I have a small Peugeot e-208. You don’t need some massive SUV to go electric. Renault 5 is another small example. There are electric sedans available too.

Cooking plates come with (janky) touch panels instead of physical buttons, my laundry machine too.

Also actual feel of good buttons on for example amplifiers etc actually is a nice feel. Also buttons are replaceable if broken.

Generally if no screen is needed (fridge) it can just go.

Also a screen should be if it’s there dumb. Eg a TV should not come with an OS that will serve me shitty apps and advertisements.

Is that relevant? Mathematicians will use tools and computers that calculate for them too. Are we saying they should all do it in their heads?

My current phone is an iPhone 12 mini. Am happy multiple companies, commodore, clicks etc are working on more limited phones. It all takes too much out of a day.

Also, I want my electronics to have buttons. Not screens.

Anthropic sonnet 3.5 is an old mid tier model. GPT 4o is also multiple generations ago.

Newer models handle this much better. Not claiming sentience or anything.

Not really. Like with music, some labels are broader than others. “Oh you like rock? Rock & Roll, Glam Rock, Hard Rock, Metal?” “Oh what kind of Metal, Trash, Death, Symphonic.”

The broader terms existing does not negate the more precise terms and visa versa.

Yeah, trusting that anything Internet connected keeps working is a pipedream these days unfortunately.

Hardware and software.

Many of those people don’t start out as drug user or being mentally unwell, that’s what you get in a system where you are not safe in shelters, building for homeless people means adding spikes to benches and now you will be driven from the location that is now closest to “home” like some lepers being run out of town.

Housing and the cost of it is definitely a big part of the problem.

It may be more extreme, but fairly often with conversations with my wife, after a while we’re like: “How did we end up at this topic” and then we can backtrack it a number of steps to see how we got at a completely different topic.

It’s kind of like clicking through Wikipedia, you open a page and a few subpages, some of those have different interesting subjects and somehow you went from pollination to ancient Mesopotamian mythology.

I think we’re both fairly “NT” but just curious.

It’s near unusable if you don’t start with an initial prompt toning down all the “pick me” attitude at this point. Asking it a simple question, it overly explains, and if you follow up it’s like: “That is very insightful!”.

Ah, yes, childhood 😄