Well I remember seeing a study that ads actually have a pretty bad return on money on average, so the problem is that selling ads is quite profitable. Platforms drown us in ads because it makes them money, and it doesn't matter if the ads themselves are effective or not.
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The US isn't the only country, and I bet people using the fediverse skew heavily toward android in the US anyway.
5x4 rectangle, subdivided
To me, even numbers are bouba, and odd numbers, especially primes, are kiki.
I'd say 7 is pointy, but not really jagged. 2 is rounded and pebble like, but I'm not sure if I'd call it a circle, more pill shaped.
Laws vary around the world, but I think at a minimum, you'd need a court ruling that aliens / AIs are people.
The flip style ones are pretty useless other than getting a preview on the main cameras.
The fold style, especially a trifold, seems pretty useful, and lets you basically carry around a decent size tablet in your pocket.
I definitely wouldn't call it a gimmick, although the price and durability tradeoffs are nowhere near worth it for 99% of people.
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So GrapheneOS on a pixel really isn't safe?
For me it's a strong sickly sweet with an unpleasant aftertaste. Even a little bit makes some primal part of my brain think I'm eating something poisonous. I also taste cilantro as being soapy, so I think only certain people taste it that way and others don't.
And it's artificial as in "not sugar". It's artificially stimulating taste receptors that are meant to detect sugars. It's plant based, but I don't think that's enough of a reason to categorize it separately from other sweeteners.
Stevia tastes like poison to me, I don't know how people can stand it. But it seems like a decent option if you can tolerate it.
Although I'd still consider it an artificial sweetener, and it still has some health risks, albeit fewer and less severe than other sweeteners like aspartame.
Depends on what we mean by "AI".
Machine learning? It's already had a huge effect, drug discovery alone is transformative.
LLMs and the like? Yeah I'm not sure how positive these are. I don't think they've actually been all that impactful so far.
Once we have true machine intelligence, then we have the potential for great improvements in daily life and society, but that entirely depends on how it will be used.
It could be a bridge to post-scarcity, but under capitalism it's much more likely it will erode the working class further and exacerbate inequality.