Wipr because it has no subscription bs and has proper block lists for my country.

You could convince Elon to do this by telling him it would be terrible for internet preservation.

Dang, that's a bummer. Let's import some russian natural gas.

That's because ChatGPT and the likes use machine learning to calculate odds of word combinations that make up a plausible sentence in a given context. There are scientific studies that postulate we'll never have enough data to train those models properly, not to mention exponential energy consumption required. But this is not the only application of this technology.

It can do statistics and probability incredibly well. Chatbots are gross waste of that capability but it's proving to be quite capable in areas where lots of brute force computation was required before (like in biotech).

AI is math, statistics specifically.

I can't recommend this enough.

I'm not sure. IIRC pricing structure that pushes you to upgrade to high tier hardware was there under Jobs as well. And they'd solder RAM if it was a thing back then too - they always purposefully gimped base models.

Apple has been like this for ages now though. They succeeded despite of it, not because of it. What OP is suggesting (I think) is that there's less positives and those historically outweighed Apple's anti-consumer practices.

I use couple of devices that are nearing end of support - iPhone XS, 1st gen Apple TV 4k (which is iPhone 7 essentially) and they perform admirably well. iOS 16 was pretty bad at times but it was mostly resolved with iOS 17.

Straight to Nintendo Guantanamo.

Those caps are a way to cull the weakest parts of society. I too have hurt my dick on them but have learned to deal with them.