krashmo

The same people who buy Suburbans and Escalades could buy Rivians or a Kia EV9 instead. They're similar sizes and price ranges. People are just dumb

Sounds like you might be interested in this: https://www.slate.auto/en

I don't know much about the company. I just know they're working on releasing an electric SUV/truck (it could be either depending on what you want) and it's supposedly going to be priced around $25k. They might be full of shit for all I know but that's the marketing buzz at least.

"That's not me, it's AI generated"

That wasn't very hard to come up with and it's a lot less stupid than a bunch of other stuff Americans believe

Windows was less shitty in the 90s too

Alternative headline:

Drowning man in such a panic that he drowns attempted rescuer as well

More like the OG "shiny is better" users

I'll never buy a computer that can't be run without this shit. If that means I run what I have until it breaks and then never have a PC again then that's what I'll do

CEOs have all sounded the same for years now. Add in LLM talking points regularly and they all sound like robots with a broken speech unit

Thanks, I appreciate you posting this as well. I have been trying to do better about supporting open source projects lately and I was just thinking about Linux phones the other day so it was well timed. It would be awesome if we could get one to the point that more casual users could run it without trouble, but that kind of thing doesn't happen on its own. If we want freedom we'll have to pay for it in one way or another.

Interesting concept. This kind of thing needs more support. Let's make it happen. I'll start:

Even if he does realize it he won't have to live with the consequences

We really do need some kind of government administered digital ID for certain functions in the modern age. In the US we have tried to use social security numbers in various applications but that is not what they were intended for and it causes all sorts of problems. That ID could be used for official government functions like providing public feedback on legislation (currently overrun by industry bot accounts), voting online (currently not possible), and accessing or submitting personal information (tax forms, various licensing processes, court proceedings, etc).

The biggest problem is that I don't trust our current government to implement a system like this in an effective or transparent manner. The second biggest problem is that I don't trust them to limit it's use to strictly necessary functions. This should not be required for anything outside of government administered processes. Meta and Discord don't need to verify user identities but I know they would quickly make that argument for the same reasons you outlined.

It just sucks that we have all this technological potential but we are so limited by the shittiness of the people in charge that in many cases it feels like a worse idea to use it than to not.