varjen

it’s hard to insult the quality of the goods from Temu I’ve seen.

But it’s going to be Temu Minority Report where none of the predictions are true but they make the precrime cops feel really good and validated.

I’ve used chatgpt for book suggestions a couple of times with decent success. The annoying thing is that sometimes it hallucinates really interesting books that don’t exist by authors I like.

South Africa during apartheid was pretty bad.

Tangentially relevant: Benn Jordan posted a video about problems with data centers yesterday.

Did you intend to encrypt your comment or was it an accident?

Cars without knobs shouldn’t be allowed. Knobs are awesome.

I see a future where all computing is done in the cloud and home computers are just dumb terminals. An incredibly depressing future. Customers not users is the goal.

Looks like it comes with more preinstalled applications and a custom themed gnome desktop. As far as I can find the extra preinstalled applications are available in the default ubuntu repos.