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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AGI achieved 🤖⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  what do you mean by spell fine?

  I mean that when you ask them to spell a word they can list every character one at a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AGI achieved 🤖⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet they can seemingly spell and count (small numbers) just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL my decision to drive a 22' full cab pickup truck and vehemently oppose urban zoning reform makes me a defender of social justice, a warrior for the downtrodden, and more progressive than 99% [cont⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Many(most?) older towns did have a town square, many still do in various forms. Though it’s not the town square they’re about; it’s the medium density mixed-use housing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but it’s not more valuable than $30 + regular price increases for 60+ years. That’s what a lifetime membership is.

  Lets flip that around: For my own finances $300 is a lot more valuable than $30 for 10 years. So if I’m to expect that the company will go out of business in 10 years or so, I would have been better off paying for the subscription.

  Lets also not forget that companies don’t take that $300 and responsibly invest it. It gets reinvested in a risky bid to grow the company and get enough people to subscribe in order to pay for your service going forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lifetime services/updates are always a scam. The economics of this are really simple: Nebula is $30 per year or $300 lifetime. That lifetime membership covers only 10 years of subscription. So what’s the plan after that? There’s only really three outcomes:

  • They stop providing you service
  • They go bankrupt trying to provide you service
  • They grow and stay big enough to be able to subsidize your service for your lifetime. I can’t overstate how unlikely this is.

  Buying a lifetime membership you’re gambling that Nebula will grow big enough that other people’s subscription will pay for your service. Your membership is a liability for them.

  It’s also bad from the other end. Lots of small software devs will sell lifetime updates but eventually need to abandon their products because they simply run out of money.

  A service continually costs money to provide. You can’t pay for that with a single payment. Lifetime services are simply incompatible with running a business long term. It’s a bad idea and someone is always getting screwed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Support for 2015 macs ended 7 months ago. Forget 10 years ago, my 2015 mac doesn’t run like it used to in Big Sur.