Haven't you seen all the recent deep cuts to NASA science missions? And science in general. In some cases it will take over a generation to recover.

Don't encourage him. The peak of his thinking is that we're more responsible than China so unfettered capitalism is great actually.

I did the same, although I "only" got 64GB. I have a 5900X. I bought the MiniPC in part because they are both Zen3, that's handy since I run Devuan on both so if I build a package specifically for this architecture I can use it in both places.

Anyone who suggests they know better than someone else what they wanted the computer for should spend less time touching themself publicly.

Some of us don't want to hear a lot of bullshit.

Suggesting for example that I should have to constantly hear from the religious about what they think their magic sky daddy wants from me today is frankly absolute shit. Those people do not deserve attention. They should be ignored. No one should have to accept their harassment.

The idea that I should want to be subjected to that kind of emotional abuse is childish at best and comes from a needy place of having to have everyone be forced to listen to YOU.

Sure, we reasonably know training AI is fair use, although that could get modified in the future. But I'm not talking about training an AI model, I'm talking about the output from the model.

"Open" (without the word "source") originally typically meant "interoperable", which for software frequently meant as little as "documented and with headers". Before most people had ever heard of "open source" there were all kinds of other open things, most commonly standards. If your platform is open to the public, that's a legitimate kind of openness that's also familiar.

I bought a MiniPC from China instead, a GMKtec M5 Plus with 5825U, 32GB DDR4 and a 1TB NVMe SSD — for $295 right before everything went to shit. That one is out of production, but an equivalent machine is now $600. I've had it for over a year now with literally no problems.

The memory is 3.2 GHz, and despite being so cheap it doesn't even report a manufacturer, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it. It's got wifi 6 (MT7922) and dual 2.5 GbE (RTL8125) and the only thing that requires even a vaguely recent kernel is the wifi. It came with Windows, and I even shrank that just in case I'm ever desperate for a real Windows machine to flash some firmware or something, but ofc I've never needed or wanted to.

Too bad the combination of AI bullshit and tariff fuckery has doubled the price, I'd buy another similar machine.

You know Iran was becoming more and more tolerant and secular before we fucked it all up for oil profit, right?

Unfortunately we don't really. The standard for what is a derivative work is substantial recognizable elements. It doesn't specify exactly how you get there.

I'm not trying to convince anyone to change their terminology, but the aptness of the term is all on the conceptual side.

Drones are really good at handling gusts. No other kind of active aircraft comes close. A bigger problem is market size

Where will I get a SBC that fails after three months now?

We don't know how the brain works so no it isn't modeled on the brain.

We don't know how learning works but the brain does things with what you've learned that LLMs can't do, so it's surely not working in the same way.

Cheers ;)

Yes, it's easier to get people with empathy riled up.