And if ads weren't occasionally a vector for malware, fewer people would be determined to block them all. Imagine an alternate universe where one in ten million vitamin pills is cyanide. Who'd take a vitamin pill every day?

Firefox has been my browser of choice for well over 20 years. Neither Chrome nor Edge - with their ties to Google and Microsoft - ever appealed to me.

I'm running Ubuntu on my 2011 Mac Mini, which I put an SSD into some years back. Great little media server running Kodi.

I've seen a couple of gas stations in my neighourhood turned into residential lots already, and another is boarded up. Half the internal combustion cars on the road means only half the gas will be sold, and so you only need half as many gas stations.

How many residential/local gas stations will be left when EVs are 70-80% of the market?

Under Australian law too.

I've noticed most AI slop videos have a slow-moving snowstorm moving across the image. Label all those for a start.

Taking my own advice, I stopped writing novels 3-4 years ago (lifelong scifi author before that) and am now working as a carpenter.

Go for it! I've been using that one for about a year now, and it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth...

If a company published a 30-volume printed encyclopedia and 10% of it was made up, they would be a laughing stock. News would spread far and wide, memes would spring up, and even the thickest of the thick would know not to trust that encyclopedia unless they wanted people to laugh at them too.

But because digital is somehow seen as transient and is held to a much lower standard, these companies are getting away with it.

Anyway, I recommend people learn a manual skill* because digital employment is going the way of the dodo.

*Until we get reliable humaniform robots, and then everyone is screwed.

YOU may believe all content is interchangeable, and you may see this AI-generated crap as functionally equivalent to human-generated podcasts, but as you shovel this garbage onto your audience you should know that your audience does, in fact, know the difference.

AI hallucination in a factual broadcast is like catshit on a pizza: It doesn't matter how infrequent it is, no amount is acceptable.

Towing a loaded semi-trailer uphill there and back

When 50% of cars on the road are EVs, 50% of the gas stations will be gone. When it's 80%, only 20% of gas stations will be left. At that point people will be driving 50-100 miles to fill up, then 50-100 miles to get home again, and an EV will suddenly seem like a good idea even to the holdouts.

I used to carry a 100mb zip disk between work and home, switching between one for each working day. I had about 30 zip disks in total, and I only shredded them all about 10 years ago after copying them all onto more modern backup storage. Then I tossed the zip drives as well.

Fantastic storage for the time, never had one go bad.

Dammit, I meant free to download and install, not free to play.

Then they should have made it free to play with a monthly fee.