These days with a lot of discs just being a boot loader to download the game and some games requiring always on net access then even a disc isnt a guarantee of you really owning it if it can - in theory - be disabled or deleted remotely.

Sentience or consciousness implies an inner life however when an LLM isn't working on a task precisely nothing is going on in its network ergo no inner life, no self reflection, no sentience, no conciousness. They're just very complicated statistical pattern aggregators but they're still just software running on von neumann computers.

Germany is on the same latitude as as newfoundland idiot. 37C is NOT normal.

Not enough competition. Macs are too expensive and Linux still doesn't come pre-installed on many systems and there are way too many desktops. That might be great for us geeks but Mr and Mrs Average just want a consistent and intuitive (hello Gnome devs, anyone listening?) desktop experience.

The money men are the only ones who want this shit.

Better not drive near any normal cctv cameras or ring doorbells then without covering your plates first.

The whole point of plates IS to identify a vehicle and where and when it was. Whether thats done by eye or by machine doesn't make a huge amount of difference so long as in the latter case the data isn't stored if the plate isn't flagged in some way.

Visiting the US and canada I always felt their plates were fairly useless even for human eyes never mind AI beyond a fairly snort distance. The characters are too small and the varying colours and designs of the plates doesn't help either.

Unfortunately the word "life" is a rather catch all term for what in reality is a range of processes and "what is life" is more a venn diagram than a hard definition. Maybe life requires A, B, C or B,C,D or A,D,E but doesn't need all of them at any one time to consider "alive".

A chemical system that can reproduce via a stored code and copy that code is the hard part of life , wrapping it inside some sort of bubble its probably relatively simple, and given how small cells are and how large the earth is I wouldn't be surprised if once genetics got going it happened multiple times but only 2 lineages made it through.

9 years is an eternity in car tech. I doubt it even has digital instruments.

Turning it off isnt the problem. Stopping it switching on every time i start the car is.

Yours is probably an older model with a proper radio, not just an app built into the ice.

Thank god europe is a whole different world to the US where you don't have to get out a credit card before someone hauls you into an ambulance.

"you have to pay for those emergency system"

Not in europe, they come free with the car plus they trigger in a serious accident where you might be unconcious when phoning the emergency yourself isn't an option.