Carrier-sold Pixels generally don't have "OEM-unlockable" bootloaders.
Your best bet for now is to buy a new Pixel direct from Google, or a used one from eBay that the seller advertises as already having GrapheneOS on it (or otherwise guarantees that the bootloader is unlockable). These ones are worth a lot more than the ones that can only run Google/carrier Android.
I own two GrapheneOS Pixel 7 units, which should get any Google blob security updates (which GrapheneOS incorporates) through October 2027, and GrapheneOS may still support it with source updates after that. So in a year or so, I might get the GrapheneOS Motorola if it's available, or a later Pixel. (I never buy these new, since I don't want to carry a several hundred dollar phone when a 2 gen old one is still great, thanks to GrapheneOS.)
OEM/carrier locking tends to only happen in the US. Many carriers permit unlocking after the contract has concluded, but Verizon has always blocked it. Used devices also run the risk of being improperly unlocked and making OEM unlocking remain unavailable. (Used devices may also be Verizon devices.)
Is this true for all carriers? Or just Verizon? Several Reddit threads say that it's just Verizon. T-Mobile users report being able to bootloader unlock after getting their phones carrier unlocked by T-Mobile.
OEM/carrier locking tends to only happen in the US. Many carriers permit unlocking after the contract has concluded, but Verizon has always blocked it. Used devices also run the risk of being improperly unlocked and making OEM unlocking remain unavailable. (Used devices may also be Verizon devices.)
I finally left Verizon after nearly 20 years. I had it with their enshittification, couldn't stand it anymore. I switched to US Mobile and on the Darkstar (AT&T) network. I have no regrets. I caught it on a black friday deal, so I'm paying basically $20/mo for top tier service. You wouldn't have caught me dead with an AT&T service or MVNO years ago because I'd seen so many bad experiences second-hand, but these days it's been a breeze knock on wood
I also did the math and determined buying a new unlocked phone outright on this plan was far cheaper than paying Verizon monthly for one.
+1 for US Mobile. Verizon was also good, but a few months ago my cofounder and I discovered we were absurdly overpaying for our decade-old small business plan and found that US Mobile offered a better end product for a fraction of the price.
Currently running my Pixel on Warp (Verizon) with zero practical difference, and starting Monday I'll also have a backup iPhone with a small $8/mo Darkstar line. The money I've saved since switching more or less paid for the iPhone, and I'll be getting 2x reliability for way less ongoing cost. The better app/website/support and extra features are just a bonus.
A sovereign wealth fund with over $1 trillion USD (so with over $1 million per Emirati citizen) which invests heavily in U.S. equities will be sold for pennies?
So U.S. equities will be sold for pennies?
Are you predicting a U.S. stock market crash bigger than the Great Depression, when oil runs out?
You're implying that the U.S. securities worth hundreds of billions held by a nation will be under threat of theft (by the U.S. government itself?) because the nation doesn't "have bargaining chips"?
So the U.S. will begin to rob and plunder the bank accounts of countries that don't have a bargaining chip?
Is that where the U.S. heading? The daylight roberry of the bank accounts of foreigners?
Could be a sell off if it isn't managed...measured buy-backs scaled over a timeline that maybe offers them an opportunity to invest in other commodities may be preferable.
Actually now that I think about it...I should probably keep a pulse on ME holdings about 2 or so decades from now
According to the technician I spoke with, he could only detect three on their end.
The cable was chewed through by cats, so perhaps it was three just in that moment.
Doesn’t Apple use pretty damn quick NVME? I wonder how much of a performance drop it actually is. Certainly not as bad as running a swap file on a 5400 rpm HDD…
Isn't that NVME also very expensive to replace because it's tied to hardware identifiers? If you keep swapping all the time, surely NVME would be the first part to fail
Again if you disagree, you'd better be prepared to produce birth certificates of all your ancestors to prove you're a "natural born citizen" born of citizens. That's where this leads.
Eventually, if they’re old stock European-American, that essentially means that they’re the descendants of invaders (i.e. illegal immigrants who never got the consent of the Native Americans to settle).
> They're in the "get 'em hooked" stage of the drug deal.
You're implying that people are selling inference at below cost right now. That's certainly not true for most third-party inference providers. I doubt API pricing at Anthropic or OpenAI is being solid below cost either.
The only place where you get what you're talking about are the fixed price plans OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, etc. sell.
OpenAI is claiming they'll post 74 billion in loses through 2028. Anthropic is on course to lose 3 billion by the end of this year, they lost 5 billion last year.
As far as I can tell the inference provider landscape is a fucking mess, and I can't find any decent financial information on any of the ones I tried. So unless you have something showing those companies are profitable I'm not buy it.
Even if you eliminate all of OpenAIs other costs besides inference they're still in the red. And they can't just stop training new models. That's like saying Honda can just quit designing new cars. They technically could, but it would destroy their business.
They have one method of monitization right now, and there is no clear evidence that their costs are suddenly going to decrease anytime soon. Despite claims to the contrary, no one has actually provided any evidence of a pathway to those costs magically cutting in half over the next few years.
The entire industry is being propped up by insane over investment and an obsession with growth at all costs. Investments will dry up sooner or later, and you can't grow forever.
Inference keeps getting cheaper, so "it isn't cheap enough yet" isn't an issue. Even with zero efficiency innovations from here, cost per instruction is the most deflationary commodity of all time.
So how was that ever going to be a problem?
The optimal choice for marginal costs, which will naturally drop on their own, at the beginning of a new tech cycle is to run in the red. It would be a sign of gross incompetence if they were fine tuning those costs already.
Training spend is the giant expense. And either training costs are unsustainable, and training spend will hit a pause, or it is not unsustainable and training spend will continue.
So, which is it?
Critical point: The majority of their costs are not required to serve the highest level of capability they have achieved at any given time.
That is unusual. In the sense that it is an exceptionally healthy cost control structure. Note that not even open source offers a cost advantage, for training or inference.
The stuff coming out of young republicans is beyond the pale. These kids are making vile jokes about doing a genocide / Holocaust of Democrats, minorities, their political opponents, etc.
And they’ve been consistently doing it for so long in this chat, that it’s hard to dismiss this as some crass joking. It seems like many of these people sincerely hold pro-Nazi views.
Yes, definitely. S3 has a time to first byte of 50-150ms (depending on how lucky you are). If you're serving from memory that goes to ~0, and if you're serving from disk, that goes to 0.2-1ms.
It will depend on your needs though, since some use cases won't want to trade off the scalability of S3's ability to serve arbitrary amounts of throughput.
In that case you run the proxy service load balanced to get desired throughput or run a sidecar/process in each compute instance where data is needed .
You are limited anyway by the network capacity of the instance you are fetching the data from .
These are, effectively, different use cases. You want to use (and pay for) Express One Zone in situations in which you need the same object reused from multiple instances repeatedly, while it looks like this on-disk or in-memory cache is for when you may want the same file repeatedly used from the same instance.
Is it the same instance ? Rising wave (and similar tools )are designed to run in production on a lot of distributed compute nodes for processing data , serving/streaming queries and running control panes .
Even for any single query it will likely run on multiple nodes with distributed workers gathering and processing data from storage layer, that is whole idea behind MapReduce after all.
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