DIY (or get someone else to) EV conversions of classics need to become a bigger thing. Until then, make sure it's something you can at least pull the internet from, treat 'em like 'smart' TVs. No internet for you. Do your research people.

Well that’s not really under my control

Not implying it was, just pointing out the foot shooting scenario.

Thanks again for the great work.

Yah, but you better be damn sure it's bulletproof recognition, especially for the wipe variant, although, being Linux a good backup strategy is a viable option, maybe gate it behind a successful restore. Seems like it could be easy to just use the wrong finger too, perhaps your subconscious hates you today. Still, options are always good.

Torment Nexus (or it will be as they scale up).

Serious ethical guidelines and research into pain etc., should be required, but capitalism.

Lucifer: Maybe animals also have souls and free will and are being tested as well, and the human only thing is a conceit. Maybe God's a dick (and / or). You decide.

An RSS feed? Seems cool, but imagine it with an RSS feed you could filter by upvotes...

Perhaps, also perhaps the classic Jesuit argument that for judgement to be meaningful free will must exist applies. Similarly a scientist should state the results being experimented on before running the experiment rather than just running p-values on a bunch of resultant data and claiming whatever pops as the intended result. Perhaps God is a scientist with a multiverse of experiments with small tweaks to initial conditions. In that sense you'd have a bunch of (or just one) locally running code(s), but effectively in the wild for fear of tainting the results.

I'm agnostic FWIW, I just find these ideas fertile ground for playing with thoughts.

Are programmers all powerful over code they created and then released into the wild? (TLDT: No, but there is likely some control, especially over new versions)

Apple's version is first rate and like $15. I use them to connect my computers to Class D Amps, gets me great 5/7.1

For mobile I've had the Qudelix-5K for a couple of years, pricey, but really nice. I forgot and left LDAC 990kbps/96kHz on for months (overkill and bad for battery life), nary a stutter at really impressive ranges. Pretty much makes the audio jack issue irrelevant.

Have a Pinecil, best fucking soldering iron I've ever had. Haven't had many, but it stands out. These people make quality stuff.

There's a reason cornering markets was made illegal, and SamA sucking up all the wafers to make a moat where there was none, was a grade A example of why.

If you're English you can literaly go piss on her grave.

We need better laws.

In spades, there used to be, in common law, a requirement for third party consent to be photographed if profit ensued, Mayhap that needs resurrection.

Governments going Panoptican.

Absolutely correct and well said. Until you give it a tool to call a websearch (in my case SearxNG), I occasionally break it out (local 27B model) when a search is pulling lots of AI slop, Spy vs Spy style. I make it give me references and it usually indicates a bad search (XY problem)

Like, actual human guards? Wow, right down there on the worst job ever list. As far as crimes go, tried to piss on Thatchers grave is something to frame for posterity. Gonna guess someone got away with it, hence the guards (maybe bribeable?) but thanks for the reality check.

Star Trek would never have been greenlighted if it had been created in the late 70s or any point after that.

True, it has it's flaws, and has been abused through the years, but at core it represents HOPE in the future, a better world, competent, well educated people. Apparently that's not what the producers like. Boot, face, forever.

Kids these days, the bit from The Lost Boys it'a been done elsewhere.

The correct answer IMO, the world is never going to not need a hero like Sir Terry Pratchett. He provides wisdom and hope. GNU Terry.

Hmmfh, in what way was she a nun? But thanks for the info.

Wow, that's a lot. Find and focus on support until you're ready. Friends are usually better, but professionals if necessary.

Love is weird, the ancient Greeks had at least six words for it, it's worth looking at. And, no, vulnerability is not required, just makes a better version. There's the thing, there are a lot of versions of love, your parents likely have storgē, however badly applied (parent here, I have hope that they mean well).

There were always exceptions in the gender roles, behind closed doors vulnerability was there. As Cohen has it, there is a crack in everything, it's where the light gets in.

Sorry, that's where I end tonight, best wishes, I'll post anyway, maybe it helps.