Yeah 100%

Like they want nothing to do with you. You’d think the CEO would not want such a terrible user experience as seen in that article, but…

…something, something, enshittification.

Yeah, I read the article. I get that it’s legit, but at that point the process is so defunct, I wouldn’t even work with a text at all. Just call FedEx directly with your tracking.

Shame on FedEx though. Obviously an atypical case, with an out-of-country delivery, etc. I try to avoid that as much as possible; it’s always a problem in my experience.

You keep getting phished by links with bpoint.com.au as the domain claiming to be FedEx?

That’s just half and half with extra steps

What if we just say I always forget the code and use the built-in too many tries wipes the data setting?

If you forgot the code can you offer to let them have it? Then you could wipe it remotely?

Trying to understand what would happen if you really forgot the passcode.

Yeah I do, that’s what I’m saying

Yeah, but are the artists getting paid?

As long as they keep us breaded

This is expected for a stock like this. What we’ll now be able to see in the next few months is where the real valuation stands.

Oh man, Tiger Express. That was my goto…

No, it’s actually not because of the AI demand. AI is a demand metric but not enough to cause the hikes we’re seeing and (as the manufacturers want us to) even preparing for.

You may hate AI, but it’s not the reason we are seeing RAM costs skyrocket.

Looking at the manufacturing data and the historical strong-arm tactics used by Samsung, Micron, and SK hynix, who collectively control about 96% of the global DRAM market, AI just gives manufacturers the perfect public justification to stop chasing cheap bit growth, starve low-margin consumer channels (our RAM products), reprioritize wafers toward premium products (data center RAM), and force customers into multi-year contracts at shortage-era prices.

Sure it lets them make more money off us, but they really love locking in these rates with their data center-based customers.

Okay I think I fixed it

Apparently, yes

Subsidies have always been about fostering new technologies and innovation.

1. Electricity in rural homes: In the 1930s, private utilities often would not run power lines to rural areas because it was not profitable enough. The Rural Electrification Administration used federal loans to help local electric co-ops build out rural power infrastructure. Before that, only about 1 in 10 farms had electricity, while most urban homes already did. Today, obviously, electric service is a basic expectation almost everywhere.
2. The internet: The internet’s roots trace back to ARPANET, a Defense Department/DARPA-funded research network created to connect computers and share digital resources. That publicly funded networking research laid the groundwork for the modern internet: email, web browsing, cloud apps, phones, business systems, and everything else that now runs daily life.
3. GPS navigation: GPS was developed by the U.S. Department of Defense and remains a government-owned system. It was later opened for civilian use, which is why we now casually use it for maps, delivery routing, fleet tracking, aviation, farming, construction layout, timestamping financial systems, and finding the nearest pizza place.
4. The Interstate Highway System: The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 created the Interstate Highway System as a massive federally backed infrastructure project. That public investment helped shape modern commuting, trucking, suburbia, logistics, road trips, distribution centers, and the way stores stock everyday goods.
5. Microchips and semiconductors: Early integrated circuits were privately invented, but government demand from defense and space programs helped create the first major market. The U.S. military and NASA were early buyers of integrated circuits for missiles and space guidance systems, helping push the technology forward before it became cheap enough for consumer electronics. That helped lead to the chips in phones, cars, thermostats, routers, controllers, appliances, and BAS equipment.
6. Phone cameras and digital imaging: Modern phone cameras owe a lot to NASA/JPL work on CMOS image sensors. NASA describes the CMOS image sensor as one of its most widespread spinoff technologies, enabling cell phone cameras, HD video, and modern digital imaging.
7. Medical research and everyday medicine: A lot of drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, and medical knowledge start with publicly funded basic research before private companies commercialize the final products. NIH describes itself as the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research and says decades of NIH-funded work have driven advances in health and science.

The government absorbs early risk, funds infrastructure or basic research, creates a first market, and then private industry scales it into something ordinary people use every day.

I’m thinking this is really because you don’t like your job.

Damn shame

Why would anyone use WhatsApp when there’s Signal?

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That’s a lot of instruction sets, it can run all apps!