I have some Asus gamer earbuds with a dongle for a proprietary BT alternative: zero perceptible latency.

It'll get there. Initial implementation was just talk to Grok. Now it has improved to allow adjustments to navigation routes.

I mean, even Google Home and Alexa could handle playing a song on Spotify by me asking for it a decade ago. It's baffling that wasn't one of the first things implemented in Grok for Tesla.

The built-in assistant already does a great job of this, so whatever they do with Grok they'll want it to be better in some way. Like, "help me find songs similar to..." or "help me find that one song by that one guy with these lyrics".

I don't have a problem with that. First off it's not very common. Second off it can add to a conversation, just as it can with in-person discussions. If you feel like it doesn't, don't upvote and don't reply. There's no value in pretending we're Woodward and Bernstein every time we leave a comment.

"makes users less safe"

They don't believe that. It makes it more difficult to deal with governments, is all. Big Brother needs your messages from time to time, and TikTok is not willing to risk getting shut down to argue against that. We can't have pesky principles getting in the way of money.

It's all about not doing the same thing, whatever that same thing may be. I switch between trackball and mouse as each one gets a bit uncomfortable.

I'm also convinced that trackpoints themselves are stiffer and less comfortable to use than they used to be in the older thinkpads

Is this one possibility?

- Buy cheap IOT device

- Isolate it on guest network

- IOT device is compromised (or shipped that way)

- IOT device now has clear access to traffic on both your guest and primary networks

Is that accurate?

I've never used OpenClaw but as I understand it, it has a way of keeping a pseudo memory for context? That alone would be interesting, even if it was only allowed to read the generic internet. Like having a little robot buddy that remembers you and past conversations. Maybe you could have it give you reminders and stuff like you'd do with Alexa?

It basically writes a bunch of notes as markdown files and then injects them as part of its prompts. I saw someone compare it to that movie Momento, where the protagonist can’t form new memories so he tattoos notes all over his body.

That sounds like a good comparison.

> I'm not alone in finding the specific emphasis on drawing the line at domestic surveillance a bit odd

We've always been OK with this in the pre-AI era. (See the plot line of dozens of movies where the "good" government spies on the "bad" one.) Heck we've even been OK with domestic surveillance. (See "The Wire".) Has something changed, or are we just now realizing how it's problematic?

> Imagine an AI generated Mona Lisa

Let's give him 2015 tech instead. Imagine if he used Illustrator to create the Mona Lisa. Is that much better?

You are correct to be suspicious, but don't be impressed by backflips. Those are just for show. Doing "real work" is the test. As is doing real work for a compelling price.