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What conflict of interest? DCar Studio has money and wants advertising, the influencer wants money and can provide advertising. I see an alignment of interests, not a conflict.

The illusion of intelligence evaporates if you use these systems for more than a few minutes.

Using AI effectively requires, ironically, advanced thinking skills and abilities. It's not going to make stupid people as smart as smart people, it's going to make smart people smarter and stupid people stupider. If you can't outthink the AI, there's no place for you.

DVD-R? DVD+R? DVD+RW? Single or dual layer? Gold metallic layer? Silver metallic layer? How are they stored?

Depending on how you answer those questions, your 25 year-old media may be past due and you've just gotten lucky, may be just entering the timeframe where it may die, or may have decades of reliable life left.

DVD-R single layer disks with a gold metallic layer are good for 50-100 years. Other recordable DVD options are less durable, some as little as 5-10 years.

Just fall backwards, mouth open.

Glyphosate (plants are also pests).

It might not even be necessary to fork much. Genuine Arduino hardware is so expensive most people use clones, lots of people use Platform IO instead of the Arduino IDE, and the Arduino core for the newer microcontrollers is not made by Arduino anyway.

The "magic" Arduino bit is the Arduino bootloader. That is also open source and anything that can speak the protocol can upload new firmware.

That's why Arduinos encompass more architectures than just AVRs - you can get ARM based Arduino compatible boards, I believe there are a few RISC-V ones, and at least one ESP32 based one.

The fact it's just a bootloader is why clone boards exist - there's nothing special about the official Arduino boards. It's easy to make your hardware "Arduino compatible" which makes it often much easier to develop with as you can easily update it without needing the AVR programmer.

Interesting. I can shoot raw directly to my Android internal storage, although it isn't fast enough for 4k60 10 bit without compression.

NVIDIA, seen as the dominant player in AI, has largely ignored development when it comes to actual graphics rendering for the past 1.5-2 years. RTX 5000 isn't significantly faster than the RTX 4000 generation outside of....AI performance improvements. The fact that NVIDIA put almost all of its eggs in that one basket makes NVIDIA ripe for a correction when the AI bubble pops.

AMD is recognized in the AI area, and while not the dominant player, AMD hardware is still good, and the software stack has been improving over time. AMD hasn't ignored graphics(RDNA 4 was a very solid design based on the Radeon 9070XT performance considering it's mid-level design), FPGA, and of course, CPUs for consumer/business/servers. As a result, even if AI goes down, AMD isn't in danger, and will still continue to do well. NVIDIA LIED in saying that AI eliminates the need for a CPU, people still need a CPU in their computer, and in their servers, and professional workstations.

Intel is a mess, CPU division isn't doing all that well, graphics are weak, AI isn't anywhere, so if anything, Intel should sink just because it has no products that seem to be impressive.

Lenovo tends to have one memory bank on the motherboard with a single slot for the rest. So, 16GB RAM laptop has 8 on the motherboard itself with a single 8GB module in the slot. This situation will cause the cost of those motherboards in laptops to go up.

Fight on, fight on, dear old Muncie
Fight on, hoist the gold and blue
You'll be tattered, torn, and hurtin'
Once the Munce is done with you

What's changed is that in the early days flash memory was one bit per cell. Now most consumer grade stuff is multi level, so instead of a single threshold voltage that separates a 1 from a 0, there are multiple thresholds that each represent a different binary code.

SSDs sometimes have to re-read blocks with different voltage thresholds to get good data, and make use of error correction on top.

Presumably age related degradation is worse for multi-level flash.

Twitter used to do this with the verified badges, but then Elon started selling them and they became the mark of someone stupid enough to give him money for a blue tick.

It's not a bad idea in principle. A simple cryptographic certificate that government agencies can use to validate their messages. The hardest part will be the UI. Making sure it is clear and not easily spoofed.

Indeed, I've lost count of how many attempts this has been now.