I don’t know much about these things, but if Proton uses standard protocols it ought to be possible to connect without using their own client.

Pay him and he’ll tell you.

It’s the American way.

Do they? I know they process the images, blending in takes from the different cameras, doing white balance and enhancing colours, etc., but the “AI Enhance” is a button you have to press. Unless they have changed that.

It sounds like you have quite a lot of expertise most people don’t have, which is probably why you find growing food relatively easy and many don’t. It’s not just needing the weekly time to plant and maintain the land, or needing to have good land in the first place, that stops people, it’s also not having time to build up that expertise.

The giggles will get you through though.

Has Donald Trump ever kept a promise?

LG TVs sound like a nightmare. They spy on what you’re watching, listen to what you’re saying and doing, open a doorway into your home network for malware, and put you on the hook for whatever some pedo decides to download through your IP address via one of these proxy-infested apps. Plus their monitors have been silently installing highly privileged adware that is also probably spyware on people’s PCs, and popping up big unwanted ads for McAfee etc. that users can’t turn off.

The day when we never have to hear about this man again is coming tantalisingly close.

And it’s right before the midterm elections Trump is determined to rig and steal. So Kash is probably going over there to advise the FSB and GRU to play fair and not interfere.

In which ways did you find Nord worse? I found Nord faster than Mullvad and better at spoofing my location in different countries for streaming services.

Proton VPN is probably the first other one that springs to mind as offering privacy comparable to Mullvad. Its CEO was criticized last year for making approving comments about some things Trump was doing in the USA, but it was mostly about opportunities to challenge big tech companies, and he claimed not to be a MAGA supporter in general. There was no evidence, as far as I know, of him donating to right-wing organizations.

He says it with enough ambiguity to claim later that what he meant was: allow ICE to do our job or the nasty immigrants and anti-fascists will cause bloodshed. But of course it’s his people causing the bloodshed, not the people they’re attacking.

…Minus the payments already provided, right?

It’s very vague. If you could use this as a rent-to-own it’s perhaps not so bad, but if it’s just rent-to-still-not-be-able-to-own it sucks.

I hope you’re being sarcastic.

Sure would be nice if all the “we need guns to protect our freedoms from tyranny” people hadn’t joined ICE to enforce tyranny at the first opportunity.

After decades of preaching to everyone about how school shootings are just the price you have to pay for freedom from tyranny, they all shut up and joined ICE.

I had the same experience. I was doing a little home project to improve my Rust programming skills and my understanding of a couple of algorithms. I asked the AI to wire up the command line arguments so I could move on to the more interesting bits. It got carried away, rewrote my code, fixed the bugs and finished the whole project. I just sat there feeling disappointed. It was like someone telling you how a movie turns out just as you’re settling in with your popcorn.

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Well, employee morale is going to be great at whichever company they hand to an AI to run. But who cares about employees?

Their shared bet is that companies will automate individual jobs piece by piece until humans oversee the work rather than perform it.

For CEOs maybe this sounds great, but for anyone with a skilled job who knows the satisfaction of practising and improving your skills every day, it sounds hellish. All humans will become middle managers for the foreseeable future, possibly the least rewarding job there is.

It reminds me of when that CEO of an AI music company claimed musicians don’t enjoy making music. It gives you a little glimpse of how joyless these techbros’ lives really are, and they want to bring that to the rest of us.

The USA could compete by doing the same thing. If it chooses not to, China gets ahead in this race.