Fast, effective, included the nView Desktop Manager to include transparency and window-shade mode to any window, and it was under 100MB installed.

Why nvidia drivers are now larger than Windows XP itself is a mystery to me, and they've always been a concession that has gotten bigger, slower, and more confusing than what they replaced.

Sounds like the "for air" version of shark skin.

And if you take out macOS as well, then what?

If it's not, it soon will be.

The energy density is 48.3âWh/kg.

Lithium-ion is better than 100 Wh/kg.

Imagine doubling the weight of your battery pack - or more. Probably not a problem for fixed-location batteries, but it's an issue if they are part of a moving vehicle.

Companies that haven't done so already will stop making new products that are impacted by viral licenses.

I'm waiting for a well-known human author to "learn the style" of AI well enough to craft a "good enough to win an award" AI-unassisted story that all the major AI-detectors flag as "very high probability this is written by an AI."

Of course it probably won't happen with any well-known author. Learning someone - or someTHING - else's style could be hard to un-learn. You don't want your future books being tainted by the "this smells like AI" stink.

1. The vehicle is only at the preorder stage; they're not shipping any as best as I can ascertain. Pricing isn't listed, either.

2. The vehicle is only available as an SUV/Pickup. While the modular design has merit, there is no sedan available.

3. The website makes no claims regarding privacy, except in its privacy policy regarding the website. The closest indicator is the absence of an infotainment system, but that doesn't mean that it lacks a telemetry module; there is no specific indication that it lacks one.

4. If it's not shipping yet, it will likely still be subject to forthcoming laws regarding kill switches; they have made no claims to the contrary. ...So, while I would LOVE for Slate to be the starting point, and I'd even switch to an SUV form factor to get it AND pay double the cost of a Camry for it...I don't think it's really reasonable to have a "put your money where your mouth is" stance when the vehicle is not available for purchase, is only available in one form factor, and where the company makes no claim to lack a telemetry module. I'm open to a solution, but a Slate gives me zero confidence that it is, in fact, that solution.

That can be rectified.

Even on a stock Google Android phone, one can at least SOMEWHAT mitigate data collection by not-installing certain apps. To my knowledge, Meta doesn't get data if you don't install FB/IG/WA. Also, one could leave their phone at home and drive somewhere if tracking was undesirable; while by definition, one cannot avoid that if the car itself is doing the tracking. Even if tracking is unavoidable on the phone, 'airplane mode' can assist in certain contexts.

Also, crazy as this is, there are still 'dumb phones' that exist, which may still involve selling location data or call logs by the carrier, but don't have the sensors or software to do the level of tracking that stock smartphones do. Some people do opt to get those instead.

The fact that they're in vehicles, without buyers being meaningfully informed, where even customers who do opt out of data collection still get their data collected, and don't have an 'airplane mode' available to them...nor a simple "remove this fuse" stipulated in the manual to negate the telemetry parts at a hardware level, nor a manufacturer that specifically sells a 'no telemetry' model (one CAN get a Fairphone with LineageOS out of the box; I haven't found a 2025-model car sold in the US that is analogous). While mass transit in the EU might be the extreme-but-possible solution, that's simply not the case in the US outside of some metro areas, so car ownership is a necessity, even more than a smartphone is.

Smartphone tracking is bad, but there are solutions, even if they are hard. Vehicle tracking is worse, because it's way more expensive to get that wrong than getting a Graphene install wrong.

...except for the 2015 version, every other version of Unreal Tournament can be spun up and made to work perfectly?

Same.

Also same...but something tells me that if Bitwarden were to do that, there would be a Vaultwarden fork the next day.

Even if there wasn't, browser-only access is annoying but serviceable, and it exports well enough to move to something else.

Well, that would be a form of Justice.

Offer me a local or rented-tenant isolated clone of ChatGPT that is under my control, then we'll talk.

Oh, and my agents, be they human or computer, should only get "read" access, which means my financial institutions will need to provide a credentials that only have read access.

Bottom line:
* I don't trust AI not to try to make changes to my account, but I do trust my financial institutions to not allow a "read-only" login to make changes.
* I don't trust ChatGPT or the other big-name AI companies with my data any more than I have to. Maybe someday, when there are laws in place that have been tested in court, but until then, not so much.

That way I can guarantee that it won't be "connected."

ChatGPT, look at the proposed ArXiv submission and identify anything that looks like "AI slop."

I'm eleventy-ten percent sure someone will try this and twelvity-ten-percent sure it will actually work. /sarcasm