As for having the browsers run in "offline mode" (proxy equal 127.0.0 1?)...neat but I would vote against it. My fridge just needs to keep stuff cold, my toaster should serve bread, my Internet browser should not be an app.

But something changed somewhere. I now see my parents in a whole new light.

There is a book "Factfulness", in which the author lists a matrix for four income levels. My parents started at level 2. I still remember their parents houses: the makeshift kitchen with dim lighting, the four walls and the hole they named a bathroom, the leaky faucets at the ends of pipes ran across the house and exterior to the uneven, unpainted walls.

The sacrifices they must have took to change their socioeconomic standing and subsequently my own can never be requited. I now fit somewhere along the fourth level. I can't help but feel immense gratitude when I see them now. I now try to give them all that I can so they enjoy the time they have left. And I wish I had the foresight in my earlier years to tell them how I appreciate their efforts but then again, those stubborn bastards loved to argue then.

I don't know what I wanted to communicate saying all this so excuse me while I text my mother.

I don't know, I'm a bit tipsy. But this could be fun.

On another note: the Humane AI is released. Maybe the scam is that it's damn slow?

I like having a smartphone. And as I have no kids, I only go home a few hours before I am to sleep. I can't have my workstation in my car, but the phone suffices most days.

But your opinion got me thinking: what gadget would I replace my phone with? Maybe a flip phone, a kindle, and one of those AI rabbit gadgets.