Back then, we had data repositories, databases, Jupyter Notebooks, Slurm batches, open computing platforms, and so on. It could do similar things ---- just by hand.

While adding an LLM agent can indeed drastically improve usability, it must be a massive headache for system administrators. It honestly sounds like introducing a huge, uncontrollable wildcard into the system.

I don't think any of this is caused by add-ons, though.

But it's getting better, and most of those problems are just gone;

Still, I keep Chrome around just in case.

but too often I have to use Chrome, as so many sites only work properly on it; Firefox is really buggy or laggy on those websites;

For a time, all those AI chat web pages were just very slow on Firefox even with very little context, whereas Chrome only gets laggy when there is a lot of context.

Why even bother with 'forced IP transfer' when you can just take it?

The “whole thing” is never cheap. Running something like a university — providing the environment, infrastructure, administration, facilities, compliance systems, equipment, libraries, grants offices, laboratories, and institutional platform that allow professors and graduate students to do research — is itself extremely expensive.

After all, if you look at the fiscal budgets of major economies, public spending on education and research is often much larger than military spending.

- Oh, they must have been blocked from entering the Chinese market!

But none of that is true. You could see global brands everywhere here — Tesla, Unilever, KFC, Apple, and so on.

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Or have you ever actually done cross-border trade? Or any international business collaboration? If you had, you’d definitely realize that what’s really stopping you is U.S. legislation. At least, that was the case with our former U.S. partner

Then again, military weapons are indeed insanely expensive.

All you get are these pieces of glossy junk, yet they expect you to believe it’s some form of creative work. "People with minor cases of major brain damage", indeed

All you can do it post a thread on the support forums, and nothing happen anymore;

I think for ordinary users (rather than developers or merchants), this is even worse.

Maintainability is actually not a mandatory standard, but a design trade-off; the biggest problem with the MacBook is not this, but rather that Apple does not allow other means of repairing the MacBook, such as various certification chips, etc.;

The reality is that users should take responsibility but are not allowed to, so Google takes over and makes a profit.

You don't need a CS degree to use a phone, but you can be a power user by time....but not anymore, the company needs you to stay fool and pay for "help" (not directly sometime).

This is a marketing tactic, similar to a side-load.

no all that shit just not worth that much;

The profit marginsof these industries are ridiculously high, to the point that if you’re willing, you can manufacture many useful, high‑quality products.

only when China could build them, there are real "free" market

As ordinary user, I actually don't care about any of this. However, from another perspective, I think this is a bad thing—open source projects have become product-centered, defaulting to the assumption that users are ignorant fools. This isn't how community projects should behave, but those projects is not that community-driven anyway.

After all, for a long time, so-called security has only been a misused justification—never letting users make mistakes is just a pretty excuse, meant to keep users from being able to easily access something, and eventually from ever accessing it at all.

reading the manual , there is Slash commands /plan /plan switch to Plan mode

It seems that, unlike OpenCode, Codex doesn't show a notice for mode by default.

and if it has directory permissions, sometimes it just skips the confirmation step and starts executing as soon as it thinks the plan is ready.

To be mean, I’d say no—those zero-sum games are always 'positive' for the players, because the people actually foot pay the bill aren't even at the table.

Come on, we live in a globalized reality. Those insulated by the 'Dollar Illusion' don’t even realize that the true costs are being extracted from the rest of the world. These so-called zero-sum games are nothing but a sophisticated machinery of power, meticulously designed to obfuscate the truth.

But those words are just too cynical; it doesn't really make any sense.

The real problem is that tech giants only need to claim that their use of data is appropriate, and they can then feel free to use it to provide "better" services.

After all, they should never have been allowed to do this from the very beginning. Users aren't fools—they can learn too. So what we need isn't automatic push, but easier ways to actively seek things out.