And if tech had been proceeding since then as it did for the previous 30 years, you’d expect a whole lot more power for your $15 now.

The aim of those buying up all the RAM is to prevent people owning devices capable of serious computing, so we have to rent what we used to have back from them, with added censorship and surveillance. Sam Altman has been explicit about how he wants no one to own RAM except companies running data centres. The Raspberry Pi becoming unfeasibly expensive is just an example of that forced transition from owning to renting playing out. When it was introduced the Pi cost $15. We’re in a different world now.

Everyone sees it. Those in power want it.

Ah, but how about a dubbed version spoken by American robot voices, where the foreign actors uncannily mouth American words? Wouldn’t that be a joy and a gift to the world? Eventually we might even be able to replace all foreign actors with a young Harrison Ford.

I have read stores getting rid of self checkouts because of this.

That’s a good result if true. They’ll have to keep employing humans.

All these attempts to make Proton and its CEO look better actually make them look worse.

But it’s not inevitable that the restrictions should say killing people is OK but analyzing how software works is forbidden.

Yes it’s disgustingly expensive. I spent a whole lot of money on an old used GPU and it felt bad, but it didn’t feel dirty like paying for Claude would. And then a couple of weeks later the used prices for this GPU had risen by about 15%.

(I only use Claude at work when someone else is paying. And they’re about to make me redundant because Claude is cheaper than me.)

I got shut down by it two days ago. It suddenly told me that the project I was working on had tripped some kind of guard, that it couldn’t continue working with me on it, and it couldn’t tell me why. I just went back to my local Qwen model. I can’t see this doing great things for selling Claude subscriptions.

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You’re off by a few orders of magnitude.

And why is it limited, Sam? We all had plenty of affordable RAM before some asshole bought it all to rent back to us.

how little they actually contribute to the best interests of the world.

They contribute an unimaginably large negative value to the world.

good that they pointed out it is not in US.

Huh? It is in the USA.

Many of us are in exactly that position with our employers, but finding another job in this climate is easier said than done.

He certainly clarified for me whether to pay for Proton or not. It’s not.

Then I guess either Google doesn’t always censor results inside the USA, or Google is better at tracking you than you think.

Is “USA VPN” a VPN used inside the USA to pretend to be elsewhere, or a VPN used from elsewhere to pretend to be in the USA?

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I use my own custom domain with Fastmail, plus it offers email aliases too. I can send emails under several different addresses that I own, and collect mail from other mail services in my Fastmail inbox. It’s really not lacking for features.

Fastmail is very good, and now offers the option of storing your data in the EU instead of the USA, but it doesn’t offer end-to-end encryption like Tuta or Proton.