gas station near me had those about 5 years or so ago. I’m not sure if they still have them or not, but volume pumped up to a crazy level too.

Sorry for being an idiot, but what is an agentic OS?

Agentic OS is a buzzword that’s meant to imply that the OS is (or has) an AI agent doing useful things for you in the background without you explicitly asking it to do those things (ie an agent working for you). For an agent to be useful, (they say) it has to know and learn everything it can about you, your life, your friends, activities, contacts, work, and so on.

The tradeoff is pretty extreme though. Everything you do on the PC is watched, analyzed, catalogued, and retained by MIcrosoft (and possibly whoever they choose to share the info with, which is likely every government that asks). The features that do this are generically called client-side scanning and Microsoft has a few specific variants you can read about called Copilot Recall, and Copilot Vision.

I imagine the previous poster’s point is that the federal workers might be victims, but they couldn’t make a sacrifice becuase sacrifice is a willing choice one makes. The workers may have suffered, but they didn’t make any sacrifice here becuase it wasn’t their choice.

What we have here is a football asking whether it’s sacrifice was “worth it” at the end of a game.

Unfortunately for them, I’ve never seen a sport talk about the contributions or sacrifices the ball made.

Taking it all the way back to OP’s meme. Love it.

You can find some old Buster Keaton interviews on YouTube where he talks about the craft. Pretty good stuff.

Terminator, despite being a classic and massively popular movie of the time, is pretty bad by modern SFX & VFX standards.
The Thing (Jonh Carpenter) for a movie of the same era holds up impressivley well.

That’s a misconception. California doesn’t hold assessed value at purchase price. They limit assessment increases to 2% a year though. Housing price inflation has historically outpaced that 2% increase because the residents of the more desriable communities refuse to allow growth. Most communities have also added a heap of special assessments over the years to get around the assessment caps and rate limits. Local govs started working around prop 13 limits the moment prop 13 passed.

Tax any property worth over a million.

First of all, they already do. CO property tax may be fairly reasonable, but it is a thing already. Assuming you meant tax such properties a lot more because they’re owned by wealthy people, well we passed that in LA a couple years ago, and all it’s really done is put upward pressure on business and residential rents (cuz $1 million isn’t that high a number when you consider comercial property), slow residential sales, and give the local gov another pile of money to waste.

It has raised money, but it doesn’t seem like it’s solving any of the problems it was meant to.

Yeah… Dart and Scattebo been running like concussions aren’t a thing. A bright spot at QB though, and he’s playing well for a rookie QB.

Kids always rebel a little bit.

Are they that cheap?

Ah. Thanks for clarifying.

Yep. It’s how they can claim they were the reasonable ones. So they don’t have to move to Argentina if they’re on the losing side in the future.

Translation: she believes she wouldn’t win in a newly drawn district.

Looking just at location… Apple is actually better at location tracking precision than Google, and you can’t turn it off (even powering off your phone doesn’t shut it off). Disabling location services doesn’t prevent the data collection by Apple, it only blocks apps from using it.

Apple is probably better at not sharing your data with others than Goolge, but that’s a position of faith, not fact. If you trust Apple and are diligent about blocking location access to 3rd party apps, it’s better. But you should expect that if you’re giving location access to a free app (like Google maps, a weather app, a ride share app, a streaming app, etc.), you can bet they are selling your location data.

Is Google Play Services sampling your location so that it can send it in to Google HQ as part of a secret location tracking operation that runs without user consent or knowledge

Yes they track your phone’s location and movement constantly, but it’s not a secret.

For an example of the evidence you seek… Google SensorVault location data was how they identified and convicted the January 6 terrorists. You might argue that complying with warrants isn’t misuse of the data, but I’d argue that both the data itself, and the level of precision and detail, shouldn’t be captured and logged in the first place. And I’m fairly sure that most google customers have no idea how pervasive and extensive the tracking is.

Grifter on grifter hate. lol

They’ll only ever do that if the political climate shifts in a way that makes being MAGA toxic. If he dies before that, they’ll gather in stadiums to celebrate his passing as a hero, like they did for Charlie Kirk.

You can’t get a decent non-smart TV, but you can just not connect a Smart TV to the internet.

Any TV you buy will have a range of “picture quality enhancement” settings. These all introduce some rendering latency. Game modes on TVs (for the most part) bypass the PQE functions. Rtings.com is a quality source for this kind of info. They do good work and publish their testing methodologies.

Source… worked a shitload of years in TV electronics, and was part of the industry from Smart TVs being godawful to just a few years ago.

Because they have held a very high standard for a very long time. It is one of the few “brands” of reviews that has remained trustworthy over the years. They only award a star to excellence; nothing in the guide is bad. Indeed there is lots of good food that’s never mentioned in the guide.