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Can't wait for a court to toss that particular one out. "Consumers who purchase a product containing a copy of embedded software have the inherent legal right to use that copy of the software" (Chamberlain v. Skylink)
The drivers are not embedded in the hardware. They are gigabytes of additional downloads.
Am I the only one disappointed by this new wave of AI hype? Seriously, autogenerated avatars? When are our best minds going to work towards actually improving the lives of people? Not monkey JPEG scams, not chat bot bureaucracies, not self-driving cars that fail in bad weather and kill you, but something that actually alleviates humanity's biggest problems. Energy, homelessness, pollution and the environment, afforda…
Check out the climate change ai[0] community! There are many people working on the interesting interface between ai and relevant problems. I think the main thing to take into account that many of these problems and organisations still live in an age of 200X tech, so already implementing current age practices can result in great improvements (although this does not result in flashy press announcments or papers). [0] h…
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I've had a combo washer dryer ever since moving out of my parents place lol You gotta also buy the things science provides!
I prefer the Unix approach - single function appliances that do a single job well.
Each to their own, I had plenty of folks saying they're bad and break often but I've never had one do a bad job assuming it's being maintained - cleaning lint traps, not overloading it, descaling the system now and then (hard water area)
So damn convenient to chuck a load in before bed and come back in the morning to nicely clean and still toasty warm clothes ready to go
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>There's still no AI that can fold laundry We're actually really close to general robot agents that operate in your home. Check out googleAI's saycan & RT-1 systems https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/12/rt-1-robotics-transformer-... .
That's gonna be great until someone hacks it and has it stab me to death in my sleep.