It would be absolutely amazing if any sort of tech could say that I'm going to have a serious health problem 6 months ahead of time.

How do you think insurance premiums are calculated?

In general, health insurance companies (at least in the US) are pretty much prevented from using any health data to set premiums. In fact, many US states prevent insurers from charge smokers higher premiums.

(Life insurance companies are different.)

How are they calculated? Based on what data? Your google searches? If they don't use goolge search history, why would they use chatgpt history?

Yeah man, when would technology ever be abused to monitor health data. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/period-tracking-apps-ou...

That's some third party app. And if you look at the Github it's basically an advertising vector for that companies set of mobile development tools.

In a lot of bass music the most important parts are simply inaudible on an iPhone speaker.

On my Samsung film mode has an insane amount of processing. Game Mode is the setting where the display is most true to what's being sent to it.

Not "Film mode", but "Filmmaker mode". The latter is a trademark with specific requirements.

Game mode will indeed likely turn off any expensive latency-introducing processing but it's unlikely to provide the best color accuracy.

Game mode being latency-optimized really is the saving grace in a market segment where the big brands try to keep hardware cost as cheap as possible. Sure, you _could_ have a game mode that does all of the fancy processing closer to real-time, but now you can't use a bargain-basement CPU.

Those statistics include the viewing device in the energy usage for streaming energy usage, but not for GenAI. Unless you're exclusively using ChatGPT without a screen it's not a fair comparison.

The 0.077 kWh figure assumes 70% of users watching on a 50 inch TV. It goes down to 0.018 kWh if we assume 100% laptop viewing. And for cell phones the chart bar is so small I can't even click it to view the number.

And it’s fair assume much of the time watching streaming would instead have been spent on TV

> Unless you're exclusively using ChatGPT without a screen it's not a fair comparison.

Neither is comparing text output to streaming video

Compare generative AI video to streamed video, and generative text to streamed text etc. The differences are closer to an order of magnitude. The comparison to be made is the processing power required to deliver the content, not to display it.

From your last link, the majority of that energy usage is coming from the viewing device, and not the actual streaming. So you could switch away from streaming to local-media only and see less than a 10% decrease in CO2 per hour.

Just because your VM is running doesn't mean the service is accessible. Whenever there's a large AWS outage it's usually not because the servers turned off. It also doesn't guarantee that your backups are working properly.

If you have a server where everything is on the server, the server being on means everything is online... There is not a lot of complexity going on inside a single server infrastructure.

I mean just because you have backups does not mean you can restore them ;-)

We do test backup restoration automatically and also on a quarterly basis manually, but so you should do with AWS.

Otherwise how do you know you can restore system a without impact other dependency, d and c

Doesn't getting acquired mean that you no longer have the authority to confirm that?

I went with Philips Hue smart lighting specifically because it could work without an account or any internet access for the bulbs or hub.

Guess what became required this year? At least it seems I can still use them offline if I don't use the official app. But the official app is now just a popup requiring me to create an account. I'm not sure if I could add new lights using third party apps. Not like I'm ever buying a Hue product again though.

You're really missing the point here. If I defrauded a million companies for $0.05 yeah throw me in prison. If Dollar Tree defrauded a single customer of $0.05 that's very different than doing it millions of times.