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He was also the financial advisor of sorts at Valve, the company that takes a 30% of all their pc game sales.

I googled "how much does a Greek island home cost?" instead, it told me they are as cheap as 3 million euros, and I don't think that includes the house or other facilities.

I'm not sure I get your point.

Well, he is an author. I can heartily recommend his books "Little Brother" and "Homeland".

Yup. He's the guy who told the rest of Europe that Greece shouldn't have to pay back their bailout loans. You know, the ones other countries have paid with their own taxes. That's a great way to get very popular in your own country, and being hated by the rest of the continent.

The island home might be a result of his time at Valve (the company that has the biggest share of pc game distribution, Steam - which takes a 30% cut on all sales). I don't think it was funded by people's tax money.

TIL. Thanks! Weird that the app is still called "Phillips Hue" though. Probably a matter of time.

I think it mostly a matter of "most of the copyrighted material belongs to companies, fuck companies", as well as a little bit of "I have nothing to hide steal". And of course a fair dose of "magic box makes pretty pictures, don't take it away". But maybe I'm just cynical.

Use your real name and photo online, they said. What could go wrong, they said.

Isn't that just a Philips subsidiary?

My favourite VR app is Bigscreen - your own private big-ass cinema. Ever though the resolution isn't as high as a 4k TV, it really is so much more immersive.

However my most used apps are workout games. It's much more fun than going to the gym. The pricetag is pretty steep though.

The app rating in Google is currently 4.5 stars. I did my part in leaving a review, and got a nice "As our features grow..." pasta reply.

Edit: I've also downgraded the app to version 4.38 and disabled auto updates (both for the app and the firmware), and asked my housemate to do the same. That should keep things working for now.

Ha, tell me about out it. I'm pro-AI, but I'm also pro-artist. So I'm fine with people building all kinds of things using these tools, but I'm not fine with companies plundering every piece of content they can get their hands on, without permission of the creators. That is not really a popular opinion to have on here. Lucky for me though, I'm on a Lemmy instance that doesn't allow downvotes. That does wonders for your state of mind :)

Spotify is moving slowly and carefully_ for now_,

Is that so? As far as I know, the last few years they've been turning formerly open podcasts (you know, using the official podcast standard, xml feeds and all) into Spotify exclusives. So that you can only access them with an account (profiling), and have to listen to ads or pay for premium.

You're giving them too much credit / good faith, imho.

Short term: giving people with certain disabilities control over their bodies. Things like allowing paralysed people the ability to move, or giving sight to the blind, etc. Long term: changing the way we communicate with computers and each other.

You're a poet.

I stop reading after that since those are made up words.

How did you manage to read any words before those?

If you think that's the primary purpose of neuralink, then there's no point discussing this with you.

Probably. Human beings also died when we were figuring out organ transplants, and still do, sometimes.

Yups, fully agreed.

When it all comes down to I'd much rather have the mass pileup you describe once every few years (which can then be analysed and remedied due to the telemetry involved), than the over 3000 traffic deaths a day we have now.

I agree. That will need to be proven. But when they are better than, say 90% of all drivers, it would make sense to switch. Waiting until they're "perfect" (which is the requirement I object to), is just wasting needless lives.