Yep, a very long, very hard dicktionary.

To further stretch these tortured metaphors:

System integrated memory is like feudalism, the ram stays bound to the machine.

Buying RAM dims as lots of individuals and pairs like they are on a ship bound for Rio de Janeiro in 1820, is what they are doing now. Just stack them up in a warehouse until they put them to work in the data center/plantation where they labor away or wear out or the market collapses.

Even more interesting when the technology is what is eliminating the people behind the technology.

Yea, and they are gonna need to self police that 8tb of random porn. That’s a liability, just waiting for the internet cops to strike.

Hope they didn’t miss that 100mb file of some milf choking on a hot load, that’s 50 years in prison now. (Meanwhile, it’s ok to sexually assault people IRL if you’re rich).

They are not perfect but they are objectively more durable, cause less damage to the device if they fail, and you don’t loose your power and data port if it fails from daily use.

I know I broke more USB cables in 15 years than audio jacks over 40 years, and I was way harder on electronics 20-30 years ago. (That poor CD to car cassette adapter took some high Gforce impacts, and the walkman just lived in a backpack with the cable plugged in).

I mean, he may have got JFKed but at least we would know.

Meanwhile, I’m streaming HD video from a 1tb SD card (pre crisis price <$80) over WiFi to a TV. The bottle neck is not the SD card for media. Even emulators don’t need higher speed.

I can’t help it if people have not yet realized the huge cost of memory is a major factor in phone price increases, and that SD cards are a great way to have your full media library on your phone without being beholden to “the cloud”.

So your power/data USB C port can snap off?

How about we have the boys in engineering work up a more durable dedicated audio port for something that will be plugged in when on the go?

We can give it:

A solid, round metal plug for infinite 360-degree rotation, neutralizing cable-twist strain that would otherwise warp a rigid USB-C port.

A hollow-tunnel design with out the fragile internal circuit “tongue” found in USB-C, making it nearly impossible to snap or bend through accidental force.

And as a bonus, heavy-duty internal spring contacts that tolerate dirt and high insertion counts, and linear release mechanism so the cable will pop out cleanly during a violent tug instead of tearing up the phone’s internal electronics.

We can call this MIRACLE as the 3.5mm headphone jack. The kids will love it!

They will agree, after much donation, that regulation is needed.

The regulation will protect current asset holders and IP rights, while limiting its utility to the individual and creating moats to competitors. They will do this by fear mongering buzz words like “national security” and “think of the children”.

Meanwhile the wealthy already have the hardware and open models to run whatever shady BS they want, while the consumer will get to rent the highly regulated corporate controlled versions that harvest your data and tell you what they want you to know.

We won’t get to forget.

He’s not alone.

How about campaign finance reform and strengthened enforcement for all.

Tear down the entire money pipeline. If no one can legally bribe politicians, then AIPAC can’t either. Money is not speech.

I know right, well it easy of you apply the rules to everyone.

Hot take. Close the loopholes for everyone. Limit executive power, for everyone. Campaign finance reform, for everyone. It’s not complicated.

At least some one will keep the ashes warm for us.

A theocratic autocracy will rise from the ashes. Unless you kids have done more prep work that you let on, your not winning the war if it goes hot, and the crazies with stockpiles and organization in place have the advantage over unprepared forum users.

The only thing protecting us before was “who has the time to analyze all the data we gather about you?”.

Without analysis how could they tell that you consistency take an extra 1.45 minutes to clock back in from lunch when you eat Taco Bell. Schedule a colon cancer screening, while also increasing your health insurance premium along with your estimated new risk level due to your sub optimal life choices? This is all needed to insure you last meat bags with jobs perform to shareholder expectations.

Well guess what LLMs are really good at?

I had a bedframe, but it broke.

Bare mattresses on the floor are just more practical after a certain point. There are only so many bedframes I can salvage from the dump.

Don’t forget that selective regulation can be worse than none.

The stage is already set to use regulatory capture to protect tech monopolies in the name of security and safety.

Can’t have these useful tools in the hands of citizens who are not engaged in maximizing shareholder value.

It’s been a heavy rainy season here, lots of wind, power and net issues.

Meanwhile, the LAN works on a UPS, solar, and no Internet.

(Sure is nice being able to put on a movie or music playlist, and work on documents, or sort though old vacationphotos when it’s a rainy day with out a cloud failure blocking it.)