If that’s real that is both a terrible tattoo, and a terrible cover up tattoo.

The PS5s audio system is nothing special, what are you talking about? You didn’t buy into all the “tempest is their secret sauce and can be used for extra graphics work” BS did you?

Mostly 50+ years of family photos and home videos, from converted VHS tapes, to thousands of 4K60 HDR videos.

I have it all on my RAID DAS, but I also have it on no less than 3 cloud backup services. With the cost of local storage these days I trust my cloud backups a lot more than local.

Look at the consolidation of the market due to failing studios. WB aren’t selling because they’re doing well. Disney is releasing extremely expensive flop after extremely expensive flop. Yes, the entire movie industry as we know it is in a fight for survival, has been for years.

AI enables significantly quicker and cheaper iteration and experimentation. You stint have to hire a gigantic CGI studio to get cgi on screen anymore, which enables a much more streamlined movie making process. It also enables much more creativity because there is far less risk. A studio would be much more likely to sign off on a director making a short to pitch for a full movie if it only costs $2k but has cgi/locations/etc matching a $200mil blockbuster.

Still haven’t named a single manufacturer or model. Strange.

I do. It has the ability to revolutionise the dying, spiralling out of control movie industry. How? By cutting costs dramatically, and by reducing production time. What would usually take 2000 people for $200mil might now be doable with 50 people and $200k. That’s revolutionary technology.

AI is not “destroying society” 🤣

Collecting data is one thing. Wirelessly transmitting it to the manufacturer is another.

Which manufacturers have built in 3/4/5G connections for free that transmit data back to them?

This data is all kept on the vehicle unless you then use an app on your phone to send it back to them or a third party, or your car is in an accident and they get the data to investigate.

So again - which manufacturers and which models have built in wireless connections that transmit data back?

You’d want that when you have more onedrive storage filled up than you have storage space on your device. I’ve got 2TB+ in onedrive, but have multiple Windows machines where I don’t have 2TB of space to download all that, nor do I want it to be downloaded.

Nah, still shouldn’t use them for anything other than backups that you need to access frequently, and that’s only cause their speeds make that better. SSDs don’t like sitting around not being used, and can just drop dead at any time, whereas HDDs generally will show signs of failure long before they actually die.

For what exactly?

Nah we know you’re free to resist it, we’re just telling you that resistance is futile and will only lead to you being left behind.

Some people didn’t think the internet was the future. The people telling them that it was and that they should get on board weren’t mean or nasty, they were trying to help people understand.

The people who think AI is going away are the people who didn’t think the internet would be a thing now.

Horse and carriage salesmen didn’t have any good things to say about cars.

You don’t listen to people who are working in a position that’s about to be replaced by something new when they complain about said “something new”, because they’re biased against it.

At the end of the day, if the entire creative arts industries disappeared overnight, the world carries on without any real disruption. People might not like to hear it, but it’s true. The entire industry is essentially just a luxury thing.

There aren’t many industries that could be wiped out and nothing in daily life really changes, but the arts is one.

Most of the real actors are going to need to learn how to act a lot better then, because most of the biggest actors these days absolutely could be replaced with AI and get a better result. A genuinely great performance is rare.

If a new tool can streamline and improve processes, eliminating jobs along the way, then that’s just an unfortunate side effect of progress.

Not every job needs to exist forever. Should electric cars be banned to protect ICE manufacturers and mechanics? Should digital cameras be banned to protect the jobs of film makers and film developers?

No. When a profession is no longer needed it goes away. The people in that profession need to adapt and move on.

If AI can do the visual effects in an hour what would usually take a team of 20 3 months to do, those jobs are no longer necessary. Sucks for them, but you don’t ignore the AI just to let them keep their jobs to your own detriment.

If he’s embracing AI then he is once again on the forefront. AI has the ability to revolutionise the industry in a way that it needs in order to survive - greatly reduce costs and greatly reduce production times.

Movie studios are quickly moving to the same situation that video game developers are in now thanks to ballooning costs and long development times - a situation where if every single game they release isn’t an absolute smash hit selling 20 million copies at full price, they’re going to go under.

The movie industry is in free fall. AI adoption is one of the only realistic paths forward.

Speaking of films, what most anti-AI people can’t see is how AI can lead to a new golden age of film/tv. It can allow people to cheaply and quickly create teasers/trailers/shorts/even full episodes and movies for cents on the dollar compared to before. The barrier of entry was incredibly high, but thanks to AI that is now a possibility for any anyone.

When you look at the utter crap that Hollywood is spewing out these days like Moana “live action” and Supergirl, it’s hard to say that AI couldn’t be used to make better content.

Edge is just a better, way more feature rich but still leaner, more W3C compliant version of chrome though.

You shouldn’t be using SSDs as backups.

Having cloud as your only backup is generally fine as long as you have it backed up to multiple cloud services. The chances of them all failing or being locked out of all of them at the same time are miniscule.