Ya, its still hopefull, the people are just less perfect, make jokes, are sarchastic etc. You know. There more like people.

The Orville is better Star Trek than most modern Trek as well.

Its less Utopian, but in a way almost more realistic.

I liked friends when i was a kid/teen. Bit re-watching it as an adult, not so much. Everyone but joey and chandler annoy me now

These be fighting words good sir…

BORTLES!!!

Whats a midrange? Is it one of the a series?.. if its an S# i consider that flagship. Size of screen and battery dont make it not one.

I personally just get last years phone on sale every 3 or so years for $3-400 and its been great for me.

The real dumb move is paying monthy, and getting a locked phone.

Ah yes… critical infrastructure and games are the same…

My point isnt that ai is great or bad. Its a tool with certain uses, and treating it like black and white is a terrible take.

The real news should be that 1/2 the game released are lying about not using AI.

You might as well just not buy any software after 2025.

Its unrealistic to have any developer not use ai in any way in 2025. The tool is too useful and has too much power to be ignored. Even if you wanted to, every google search on how to fix some bug comes with an ai summary. Every IDE uses autocomplete. Having an AI review my personal code has had me fix bugs before i even test.

Its true there is alot of AI slop and low effort projects, but how its being used and to what level matter. Its not black and white. Linus Torvald, the creator of linux, one of, if not the smartest programmer on earth is using it.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4235401/linus-torvalds-has-started-using-ai-to-develop-the-linux-kernel.html

“I dont know” may be perfectly acceptable, but the mark of great people is “let me go find out, and get back to you”

They can break it real easy…

1. Go public
2. Priotitize investors over customers
3. Slowly degrade customer sentiment until the customers are willing to switch.

You know… the same thing that is driving enshitification across all markets.