If you can afford Lambo you can come to place like Dubai and pay for it in AnyUSDcoin, gold nuggets or anime profile picture NFTs. Barrier for using crypto of any kind does not exist in countries without paranoid AML / KYC regulations.
Or tbh you can just buy it with crypto card issued in Hong Kong / Singapore even if you buying it in the US.
I trust Google ad monopoly to keep my data actually secure. They have a great track record of not sharing their datasets with anyone because this gives them an edge pushing ads down people throats. Google is honest about what they doing. Google also not going away anytime soon so they also not going to sell off their datasets to highest bidder.
And I don't trust Sam Altman and AI.com at all since their whole thing was built on lies. They could start regaining the trust by changing their company name.
It's not just about protecting data in the old sense - typically from other corporate entities. It would suck if your information somehow made it into a generally available model that then leaked some of that anyone asking a question
Its been a while so i had trouble finding it (but Grok obliged)
Moreover its always the edge cases that people are 'OK' with, but again if they can do it (setup the infrastructure) for one thing they can do it for anything, and it makes 'trusting' them seem naive. Since trusting was the original statement.
While "native" is always questionable it was possible long ago without actually ever having source code. E.g back in 2024 there was ARM port of StarCraft 1 for OpenPandora. Just "dumb" x86 decompilation and then building against Wine for ARM.
For once iCloud have a terrible sync speed. Even 500GB of photos / videos take forever to sync like a week and I can't imagine what it will take for someone with multi-TB archives.
I'd imagine if you're person who make a lot of photos / videos slow sync can be pretty annoying. Unfortunately I'm not one of them to tell, but just had to wait like a week for the first sync of my wife's iPhone to finish.
I really like moderation on HN in general, but honestly this inconsistent policy of editorializing titles is bad. There were plenty of times where submitter editorialized titles (e.g GitHub code dumps of some project) were changed back to useless and vague (without context) original titles.
And now HN administration tend to editorialize in their own way.
Also appeal to investors. Nobody would give tons of money to upstart which goal is to generate text porn, generated TikTok slop and make some needy teens suicide just to compete with Google Ads.
Selling big AGI dream that will literally make winner take it all is much more desirable.
> I live in a cave and am not a system programmer -- what's so wrong with X11 so people need to replace it with something else instead of improving it?
This 12 years old video explains it better than anything I ever seen:
Funny enough I just managed to find this exact post and comment on google 5 minutes ago when I started wondering whatever it's actually possible to use 1/4 of capacity in SLC mode.
Though what make me wonder is that some reviews of modern SSDs certainly mention that that pSCL is somewhat less than 25% of capacity, like 400GB pSLC cache for 2TB SSD:
Or tbh you can just buy it with crypto card issued in Hong Kong / Singapore even if you buying it in the US.
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