Most still have the computer built in. But the software is complety different. They have some different features that would make sense for an always on screen in a shop, office, or airport. You can load up a thumb drive with images for the screen to rotate through. Upload new images through WiFi or Ethernet. Use that same network connection to setup, synchronize, and controll dozens of screens, making a video wall. Pretty cool stuff really.

Just none of the spyware. Since there is no individual or household to tie the data to, that part becomes pretty useless.

They’re called Signage Displays.
Most major names you know make them.
They do cost more, but not prohibitively so.

For all their talk of doing things different with their own index and rankings. Mojeek is following exactly what Google did. It’s still an ad based business model that makes users into products to be sold to advertisers. They’re good now, while still trying to build market share. But once their investors get hungry, the enshitification will commence.

I get it. It’s still beta, and we’re only like 2% of the market. Makes sense not to worry about us yet.

That’s exactly what we were discussing.
But it doesn’t matter any more.

That’s not what I witnessed recently.

Now you’re bringing personal anecdotes to rebut global systemic hypotheticals.
We’re not having the same discussion anymore.

The inventory and POS systems also go down. You still can’t by your groceries/gas/weed.

Going cashless is a bad idea. But not because of this.

But cash has nothing to do with this.
It’s an entirely unrelated issue.
It could equally be a warning to floss every day for all they’re related.

Because if everyone used cash, schedule systems, records systems, communication systems around the world, breakdown still.

If there’s a verity of software vendors used in these systems, and financial systems, you don’t get simultaneous global breakdowns any more.

Basically. Using cash won’t prevent this from happening. Using several interoperable software providers and systems will.

What about now?

I’ve often wondered, and occasionally asked people:

Is this question, as I’m asking now with this sentaence, a stupid question?

Signal is fine for instant messaging.

Matrix is closer to Discord.

The Fold has a large camera bump to one corner.

Am I the only one who wants to be able to lay my phone flat?

No

Rents will probably go up […] and what’s left won’t be enough to save for any kind of down deposit.

It’s the same capitalism we have now.

Whatever it does to home and rent prices, as well as inflation generally, would be temporary until the markets adjusts. That can be softened by slowly phasing it in, maybe $100/m each year. The standard supply, demand, price balancing act at play. This time with the income floor not being at $0.

It’s the same capitalism we have now; Accept the bottom income level, isn’t zero anymore.

Who would be in what Cast?
Where do you draw the lines?

Several reasons.

1. The US is largely responsible for defining what 1st, 2nd, and 3rd World countries are.
2. It has the largest economy in the world.
   (I think? That may have gone to China by now. Not sure. But it was true recently.)
3. Even with everything you said being true. It’s still the wealthiest country in the world, by a large margin. Epically when you compare incomes, lifestyles, and infrastructure to actual 3rd world countries. It’s not even close.

I’ve heard people say a UBI is easy to exploit before.
But I don’t see how.

If everyone gets the same payment, with the only qualifiers being citizenship and age; How can it be exploited?

Clear Data should reset the app to stock defaults.