This sounds exactly like Amazon’s “Just walk out” grocery store concept that actually required remote supervising by workers in India.

With how trigger happy police are, the false positives would lead to more deaths than they prevent. And police would claim it’s justified because the machine told them so.

Helldivers 2 works on Linux by the way. It was the first game I installed on Linux and I have almost 100 hrs on it. I haven’t tried the others you mentioned though.

I switched to Linux Mint a couple months ago and use Steam a lot. I’ve tried at least 10 games and all worked perfectly.

But I don’t do competitive multiplayer. Those are more likely to have issues with anti-cheats. Although I did try Hell Let Loose and Helldivers very successfully and those are both major online titles.

Check https://protondb.com if you’re worried about a specific game’s compatibility. I’ve had silver rated games work perfectly though.

Edit: Apps - Photo editing and 3D CAD are the main areas I’ve struggled with on Linux. There’s no good Adobe equivalent, and no good Fusion 360 equivalent. Free CAD exists, but that can gently fuck off.

But what if they’re riding a horse and the horse does something silly? What then?

I just dual booted Linux Mint yesterday when I was reminded of the Win 10 end of service date, and hope to keep with it as my main system.

Linux has come a long way with compatibility since I last tried it ~10 years ago. The fact that Steam games ran perfectly without an evening of configuring settings blew my mind.

They don’t like immigrants and US citizens are starting to demand higher wages.

Gotta find new workers to exploit to keep wages low.

Not to brag, but my mom let me have her old palm pilot from work.

Guess I was pretty cool when I peaked 20 years ago.

He’d have to work 3.7 million years of 40 hour work weeks at US minimum wage, $7.25.

Pretty well highlights the insanity of $56 billion.

With the joy of high deductible health plans you can pay thousands of dollars in network, because they can get away with it.

What do you use for tiling? I’ve been curious about this setup, but the software setup sounds like a pain compared to 2 monitors.

I want to live on a planet where people don’t associate Elon Musk with technology in any way.

Yeah that’s fair.

Merchandising is the only palatable idea I can think of.

More likely to happen:

• Twitter’s verified user subscription strategy

• More ad posts with paid-priority (priority hidden from users)

• Layoffs with AI as miracle cure

• Selling user data for AI training (check)

• Paid API access (check)

But it’s really hard to ignore that its function isn’t really designed for profit and it’s wacky that we have to humor the idea.

The premise of the question is flawed in my opinion. It only needs to be profitable because they put themselves in that situation by going public.

A social platform run by users should only need to break even. I have no idea why a web forum needs to be on the stock market.

Now it’s another example of Enshittification of the internet.

I smell a new “AI insurance” industry! Get a nice new middle man in there to insure your company if your AI makes a mistake.

Exactly, that’s what I did. Removed it from my cart and waited an hour and suddenly it was a little cheaper.

I have no doubt there are bots monitoring to get every cent out of each transaction, knowing that people probably won’t care about small changes.

Unrelated to this claim, but I’ve also noticed really rapid price adjustments of a few cents on products.

It seems like Amazon raises prices frequently based on what’s in carts and how many page clicks it gets.

A $6 item changed from $5.95 to $6.05 to $5.98 in a span of an hour.

Sure you can alter circumstances to an extent and that’s probably the best way to live life. But all the good in the world doesn’t stop a freak car crash killing you or being struck by lightning. And while being struck by lightning is used synonymously with an act of god, I don’t think it actually means you deserved it. That’s the issue with the just-cause fallacy. It takes a huge spoonful of selection bias to only notice the people who did deserve it.

In my opinion the idea of karma is a convenient crowd control mechanism to prevent people from taking action to fix their situation when they have faith that the universe will magically balance itself out.

I don’t think some millionaire earned a 2x chance to kill a pedestrian by being able to pay. I’m not a fan of fees that only apply rules to poor people.

But outright bans are harder to get passed, so fees are better than nothing.

That article’s from 2012, before Elon Musk popularity took off, and yet you can already get a foreshadowing sense of Musk off the article:

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk called Top Gear “completely phony” and his company sued for libel and malicious falsehoods.