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Uh huh, yep. Also, will definitely not be putting any audiobook readers out of a job.

Any time you need to remind users to “use this tool responsibly”, you know very well that’s not going to happen.

That’s like saying victims of deepfake porn benefit because they get to watch themselves having sex. Nope, not buying it.

Works for me.

Semantics. If person A is protected by privacy rights in her jurisdiction, but her data is scraped by project B from one where such rights conveniently aren’t legally respected, A should still be able to expect some way of injunction.

Yeah, terrific use for a mini PC. Will some self hosters and home labbers spit bile at the thought? Probably. It’s a matter of personal requirements.

Basically, like you say, most mini PCs are quiet, power efficient, and just carry that bit more oomph than a SBC.

For context, Rock Paper Shotgun is a gaming site, which is why the reviewer focuses so heavily on game performance on different mini PCs. Unsurprisingly, the answer to the title isn’t an unequivocal “yes”, but some of the little lunch boxes fare quite well despite their limited specs.

A more accurate title would be “Should gamers bother with mini PCs,” but given their audience that would be superfluous 🙂 I think mini PC gaming will continue to be a niche interest, but there are certainly other and probably better uses for the tiny computers.

Yeah, the only threat to Big Tech is that they might sink a lot of money into training material they’d have to give away later. But releasing the material into the Public Domain is not exactly an improvement for the people whose data and work has been used without consent or payment.

“Congratulations, your rights are still being violated, but now the data is free to use for everyone”.

I guess White’s Web3 is going just great updates hurt some butts? I mean, it can’t be fun to be up to your neck in an elaborate scam and have somebody keep showing you receipts proving that you’re in fact up to your neck in an elaborate scam.

If I understand correctly, OP is after the non-Russian Pale Moon browser start page, not the project home page.

Not fake, just ~4 years old spoilers. Also, there’s a twist after that.

Oh absolutely! That’s pretty much a 400 year bracket starting with Disco s1 (2257 CE). Plenty of opportunity for Mirror Universe shenanigans even beyond the Picard years.

What was Cronenberg Kovich’s line about that again? “The Mirror Universe has been drifting away” or some such?

I’m willing to bet the Terran Empire tried some multiversal invasion that exploded in their collective face and blew them across the quantum plane (if that’s a thing). The Quantum portal could easily be written into that.

This show has been a balm for my worst nerd impulses since episode 1, and I will miss it. As finales go, I think this was damn near perfect, too.

Like others have mentioned, Rutherford’s sudden frustration with the Cerritos felt a little off to me, but that’s really small fry in the larger picture of

Wow, you’d think that would have been brought up even tangentially in Prodigy or chronologically later set shows? It could even feasibly have been used to

But what do I know, it might not be as stable as it looked in this episode…

And in your understanding, Google are somehow superheroes swooping in from on high by … putting the thumbscrews on a union website?

I get you have an undefined grudge against publishers, but you’re kind of off the mark here.

Hardly. The lesser evil perhaps, but in any context that includes Google there’s never a doubt who’s actually the bigger culprit.

Picard agrees.

I’ve been thinking the same thing. The first season felt a little like a patchwork of different visions.

I’m glad for what we got, I’m one of the people who actually liked Disco from the beginning. It would be interesting to hear his roadmap in more detail, though.

Ugh, sorry to hear about your experiences. Yeah, I’m not going to bat for all bus drivers. I’m speaking in favour of having a human onboard, because the passengers aren’t necessarily an ideal crowd either…

The role of being a proxy authority figure can definitely turn some asshole drivers further to the dark side… I don’t want to come off as defending those.

Yeah, the reasoning seems to have been “Think how much we’ll save on driver salaries! Plus, the computer will never unionise or cause a fuss about hours.” That’s the only arguments I can think of.

At the same time, I can think of several times I’ve been glad to have a human driver on the bus, mostly to do with obnoxious fellow travelers…

Perhaps the real question is, are we ready for a world without bus drivers? I think they’re a net positive in the daily commute.