Read the Jesus parts again. Would Jesus like that?

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  • I want to push back on this part:

    Only if Microsoft acquires a major CPU chipmaker.

    In the USA, and other parts of the world, a small number of Billionaires are buying up everything. A small number of wealthy people could each own a part of the supply chain and for it on the vast majority.

    For extra enforcement, add in a legal or cultural push for reporting or shunning violators through the media companies owned by that same group.



  • The computers in the store, yes. I expect all computers in the store to be phones and the cell company will verify.

    Open Source computers will be more important. Might need to brush up on wire wrapping… (Implication being that chip supplies might become dedicated to only those manufacturers that lock the product down.)










  • Edit: My initial reply was of poor quality. I skipped half of you thoughtful comment, AND I misunderstood your meaning as well. I apologize.

    I think you are correct about your interpretation of their current policy. However, their old policy would have allowed for checking on users. The old policy is one reason my old company disallowed the usage of OpenAI, as corporate secrets could easily be gathered by OpenAI. (The paranoid among use suspected that was the reason for releasing such a buggy AI.)

    I agree. I think training a depressing detector to flag problematic conversations for human review is a good idea.




  • From “the monitor goes dark”, it would be helpful to split monitor issues from computer issues. When the computer becomes unresponsive, do any “non-monitor” functions still work? Does the DVD-drive tray eject or does audio continue to play? Any other details? Do any other lights on the computer stay on, like keyboard and mouse lights?

    If the issue is primarily the monitor, then splitting between the physical monitor and the video card would also be helpful.

    How old is the hardware?

    When you say “nothing is logged”, is the hard shutdown logged or anything after the time of the event? Or does “nothing is logged” mean the normal items are logged, but nothing of interest is logged? Some issues, especially hardware ones, stop the computer from logging.

    Story: I once had a 15+ year old computer do something similar. The screen would go dark, but the lights on the keyboard stayed on. I had to hard power the system off and sometimes on boot the monitor wouldn’t work. A monitor swap didn’t fix the issue, but a USB video card did. The video card had failed. (Looking up what I think the interconnect was, the system may be 20 years old at this point.) NOTE: The system was not functional long term with a USB video card due to how the BIOS in the system handled the two video cards.