I know what people use them, for convenience. I also know why the business use them, is probably cheaper for them to advertise on this companies instead of trying to lump the users to your own app or worse, to call you business.

I know why they do it, that doesn't mean I like how the world works.

So... they’re still selling the old ones, and the same CPU/RAM/SSD combo is $500 more expensive in the touch version than in the old one?

I didn’t upgrade before the price hike, and I probably won’t any time soon. Tech prices have gone up across the board, and the worst part is that the same money now buys you a noticeably worse product than it did a couple of years ago, instead of following the old rule that you’d get more for the same price each generation.

they could, 3 minutes is a hard limit between reestarts to leet everything stabilize, the same way they say you shouldn't plug in a refrigerator after moving before letting it 4-6 hours still. you should be able to play with the hysteresis or with using another thermostat if you don't want it to cycle so fast.

I cant comprehend how they were able to put something like "4" as the private key. someone said that they could have used a rand generator from 0 - 255 instead of 256 bytes one. but anyway, I don't remember putting a private key value manually and always generated it with something like keygen.

how the hell are they able to resell the keys and be able to take profit from that is beyond my imagination. Is not money what they are stoling and they are still able to take advantage of it.

With cloud credentials I understand that they are able to create machines, but with api keys... what they are able to do to take profit from?

Depends on the API? Considering how much Chinese actors rumored to be spending on straw owners buying for them to then distill information out of OAI/Anthrophic, I'm sure any OAI/Antrophic keys in the wild gets bought up quickly.

today i read that for new game studios, the possibility of going stream only (like amazon luna) instead of downloadable is a probable future if they want to prevent piracy.

isn't this what google stadia was supposed to do and failed?

one thing i noticed, there are a lot of new things, but the software has not changed at all, we are building the same things again and again, but no new things.

bufff.... the music from second reality still gives me goosebumps.

very inspiring. it's nice to see how an idea evolves from a though to a product / installation.

I don't know if lobbied is the correct word, or they are directly bought.

Well some are, some are not. Some are simply invited to a nice dinner and given the hint that this might be a contact that gives them access to affluent circles. I have heard it all.