They’ll spend $5M to fight the $30K fine for this, I’m sure.

US public education system doesn’t teach anything related to real-world finances, including how tax brackets work.

No, but stupidity is…

I thought it was a coating, like what they use to filter UV light. I have Theraspecs that do it, but those are sunglasses.

She was just upselling, not actually knowledgeable. They filter some blue spectrum, not the whole color blue.

Nope, but I also feel like Apple would have it off by default, unlike Microsoft.

They didn’t put “AI” in the subject line of the emails, so Microsoft doesn’t care…

Looks neat. I wonder if the mail proofread and rewrite will work anywhere other than in Mail or Safari, though. If so, it’'d give Outlook users a way better option than forking over $30/month for Microsoft’s extremely sluggish O365 Copilot. I don’t know if that’s any better on Windows, but the O365 Copilot experience on Mac slowed everything down, workflow-wise, when I tested it out a couple months ago. Click button, wait 30 seconds, repeat. Doing this stuff on-device will be great.

At some point they are going to have ad channels with content breaks.

Gardener here, I think it’s too late.

It’s actually fake, though. IP phones “play” that. Also, when on a call, they insert "comfort noise, that very low hiss you may hear, to augment the odd feeling most get with crystal clear VOIP audio.

Internet traffic gets mirrored to NSA data centers, that’s old news from the Snowden leak.

The whole Threshold series is great, especially the audiobook versions. Ray Porter narrates a lot of sci-fi audiobooks, and he’s always great.

Would his Secret Service detail even let him carry in the first place? I feel like that’s a no-no.

Or they warm the tap water

Spent $350 on a single cart of groceries today, nearly lost my mind at how bad it’s gotten.

Cries in USA, paying $230/mWh. At least solar effectively zeroes out my usage via net metering, in the warmer months.

The research is already done. All they need to do is call a local university agriculture extension where they are considering a project.

Irony is, a lot of larger office building thermostats are really only there for display purposes (thermometer), not for control purposes (actually functional).

It’s funny. Security folks say how insecure Windows XP is, and how it becomes compromised within seconds/minutes of having an internet connection. It’s like Microsoft took that as a playbook challenge to repeat as an OOTB feature, instead of waiting for malware to do it.