Am I missing something?

Nothing in the article itself suggests that we know what happened to the dog after it was stolen other than the headline.

The article just ends after this part:

Guo cut short his trip and rushed back to China to search for him.

Checking the archive didn’t turn up any more of the article.

I wonder how much of it might also have been to deliberately show off American wealth compared to communist countries during the cold war. Like the whole comparisons of having shelves of different brands of the same food.

Or at least, diversified so it’s not only those two, and there’s a multitude of options.

A fair few countries do that, for example, with payment being diversified into other systems like Alipay, and the other QR-based payment systems. Australia has EFTPOS, HK lets you use your Octopus to buy things in addition to paying for the train fare.

Otherwise, you’d be in trouble if MasterCard/Visa decided that they didn’t like something you did very much, so you’re barred from their services.

From the sounds of it, the newspaper is being deliberately misleading to drum up something or other.

There’s also Syncthing Tray’s experimental android interface. You either need to install from apk, or use something like obtanium, but it may be less flaky than Termux.

RAM is probably the biggest killer for it right now. The other specs are still viable enough for most basic usage.

The info says desktop? But that’s a low end mobile cpu in there, 15W TDP, optimized to be cheap and have a good battery life. The downside is the performance sucks.

Might be one of those all-in-one-systems where they put laptop hardware into a screen.

I don’t know if it’s possible, since it’s exposed to the elements. Manufacturers have certainly tried.

It wasn’t all that long ago that a few car companies were selling their CVT transmissions as having lifetime transmission fluid, that didn’t need topping up or changing.

Even if it’s as minimal as having to change the brakes/tyres, there’s still going to be maintenance that needs to be done, if only to check that the car can go some period of time without needing further maintenance.

The way they’ve done the front/sides makes feel big/tall, in a way that a lot of other Ferraris don’t. Like someone took a crossover SUV, and flattened it a bit with a hydraulic press.

Like a car from the future e.g. “ghost in the shell” etc.

At the same time, it does feel like almost every EV/Hybrid tries to go for the futuristic styling, enough that it’s starting to become a bit bland, since a lot of EVs end up taking after that kind of look. It was neat the first few times, but it’s starting to wear out its welcome, imo.

Making it seem like a normal car that just so happens to be driven by an electric powertrain would give it a bit more appeal.

The cost has also shot up because a lot of the new frameworks are much more token heavy than the old ones.

So the original free plan might have made sense when people were only typing little questions into it, and using a handful of tokens, but is no longer cost-effective with things like modern agent pipelines constantly throwing tens of thousands of tokens at the service.

I tried running a little locally hosted agent thing on my computer the other day, and it was feeding a hundred thousand tokens at the model every few minutes, because it was keeping all the files in context. Sure, it hit the cache a lot, and so the effective cost would be less, but it’s still a lot more token usage than me poking the model with inane questions.

No. Or at least, I’d have it done the way Daft Punk/Yoko Taro do. You’re only known as the character in costume, and not elsewise.

Otherwise, every single aspect of your life gets pried into, and you can’t trust anything to be what it seems to be. Anything you say, or opinion you hold would be a headline, and anyone who claims to want to be your friend could easily be angling for your wealth/connections more than anything else.

A fantastic amount of talking. The militaries would want to be in readiness, for example, just in case the extraterrestrials are not friendly, and the diplomatic corps would be doing their best to figure out how to communicate with them.

A lot of religions might also be thrown a bit into the air by the arrival of aliens, so there would be some chatter there, too.

Are aliens subject to human rights? Are they beings also made in God’s image, etc.

Sidewalking

This doesn’t seem like a totalitarianism issue, though. The High or Supreme courts (other courts are available) could rule that replacement with AI is not a valid reason for termination of employment, and the result would be much the same.

Tap water? If so, try filtered water, get a good, credible filter and filter the water. Depending on where you live there’s a fair amount of materials in the water that make it unpleasant.

In a pinch, boiling it, and letting it cool back down also helps some, if they can’t afford a filter.

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Mechanical Windows

As opposed to what, wireless windows?

The initial learning curve is very rough, since people might be used to commands from a newer editor like Notepad++, which doesn’t work in vim.

nano at least says which button combination you need to exit, for example.

It is easier past the initial hump, though.

You can also use :x to write and quit, from memory.

They’re also fairly versatile. y-i takes any symbol after. Space, comma, the letter p, you name it. If you can type it, it’ll generally work.

Which can be a bit faster than some graphical editors at times, where you might have to find and select the contents by hand. That can be a bother if there’s a lot.