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I bought a new laptop, a ThinkPad T16 Gen 4 AMD (that's a mouthful). Lenovo only allows you to configure it with 32 GB of RAM. The spec sheet indicates that it can accept 64 GB of RAM. It actually accepts 96 GB.
Max Headroom first aired in 1987. This shows, which took place '20 minutes into the future,' ended up being surprisingly prescient. One episode dealt with the idea of creating AI versions of dead relatives. Today we're living that episode.
Here's yet another example of how you don't own your smart devices. Echelon, a manufacturer of smart exercise equipment, has removed third-party application access via a firmware update.
Everywhere you turn companies are turning the straight forward into the convoluted by unnecessarily inserting apps in the middle. There's no reason anybody needs to pull out their smartphone to order lunch, pump gas, or check into a hotel.
AI, the marketing name used by companies to sell large language models, is a total privacy nightmare that fails to work far too often to be trustworthy. I absolutely love it.
The proliferation of smart everything is making our future stupid.