If the traffic is encrypted, how would they know?

they might be talking about those questionably-legal licenses off ebay

Keed using it, set up smartd to check up on it regularly and send you an email if something goes wrong.

Less good russians online whining how “sanctions and entry restrictions to EU are bad for those who don’t support the war, actually”.

Hey, I’m not blaming all Japanese in America for Pearl Harbor, I’m blaming all Japanese in Japan for Pearl Harbor.

If you cannot express your opinion under the threat of death (but more likely, if you are a normal person and not a politician, a slap on the wrist or in worst case jail time), does your opinion really matter?

I have nothing to say about Iraq invasion except that one invasion for dumb reasons and shitty intelligence make all invasions for dumb reasons justified I guess.

You in your other comment say “a nation of people who are unable to change their government with voting or revolution”.

Under this definition, questioning government is going to achieve what, exactly?

They had anywhere from 115 months to 19 months, depending on where you start counting, to make up their minds about who’s at fault in this war. If this much time isn’t enough…

Good

Futureproofing, I guess, but also I’m sure there are things other than language models that can benefit from a dedicated processing unit, like photo processing, smaller models, Lens, etc.

If it’s all in the cloud - yes. If some/most of it runs locally - still yes with a caveat - hardware acceleration can make it run both faster and at a lower battery cost, same how every computer has a dedicated graphics chip, whether as a separate expansion card or a separate module on the CPU. Yes, you technically can do all that math on CPU, it’s called software rendering, but rendering done with a purpose-built chip is so much better. Same logic applies to “AI”.

I pay for stuff when I have money to spare or when it’s more convenient like with Factorio or Rimworld where updating mods is infinitely easier through official channels.