Who pays for email?

That you don’t pay for gmail doesn’t mean it isn’t monetized. Google makes $220 Billion a year from ads.

Who pays subscriptions for file backup?

Google drive, Onedrive, and iCloud are forced down all users throats. Millions pay. A quick google says Apple makes $96 Billion a year from iCloud alone.

the problem is that as soon as they try to put the squeeze on their customers they will just go somewhere else that offers the same thing

If it were that easy Google wouldn’t make $350B a year. Google is just a search index and not very good.

Look at what happened with Deepseek; OpenAI can’t maintain dominance.

Yes, and Google displaced Yahoo. That doesn’t mean search stopped being monetized.

Nvidia is artificially limiting vram but that’s not going to remain the limitation for long.

It’s not VRAM, it’s ram in general. Deepseek needs ~700GB. Ram prices have been dropping about 30% every 5 years (and that’s ideal numbers. Moore’s law is dead. Current improvements are smaller than looking back 5 years). It’s about $6k to build your own Epyc for 6 tokens/sec. No average person is going to spend $6k when a service does it for $10 a month and is 10x faster. Do the math for how long it will be until $6k of ram costs $600.

But the real killer that will keep AI out of consumer hands for forever is that it is reliant on new models to include updated information that was scraped from the Internet. If you ask Deep Seek about anything that’s happened in the past year, it can’t give any answers because the model was built with older data. So Google, Apple, Microsoft and anyone capable of indexing the entire web will always have an AI model that is updated with the latest information. Home users will be lucky to get models with information that is several years out of date. Building models requires 100x the resources as running the trained model and you need the data to train it.

Most miniPC vendors have already announced AI Max products:

https://www.gmktec.com/blog/gmktec-a-global-leader-in-ai-mini-pcs-unveils-the-amd-ryzen-ai-max-395

A PC lets you replace the CPU, ram and plug in multiple pcie cards.

This is less upgradable than the average laptop.

This is a standard a370 mini PC at a high price.

There’s Beelink, Minisforum, Aoostar and many others.

People can easily self host email, file backup, etc but pay for service anyway. AI will be prohibitively expensive to self host for a very very long time.

Organizing what? She did as much as humanly possible in the last election but the country voted for Trump.

Extremely few people hold Bitcoin or will ever want to. Every office worker will use AI. It’s like googling on steroids.

Democrats only have the power that you give them. When Trump lost an election, his followers ransacked the Capital. When Pelosi opposed Republicans, her husband got his face smashed in.

What exactly do you expect AOC to do?

Reorganizing. That’ll stop Trump!

Oh yeah, as others said many startups will fail. But you wrote as if AI does nothing like blockchain.

There isn’t enough information to know yet. There’s some science and a lot of self promoting hype in the press release.

My wife uses AI to write complex Excel spreadsheet formulas saving hours. She still has to double check them but it saves enormous time. My friend uses it to write proposals. Again it needs to be checked and again it saves hours of time.

AI doesn’t replace people. It provides a productivity boost and it has been doing it for 2 years now.

Asking what AI is going to do for the average person in 1-3 years is like asking what is the PC going to do for the average person in 1980. There’s nothing that AI can do that can’t be done by a person. But like using a PC instead of a pocket calculator, it makes you more productive.

If it was simple mob extortion it would be reasonable. Zelensky originally agreed when he thought the deal would be to pay for American protection.

But Trump wants the money AND wants Ukraine to surrender. Trump is a stupid mob boss who doesn’t understand why “Pay me and I’ll let the rival gang burn your business.” isn’t going to be accepted.

I have a lifetime Plex pass but am still annoyed at having to deal with “recommended” every time a device is setup or reset.

The recommended view is useless and there is no way to make library the default view. You have to reset every source. It makes it incredibly annoying helping my family remotely to get to family videos.

It would be a great troll for Trudeau to require Google and Apple to name America ‘South Canada’ on their maps.

China had a long history of fraudulent science that they need to dig out of to gain a good reputation.

Plastic Straws. Plastic cups. Wrapping indvidual food items in plastic and then putting them in a larger plastic bag which you carry home in an even larger plastic bag.

moldova? Did you mean belarus?

No I meant Moldova. Moldova has Russian backed separatists just like Ukraine. They’re already primed for Ukraine to fall so they can make their move.

How can Trump surrender

The US supported Ukraine. Trump surrendered by stopping aid to its ally.

Trump has surrendered. If Ukraine falls, next up is Moldova with their Russian separatists.

And when did you guys sent your troops in?

Trump doesn’t care if you become Russian territory. He’ll blame you for defending yourself.