It felt good seeing that $250 refund come through for my yearly plan. I’ll take those funds to Claude or Codex directly
I look forward to seeing the follow up comment where you do the same with one of those when they inevitably do the same
Sure, but their point still stands. You can easily make the argument that the backlash against AI and datacenters is specifically driven by people with
jobs to keep, bills to pay, groceries to buy and perhaps even think of the environment
And I don’t see how the backlash is inorganic. You have a new tech being shoved down peoples’ throats that is dog shit at most tasks and passable at some, which is being used to justify layoffs, make workers that keep their jobs work harder, drives up electricity costs, made computer parts unreasonably expensive, uses stupid amounts of power and water to train and outright takes any digital data not nailed down to increase the training data so it can generate shit like revenge porn, deep fakes and CSAM on major social media sites.
If anything, I’m honestly surprised the backlash isn’t stronger and more widespread. But given the politicians this country is electing, I can only assume it’s because a large fraction of us are dumber than fucking bricks and brainlessly parrot anything their media daddies tell them.
AI companies paid him off
Supporters say the measure tackles the problem before a downloadable file becomes an untraceable weapon. Everytown for Gun Safety says recoveries of 3D-printed crime guns across 20 cities have risen nearly 1,000% over the past five years, and argues that cheaper, more capable printers are already being used in illegal ghost gun operations.
Ooooh, that’s two large red flags for me (disregarding the litany of red flags the concept in general has). Every town being involved makes me question the data on its face, given the number of times I saw gang violence near a school out of school hours listed as a school shooting in their database, as does a large percentage increase with no hard numbers. If they recovered 1 gun last year and 11 this year, that’s a 1000% increase, but the percentage sounds so much worse than the real number.
You forgot about option 3: VC money ran out
Only if they’re not already focused on you. Once they are, trying to get away is likely to get you shot in the back when they fear for their lives because you’re running away or something.
Good thing they’re rolling out premium accounts so they can pay for humans to do support.
They’re gonna use it for humans right?!
RIGHT?!?!
lol no, zucc needs more money because his number isn’t high enough!
Anyway, you were so close to actually getting the point that you need to just
start using it, until it is good enough to dump the other.
Be the change, ya know?
The alternative is doing nothing and stay on the creepy data hoarding platforms.
Yes, the alternative to making an account and posting shit to make a new platform more appealing to potential new users is staying and doing nothing 🙄
I’m done with this conversation, since this is not going to be a productive use of time. Good day.
Oooooh, then you can not post to a bunch of zombie accounts that no one uses cuz the platform is empty cuz no one uses it.
Anyway, you were so close to actually getting the point that you need to just
start using it, until it is good enough to dump the other.
Be the change, ya know?
Step 3. No need to start using it until you have a decent amount of people on the other platform to converse with and share dinner photos.
“No one is on this platform, so no need to post…”
“No one posts in this platform, why should I join?”
The problem, as indirectly noted in the article, is that they’re using the white house as a source, which isn’t reliable in the slightest anymore, and the article explicitly noted that the white house is using them for market manipulation.
Axios is a convenient punching bag for this administration’s blatant insider trading and market manipulation. No wonder hacks like Greene and Kinzinger are blaming the messenger, and conveniently not going after the trump admin when they all have a common enemy.
The ‘report’ is the first linked axios article, and the headline is just a bullet point in it
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs
An AI consultant tells Axios one of their clients recently spent half a billion dollars in a single month after failing to put usage limits on Claude licenses for employees.
It would help if you provided more than unsourced claims and what amounts to telling me to do my own research to figure out your point. As is, I don’t know what you believe past a general disagreement with basic points, only that you’re apparently unable or unwilling to support it, so I have to assume you can’t support it after multiple attempts at good faith discussion.
So maybe actually explain why you see this as FUD, or I’m going to take that as confirmation you know your argument is wrong. At this point, I have to assume you’re wasting time and just desperate to get the last word.
If anyone had any doubts, you’ve effectively admitted you’re wrong. You can’t even respond to basic questions about the “FUD” anyone is spreading, especially your own.
Maybe try to shill in places that don’t know how to ask basic follow up questions, you’ll probably get farther.
when AMDs actions are actually justified.
Yeah, this is the part we’re disagreeing on, because so far I haven’t seen a real justification for why the same app is fine on windows but not Linux and is only accessible on linux through a subscription. What part of Linux specifically costs them money that doesn’t on windows?
Also, just because you don’t like the info doesn’t make it dubious. And ironically, your defense of them is dubious by providing vague responses and unsupported accusations of spreading FUD.
You didn’t link a specific comment, so your reply isn’t worth much. The first ‘substantive’ response I ran across was pretty dumb, effectively saying the Linux app was costing AMD money while offering windows for free and Linux behind a paywall. I didn’t care to keep reading.
So, again, what part of it is FUD?
What part is FUD? FTA:
Starting with the 2026.1 release, AMD is switching to a tiered licensing model. The free Basic tier covers entry-level devices but is restricted to Windows only. Linux support does not show up until the “Core” tier, which costs somewhere between $1,200-$1,800 per year.
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When pushed for a real answer, Anatoli pointed unhappy users toward Vivado 2025.2, suggesting they simply stick with it if they did not want to pay. He did mention that 2025.2 loses official support once Vivado 2026.3 ships, but that detail was buried in a thread reply, leaving users with little more than a dead-end recommendation.
They’re removing the free product they offered for Linux and are sticking it behind a $100+/mo license, and the alternative option for not paying is using unsupported software and being left with any security problems unless you pay an ongoing license.
Thanks for the heads up on authy, I’ll keep that in mind for when I swap!
Yeah, it’s a bit confusingly worded. A couple paragraphs down it starts to show how the behavior isn’t consistent
We verified on a Razr (2026) running an older Smart Feed v2.03.0056 that this does not happen. Our Razr Fold, with app version 2.03.0070, has started showing this behavior, so it’s the latest update that’s to blame for hijacking the user’s intent. We couldn’t replicate this on a Moto G Stylus (2026) running the same app version, though. Sideloading the app, for reasons unclear, doesn’t seem to trigger this behavior, as manually installing the updated version on the aforementioned Razr (2026) didn’t show the same behavior.
Just the fact that the same version installed other ways didn’t have the same behavior makes an app compromise conclusion hard to support. But you’re entirely right that this could be secondary app caused, potentially the update mechanism on the phone was compromised, which might explain why side loading didn’t have the same behavior.
That if is doing a lot of lifting here, because AI doesn’t understand anything, it only finds mathematical responses to your question. There’s a reason the AI can’t give you the same script twice (or it constantly rewrites the fucking thing instead of just fixing the thing I told it to)