Thank you for posting this. It never ceases to amaze me how many open source GUI projects forget screenshots.

Which will, at best, cover a portion of his medical bills.

Back during those high interest rate days, housing costs vs income were much better

Crusoe is unabashedly anti-remote work, which is curious considering their company’s environmental and energy locality focus. I interviewed with them, they are very much an old school “you must all work physically in San Francisco” company. I work for one of their competitors now, one that embraces remote work.

> I would call phones like the Palm Treo and later BlackBerries smartphones.

It's not just you; at the time these products were available, _everyone_ called them smartphones. Emphatically, Apple did not bring the first smartphone to market, not even close. They were, however, the first to popularize it beyond the field of nerds into the general public.

I had an Nokia N95 which was basically a smartphone and came out a year before the iPhone. And Wikipedia says

>it became a huge sales success for Nokia ... It managed to outsell rivals such as LG Viewty and iPhone.

However the iPhone got better.

I thought it was notable that he was directly asked about the surveillance aspect of all of this and he did not seem to respond to that subject.

And there's security. I wonder what he'd do if Google login locked him out of his extended brain. Call an AI for help?

Some choice quotes:

> 2029, both for human-level intelligence and for artificial general intelligence (AGI)

> The Singularity, which is a metaphor borrowed from physics, will occur when we merge our brain with the cloud

> Making it possible will be brain-computer interfaces which ultimately will be nanobots – robots the size of molecules – that will go noninvasively into our brains through the capillaries.

> In the early 2030s we can expect to reach longevity escape velocity where every year of life we lose through ageing we get back from scientific progress.

The brr.fyi article is SO much more detailed, better written, and a lot newer (2023 vs 2012)

To be clear, Spotify is a _global_ company, and there is no excuse for this.

Funny thing to say when you see how US-centric most global companies are.

This is the most realistic answer provided in this post thus far, and I feel the downvotes are just proving the point. _Not needing money doesn't make you an expert on the world_, please repeat that to yourself and everyone else on that path.