which part amuses you? the one where the former uploads all your data to the cloud only to be mismanaged and surveilled or the where the latter doesn't?

I live in a neighborhood of older retired folks and I get this vibe from them as well when walking my younger kids. Their faces light up with joy. Just another season in life I suppose. Let's enjoy it while we can.

I can honestly say, I think there was a chemical change in my brain or a biological equivalent when my kids were born. That is to say, something more primal than the "love" you can get from a spouse/SO; you feel it in your bones, deep down, always on and changed forever.

This is really it. The biggest advantages of being remote are only unlocked with full remote.

Very similar experience. Bought a v8 GMC for RVing and while turbo v6s can handle similar payloads, the turbos themselves break very often. The v8 sound and feel is a nice extra benefit.

I don't have all the numbers but as someone who lives in VA and has had their power bill _double_ over the last year, I'd be hard-pressed to think DCs are commonly paying their fair share when tariffs like this need to be passed: https://virginiamercury.com/2026/08/05/scc-orders-dominion-t...

Using AI as leverage for labor is myopic. The businesses that thrive will be the ones that use it to automate and allow its employees to go deeper and innovate. The fish can rot from the head or not.

Because they’re low quality trash

Sure but this should be fixable. They tried with the Pixelbook and gave up. Feels like a languishing product that's also not stable.

Edit: Oh, there's the Googlebook now, which I vaguely remember people complaining about when I worked there but it had a different name. Classic Google rugpull.

I think this ignores the potential impact of local AI across 2+B devices that no longer need SOTA models for the majority of use-cases. What does that do to datacenter demand?

It’s not like Nvidia can’t get into local LLM market.

As a local LLM enthusiast, I highly doubt local LLMs will matter for many more years. There will always be extremely high demand for the smartest cloud models.

Local LLMs will never be as efficient in $/token/intelligence.