Salvo

As evil as Graham Lineham is, I do need to post the parody of these forwarders that was in The IT Crowd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg

It depends on what the roads were built for.

If they are built to handle 1500kg passenger cars, 3500kg behemoth SUVs and Pickups can really do some damage, especially at speed.

Passenger cars are getting heavier Light trucks (SUVs) are now being driven in lieu of compact station-wagons.

Vehicle classes are also getting larger and heavier. Subcompacts that used to weigh less than 1000kg are now about 1500kg and EV variants are over 2000kg!

So is over-inflation. Always inflate to the correct pressure as per the placard. If you are driving in unusual conditions,

My little Jimny weighs bugger-all but needs Light Truck tyres. On-road pressure is a very light 26 PSI. If I am driving through Sand, Mud or Snow I will deflate to an appropriate pressure and drive slowly. If I am driving over rocky terrain, I will also deflate to an appropriate pressure for better adhesion.

As soon as I hit the Tarmac again, I will reinflate back to 26. If I am carrying more weight or towing, I will inflate the rear tyres to 29.

The three biggest things that kill a tyre are;

• shitty roads
• aggressive driving
• heavy vehicles (like EVs and oversized SUVs)

That said, cheaper tyres are typically made of cheaper compounds that age poorly.

Anyone who uses gMail knows (or should know) that their data is being used for commercial purposes. Any business that uses Google.Business or MS Office should also be aware that they are giving away all their corporate secrets, regardless of any “Opt-In”/“Opt-Out” broken promises.

If they get Apple Intelligence into a functional form, (and not an embarrassing hilarious punchline in an anecdote), the will be profiting of my data.

They can claim that it is Opt-In only (until a bug the next software update ‘accidentally’ changes my Opt-out status) and they can Anonymize my data, but that still doesn’t change the fact that they inferred that hey wouldn’t use my data.

At least their user abuse is still less than Mozilla and Google threw out the “Don’t be Evil” motto decades ago…

Is this the same “Opt-In” as keeping Apple Intelligence disabled between software updates?

Apple are haemorrhaging a lot of hard earned goodwill every time they try to move forward with their own AI.

That still doesn’t give them the right to mine the data that their users entrusted to them though a paid service.

It doesn’t matter how anonymised their harvesting is, they had an agreement with their subscribers not to invade their privacy like this.

We are better off with a LLM that doesn’t work than abusing the data entrusted to them by their users.

It won’t be long until the LLM bubble bursts and we all laugh about how stupid we were to think they had any use whatsoever.

I don’t want to seam Nihilist but this is probably a good thing. The film of the last Thylacine is a historical artefact and we can only wish for more records.

I will quite happily pay a reasonable price for the privilege of avoiding ads.

I understand why people block ads, even though they are a a free tier, even if I don’t agree with it.

The fact that the cost of YouTube Premium almost doubled overnight is making me rethink my ethics, when my current subscription is up for renewal, I will be reassessing whether to cease watching YouTube, watch YouTube with ads or determine another way of supporting content creators.