Will it be smart if you don’t connect it to the internet? Am I missing something?

Based on what I’ve seen on Sora, it’s likely possible but only for a day or a few hours. They’ve been getting better and faster at censoring.

I agree. Those characters are likely safe on Sora

That's still whack-a-mole though, just because they're rolling out new virus definitions quicker doesn't do anything to prevent zero day exploits

It’s called thinly veiled protectionism just like the GDPR

GDPR is an excellent idea if it was actually enforced, which it wasn't. To their credit, the non-enforcement was consistent regardless of whether the offender was EU-based or not.

How did Google give up?

Google Workspace is extremely popular with new features coming out constantly, used by tons of corporations.

Is it just not on your radar or something?

They don’t have customer support. Otherwise, they would make much larger inroads. Most businesses don’t want to take the risk migrating to paid Google services for that reason.

That's wrong, I don't know where you're getting your information. Enterprise plans absolutely provide support, and I've never heard of that being a sticking point in migration to Google. Are you confusing it with the free consumer versions?

AWS is good but Amazon has had a fuck off page while Bezos was still there. It was one of the many tell tale signs that Amazon hit Day Two years ago.

I strongly feel it’s because Valve is not a publicly traded company where they’ll eventually give up their values to meet Wall Street analyst quarterly targets.

Rapid change and new things are an integral part of tech especially laptops. This is a strange complaint

Rapid change and new things are an integral part of planned obsolescence and needing to justify your job to upper management. A sufficiently-repairable laptop with 16 gigs of RAM has absolutely no reason not to work for at least a decade, ideally longer.

This points to OpenAI’s issues with lack of revenue. This also signals an eventual attack on privacy. I’m not sure paying subscribers will be immune either.

Sounds like someone at Google wants a promotion…

Tbf cost has gone down dramatically for more functionality and features

Yeah, but with modern equipment you can use it only strictly for what it is intended, and frequently not even for that, due to various bugs.

With ancient equipment, like the measurement instruments from Tektronix and Hewlett-Packard, due to having excellent maintenance manuals that allowed a perfect understanding of their internals, it was often possible to find ways to use them for things that had never been foreseen by their designers.

I prefer that very much to the modern instruments that may have a lot of additional features that I do not need, while the features that I do need may have annoying limitations that cannot be surpassed.

Yes, but on top of lacking features, normal people couldn’t afford gadgets from the 1900s. They were only affordable past their prime which is why I don’t understand the nostalgia. They’re only good as museum pieces

Also modern equipment is not strictly only for their original purpose. A lot of modern equipment is hackable now.