It turns out that in modern versions (for Mac) they inserted a timebomb that disables the license check.

"Sorry the software now is EOL we can't send an update to disable the timebomb that we set five years ago"

Users of office 2021 are luckier (for now) because it goes EOL in October, so they can receive the June patch that moves the July timebomb forward another five years

They mean that when it was originally posted on the db0 Lemmy piracy community, there was a disclaimer to say it was sarcasm

assuming API pricing

API pricing is not what it costs openai to offer the inference.

API pricing is what they're currently selling their inference, with profit included in price.

"But if the user didn't get a subscription, he would have spent $14k in token" is a wrong assumption.

The user is wasting the tokens on useless tasks because they're free to him, but once he has to pay them, he wouldn't ask to generate 100 images of a toilet eating carrots anymore

It appears almost every single time I login to gmail

When you use Google services there's a very annoying popup "why u no use Chrome" that appears at least once every three week and you can only choose between "ok I give up, install now" and "no, ask me again for the 134th time"

I'm shocked to learn that a dedicated browser always running in the background for a chat app uses 100x the memory and resources

What do you mean, the app is the web version now

He will never be voted out from its leadership because the scam works like this:

1. Each country soccer federation, no matter how big or small, gets one vote
2. Thanks to the outrageous ticket prices he distributes millions and millions of dollars "to promote soccer" especially to small and poor countries
3. The presidents of those small and poor countries redirect those funds "to promote soccer" in useless megaprojects to maximize their slush funds
4. Because he purchased many votes, he gets to be reelected (no term limit in FIFA)

If you compare the photo of the back, it looks like the flash light and the noise reduction microphone swapped positions between the two phones. On the scan they look identical because the LED and the microphone are in the same spot, just inverted.

Look at the ballroom, it was 150 Mil then 250 mil then 400 mil then meanwhile we were joking about the 800 mil ballroom it became a 1.6 billion national security project