Usually when you don’t have internet access, it’s because you don’t have any signal at all.

Experiment how? What on earth could this possibly be useful for?

I can’t believe I have to explain this. Anyway

The comparison to Alex Jones and other conspiracy nutjobs was about how they don’t care about any facts or context, and just like to string together random headlines into some doomsday narrative that supports their view.

The phrase “tankie infowars” means basically that - same methods, just different target audience. So you would switch around who the good guys and bad guys are, but not much else.

You don’t think coming to the conclusion “omg, this must be nuclear war preparations”, instead of this just being a regular target, is conspiracy level thinking?

It would fit right into Alex Jones’s show. And it’s the most upvoted comment here.

Is this a tinfoil conspiracy site? Tankie infowars?

And judging by the recent Claude Sonnet 3.5 results, OpenAI may not even be the top AI company anymore.

The ironic thing is that if it weren’t for free software, the entire AI industry would likely be a decade behind where it is today, if not more.

There used to be a “loophole”, where if you changed to a different plan, it restarted the 7 day period during which you could cancel with no fee. Not sure if they ever changed that though.

It was Medvedev who started talking shit about nukes more than a year ago (and a lot since then)

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-medvedev-wed-have-use-nuclear-weapon-if-ukrainian-offensive-was-success-2023-07-30/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-ally-medvedev-warns-nuclear-war-if-russia-defeated-ukraine-2023-01-19/

On the other hand, many parts of Android, including the default system WebView, are updated from the Play Store like regular apps, and don’t need a full OS update.

But the cloud thing and the container thing actually happened. Not 100%, but it is basically the standard these days.

Of the things you mentioned, only crypto is mostly bullshit tech with no actual use.

Everything that has a store requires an account.

• Steam - you need Steam account (also applies to Valve Index then)
• iPhone - you need Apple account
• Android phones - you need Google account
• Oculus before - you needed an Oculus account

The short time during which they required a Facebook account (i.e. an account linked to an unrelated service) was a fuck-up, but they have since reversed that decision. Now it’s just a separate standalone VR-related account.

If anything, that is still better than the current Google/Apple situation with their accounts, which link together a bunch of unrelated services (photos, email, payments, storage sync, etc.) in an inseparable way.

Oculus. No way they would have otherwise had the money to make cheap standalone VR headsets like the Quest.