... that I can give an AI the ebook of, say, Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton (first half of an excellent, mind-blowing SF duology) and ask it to adapt it as a 25 hour movie including all dialogue, and the specific request that main characters are played by young Michelle Yeo as Paula Myo, etc. Wouldn't that be fabulous? And the end of Hollywood of course.

If I see this rather ugly box, starting at $499; well the Mac mini M2 starts at $599 with more SSD space (difference reduces to $65 when matched), and I read that there are $99 vouchers for the new Mac mini. If you are happy with OSX (or install linux on it though I don't know how mature the apple silicon Linux is now) then the M2 Mini looks like a much nicer deal to me.

In my opinion, a must see on Amazon is The Peripheral, a great William Gibson adaptation.

Mainly important if you want to use tech for criminal activities, like happened here.

Fyi the center channel does sound like coming from the tv when using stereo speakers because both get that same signal as part of its total signal. However ideally this part would be relatively a bit louder to better understand the dialogue. Anyway, i donâ(TM)t want extra speakers and am used to subtitles - in my home country all foreign programmes were subtitled, not dubbed; except for kids cartoons.

One or two weeks ago there was an interview with Tim Cook where he was asked if anything changed between Apple and Twitter. He answered (paraphrased from memory) : No. I canâ(TM)t imagine them allowing hate speech.
This is probably the heart of the matter.

I understand that this requirement was obviously politically pressured. However more in general the limitation is not a bad thing. I remember I once got spam airdrops while in the metro, afterwards I switched it to "contacts only".

The French Laundry Cookbook - wow you are committed. I have it but found few recipes to be doable. I much prefer his Bouchon - perfectionist French bistro recipes. I was happy to visit the restaurant as well.
I do have a few cookbooks from z-library myself. Several I do have on paper but find it fun to have them in my iPad as well.

I like some of the older U2 albums, but this was a rather stupid stunt indeed. I did keep it though even if I barely listened to it.
More interesting in the summary were the comments of Cook and Jobs.

Considering the effort required, put them in a box in the basement and download the movies. That work was done already.

I flew 2 months ago with Lufthansa, including a switch to a different plane. This was before the ban. I had the AirTags I usually put on our keys in the luggages and it was comforting to see during the switch and during arrival that they were at least in the same airport as us. I did not need to use them to find back my luggage, but it sure is good having that option.

I just checked that Zipline, very cool usage of drones! and indeed probably a more feasible way to add range.

I agree. To me it makes more sense to recompile great linux user apps to M1 OSX. Luckily that is happening as well.