All of the low-hanging fruit has been picked there, pun intended. Crops which are easy to machine cultivate are already produced with machine cultivation.

The first thing can't happen or they would have done it already, and the second thing is the opposite of their mission.

Just ship with all the 32 bit libraries already, so we can stop needing multiarch for Steam.

This requires living in a region with ample sunlight, but yes, that is the way. Only problem is that EVs have a finite commercially viable lifespan because of aging LiPo batteries, but once that is solved - possibly never, but possibly with a standardized semi-replaceable battery cell standards - this can work.

But for the colder and northern climates, fuel that can be stored for months is a neccessity, and it's rather easy with propane / butane, because it doesn't age as fast as gasoline.

Sure, Americans will be lining up for those farm jobs....hint: most do not live near farmland. Are you that daft or do you just play like it here.

That flyspec island has roughly 24 million people. It will shortly be owned by the leeches in the CCCP. la Presidenta canceled a $400 million defense contract as he butters Xi's ass in the expectation of the Deal of the Century: the CCCP leeches get Taiwan, and la Presidenta gets a cut of every TSMC chip sold in the U.S.

The system seems kind of ridiculous to me. I had a score of 850 back in June, and lost 24 points when I applied to get prequalified for a mortgage so I could put together an offer letter for a house.

Why? Because AI is the wave of the future. It's about capturing users and market share.

Do users actually want any of this? No. Because it's not a useful feature to any of us users.
But users are going to tolerate almost anything to have a free web browser.

I must be a defective American. I don't understand why so many people tolerate ads in their Smart TV, on their Kindle sleep screen, in their children's classrooms, and now on their rather costly appliances. I don't even like having ads on paid TV or streaming services. Or ads on my web browser (that's MY bandwidth you're streaming video w/ audio ads to)

It's a twisted idea that every activity in life has to be related to marketing and commercialized. Some kind of hyper-capitalism, where we double down on consumerism in order to continue feeding the machine, despite the diminishing benefits.

about the only case I can think of is interactive recipes.

Think about being able to check off ingredients or steps as you complete them.

Maybe being able to click and ingredient and select "recommend substitutions" - conceivably the smart fridge might know what you actually have to chose from.

The ability to note you are out of something and build up a shopping list, better than on paper because the system can sort the list by category / alphabetical / however later so its ordered sensible for the shopping trip

An easy way to control music playback while you do cooking/cleaning chores in the kitchen..

There are useful things you can do with a vertically mounted, easy cleanup, food/water proof screen in a kitchen for sure. - Now I am not sure building these features into an appliance you might keep for 15 years, is smart, maybe a better feature would just be a removable mount/plate that lets you install the 7 - 13" tablet of your choice on the door and then it might be smarter still integrate that into the cabinetry rather than the fridge but..

The problem is that the volume of dumb people will get it inflicted on the rest of us. Try buying not a smart TV today. You either have to get some sort of commercial offering, that comes with a crazy price premium or you're getting smart tv that spies on your and sprinkles in ads all over the place.

All because to many people decided they'd rather pay 499 instead of 599 because that is just how little they actually value their privacy and user experience.

Sure you can not connect it to the internet, but they can't use any of the useful features, or you can play DNS games and whatnot if you have the technical savvy and the time, but there are still going to be lot of opaque TLS streams that you just can never be sure what contain, at least not with voiding your warranty connecting the JTAG interface... the same will be true of all fridges that are generally availible soon enough..

One does wonder what they are thinking - why would anybody want or tolerate this?

Most ads we are stuck with because we want the media or service that the ads support. Oh, you want to watch two teams of 53 millionaires play football? OK, but 30% of your time will be watching ads.

On a fridge what is the payoff?

"TSMC and Samsumg have fabs in the USoA"

How long before the tangerine terror fucks that up?

There's no reason to kill ARC because it's only taking sales Nvidia didn't want.

It also depended on low speed interfaces to processors. You used to be able to accelerate computers which came with a 68k chip by slapping a daughterboard with a faster CPU on it into the CPU socket. That's not practical today.

Side note, anyone want a radius accelerator for Mac SE?

Remember - the Federation reserved the Death Penalty for making AI Androids.

Noonian Soong had to exile himself to a remote planet outside Federation control to work on Data and Lore (and his sexbot...).

They needed people to be able to have jobs *that* badly.

Which ... stop sending redshirts outside the ship with magnetic boots in a radiation storm, OK? They could have at least had some astromech droids. Sheesh!