s LLMs, even with a much smaller word count.

Hell, lots of human writers fail at making their stories coherent.

They’re half-ass trying to incite intergenerational conflict between X, Z, millenials, etc.

That’s not even new.

Dismissively saying “OK boomer” has been around for several years.

but I think they have had issues with filtering neonazis

Any platform that proclaims itself to be a censorship free zone is going to attract nazis and other undesirables.

Glass is just borderline

It als depends on the distance and transportation costs to get to a glass plant.

Which is dissapointing, because glass should be relatively easy to recycle into new containers. The core process isn’t much different than making new glass.

Purpose isn’t something that is handed to you, it’s something that each of us has to find/create for ourselves.

And true happiness isn’t found by comparing yourself to others.

Its not a fair comparison. You only get to see their directors cut, but you see your own blooper reel.

8 years on an internal combustion engine is nothing if you preventative maintenance properly.

Also depends on the type and amount of driving you do.

The first 2 on the legend look darker than the following 3 .

I agree with the zombiepirate. Colour coded maps are useless for about 25% of the population.

did the product description indicate the internet connection was required?

That’s an important question.

That said, we were recently appliance shopping and none of them said that it was required, but a couple of the negative reviews mentioned it.

We ended up choosing one of the very few that didn’t list wifi or an app as a feature. Hopefully there isn’t a stealth modem hidden in there somewhere. I guess we’ll find out next week when it’s delivered…

Leaving it open ended and subjective is setting up for failure.

Having a specific list always misses something, and bad actors will find ways to abuse the gaps in that list.

Ummm… that was a separate thing, and he made the announcement before Trump’s statement.

And it’s Prime Minister, not premier.

Most of the culture wars bullshit is originating from a tiny but disproportionately noisy number of people.

But then, because their claims are so outrageous, the media picks up on it and runs with it, without bothering to be proportional to the number of people causing the problem in the first place.

most of my friends from Ukraine wanted the war to end from the very beginning.

Nobody in Ukraine wander this war to happen at all, but Russia went ahead and invaded them anyway, so they didn’t have any real choice in the matter.