I was kinda curious about this... Gen AI definitely has huge potential to take digital assistants to the next level - feels like a natural evolution to me - but I imagine it’s gotta be pretty challenging to perfectly differentiate all the more structured things assistants were programmed to do from the less structured…

Any wealthy person can charter flights too. At some point, she and/or her crew decided it would be more (cost) effective to simply buy and operate a private jet and one of the tradeoffs is (FAA) privacy. Owning a private jet doesn’t mean you are the only one allowed to fly in it - heck, I’m pretty sure last year there…

It was an e-ink keyboard too! When you flipped it vertically the label on the keys changed!

Completely unsurprised that snapchat messages are unencrypted but it does lead me to the musing of whether he’d have “gotten away” with it if he sent it in a regular snap (image or video), even if unencrypted - probably, right?

Somebody didn’t read the article :)

From another comment, apparently this has been done - and you can invest yourself: https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/fund/sjim

Maybe they don’t have a credit card or just want to use it as a simple budgeting mechanism. Often times companies will provide bonuses to use their payments too, like “load $25, get a bonus $5".

They get an allowance, they want to maintain a budget, they don’t want to carry a wallet... probably many other reasons.

Seems to me this is not ALL bad and maybe even has some good in it...?

I do agree that cryptocurrency is a better target - especially in the current state where its mining and operations likely use considerably more energy than gen AI and arguably contributes nothing positive to society - but I think we’re doing a serious disservice to climate change action if we’re gonna pretend that AI…

Why are you anticipating complaints? This is gonna be an improvement for both iPhone and Android users. 

I am definitely sympathetic to the plight of scalpers, but I’m not sure this is the best way. Even though idgaf about people wealthy enough to buy Ford GTs, limiting resales makes more sense as a pro-consumer, anti-scalping measure there since it’s a very limited production vehicle that is an instant collectible due…

I don’t think that’s necessarily true about only dealing with future sales. It's anti-consumer bs, but sadly not unprecedented. 

Appreciate your thoughts... I too am not a tad professional, but aren’t write-offs only applied the following year, thus being a delayed “payoff”? Well, for individuals at least - perhaps corporations get some extra leg up. (Ha, “perhaps” - now that I say that, of course they do - what do we think the IRS works for…

Who said forcing it was a great idea? I guess I wasn’t clear enough in my musing about the EU’s actual care about consumers that the US government ought to protect us from corporate greed that results in things like me having to replace my phone earlier than planned.

Last I recall Thunderbird being quite fugly and still stuck in early 2000s UI (hello Libra Office 😄) but I’ve not given it a genuine go in quite a long time and I do want to try something different out besides Outlook so this’ll be my motivation to do so!

$20! Riot sells $40 (or more) knife skins in Valorant! But if you bundle it with the three other $20 skins, you get em all for a measly $60 - what a deal! Come back next month for the next batch!

The new free Outlook Windows app (that replaced the Mail app) I’m pretty sure (I use the same one), not the M365 Outlook (which I also use, for work).

Adoption of RCS has indeed been wildly lackluster - I hadn’t heard of the EU pushing for it, but I’m all for it. They always seem to be more pro-consumer than the US so I wonder if they’ll have protective measures to not immediately make dumbphones and older smartphones entirely obsolete... but it’s certainly not…

I think this is primarily an issue (that Google is more than happy to jump on) because Apple refuses to adopt RCS, which is a universal, global communications standard. It’s not a Google invention or exclusive.