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You just believe the haters because you have confirmation bias.

Well if by that you mean I’ve used it and it’s crap, then yeah, I’ve confirmed it.

I’m sure that’s the vision but I’m not entirely sure that Elon Musk is the man to bring it about.

He’s only got security clearance because he’s a Nazi. A normal person would have been denied it.

Just don’t have interest but who exactly is the optimist robot marketed at? Like we all know that it doesn’t work without remote control so who’s gonna buy it.

The thing is Google was already pretty good at that before things like chat GPT came out.

I remember many years ago I searched for “that movie where they steal a painting by changing the temperature” and Google got it on the first hit. That was way before AI.

Case in point for me. AI cannot write documentation for new technical procedures because by definition they are new procedures. The information is not in its knowledge base, because I haven’t written it yet.

helping with some code related knowledge, Linux issues

I’m sorry but why the absolute flaming fuck does everyone assume that programming is the only job in the universe?

There are entire industries that don’t revolve around Linux. It’s amazing but not everyone in the world has to care about programming. Everyone needs to stop telling me that AI is good at programming. Firstly because it isn’t, it’s good damn awful. Secondly because I’m not a programmer, so I don’t care.

I would have no problem with AI if it could be useful.

The problem is no matter how many times I’m promised otherwise it cannot automate my job and talk to the idiots for me. It just hallucinates a random gibberish which is obviously unhealthful.

I don’t buy a new phone more often than probably one every five or six, so I don’t really mind buying an expensive flagship.

The problem tends to be though that people buy an expensive phone and then later have financial difficulties. And people criticise them for having an expensive phone as if they could have known that that would be an issue a year or so down the line.

We’ll have to wait and see what they’re availability is like and if they offer bulk ordering but I’d be very interested to use these as our work phones. Currently we use iPhones and I’ve never been happy with that decision.

Probably a purist complaining it’s not the fabled mythical Linux phone.

It literally has every feature of a modern smartphone. And it’s not even that expensive.

If I had a need for a new phone right now I’d be buying this.

What are you using right now because every Linux phone I’ve ever seen has been an unfinished working program that isn’t commercially ready.

It has a headphone jack? They must lack courage.

Have you tried being rich? I highly recommend it.

It took about a century to get decent electric cars so I stand by my statement. It may no longer be true in the 22nd century, but there are fundamental issues with this technology that have not been addressed. I can’t imagine where likely to see solutions anytime soon, mostly because I don’t think there are solutions, I just don’t think the technology works.

Pressure change refrigeration is just so much more efficient. The light on your refrigerator consumes more energy than the refrigeration process, so it’s not like there’s even a massive impetus to make the system even more efficient because it barely uses energy as it is.

Where this technology might come in handy is where size is a severely limiting factor. Such as on satellites or small drones.

No one’s saying the technology isn’t interesting just at the article is rubbish.

Who wrote that headline anyway, the headline should have been scientists have created sub-zero solid state cooling, but the writer somewhat arbitrarily decided that this was about environmentalism which this has got nothing to do with.

The scientists are not even making the claim that this is a necessarily viable technology, it’s just a thing that they’ve managed to achieve.

I’m surprised the article writer didn’t do the usual thing that science “journalists” tend to do, which is claim that it kills cancer. So we should be thankful for small mercies.

What through a wormhole?

There’s a lot of air between the refrigerator and space I think it might get in the way

I’m asking what saurce you have that says that they are more efficient than refrigeration systems because everything I find says the opposite.

Refrigeration already is cheap. The problem a lot of places have is not an inability to afford a refrigerator it’s no energy to power the refrigerator. This technology does not into address that problem. In fact it probably worsens it because this technology is less efficient in terms of power consumption.

Also I would love to live in the world where you live because over here food costs money. It isn’t free.