beginning of this headline got my hopes up that he finally croaked. fuckers.

how is it not?

are you talking about the Air? last time i checked all iphone models have a camera bump.

let’s assume 100% of this CO2 was generated from fossil fuels and eventually will be released into the atmosphere.

is that any less green than grid storage batteries built from massive amounts of mined metals with an enormous CO2 footprint?

how do you propose removing it?

there are two options, 1) using a smaller,shittier camera, or 2) making an extremely thick phone. neither option is very “apple”, especially for a flagship model.

considering the vast majority of people use phone cases and will never notice the bump anyway, i think this whole thing is blown way out of proportion.

are we really going to start counting who stole what in all smartphone design.

then they would have presentd as Micron, not Crucial.

This is not even close to being a general solution. Lots of places do not have water loop radiators and it is not an easy retrofit at all. Lots of people cannot even afford additional insulation for their domicile. Telling the average person “don’t be a wuss” is not a viable strategy to get them on board with supporting green energy.

Also heat pumps are the most efficient form of heating we have. They work best at a constant low/mid level, not completely shutting off for half a day and having to work extra hard to catch up in the morning.

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deal with the fact that we’ll have power outages during sleeping hours.

let me guess, you live somewhere winter doesn’t exist.

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The OS is still unstable

sounds like you have a shitty TV. I have had 3 smart TVs of different brands and price range going back 10 years and I can’t think of a single time I’ve noticed any OS issues, because I literally never use the OS.

tries to apply a bunch of filters that need to be disabled

This has nothing to do with smart features, any decent TV should have image processing options. You will have better picture and motion quality (especially on LCD/OLED) with a properly configured TV than you will with a TV/monitor without any of it. Sure lots of options are not needed, but I wouldn’t say having options for how to do that is a bad thing.

has extreme lag unless gaming mode is being used

Yes, if you want zero lag, you turn on gaming mode. I’m not even sure what your complaint is here other than “having options is bad”.

and has stupid UI decisions like putting the audio level exactly where the subtitles usually are so that changing audio will obfuscate them.

Also has nothing to do with the “smart” functions, the exact same thing could happen with a poorly designed dumb TV or monitor as well.

Once every 24h I‘m also getting a warning that the tv is not connected to the internet, despite network connectivity being explicitly disabled.

again, this is not a thing for most smart TVs, you just have a shitty one.

at that point why even use AI at all instead of some other basic filler assets?

Probably but with all the idiots fueled by sunken costs and desperate to prove they were right to invest, it could still last a long time.

not necessarily with hardware though. now they are flush with investments and have holes burning in their pockets. everyone is trying to get in on the first stage of AI datacenters.

they may artificially extend the bubble, but rapid hardware expansion/refreshing will be the first thing to slow down or stop when they see it’s not providing value.

it’s not that complicated, just get a smart TV and don’t connect it to your network. quite easy to never use any of the built in apps if you only use your own inputs sources.

if you’re using a dedicated media box anyway, a smart TV not connected to your network is basically the same as a dumb monitor.

sure, there are gray areas, and apple does keep them somewhat in check. but also if you’re willingly installing facebook you should know that your privacy is already heavily compromised.

there’s a difference between malware and junk. ios is pretty much malware free. and i’m not sure you want apple deciding what is “junk” and what isn’t.

colloquially today most people mean genAI like LLMs when they say “AI” for brevity.

Because there’s this default assumption that data centers can never be powered by renewable energy

that’s not the point at all. the point is, even before AI, our increasing energy needs were outpacing our ability/willingness to switch to green energy. Even then we were using more fossil fuels than at any point in the history of the world. Now AI is just adding a whole other layer of energy demand on top of that.

sure, maybe, eventually, we will power everything with green energy, but… we aren’t actually doing that, and we don’t have time to catch up. every bit longer it takes us to eliminate fossil fuels will add to negative effects on our climate and ecosystems.