rogue robot

 There's so much about this subject I don't know, I would need an AI machine of my own to figure it out.
So I'll guess, and ask hypothetical questions.
Isn't it true that most biggie tech firms load up on a project hoping to dominate the field.

When they fail to dominate, they buy.

If they cannot buy, they abandon.

I predict Gemini will be abandoned, certainly by 2028 but prolly sooner.

?

The combined talents of both competing systems (I'm not proposing mergers and acquisitions, hmm)

might be beneficial to consumers, but I'm assuming that they want to make money at some point.

Anyway, enough mind wandering.

I'm at stage two of my cold / flu, which is constant calls to the bathroom. Is that significant?
I'm armed with cough medicine, snot-minimizer and of course, Imodium. 

So a few hours a day I can stay awake wondering stuff, and then it's back to the bathroom or bed.

And right now I wonder what the hell a phone wants with AI.

I mean, what??! It should make really nice sounding calls. 

It should *Maybe* stream videos and have a way to pipe them over to friendly TV's at waiting rooms.

It might even want to play a game!

So what the hell is AI for? 

"Tensor G5" is a processor without a mission, unless that mission is to watch what I do and where I go, and make predictions to the overseeing authority.

It plays games! Sort of.

It's a biggie Nielsen box that monitors what I watch, what chat programs I use,
And (I didn't know this one) what I photograph!!

Someone somewhere way high up, is teaching their AI program what porn looks like, to better report on it in the future.
Someone somewhere (yada,) Keywords.

THEN some data harvester can hand in a detailed summary to some politician, "what did people talk about most, yesterday?? What did they watch??"

I already get ads tailored to my tastes, "I see you looked at power supplies, huh? Here. I've got one on sale," and that's NOW, no fantasy.

We need (I need) random keywords to test out the theory, but I'd rather not have people busting down the door looking for my seditious behavior, TYVM

I just had a train of thought about phones with location services.
The good guys in movies always seem to be running away from the evil people who just happen to have the finest state-of-the-art surveillance equipment,
One of the good guys always grabs the other's phone and smashes it. Phones are precious to us, we love them and keep them close to our hearts, and that is precisely why movies do that (I think) although the movie-phones are around ten years too old. Them smashing up Modern iPhones is prolly sacrilegious.
On the new phone is a missing, obvious setting, "roaming (yes/no.)" It (instead) says "Roaming: allow data" which means to me that turning off roaming is unthinkable, not an option.

AI, we've got a job for you

"Compared to previous models"? Tell that to my pixel 7, one-bar if I'm lucky, usually. Anything less would be death.

I'm supposed to add a screenshot here of the sim-status page, but it won't let me.

'Signal Strength"

"-83dBm 57 asu" (-105 dBm, then -92 dBm 42 asu)

and it was worse when I first asked it (-92, I think)

Regardless, all signal-bars are happy.

My Mobile voice-network-type is, NR SA. I don't think you'd care but I want to go look it up.

My mobile data network type is "I W L A N" (also, look it up)

AHh!! someone closed a door several hundred feet from here,

 and the signal lowered to -110! 

Point being, the bars dropped a little. They don't shrink, they just go missing.

So the bars are not decorative, they work.

All bars present at -99 dBm, and after that they start to disappear.

I had a devil of a time working out Bluetooth though.

You must be able to quickly press menu buttons on both phones.

My brain was telling me that once it's hooked up, only one phone needs to be fooled with, but that was way wrong.

No one ever tells me anything. Is this cool or what??!!

I don't know if I mentioned it, but my pixel 7 (ordinary edition) and the Pixel XL10 are so close in size, Flies would have trouble landing on the difference.
But the corners on the new phone are much more lazily curved, like some patio, not a building.

I don't know why everyone says it's big, why they call it XL.

 Maybe the ordinary-edition is smaller by a lot. I'm not richer than god but I'll guess, the Apples run small and so Google must follow. Anyway I'm totally glad I got the larger size.

Picture,->bluetoothed over.

The transitive verb "Bluetooth" (I'll Bluetooth it to ya) hasn't been invented or this grandma spellchecker is still way 90's, IDK) I'm behind too...It's prolly BT2U

I'm going to upload a pretty picture taken in very poor light.

The point is, it's lots better than everyone says, all the shills who'll say Apple is the best, etc.

This picture has been shrunk and converted, and it *still* looks nice.

All settings for the camera were "auto."

Yes keep doing that. I'll take your picture.
O! Someone's coming!!