How do you leave it in a “functionable state”? Drivers disappear, hardware changes, libraries get updated, os’ update or die off, etc. You’d have to expose the source code to the public at that point and if I was a developer I’d want nothing to do with that market then.

The idea of ownership is being destroyed

The weight matters too. EVs are notoriously heavy. You have to haul around the batteries whether they are full or not.

“However, due to their high production costs, these batteries’ initial application will be limited to the “super premium” EV segment.”

I’m not sure I want the gov and huge amounts of my tax dollars going to operate federal gov chip fab plants. On the other hand I get your point that it is so heavily subsidized it is practically a de facto situation anyway.

Executives will be “essential”, QA, sys admins, etc will be non essential.

I’d rather talk to my cat than an AI chat bot

I hate the feeling that they are continuing to dump real humans who can communicate and respond to issues outside of the rigid framework when it comes to support. AI is also only as good as its data and design. It feels like someone built a self driving car, stuck it on a freshly paved and painted highway and decided it was good to go. Then you take it on an old rural road and end up hitting a tree.

This just screams “The CEO read about it on linkedin while taking a dump and now feels it is vital to the company.”

I like the article I read were ww2 german soldiers were being generated by AI as asians, black woman, etc. Glad it doesn’t take context into consideration. lol

Listen up you kids, this old fart saw this same crap in the 70s when LCDs became common and LCD clocks became the norm. They felt that EVERYTHING needed to have an LCD clock stuck in it, lamps, radios, blocks of cheese, etc. A similar thing happened in the internet boom/bust in the late 90s where everyone needed a website, even gas stations. Now AI is the media and business darling so they are trying to stick AI in everything, partly to justify pissing away so much money on it. I can’t even do a simple search on FB because it wants to force me to use the damn meta AI instead.

I occasionally use chat gpt to find info on error code handling and coding snippets but I feel like I’m in some sort of “can you phrase it exactly right?” contest. Anything with even the slightest vagueness to it returns useless garbage.

You don’t understand how consumer goods work

If you thought making this comment was a good idea you might need to get a grip on life.

You wouldn’t know unless someone told you though

It’s a woman looking over their shoulder

If a sample image is “making some women feel unwelcome in the field” you may be too sensitive for life.

Be careful what you wish for though. Electronics, and software in particular, rapidly drop in reliability as the parts stray from tightly restricted boundaries and become open to anyone. “Hey, this app crashes on my phone now.” Repairing a phone too wouldn’t be cheap either, you’d have to have someone soldering and resoldering a very fine circuit board. I think most people would just replace it.

We need to modify the DMCA to truly address this

Well you don’t own the games and they are just games

For anyone wondering what the videos were:

In a just-unsealed case from Kentucky reviewed by Forbes, undercover cops sought to identify the individual behind the online moniker “elonmuskwhm,” who they suspect of selling bitcoin for cash, potentially running afoul of money laundering laws and rules around unlicensed money transmitting.

They get paid in moderator power trips. “What did you say? Banning…”