What exactly is harmful about drawn pictures (because last time I checked, the kind of anatomy depicted in animes or mangas is ... well, close to if not entirely impossible)? Who exactly is the victim?

What? My mother was a saint!

Easier said than done, one should think it's not that hard considering how many there are, but when you need one to hug...

I don't think making it smaller works yet. The focal depth problem is too serious. Until someone comes up with a way to solve it with holograms or something, we're stuck with bulky optics that still hurt most people's eyes. I further think you could use fiber, which would only make the device more expensive. Wasn't that supposed to be on the Firewire roadmap anyway? Hmm, I see they formally gave up on that back in 2013.

He must have had a strange LPT port and/or address then, because normally those wouldn't be in conflict. I've had cards with fairly huge numbers of dip switches, but as long as you could get your hands on some documentation you were OK. Even very cheap ATA multi-I/O cards usually had fairly generous I/O ranges. I had a 120MB Maxtor ATA disk in the 386DX25 on which I first ran Linux, on a $15 no-brand ATA card, and with a 1MB Trident VGA card. That $15 card had pretty decent UARTs, too.

I tried to significantly upgrade the CPU in an AMD-based netbook that I really, really liked... it was 64 bit, but it was single core, and I was just trying to get it into the prior era at the time really and just get it to be a dual-core. And in theory this was possible and I even did it, but it was unreliable AF and I stalled out at the BIOS hacking stage and just got some other used thing. And now I have a $300 HP (I know ugh) Ryzen 3 laptop which... I doubled the RAM and quadrupled the SSD in. Remarkably, it has a combo SATA/NVMe M.2 slot. It's been great with Devuan on it, it's still running version 4 even. We watch youtube on it while we eat dinner, high tech shit. But suspend/resume works reliably, so I've got that going for me.

That's terrible, it means if you buy very much RAM in the frist place you're basically getting reamed.

I'm gonna want something Linux-based, and then it's not going to be all GPLv3. Otherwise, I'm happy to agree.

The fewer platforms I have to learn, the better.

You probably wouldn't unless you're already using Macs for whatever reason. Most of the people who have Apple "servers" are just buying a ton of cheap Mac Minis and putting them on the same network. For a lot of workloads it's apparently not all that bad and Apple's SoCs are already in the server-class in terms of power draw. It's just a matter of not getting the same raw core count, but you can buy a lot of cheap Mac Minis to string together if you're buying a $10,000 Xeon or Epyc processor.

This is probably only something that people running Macs but want a render-farm or something equivalent would consider. It might be niche, but it's mostly Apple reusing the same silicon it's putting in their $20,000 Macs aimed at those same professionals. Why not make a server product at that point. I kind of want to see some special grade, precision-milled aluminum server getting shoved into a rack where it will languish in the darkness for the next decade.

No, absolutely not. I refuse to convict anyone on a crime that an AI may have hallucinated them into. This should under no circumstances be used in a criminal trial. It's not the truth or even necessarily anything close to it.

Any good thing will be abused to the largest extent possible. There's very little that can ultimately stop a dedicated asshole. Their time is usually worth less than yours, but even if it weren't, they'd still out invest you. This won't fix every problem, but it will fix one of them.

to patch the metastasis out of the system and actually own it?

I have experienced it first hand. Never again.

Just because people are useless they won't lie down and die quietly.

Twice so in a country that has more guns than people.

I'll sign it without hesitation. Non-competes are illegal in my jurisdiction, and illegal clauses in contracts are void.

Startups around here get hoovered up including the former owners as "consultants". Basically that means you get money for doing nothing, at least as long as you don't try to start a competitor because guess what "consultation" is no longer needed should you try that...