With a chain restaurant… Yes. Consistency is exactly what people want.
Starbucks, McDonald’s, Applebee’s.
There’s a reason they’re all global brands, and it’s not because they’re all unique offerings, it’s cause you can walk into any one of them and know exactly what you’re going to get.
Does a Hyundai qualify? I just got one of the Ioniq cars for a great deal and in my opinion, beats Tesla in every category.
Every body part has a major artery in it.
Get hit in the armpit, dead.
Get hit in the thigh, dead.
Get hit in the liver, dead.
Break a femur and it nicks the femoral artery, dead.
There certainly are ways to reduce the blood flow to survive a trip to the hospital, but if you don’t get blood back in you soon, you just shut down forever.
And health codes didn’t stop them from filling it with all sorts of other stuff, and nobody looked to see that there were 5 sticks of butter and two handfuls of salt in each pizza.
There’s a pizza dough spreader machine now. Makes it more consistent.
Smaller places often still throw the dough, but chains usually have the machine so every pizza is the same.
It tracks the edits. If you generate a whole doc in one shot then it’s obviously AI.
If you have a shitty draft, then a slightly less shitty draft, then… … … Then a quality end product, you can see how the human worked.
AI can’t really replicate that.
It’s not illegal to not have ID.
It is illegal to drive without a license.
Depending on what you’re doing, it’s perfectly fine to leave ID at home (assuming you’re light skinned, but also ID doesn’t save you anyway in some cases)
Cash is required to be accepted to clear a debt.
Cash is not required to be accepted to make a purchase.
Stores sell more product when they accept credit cards. It makes the purchase a lot more seamless. It also helps them track money and reduces mistakes or theft during a cash transaction.
There is a reason that shops accept credit.
There’s also a reason why a lot of shops are charging an extra % or two if you use credit. And a big reason why a lot of larger purchases like cars and home renovations do NOT accept credit.
Did a little more digging, and they’re actually really active on the frame.work forums. Their last post was only a week ago.
Progress looks very promising.
I’m a little concerned about the lack of updates. I’m not sure about what their planned timeline is.
Realistically, an actual laptop form factor is really important for some folks (including me).
They also have a 12" laptop for the lower end market.
When friends or family ask my opinion on what computer to buy, I have two recommendations.
1 - Frame.work with Linux on it
2 - Macbook
Unless you’re tight on cash, those are the two best options. Heck, even if you are tight on cash, get a used version of either of the above, you’ll probably do just fine.
Unless you’re REALLY tight on cash, then get an ebay thinkpad and load linux.
Here’s the third party mainboard that’s available today. Nice thing is they don’t have to design a whole laptop to experiment with a new architecture, cause they can just build off Frame.Work’s… framework.
https://deepcomputing.io/product/dc-roma-risc-v-mainboard-iii/
This crowdfunded solution has new expansion cards (like a double type-c) and also a laptop dock that uses expansion cards so you can customize your own dock.
https://dockframe.com/
A little over a year ago, Prusa partnered with them to make a framework 3d printing contest. The winner was an open source project to use a frame.work mainboard to build a SteamDeck clone.
https://www.printables.com/contest/449-framework-computer-mainboard-case
Actually other companies are making framework compatible parts now. There are third party ports and third party mainboards available now.
Their design is open source, you can make your own if you want to. I’ve 3d printed parts for my frame.work using their published specs.
People that are here.
Sure, but without the AI part there’s no way to get investors excited.
Space is really fucking hard and doesn’t scale well.
Software scales up really well and theoretically can be much more profitable without additional overhead.
It’s all part of the stupid AI bubble, but there’s no way SpaceX would have hit that valuation on its own without Grok.
A Dyson swarm is already being built. Every solar powered satellite is part of it.
Why would you want that?
If they didn’t have a camera they’d be pointless, there’s really no reason to have a screen on your face if it wasn’t to help AR the world.
Which is why it’s going to need an extremely valid reason to use them aside from being a creeper.