The red is completely clear and very much red. Doubling down on the suggestion to check up.

There are plenty of devices that are cheap AND repairable - looking at a ~15-year old Brother HL-2140 printer by my right hand that still has all key parts readily available (not that I ever needed to change anything other than drum and toner, but parts are there)

The secret to cheap repairability is actually quite simple - make a good, no-fuss model and sell it for long. This will remove the necessity to print specific parts in small batches for older models, and by the time the model actually gets retired, there’s so much spare parts you barely need to produce anything at all.

Granted, this doesn’t work that well with ever-evolving stuff like computers (although it does to a certain extent), but most other tech is just fine a decade or more in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wc83qX6oNM

It’s official, do not forget

I wasn’t the one to claim that, and neither was the person who opposed you, from all I could see.

There’s just not enough research/calculation done on drones vs. fireworks, and a lot has to be taken into consideration. How often are the drones used? Are they recycled at the end of life? Which materials are used in their production, and what is their source of energy? etc. etc.

The advantage of fireworks is that they are very simple and use little materials to produce, most of which are safe (but some are not great).

Drones, on the other hand, require a lot of lithium and cadmium, as well as other basic resources like metal/plastic, silicon etc., and some parts of their manufacturing involve high-end facilities that require a lot of resources to maintain correct conditions. All of this leads to high footprint of their manufacturing, and if you use such drone just a few times for some large-scale swarms and then forget about it for a while, this will get way less ecological than fireworks.

Don’t get me wrong, the technology is good and drones can absolutely be a superior option. But this heavily depends on how they’re used.

Batteries = genuinely bad.

Also, energy doesn’t always come from clean sources, and even then, they do have footprint of their own.

Please stop with such language, we had enough of it on every mainstream platform.

I genuinely call for civility here.

As per the substance, as already mentioned, the production and later disposal of drones does have ecological footprint that is very much not negligible.

And then 10 years in you should be able to change the part that’s broken and keep the fridge operational.

Exactly!

Right to repair is essential, and it’s crazy we allowed the situation to get where it currently is in the first place

Time to protect what was taken away.

Fair!

Real answer is planned obsolescence.

All of those systems can be maintained and serve for long. Electronics is not the culprit - it can serve for decades easily. Also, most people don’t need their fridge or whatever to be extra fancy.

But the producer really wants for their product to die - this forces you to buy another unit, which increases their revenue.

I think what people here miss out is that it’s not meant to immediately become a retail choice.

First, some specific industries might be interested, then others, then, maybe, common consumers.

I’d even go as far as to say your data is way less likely to hurt you when abused abroad than domestically.

And we know American hardware does, indeed, have backdoors.

бип-буп, на месте

Let’s not make the splinternet a reality, pretty please.

Chinese scaling and manufacturing, Russian IT expertise, Iranian experience of sanctions evasion and North Korean hacking and remote operations mastery are not the combo you want to bet against.

They would absolutely build the self-sustaining economy and rival networks, but in the process it would destroy the Internet as we know it, and break communication channels that are vital for democracy and international peace, while also breaking communications between relatives and friends on the two sides.

Yeah, I got that, but I don’t think they mean that, exactly, otherwise it would be their focus indeed.

But I guess we’ll have to wait and see

oh, the irony!

They didn’t mention it anywhere

Nah, actually experienced it with random internal cards and decided to play it safe.

Can’t say for all internal sound cards though, there can absolutely be ones that don’t have the issue.

I don’t think there is a single universal Great filter, and living and then potentially sentient beings with various traits will face various obstacles.

First, life needs suitable materials for polymers and a lot of energy. Most places don’t have both.

Next, basic blocks of life that would be self-replicating and adaptive should be randomly generated, which is extremely unlikely and literally took over a billion years on Earth, a planet with generally great conditions for such process.

Then, those blocks should be able to get together to form complex structures - ideally, many separate ones, so that one event wouldn’t destroy the entire effort. Earth had it easy, with billions of super simple life forms.

Next, assuming life survived up to this point in a potentially unfriendly and ever-changing environment, bombarded by UV light and exposed to myriad of sources of damage, it should not destroy itself or environment too badly to never recover. Earth had periods when life generated too much carbon dioxide or too much oxygen (yes, that too was a thing), and those were critical points at which our story could very much end.

Then, life has to evolutionize and get into complex forms, either by forming multicellular organisms or by making a cell a powerhouse of everything.

Then, life has to get sentient, and some kind of response system should be available and get highly complex.

Then, most of the sentient creatures just won’t be tribal, and civilization requires society and a common effort.

Then, many more won’t be expansionist, and will die out in some small region.

Many also won’t be competitive, which would slow down evolution.

For those species who are competitive, they shouldn’t destroy each other while they’re at it, and this is currently one of the risks of our own.

And after all that, they should develop space travel and either get as developed and decisive and resource-rich as to send a generational ship to some random planet named Earth populated by genocidal monkeys, or to somehow hyperdrive here. They can very much decide it’s not worth it, and they may be so far away we couldn’t see signs of their civilization.

Our initial offering will include ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral, but we will continue adding AI services that meet our standards for quality and user experience.

Is that the same Mozilla that started the Joint Statement on AI Safety and Openness?

What in living hell do proprietary and predatory AI services even doing here?

Mozilla just offered users to feed into the very abomination they claim to fight.

Also, for all things “AI”, local is the only way to go if you ever want to have a chance at privacy.