Oh yeah! But not so many people can handle that option.

Absolutely … smart thinking! Each brand is likely to have different ways to lobotomize it, might take a while to decide which is easiest/best return, then start stocking up.

I heard a talk a few days ago, and the fella said that if you want a non-smart monitor, you’ll need to pay somewhat more for what he called an ‘industrial monitor’. He said the ‘smart TV’ is cheaper because of all the data it’ll collect, and they can sell that data to make the price-to-the-user lower. (Don’t know for myself, my old Samsung monitor’s only smarts were to send data out to one URL, and I was able to change that URL to a site that doesn’t exist.)

For 30 years I watched the fossils downplaying, lying about, covering-up the facts about free solar energy (‘oh that’ll never work’), wind ('oh that’ll never work) and other green tech. Now they see the writing on the wall, and they’re buying because that’s the way the wind blows … because They’re rapacious motherfuckers, and never have enough money. They started in the US cutting down all the ancient forests, they’ll forever rape whatever looks like dollars.

I’d never ask a friggin machine to do coding for me, that’s MY blast.

That said, I’ve had good luck asking GPT specific questions about multiple obscure features of Javascript, and of various browsers. It’ll often feed me a sample script using a feature it explains … a lot more helpful than many of the wordy websites like MDN … saving me shit-tons of time that I’d spend bouncing around a half-dozen ‘help’ pages.

Damned good question, and I played stump-the-search-engine for 15 minutes and it’s like they’re AVOIDING that question

But fossil fuel companies don’t want energy storage, right?

Stockholders and aalesmen make them put that towards the end… to make investors feel dizzy I think

It is the case that posts people make on HN can quickly be moved from the front page to the 2nd or 3rd. This may be algorithmic or a moderator decision. A valid point is that there’s no way of knowing why this happens, apart from careful reading of the site’s guidelines. Some users will be bad-jacketed. Some posts can be flagged or simply go ‘dead’, also not transparent.