Isn't all content generated by generative models already in public domain. Having something in the public domain doesn't force you to release it.

Care to explain how chip makers can influence the inference outcome of LLMs?

My phone broke down a few weeks ago, along with the eSIM inside it. The eSIM was very important to me because I used it for everything. If it had been a physical SIM card, I could have simply bought a new phone and moved the SIM card to it. This was a painful lesson, and I have decided not to use eSIM again.

I had a similar experience; went to an African country for a while, eSIM stops working, support has no idea and suggested downloading it again, which requires 2FA with the number tied to the eSIM, was told to come to one of their stores (which are not in Africa) etc etc.

Sticking to physical for another couple off years until the bugs are worked out.

Of the 3 Pixel 6a phones I've provisioned with eSIMs two of them have mysteriously failed and required me to order physical SIMs to get working again. All attempts by support to resurrect the eSIM failed in both cases. It doesn't help that the error reporting is almost completely useless, giving only a generic error code.

Interestingly it's the exact model I have.

What was the “everything” you’re referring to? Physical sims can fail too, so not a good place to store a phone book if that’s what you mean.

Some providers are better than others at generating and replacing esims. The worst one I came across was Vodafone which removed passwords from their accounts and instead texted a code to log in - of course this is impossible without access to a sim, so good luck I suppose.

> Physical sims can fail too, so not a good place to store a phone book if that’s what you mean.

Sure, but often when a phone fails you can just buy a new phone (or borrow a temporary one) and be able to restore your connection without a carrier's intervention.

An eSIM doesn't "break". You can just get a new phone and transfer the eSIM yourself (it does depend on the carrier).

When I mention that my phone "broke," I mean that my SIM cards stopped responding completely. I couldn't use it to access the internet or make/receive calls and messages. I concluded that the issue was with my mobile phone because I was using a physical SIM card alongside my eSIM, and the physical SIM also stopped working simultaneously. However, when I transferred my physical SIM to a new device, it started working again.

Only if you have another device with internet access. If you need your SIM to access the internet or your account, you're S.O.L.

Can you explain exactly what you mean when you say you used the eSIM "for everything"?

All my 2FA authentications were linked to this SIM card, including all my internet banking services and other payment systems. Fortunately, I had some money set aside for emergencies. I also utilized this mobile number for various online services and relied on it as my primary method of communication.

It’s inconvenient, but surely you’re able to pretty easily get the number ported to a new eSIM…? You should still have the account and basically should just need to find some WiFi to download it on a different device?

I travel a fair bit, all this makes me think how hard this would be if I was in, say, Europe and my phone was stolen - to get a new physical SIM I’d need to visit a physical store in Australia! Perhaps I could have a family member visit and send it to me in the mail, but in just a slightly different situation the physical SIM is potentially a lot more problematic!

Probably to receive 2FA and connect to the internet. Not specifically the eSIM.

I think he meant that instead of each company creating their own ToS, the government should set the standard or limitations on what a company can do.

> Laws trump Terms of service/agreements and contracts of any kind.

Web is not regulated by the government.

"The government"? Which one? Some governments do regulate certain aspects of the web directly.

All companies have to do is abide the local rules set by regulations, if such exist. And some very much do. Maybe not in your jurisdiction?

I think you two have things backwards

> All companies have to do is abide the local rules set by regulations

The point being that there are not enough regulations.

One feature that I wish exist is the option to completely erase your account on a particular website along with the data they have collected from you (there can a waiting time of few months before they erase it from their servers). This feature can only be bought out by government regulation because most websites don't have the incentive.

It writes better than me (I am an ESL) in writing, and that's enough reason for me to use it.

It might not be better than Tolkien, but so what, 99.99% people are also not better than Tolkien and ChatGPT can add value to the life of these people.

Unfortunately, Linux will never gain any meaningful market share in the desktop market. Every Linux distro is hostile to their users in some way. I am saying this as a person who actively dislikes windows. Over the years I have tried many Linux distro and none of them is good enough. 1. The Ubuntu fails to wake after sleep (none of the online solution worked for me) 2. I installed openSUSE, but I tried to browse their forums for an issue, I learned that their forum is blocked in my country. Went back to Ubuntu in a few hours. 3. Fedora was very good for a time, wine worked without any tinkering, but the latest update to 37 made my system very slow. Flatpak was not working. It also had issues working with Nvidia drivers. 4. Even tried Arch Linux (you can guess, how that went).

On the other hand, Microsoft is doing everything to appease their users. The Excel software have a bug to maintain backward compatibility. I won't recommend any Windows users to switch to Linux.